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Day One – Wednesday April 22 2009
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8am | Registration and coffee
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8.50am | Official opening and welcome by chairperson
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| SERVICE INNOVATION IN TELECOMS – THE 2012 LANDSCAPE |
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9am | Keynote: Providing a future-proof foundation for delivering advanced IP multimedia services in order to arrest the drop in traditional voice business
- Balancing the short-term need of optimising fixed broadband networks with the flexibly required for next generation access technologies
- Quantifying the opportunities and benefits presented by the delivering a superior customer experience through advanced networks
- Providing additional value to subscribers, content owners, application providers and advertisers through the network
- Creating common architectures for mobile and wireline customers – the role of the operator in creating a painless end-user experience in an all IP age
- Moving beyond pure technical fixes - developing a relationship centric network not a pure tech play
- The features that stand the best chance of growing revenue and retaining customers and the best technology to accommodate those features – going beyond recouping the initial subscriber acquisition costs
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9.30am | Keynote: Making the network relevant in an increasingly over-the-top (OTT) environment
- How can the telco insert itself effectively beyond the pure supplier-customer model and add value in doing so - rethink the service creation process?
- Move beyond the pure supplier-customer model - leveraging network intelligence to become an effective platform provider for upstream and downstream players
- Customer data (for customer profiling and ad personalisation)
- Telco advertising inventory (web portal, handset, idle screen, SMS, MMS, voice)
- Response channel (SMS, MMS, click to call, URL)
- Rating Engine (for performance metrics)
- Becoming the platform provider of choice for service providers and application enablers – what is needed to be done in moving from a latent data asset business model?
- Leveraging upstream and downstream players in the business model of 2012
- Building on external innovation and moving away from self reliance
- Over-the-top (OTT) video expected to make up one half of all consumer IP traffic - applications and content that consumers
- Identify sessions carrying OTT content – building on the ability to determine how to treat an individual session
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10am | Keynote: The opportunities presented with the advance of access technology
- Driving advanced digital delivery into residential and SOHO networks by supporting services that are that are affordable for end users and profitable for operators
- Maintaining network flexibility to ensure the ability of operators to respond effectively with the market dynamics of the next decade
- Providing a consistent and open User-to-Network Interface (UNI) to enable consistent experience
- Supporting interoperability between IMS and non-IMS consumer electronics
- Future proofing and interoperability - creating complementary elements within FTTH, VDSL2, WCDMA/HSPA and LTE
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10.30am | Q&A with keynote speakers
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10.40am | Morning coffee and tea
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| TRANSITION TECHNIQUES FOR A SMOOTH MIGRATION FROM LEGACY TO CONVERGENCE |
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11.20am | Panel: Implementing network transformation that will enable the delivery of both traditional and next-generation services over simplified, flexible network architectures
- Boosting network capacity and managing increased traffic growth by capitalising on existing assets
- Introducing new multimedia voice, data, audio and video services across multiple networks both quickly and reliably
- Innovating intelligently by using existing assets – which services can be delivered and managed today with the existing network infrastructure?
- Integrate existing BSS and OSS and incorporating an IMS service delivery system
- Identifying new and emerging technologies that will lower cost and improve performance of access networks
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12.10pm | Panel: Selecting the future access technology to deliver bandwidth hungry services
- Selecting an end-to-end fibre infrastructure to deliver high bandwidth and support high-quality video services
- The economics of access technology that they provide network planners (even cable network planners) with a more straightforward decision
- The importance of instant gratification with applications such as gaming, voice over IP (VoIP), and personal video conferencing – understanding the difference between bandwidth demands and network delays
- What technologies are best suited to deliver the high-bandwidth quick response time demands that will only worsen over time?
- The economic benefits afforded to users of the dominant technology
- Providing significant increase in bandwidth capacity deliverable to the home through the deployment of DOCSIS
- HFC infrastructure - is GPON a feasible long-term solution for cable planning?
- WDM-PON - supporting future bandwidth upgrade without altering the physical infrastructure
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1pm | Networking Lunch
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2.30pm | Panel: Meeting the business requirements of service innovation through deploying a SDP
- Defining the requirements the platforms and technologies must support by defying which services the operator should brand versus what it should just enable
- Opening up operator networks to third-parties - bolstering the ability of operators to raise revenues through Content Delivery Management, BOSS integration and the Telco Application Network Interfaces
- Using a SDP for IMS applications interaction with legacy services, such as SMS, MMS, and LBS
- A horizontal approach to delivering next-generation converged services – is it cheaper to deploy services as a vertical than incur the additional costs of deploying an SDP?
- Future proof investment in SDP platforms through scalable SOA architecture
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3.50pm | Panel: Ensuring ubiquitous access through the deployment of whole-home backbone networks
- Deploying home networks as a service differentiator and to retain customer loyalty
- Reducing the gap between the promise of home networks and the reality of customer frustration - creating a unifying standard for the different home network technologies, aimed at distributing next-generation service-provider offerings
- Whole-home wired backbone networks – the success of MoCA, HomePNA 3.1, HomePlug and UPA worldwide
- Managing and controlling interactions between the femtocells and the wireless network infrastructure in the home
- Developing a new triple-wire standard for home networking with the G.hn standard - what does the wired networking industry need to make this unification happen?
- Using UWB technology to open new applications for UWB over both wireless and wired communications channels
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| DELIVERING NEW SERVICES BEYOND TRADITIONAL CORE SERVICES |
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4pm | Panel: Advancing IPTV technology beyond the initial deployment phase
- Exploiting new digital distribution systems by going beyond initial interactivity to pave the way for new ad revenues
- Maximising your profit through non-exclusivity
- The role of high-speed, in-room video networks to send uncompressed video over high-speed wireless links to a TV
- IPTV - interactive television and the necessary solutions for the multi-channel and on-demand value chains
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4.40pm | Panel: The value proposition of new verticals for the telco operator by managing the physical assets of the home
- Opportunities in e-Health for Telcos through the deliverance of e-Health Services in the connected home
- What products and strategies are utilising the home automation market?
- Revolutionising the management of energy from its point of generation to the point of consumption
- Current initiatives, past experiences, and future opportunities for control systems and services enhancing demand response, billing, added-value customer services and by improving corporate
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5.20pm | Panel: How do we move forward from here? Setting the vision for the Digital Home of 2012
- Going beyond the traditional PC-to-PC network in the connected home with CPE, Home Gateways and gaming consoles
- Identifying crucial features to support high quality for services like IPTV, VoD, HDTV, interactive TV, gaming and P2P applications
- The challenge of delivering a smart, easy-to-use and economical solution for the home server
- Transition techniques for a smooth migration from IPv4 to IPv6
- Interoperability issues related to gateways, middleware, end-user devices, security, UPnP
- What are the services that will afford full-scale convergence for the telco?
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6pm | Cocktail reception
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Day Two – Thursday April 23 2009
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8am | Registration and coffee
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8.50am | Official opening and welcome by chairperson
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| DELIVERING TOP-QUALITY MULTIMEDIA AND DATA SERVICES WITH NGMN |
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9am | Keynote: Ensuring the smooth evolution both for network infrastructures and applications within NGMN structures
- The evolutionary path that operators should adopt in their move to advanced mobile networks
- Making efficient use of carriers’ existing and future spectrum resources to ensure greater value
- Phasing in NGMN investment while continuing to maximize the return on current 3G technologies – creating a sustainable business plan that proves flexible enough to sustain operator strategies and technology developments
- The Convergence of advanced NGMN - is it too late for LTE and WiMAX to converge around the OFDM and multi-antenna MIMO specification?
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9.30am | Keynote: Decoupling costs from traffic - the business rational for NGMN deployment
- The economic un-sustainability of NGMN – the need for new business models to be developed in parallel with the 4G technical development
- Looking at required data rates required to support 4G services – usage patterns, penetration rates, backhaul capacity on the order of 40-100 Mbps per cell site
- Translating high traffic on networks into high revenues by creating a viable ecosystem - how to ensure margins when revenue and traffic are decoupled while cost and traffic remain coupled?
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10am | Keynote: Supporting and complementing operator efforts to deliver NGMN services that will meet future customer needs
- Delivering high speeds and better quality of experience to customers and enhancing competitive advantage by moving from a patchwork of over-the air, satellite, cable and fixed wire broadband and circuit switched voice to LTE & WiMAX
- How will the continued growth of data traffic volumes with the new class of mobile broadband effect network performance?
- The move away from a hierarchical network - providing lower costs, lower latency, and greater customer choice through the use of flat, packet-oriented architectures
- Allowing technology to create a platform that will enable mobile broadband operators to be competitive with wired networks
- Ensuring favorable commercial environment for NGMN through a unified ecosystem from rollout to provide and end-to-end solution
- Outperforming current WiMAX or LTE with IMT-Advanced – pointing the way towards 'true 4G'
- How femtocells can benefit the architecture of next-generation mobile broadband networks such as WiMAX and LTE
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10.30am | Q&A with keynote speakers
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10.40am | Morning coffee and tea
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| KEY ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES – NETWORK EVOLUTION |
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11.20am | Panel: Filling the consumer need to be "constantly connected” through the growth of existing HSPA WCDM networks and successfully migrating to LTE
- Extend and improve user experience through adaptable existing architectures – what is possible with UMTS and CDMA protocols?
- Providing capacity increase in the existing network through software enhancements with no additional hardware - enabling the operator to encourage more data usage at a minimal additional cost through the use of software upgrades
- Aiming beyond HSPA with the development of migration to LTE/SAE technology
- Moving on to the promise of much higher bandwidths with 3.5G technologies – the promise of better spectral efficiency, higher throughput, and lower latency than W-CDMA/HSPA
- Overcoming the base station processor and backhaul bottleneck - successfully deploying LTE and other next-generation communication systems that require a huge jump in data rates
- Achieving higher system performance compared to that of LTE - satisfying end user demand and be sufficiently competitive against mobile WiMAX
- The tipping point – has LTE now gained an advantage in terms of cost and interoperability due to the accelerating pace of development that wider industry support has brought?
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12.10pm | Panel: The place of WiMAX in the mobile broadband revolution - the near term reality of new data services on innovative devices
- How realistic are claims of both WiMAX when it comes to cost savings on network build-outs, relative to GSM or CDMA-based networks?
- Moving WiMAX out of its traditional into the mobile – ensuring true network interoperability and a high quality of service among user devices and network equipment
- Interoperability developments surrounding the delivery of an end-to-end services - deploying dual- or multi-mode devices that are interoperable with established 3G technologies to ensure network coverage
- Managing customer expectations with IEEE 802.16e deployment
- The ability of femtocells to overcome concerns relating to in-building coverage in the 3.5GHz spectrum without the need for 2.5GHz licenses
- Overcoming the backhaul bottleneck by applying operational innovation
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1.10pm | Networking lunch
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2pm | Panel: Building a global platform for NGMN services beyond LTE and WiMAX
- Meeting the LTE-advanced stringent requirements – developing a smooth migration from the current LTE to IMT-Advanced by maintaining backward compatibility with initial rollout plans
- Evolving systems over time to meet ever increasing needs of subscribers and operators – ensuring low cost of the infrastructure deployment and terminal for LTE advanced and WiMax 802.16m
- The possibility to converge LTE TDD and WiMax TDD in the new IMT-Advanced standard
- Overcoming the lack of front end spectrum in delivering IMT-Advanced
- The disruptive nature of xMAX and Gaiacomm
- Are we getting too far ahead of the mobile broadband game?
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| DEVELOPING THE NEW BUSINESS MODELS THAT CAN BE IMPLEMENTED WITH NGMN |
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2.50pm | Panel: Deepening the relationship between the mobile and enterprise network
- What are appropriate economics for the constantly connected model that is fundamental to the success of 4G networks?
- Extending further into the enterprise network by brining together business and technology architectures - driving the adoption of mobile centric devices further into organizations
- Will picocells and femtocells deliver on their promise of expanding the delivery of data seamlessly throughout the home and office environment?
- The role of Saas and WiMAX in securing the enterprise space for mobile
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3.40pm | Afternoon Tea
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4pm | Panel: Developing a variety of innovative services with network-based location services and Machine-To-Machine (M2M) applications
- Looking outside the core operator business and taking advantage of the M2M opportunity
- Moving from features and functionality in devices to service opportunities created by directly connecting products to the Internet
- Is there room for operators to derive significant revenues from niche market opportunities?
- What services offer the greatest opportunities for operators to move into vertical markets?
- Mobile-to-Mobile (M2M) payments
- Mobile resource management (MRM) applications opportunities for operators
- Deploying location enabled consumer services and enterprise solutions
- The challenge of crossing into many vertical industries that have unique technical and business requirements - integrating M2M based solutions into their exiting IT infrastructure
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4.50pm | Panel: What are the next big steps for digital lifestyle solutions aimed at the automotive environment
- What opportunities arise from consumers being continually connected and on the move?
- Seamless integration of portable infotainment and entertainment devices with intelligent interfaces
- Which wireless technology is best to facilitate internet in the automotive industry?
- Communications aspects of Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V)
- Understand how to create a long life and flexible vehicle interface to better meet the challenge of different life cycles of consumer electronics and cars
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5.40pm | Cocktail reception
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Day Three – Friday April 24 2009
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8am | Registration and coffee
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8.50am | Official opening and welcome by chairperson
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| DRIVING ICT SERVICE ADOPTION IN EMERGING MARKETS |
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9am | Keynote: Paving the way for the introduction of advanced broadband and multimedia services – boosting network capacity and managing increased traffic growth
- Providing quality IP transport and allow the operator to introduce high-quality multimedia services
- Offering customers state-of-the-art multimedia services with a very short time-to-market - requirements for low cost reliable broadband provision in the developing world
- How to implement and continually change the network – making connection a reality for developing economies through deploying service migration and inter-working strategies
- Evolution of the organisational structure as the subscriber base grows exponentially in a short time frame
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9.30am | Keynote: Which access technologies will drive significant operator revenues?
- Considering alternatives to UMTS or CDMA EV-DO in emerging markets with the 4G value proposition
- Providing an essential building block in meeting demand for wireless broadband – the potential savings in transit investment in moving straight to 4G class technologies
- Choosing the appropriate technology based on the application and business case - facilitate economies of scale for operators and securing the availability of standardised terminals and devices
- Provide greater cell coverage and manifold capacity/speeds at cheaper rates than 3G
- Complementing the existing network – is there a case for HSPA and CDMA2000 completing 4G?
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10am | Keynote: Reducing delivery costs per bit and improving an operators' ability to deliver advanced applications data and voice services
- Tackling the ‘digital-divide’ through the development of an all-IP end-to-end network
- Bringing broadband services to residential and business subscribers using wireless solutions - what is the pent-up demand for broadband?
- Providing high capacities as well as full user coverage in an affordable manner- mixing technological innovation with a lower cost base to support operators product roadmap
- Meeting cost targets to profitably deployed in a service provider network – gauging when and how network build is warranted
- Delivering sizeable savings when used to enhance existing network technology
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10.30am | Q&A with keynote speakers
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10.40am | Morning coffee and tea
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| BUILDING OUT BROADBAND NETWORKS |
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11.10am | Panel: Developing expensive network upgrades for data and voice services in emerging markets
- Depending not only on technology performance - the readiness of the underlying ecosystem as a key factor in the attractiveness of delivering mobile broadband attempting to drive cost down
- Structural cost advantages of being able to piggy-back on existing 3G infrastructure – avoiding costs, delays and quality issues associated with integrating new dedicated equipment
- Will Mbps rates prove sufficient with the rollout of HSDPA/HSDPA+ technology in developing economies? W-CDMA/HSPA – will these technologies become redundant by the acceleration in the time to market of the 4G mobile WiMAX and LTE standards?
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12pm | Panel: Building a viable economic case for WiMAX in developing economies
- Advanced Mobile WiMAX solution with MIMO technology – the real market opportunity
- How will WiMAX operators be able to differentiate themselves from 3g operators?
- Wireless local loop through the implementation of WiMAX - the cost-effectiveness and limitations of other technologies such as copper, coaxial cable and fibre
- Overcoming the cost constraints of CPE and the limited availability of enabled devices
- Considering the high cost of building backhauling capacity infrastructure needed to move data to each radio cell site
- The evolution of WiMAX business models in emerging markets with the development of community broadband wireless (municipal/county) networks
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1pm | Networking lunch
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| MOVING BEYOND NETWORK REACH AND TECHNOLOGY AS THE MAIN DIFFERENTIATORS IN EMERGING MARKETS |
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2.50pm | Panel: Increasing the affinity for data in emerging markets to become profitable with low-disposable income customers
- Expanding growth by connecting the unconnected - the key differences in the mobile data business models of developed and emerging markets
- Which empowering services will drive data revenue in developed and emerging markets?
o Income generation
o Security and survival
o Logistic and inventory tracking services
o VoiceSMS services
- Creating a eco-system that stimulates local innovation - allowing end-users to derive greater utility from mobile technology
- Encouraging the development of sustainable business opportunities to ensure that the ARPU is sustainable
- Balancing low and high end-user segments to help control the key instruments of the business operations
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3.40pm | Panel: Offering valued added IPTV services in emerging markets
- Migrating to next generation TV services without building out dedicated nationwide infrastructure – transporting across which type of broadband infrastructure?
- IPTV personalisation and the flexibility of VoD
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4.30pm | Panel: Becoming a mobile service retailer by improving access to financial services by providing service provision in the MMT ecosystem
- Mobile penetration vs access to banking services in emerging markets
- Launching and drive consumer adoption of MMT as a valued add for MNOs
- Forming successful partnerships between banks and MNOs
- Extending MMT into a broader suite of mPayments services: domestic and international remittances, airtime topup, utility bills, microfinance loans and payroll
- Sustaining success – what and how to monitor, scale and revise the MM user experience in emerging markets?
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5.20pm | Closing remarks by the chairman
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Pre-conference workshops – Tuesday 21 April 2009
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| Workshop A – Realising the potential of software-defined radios |
- The next wave of innovation in both software-defined and cognitive radio
- Technologies, will be driven more by market need than by technical vision
- Enabling handsets to be designed to support any GSM standard, frequency, or air interface by the reuse of hardware that changes its parameters in software
- SDR technology is aimed not just at handsets but also at laptops, Internet tablets, and ultramobile PCs
- Using software-defined radio, could mean that existing hardware could be upgraded to support new spectrum bands and channel sizes
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| Workshop B – Expanding the network with more slender investments |
- Digital cities - financing network build-outs
- Backhaul is a critical element of 4G business models, affecting capital investment, operational expense, time to market, and the customer experience.
- 4G is a technology in search of a business case that will convince investors to part with the billions of dollars in investment needed to roll out the next generation of networks
- What financing (including equities, loan and fixed income) has been used by Emerging Market telecom companies in 2006, and what are the options for 2007? How to finance emerging market telecom growth
- What are the opportunities and challenges for private equity investors in the telecom sector? How is the relationship between private equity investors and telcos changing?
- How will M&A activity shape the future of telecommunications? What kind of businesses will emerge from the next phase of convergence?
- The joint private-public investment approach holds appeal especially to smaller and emerging telecom markets
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Didier Lombard
Ad Scheepbouwer
