Agenda Day 2
WEDNESDAY 19TH MAY 2010
- TOPIC
LTE World Summit Keynote Plenary Session
- 08:55
- Keith Mallinson, Founder, WiseHarbor, UK
Chairman’s Opening Remarks
- 09:00
- Thomas Wehmeier, , Principle Analyst, Informa Telecoms & Media, UK
- Developing an “always most profitably connected” model
- Steps to mass-market LTE
- Questioning the operator’s role in the future value chain
What are the Challenges Facing Mobile Operators as they Move Towards the Commercialisation of LTE?
- 09:20
- Stephen Bye, VP of Wireless, Cox Communications, USA
- Cox Communications is a leading cable operator in the USA. Cox successfully completed a trial in both the AWS and 700MHz spectrum band this year. The trial included high definition video streaming, leading analysts to speculate that as a cable operator, Cox could differentiate their wireless offerings from traditional operators
Always Broadband Connected: The Integration of Cable and Mobile Broadband Services
- 09:40
- Mathew Oommen, VP Device & Technology Development, Sprint, USA
- Why is 4G important as a price pressure point?
- Growth with pain or growth with profitability?
- Examining the various 4G ecosystems and how they will play out?
The Value of 4G in the Broadband Explosion Scenario
- 10:05
- Roberto Dini,, Founder, Sisvel, Italy
- The importance of IPR in the telecommunications industry - Lessons learned fromthe past
- Enabling competition by fostering the creation of a fair and reasonable market price
- Patent pool and standard – how do they work together
Standards and IPR in Telecommunications
- 10:25
- Ken Wirth,, President, 4G/LTE Networks, Alcatel-Lucent
Redefining the Wireless Quality of Experience with LTE
- 10:50
Morning Refreshments & Exhibition Visit
- D
Revenue Generating Business Models
- 11:50
- Kim Kyllesbech Larsen, EVP Technology Service & International Network Economics, T-Mobile International, The Netherlands
- Can LTE help to increase the ARPU from data services?
- Examining over the top (OTT) applications, including third-party VoIP services, which threaten to further commoditize the network
- Creating partnerships with content and application providers that expose LTE's value-added network capabilities to third-party application and content developers for a fee
- Market timing of advanced integrated offerings versus LTE rollout
Examining the Economics of Rolling Out LTE
- 12:10
- Jorge Delrio, Head of LTE/4G Evolution & Technology Strategy, CTO Office,TELUS Mobility, Canada
- Surging traffic demand and congestion
- Increasing usage indoors and the need for more spectrum
- The need to significantly reduce network costs, CAPEX and OPEX
- Improving network performance and enhancing the subscriber's Quality of Experience
Fundamental Operator Challenges in the Transition to LTE
- 12:30
- Breaking free from the dump-pipe paradigm to create new high margin revenue opportunities and competing against web based application and content providers
- Exploring revenue opportunities, key trends in open network APIs and the challenges that are facing operators in implementing them
- What new services can LTE enable?
Embracing the Open Culture with Network API's to Introduce Innovative New Third Party Services
Dimitris Mavrakis, Senior Analyst, Informa Telecoms & Media,UK- 12:50
Networking Lunch & Exhibition Visit
- 14:10
- - Creating new business models to create New sources of indirect ARPU to compliment the ever decreasing direct ARPU
- Technical, regulatory and organizational challenges
- Landscape of successful architectures and technologies used in the Web 2.0 Realm and their applicability to LTE
- Revenue potential (direct and indirect ARPU) for those new business models
- Technological impacts and implications within the LTE network itself
New Business Models and Tools to Monetize LTE
Jean-Marie Calmel, Senior Global Architect,Oracle, France- 14:30
- Economic development in rural areas with mobile broadband, how can rural areas be best served?
- Can LTE deliver affordable mobile broadband in rural areas?
- Assessing the impact that a coverage requirement by the regulator will have on LTE deployments
- Examining proposals such as the ones made in the Digital Britain report, can Operators afford to spend money on achieving 99% coverage?
Bridging the Digital Divide and Delivering High Quality Broadband for Consumers and Enterprises Outside of the Cities
,Future Pricing & Business Models for LTE
- 14:50
- John Yeomans, Director,First Capital, UK
- Getting the balance right between value and bit pricing
- Paying for service not just capacity
- Keeping the balance right: not too many options to confuse customers, but enough to meet the increasing diversity of applications
- Impact of implementing usage based pricing models
What is the Impact of Moving Away From Flat Rate Plans Expected to be?
- 15:10
- Ceren Ozbilgen, Mobile Broadband Product Manager,Avea, Turkey
- Reviewing different customer demand scenarios for services and applications and the impact on the network
- Can mobile broadband offerings be device specific- Kindle, Netbooks, Smartphones etc?
- Do pricing models need to be changed, so that operators are not simply competing on who has the cheapest flat rate package?
- Can LTE compete with the broadcast/multicast market?
Analysing Different LTE Mobile Broadband Uptake Scenarios - An Operator Perspective
- 15:30
- Mike Morash, Director, Product Line Management,Bridgewater Systems, USA
- Will a bigger pipe be enough to manage the consumer's hunger for bandwidth intensive services?
- Examining the "preserving resources" strategy including policy control, data offload, and multi-access approaches
- Ensuring a seamless subscriber service experience across 3G and LTE networks
How Will the LTE Vision Affect Operator Network Capacity and Subscriber Experience Strategies?
- 15:50
- Kim Kyllesbech Larsen, EVP Technology Service & International Network Economics, T-Mobile International, The Netherlands
- Dimitris Mavrakis, Senior Analyst, Informa Telecoms & Media, UK
- John Yeomans, Director, First Capital, UK
- Jon Linden, VP Global Marketing, Procera Networks,
- Jean-Claude Perrin, VP, Director of Programs, Gemalto
- Examining regulations surrounding net neutrality and lawful intercept, how does this affect an operator's approach to traffic management?
- Enhancing user experience openly with DPI and policy management
- Assessing the readiness of the new framework for the future development of electronic communication
- Is net neutrality a concern for US operators only?
PANEL DISCUSSION: Open Networks and Net Neutrality - Does it Prevent Operators from Developing a Subscriber Centric Pricing and Service Strategy?
- 16:20
Afternoon Refreshments & Exhibition Visit
- 16:50
- Jonathan Morgan, Senior Director, Product Marketing,Starent Networks, USA
- Moving from providing a best effort service to providing a differ-entiated customer service model where customers pay for QoS
- Exploring the PCRF based approach towards managing traffic and customer service as a potential revenue generator
- Is there a commercial risk involved in shifting to a bandwidth based pricing model?
- Which users could be offered access to a "fast lane" for certain application and be charged more for it?
- Examining established customer service differentiation models in the fixed line space and prioritisation services for businesses
How User Experience and Differentiated Services will Drive the Adoption of LTE
- 17:10
- Matthew Bloxham, Vice President, Telecoms Research, Deutsche Bank, UK
- How do public investors look at opportunities in the telecoms industry?
- Assessing the incremental revenue potential of LTE
- What business models will work for mobile operators and what won't?
An Analyst View of Investment Opportunities in LTE
- 17:30
- Moderator: Frederic Astier, Director, Nokia Siemens Networks,
- Jonathan Morgan, Senior Director, Product Marketing,Starent Networks, USA
- Pierre Lynch, Technical Product Manager (Voice/ Wireless), Ixia,
- Sanket S. Nesargi, Senior Marketing Manager, Aricent, India
- Frederic Bastien, VP Products, Blueslice Networks ,
- Examining the explosion of the number of devices that are expected to be connected wirelessly as CE manufacturers enable wireless connectivity to their products
- What will be the effect of more and more services being pushed into the cloud be on the number of connected devices?
- Possible pricing models for a customer owning multiple numbers of devices with wireless connectivity
PANEL DISCUSSION: How Will Customers Connecting Multiple Numbers of Devices Over the Network Affect the Operator's Business Model?
- 17:50
End of Track D
- E
LTE Advanced, Standardisation & Optimisation
- 11:50
- Andrew Houghton, Deputy Head of Future Networks, EU, Belgium
- How does the EU envisage the future of the internet?
- Expectation with LTE-Advanced
- Examining EU R&D investments in the technologies beyond LTE
Mobile Access to the Future Internet: Moving Beyond LTE
- 12:10
- Xiaobao Chen, Head of Mobile Systems Standardisation, Orange, France Telecom, France
- LTE is part of FT Mobile broadband strategy
- LTE main characteristics
- France Telecom timeline for LTE
- LTE-Advanced: Additional benefits of LTE
LTE/LTE-A: The Solutions for Broadening Mobile Data Markets
- 12:30
- Ariela Zeira, VP, Advanced Air Interfaces, InterDigital,
- It's about average performance, not peak rates
- Adding more spectrum is only part of the solution
- Addressing growing gap between peak and average efficiency
- Previewing elements of " Next Generation Cellular"
- How "Fuzzy Cell" techniques improve cell-edge performance
Advanced Network Topologies and Spectrally Efficient Air Interface Solutions for LTE-Advanced and Beyond
- 12:50
Networking Lunch & Exhibition Visit
- 14:10
- XiaoDong Zhu, CTO, Western Europe, ZTE,
- How the whole network optimization for mobile data communication is changing
- Reducing CO2 emissions with a green end to end LTE network
- Improving customer experience for the end user
An End to End Green LTE Network
- 14:30
- Bernard Breton, COO & CSO, Mentum,
- Estimating capacity of networks
- Understanding the impact of sub-optimal planning
- Improving initial network capacity through better planning
- Minimizing initial roll-out cost and leveraging new LTE technologies
Optimizing CAPEX and Ongoing OPEX Through Optimal Planning of LTE Network Roll-Out
- 14:50
- Robert Froehlich, Director Test & Optimization PLM, Tektronix Communications
- Understanding the potential "network intelligence" gaps introduced by LTE architecture
- Identifying the right RAN diagnostics strategy based on Data Acquisition Cost/time vs. Depth of Insight trade off
- Making the right choices in the LTE OAM strategies: Top Down versus Bottom Up approach
Developing an Efficient OAM Strategy to Realize the Potential of LTE
- 15:10
- Dr Xiaobao Chen, Head of Mobile Systems Standardisation, Orange, France Telecom, France
- Richard Kateley, CTO, Actix
- Jorge Delrio, Head of LTE/4G Evolution & Technology Strategy, CTO Office, TELUS Mobility, Canada
- Paul Steinberg, Fellow and Chief Architect, Motorola, USA
- Challenges with managing multiple networks and different technologies
- How will optimisation of the LTE network be different to 2G and 3G?
- Assessing the Reality and Readiness of SON
PANEL DISCUSSION: Interoperability and OAM Challenges for LTE
- C
- Mike Thelander, CEO, Signals Research Group, USA
Migration to HSPA+ & Future Evolution to LTE
- 15:30
- Gustavo Marambio Lopez, CTO, Telefonica Moviles, Chile
- Experience gained in building 3G networks and services
- Is there a cost-effective way of evolving the network to LTE?
- Evolution challenges for the 3G operators. How future proof are current networks?
- Is LTE complimentary to current 3G networks?
Conditions Needed to Deploy LTE and Evolving the Network from HSPA
- 15:50
- Antoine Pradayrol, Investment Analyst, Telecom Operators Team, Exane BNP Paribas, UK
- Mobile data traffic explosion: looking at the drivers now and for the coming years - smartphone penetration, mobile broadband penetration, traffic per customer
- HSPA+ versus LTE: is a LTE rollout justified from an economic perspective, when compared to what HSPA upgrades can provide? Under which conditions?
- LTE rollout: when and how will it impact operators' CAPEX and free cash-flows?
The Stock Market Perspective on European Operators' Move to LTE - Why Rush?
- 16:10
Afternoon Refreshments & Exhibition Visit
- 16:40
- Ayman El Nashar, Director - Wireless Broadband, Du UAE
- Gustavo Marambio Lopez, CTO, Telefonica Moviles, Chile
- Dr Shahram G Niri, Director of Global LTE/SAE Strategy & Solution, NEC Europe
- Senior Executive, Motorola UK
- When should operators switch from HSPA+ to LTE?
- The role of 3G femtocells in meeting the capacity crunch head on
- Is there a wait and watch strategy going on with operators?
- How long will operators run multiple networks?
- Comparing early LTE performance and with HSPA+, which will provide a higher level of QoE?
PANEL DISCUSSION: PANEL DISCUSSION: When Should Operators Break Away from HSPA/HSPA+?
- 17:10
- Ayman El Nashar, Director - Wireless Broadband, Du UAE
- How far does HSPA+ go towards meeting mid-term data requirements?
- Examining the speed enhancements that can be achieved with HSPA+
- When will the spectrum flexibility of LTE be needed to increase capacity that HSPA+ will not be able to provide?
Preparing for LTE with HSPA+. How Long Will HSPA+ Suffice Before Operators Need to Migrate to LTE?
- 17:30
- Serge Willenegger, VP Technology, Qualcomm, Switzerland
HSPA+: The Foundation of LTE's Success
- 17:50
End of Track E
- F
- Stéphane Téral, Directing Analyst, Infonetics Research, UK
Transitioning to LTE - Operator Challenges
- 11:50
- Mystery Operator Speaker - To Be Announced
- What are the expected challenges for alternative operators to migrate to LTE?
- What are the limitations of current non-3GPP networks?
- Duplicating coverage - should the legacy network just be switched off?
LTE is it the Path for 3G Operators Only? An Alternative Operator Believes Otherwise
LTE Backhaul & Capacity Management
- 12:10
- Ben Parker, Director of Wireless Transport Group, Verizon Wireless,USA
- Bridging the gap between customer applications and the transport networks
- Overview of current transport networks, what can current backhaul networks handle and what is essential to upgrade
- Examining average subscriber footprints and forecasting data usage in the next ten years
- Responding to the bandwidth bottleneck at the backhaul level
Developing a Backhaul Strategy for Data Orientated Services
- 12:30
- Ben Parker, Director of Wireless Transport Group, Verizon Wireless,USA
- Dr. Viraj Abhayawardhana, Principal Researcher, BT Innovate, UK
- Ronen Guri, Director of Business Development, RAD Data
- Bill Balmer, VP Business DevelopmentAccedian Networks
INDUSTRY DEBATE: The Future of Backhaul is Fixed, Discuss…
- 12:50
Networking Lunch & Exhibition Visit
- 14:10
- Rehan Jalil, Senior Vice President, Mobile IP, WiChorus, a Tellabs Company
- Understanding how cellular users are generating a widening array of different applications and increasing volumes of data traffic
- Distinguishing between different types of traffic and prioritising higher value customers or delay sensitive traffic
- Quantifying the cost per bit optimisation that can be achieved with adaptive coding and modulation
Managing New Traffic Volumes and New Traffic Types in the LTE Backhaul Network
- 14:30
- Bill Payne, CTO - Networks Division, Motorola, USA
- Mobile data explosion - when and what is the tipping point to a more manageable growth?
- Will LTE be sufficient to handle that growth and until when?
- What are the best strategies for after the initial LTE coverage deployment?
- TD-LTE as a tool in the operators' arsenal for additional capacity
- Is a paradigm shift in wireless topologies necessary?
- Maximizing the pipes…
Strategies In, Around & After LTE… When a lot Becomes not Enough!
- 14:50
- Speaker TBC,
- Should the LTE transport network be converged with current legacy infrastructure?
- Examining the pros and cons of converging the backhaul infrastructure
- Examining the technology choices that could be appropriate for this move
- What is the most cost effective way of managing the backhaul?
Converging the Legacy Backhaul Infrastructure With LTE vs. a New Transport Network for LTE
LTE Femtocells
- 15:10
- Kenny Graham, Head of New Technologies & Innovation, Vodafone, UK
- How the LTE Femtocell has the capability of bringing together mesh, software-defined radio and self-organized networks
- How would an operator backhaul traffic from all the femto basestations?
- Examining how operators can achieve high quality, localised coverage at a low cost with LTE Femtocells that are self optimising and self configuring
Achieving the "Metrozone" Vision with LTE Femtocells
- 15:30
- Jaime Lluch, New New Access Networks Technology Manager, Telefónica, Spain
- Could a single mode LTE Femtocell be deployed as a fixed access solution early on before multi mode devices become available?
- Examining the OPEX and CAPEX savings compared to a mass macrocell rollout
- What new application/services opportunities does this bring specifically for the home zone that could be used to drive people to femtos?
The Role of Femtocells in the LTE Strategy. Is an Early Deployment of LTE Femtocells Likely?
- 15:50
- Dr. Viraj Abhayawardhana, Principal Researcher, BT Innovate, UK
- Assets a fixed line operator has for and LTE deployment
- Examining the BT Fon model which uses WiFi
- Comparing different frequency bands and an unlicensed spectrum model using the TV white spaces
- How will fibre to the cabinet/home change the requirements for LTE backhaul?
- Issues with 3G femtocells over DSL and how it would change with LTE femtocells and fibre
A New LTE 'Inside Out' Deployment Model for Fixed Line Operators
- 16:10
Afternoon Refreshments & Exhibition Visit
- 16:40
- Harbir Nat, Manging Director, Æquator Capital, UK
- What are the key challenges of financing technologies such as LTE?
- What is the impact cost from having Femtocells in the network?
- Offloading network traffic onto the fixed line network using Femtocells
Leveraging Femtocells to Manage the Cost of an LTE Rollout
- 17:00
- Arief Gunawan, Senior Officer, Regulatory Management, Telkom Indonesia, Indonesia
- Are LTE Femtocells the quickest and cheapest way in which to achieve coverage in rural areas?
- How the capacity of mobile networks is increased much more dramatically through a smaller cell radius rather than any other techniques
- How will a LTE Femtocell deployment compare with a macrocell deployment at 700MHz in rural areas?
Deploying LTE Femtocells in Order to Achieve Coverage in Rural Areas
- 17:20
- Simon Saunders, Chairman, FemtoForum, UK
- Are Femtocells a win-win situation for the operator and the consumer?
- Challenges with standards, security and radio interference
- Analysing the cost of LTE Femtocells and comparing the cost to pico and marcocells by looking at deployment costs and costs that can be offloaded to the subscriber
Analysing the Business Case for Smaller Cells - Why the Femtocell?
- 17:40
End of Track F
- TOPIC
Providing New & Legacy Services With SAE
- 11:50
- Dietmar Kohnenmergen, Master Expert, System Architecture Network, E-Plus Mobilfunk,Germany
- Why is there a need to offer legacy services such as pre-paid and VPN over the LTE network?
- What are the options from system architecture point of view?
- What are the challenges and potential problems with each option from operator point of view?
- 3GPP standard solution in R8 and R9
How Can Operators Offer Legacy-IN Services Within LTE/SAE?
- 12:15
- Vince Spinelli, VP Mobile Service Provider Segment, Juniper Networks, Belgium
- How will mobile operators with a fixed and mobile network deploy SAE?
- Creating a better value quadplay service offering with an integrated core network
- Business models for fully monetise bundled services including offering such as IPTV
- 3GPP standard solution in R8 and R9
Utilising the New EPC to Deliver a Converged Service Offering for Fixed and Mobile Networks
- 12:40
- Koshimizu Takashi, Director of Core Network Development Department, NTT DoCoMo, Japan
- How will the EPC handle voice services?
- Understanding the increased complexity of VoLGA
- Should operators be concerned with providing a voice service for initial LTE rollouts?
Handling Voice over LTE, What Are the Various Options
- 13:05
Networking Lunch & Exhibition Visit
- 14:15
- Manfred Schmitz, Head of Mobile Architecture and Services, Detecon International, Germany
- The role of QoE (Quality of Experience) in defining the framework
- Enabling an end to end view from the service down to the network as key to success
- Enabling the network consolidation by providing one network for different type of services
- Interoperabilty / communication with the legacy part of the world
- Examples for converged multi play services
- TOPIC
- 14:40
- Jonathan Morgan, Member of the LTE Special Interest Group, FemtoForum, USA
- Architecture challenges for the core network to accommodate Femtocells
- Managing end to end QoS for femtocells how is it different?
- How can operators manage untrusted networks – examining the role of EPDG’s
- 15:05
- Sybren van Bentum, Director Portfolio Management, Mobile Services,iBasis/KPN Global Carrier Services, The Netherlands
- How does IP interconnection work today, and how can it work much more efficiently in future?
- Enabling service providers to exchange IP-based traffic securely and with a guaranteed quality of service
- Reviewing GSMA’s IP exchange recommendations
- TOPIC
- 15:40
- Thomas Magedanz, Head of NGN Division, Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany
- Enabling high-speed multimedia services such as video and Internet on its 3G/UMTS networks
- What elements required for 4G can be included in todays core network?
- Having a single platform for 2G, 3G and LTE and supporting multiple functions in a single node
- Eliminating the need for forklift upgrades
- 16:05
- 16:50
- The centralized model, in which PDN GWs, SGWs, and possibly other elements such as the MMEs are located in a few central sites
- The distributed model, in which PDN GWs, SGWs, are located in a relatively large number of sites
- The regionalized model, where PDN GWs, SGWs, and so on located in a limited number of regional sites
- 17:15
- Latif Lalid, President, IPv6 Forum, Luxemburg
- Examining IPv6 specifications
- What progress is being made to implement IPv6 and what is the impact on NGMNs?
- Is IPv6 an candidate to EPC?
- 17:40
