LTE World Summit 2012 - Special Focus Day

New for 2012! LTE World Summit Presents a Dedicated Forum to Signaling Traffic...
For the first time ever, this year's must-attend LTE World Summit features a focus day specially designed for those focusing on handling signaling traffic and network demand.

Taking place on 22nd May 2012 at the CCIB in Barcelona and brimming with presentations and case studies led by industry visionaries, the signaling focus day analyses the urgent need to deal with the substantial increase in signaling traffic as a result of exponential growth in smartphone, application and network signaling traffic, alongside growing M2M and roaming requirements.

Welcoming insights from some of the leading minds in the space, the day will offer a unique opportunity to examine the range of network signalling solutions, notably Diameter-based, alongside management strategies which are now pivotal considerations in LTE deployment.
08:50
Chairman's Introduction and Market Overview
- Dimitris Mavrakis
  
  Principal Analyst
  
  Informa Telecoms & Media, UK
09:00
Operator KeynoteFindings from a Signaling Storm Evaluation in Argentina
- RNC measurements
- Smartphone stats
- Resources consumption per device type
- Conclusions
- Martin Piñeiro
  
  Head of Technology Innovation
  
  Telecom Personal, Argentina
09:30
What is Diameter Signaling and how will it affect your network?
- How will billions of connected devices generate a tidal wave of diameter signaling?
- How to overcome this signaling explosion by building a new diameter network for 3G and LTE networks and adding scalability, security and reliability to mobile broadband networks?
- Define how this new diameter network is the foundation for session, policy and subscriber data management
- Identify use cases requiring intelligent traffic management to manage and monetize mobile broadband. Those use cases include load balancing, adding value to over the top applications, congestion management and LTE roaming
- Ron de Lange
  
  President and CEO
  
  Tekelec
10:00
The Benefits of Approaching Diameter as the Nervous System of the Network
- Diameter's role in maintaining, controlling and connecting the entire network including the core and edge; application, data & control planes
- The role of a centralized diameter control point to enable many more applications
- Network agnostic Diameter solutions - working with any policy, billing, subscriber management, mobility elements, and support all 50+ Diameter interfaces, many legacy protocols and elements. Considering the economic benefits of this approach
- How you approach security like access control, signaling tsunami control and topology hiding as required
- Ben Volkow
  
  VP Product Development
  
  F5 Traffix
10:30
Panel DiscussionWhen is the right time and what is the right way to deploy Diameter signaling solutions?
- Is it right to roll out a signaling product at the start of a commercial deployment of an LTE network?
- How much signaling traffic can be accommodated before the investment in a solution is essential?
- Is it necessary to have a standalone solution, independent of other network equipment?
- What is the difference between deployment of Diameter and legacy signaling solutions?
- Moderator: Dimitris Mavrakis
  
  Principal Analyst
  
  Informa Telecoms & Media, UK
- Marjan Muršec
  
  Assistant Head of Radio Planning and Technical Expert
  
  Mobitel, Slovenia
- Peter Nas
  
  Senior Solution Architect
  
  F5 Traffix
- Juan Luis Esteban
  
  Director, Solutions Architecture
  
  Acme Packet
- Jason Emery
  
  Dir NSG Signaling Prod. Mgmt
  
  Tekelec
- Jukka Kujala
  
  Customer Collaboration, CTO Office
  
  Nokia
11:10
Networking break
11:55
Tracking and preparing a network for the oncoming surge in signaling traffic
- Weighing up the challenge of always-on-apps
- Telekom Slovenia's network plans to handle the signaling boom
- Marjan Muršec
  
  Assistant Head of Radio Planning and Technical Expert
  
  Mobitel, Slovenia
12:25
Facilitating the introduction of LTE Roaming – from disruption to opportunity
- The business need for quick introduction of LTE roaming
- The complexities of introducing Diameter as a new signaling technology
- Interconnect, interworking and interoperability as key success factors
- Addressing disruption complexities with a central exchange model
- Ajay Joseph
  
  CTO
  
  iBasis
12:55
Networking lunch
14:00
Migration from TDM to LTE Networks to Enhance Carrier Services
- Centralised Routing in an NGN network
- DIAMETER and SIP in the core network
- Inter-working functionality
- Multiple Services, Multiple Vendors, Multiple Protocols in the network- How do they all fit with LTE?
- Douglas Ranalli
  
  Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
  
  NetNumber Inc., USA
14:25
The Role of Diameter Signalling in the Network
- Reasons behind this becoming a major network issue
- What is the current status of signaling products on the market?
- What are the major sources of Diameter traffic?
- What industry standards are currently in place?
- Douglas Alston
  
  Director, Technology Developement and Strategy
  
  Sprint
14:50
Roaming in the LTE World – the role of Diameter devices
- Enabling a consistent service whether at home or on foreign network
- Edge of network requirements
- What is the required security for roaming?
- Anjan Ghosal
  
  President and CEO
  
  Diametriq
15:15
Panel DiscussionOptimising the network to provide the best possible end user experience
- Effectively handling the increased data with load balancing
- Relieving congestion through equal distribution of traffic
- Roles and responsibilities of different market players
- Creating a smart routing grid and network visibility for performance and subscriber analytics
- Moderator: Houck Reed
  
  Vice President Broadband Network Solutions Product Management and Operations
  
  Tekelec
- Markus Freikamp
  
  Head of International Wholesale Business Models
  
  Deutsche Telekom, Germany
- Renaud Di Francesco
  
  Divisional Director, European Technology Standards Office
  
  Sony, UK
- Martin Guilfoyle
  
  VP Research & Development
  
  Syniverse, USA
- Douglas Alston
  
  Director, Technology Developement and Strategy
  
  Sprint
16:00
Networking break
16:30
Navigating the Vendor Landscape
- How are vendors addressing the Diameter Signaling need?
- How are they positioning themselves and differentiating here?
- What dynamics are shaping competition among vendors in the space?
- Edward Gubbins
  
  Senior Analyst, Wireless Infrastructure
  
  Current Analysis, USA
16:55
The Evolution of Service Control Mechanisms in Next generation Networks towards Future Internet
- Service Control Mechanism Evolution and Signaling
- Extending the Policy Control and Charging Architecture
- UE & Network Initiated QoS adaption
- Experiences from prototyping OpenEPC
- Julius Mueller
  
  Researcher NGNI Division
  
  Fraunhofer FOKUS
17:20
End of Day

New for 2012! LTE World Summit Presents a Dedicated Forum to Signaling Traffic...

Chairman's Introduction and Market Overview

Operator KeynoteFindings from a Signaling Storm Evaluation in Argentina

What is Diameter Signaling and how will it affect your network?

The Benefits of Approaching Diameter as the Nervous System of the Network

Panel DiscussionWhen is the right time and what is the right way to deploy Diameter signaling solutions?

Networking break

Tracking and preparing a network for the oncoming surge in signaling traffic

Facilitating the introduction of LTE Roaming – from disruption to opportunity

Networking lunch

Migration from TDM to LTE Networks to Enhance Carrier Services

The Role of Diameter Signalling in the Network

Roaming in the LTE World – the role of Diameter devices

Panel DiscussionOptimising the network to provide the best possible end user experience

Networking break

Navigating the Vendor Landscape

The Evolution of Service Control Mechanisms in Next generation Networks towards Future Internet

End of Day