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Abstracts
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0930 - 1030 |
Opening session
- Chairman of the Forum: Mr Priyantha Kariyapperuma, Director General of
Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka
Welcome address:
- Mr Priyantha Kariyapperuma, Director General of Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka
- Message by His Excellency President Mahinda Rajapaksa
- Hon. Prof. Tissa Vitharana, Minister of Science and Technology
- Mr Malcolm Johnson, Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, (TSB), ITU
- Message by Dr. Hamadoun I. Touré, Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union
- Mr Marcel Belingue, Senior Manager, Programmes, CTO
Keynote address:
- Dr Hans Wijayasuriya, Group Chief Operating Officer, TM International (TMI), Group Chief Executive Officer, Dialog Telekom
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1030 - 1100 |
Coffee break |
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1100 - 1230 |
SESSION 1: Overview of ITU-T its activities, initiatives to increase
participation in the standardization work from developing countries and
Academia
Session Chairman:
Objectives: This session will provide an
overview of ITU-T the standardization sector of ITU. It will highlight
decisions taken by the Plenipotentiary Conference 2006 (Resolution 123)
and the main achievements reached at WTSA-08 including those to bridge
the standardization gap and to increase participation to ITU-activities
from developing countries and academia.
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Malcolm Johnson, Director, Telecommunication
Standardization Bureau, (TSB), ITU: ITU Overview & WTSA-08 results |
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Paolo Rosa, Head of Workshops and Promotion Division, (ITU/TSB): ITU Standardization Sector Overview and working
methods |
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Paolo Rosa, Head of Workshops and Promotion Division, (ITU/TSB): Bridging standardization gap and participation |
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1230 - 1400 |
Lunch |
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1400 - 1530 |
SESSION 2: Current ITU standardization topics
Session Chairman:
David Burks, Director, Telecommunication Industry, IBM Growth
Markets
Objectives: This session addresses current
standardization “ hot” topics in ITU-T, presenting each topic from
various perspectives: technological evolution, market trends, current
and future studies, new services and applications arising from
standardization work and, in particular, focusing on how they could
serve the Asia Pacific region. This session provides also information on
NGN (architecture, service requirements, network capabilities, and
migration), mobility and fixed-mobile convergence, and emergency
communications, IPTV and multimedia services.
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Ghassem Koleyni, ITU Expert, (Independent
Telecom consultant): Migration towards converged networks
Next generation network (NGN) and specially converged networks are the
future of modern telecommunications. NGN is the basis for the growth of
today’s telecommunications industry. This presentation defines and
illustrates NGN’s role in today’s industry, provides a brief overview of
progress in telephony and shows the progress of NGN standardization
activities at ITU-T. Finally, it concludes with an introduction to PSTN/ISDN
evolution to NGN based on both the call server approach and the IMS. |
Marco Carugi, ITU Expert, (Senior Advisor -
Nortel, Carrier Networks): NGN services and progress in ITU-T related
standardization activities
A number of efforts are in progress within ITU-T in the area of emerging
NGN services, including related use cases, requirements and
capabilities, extensions of the NGN functional architecture, deployment
scenarios. This presentation will cover some key service topics, of
current relevance in the market and generating interest and
contributions within the overall standardization community. These topics
include multimedia services, applications using tag-based identification
and ubiquitous sensor networks, managed delivery services.
The presentation will be focused on the related activities progressed
within ITU-T SG13, where the author leads the expert group on
requirements and implementation scenarios of emerging services and
capabilities in the evolving NGN. |
Ghassem Koleyni, ITU Expert, (Independent
Telecom consultant): Towards a harmonized global IPTV standard
Internet protocol over television (IPTV) is presently a hot topic for
several standardization bodies. IPTV, as one of the most practical NGN
applications, offers real, triple or quadruple play (i.e. voice, data,
video and or mobile) capabilities in a multimedia environment. This
presentation provides the definition of IPTV and shows the progress of
IPTV standardization activities at ITU-T. It identifies architectural
approaches for IPTV, as well as discussing several implementation
approaches. |
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1530 - 1600 |
Coffee break |
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1600 - 1730 |
SESSION 3: The Asia Pacific region development issues and case
studies related to NGN
Session Chairman: Bharat Bhatia,
Regional Director, India, SAARC and South East Asia
Objectives: This session will focus on ITU-D
activities to help ICT development and implementation in developing
countries with special reference to NGN. In addition, the activities of
the ITU-D Regional offices will be highlighted.
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Tatsuro Murakami, Executive Research Engineer,
NTT, Japan: Launching an NGN commercial service - NTT’s approach
NTT has successfully started the NGN commercial service since March
2008.
This presentation shows history and future plan of NTT's NGN.
The approach to launch the NGN is also explained in this presentation. |
Satya N. Gupta, ITU Expert, (Chief Regulatory
Advisor, BT GS, India and SAARC): Developing NGN Ecosystem for emerging
markets: India case study
This presentation discusses various regulatory challenges faced for NGN
migration by the service providers in the developing nations. As a case
study the process of development of regulatory ecosystem to facilitate
NGN migration in India has been described. A SWOT analysis of present
licensing and regulatory frame work in context of transition to NGN has
been done. The regulators consultation process to access the views of
major players, finding from public consultation and the recommendations
towards NGN migration have also been covered.
In addition approach of one of the major operator is described. As way
forward need for awareness building and a single composite unified
license and cross-industry collaboration to enable faster NGN migration
has been brought out. Various policy and regulatory imitatives in line
with international best practices have also been suggested. |
Sameer Sharma, Senior Advisor, ITU Regional
Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok: Overview of ITU-D Sector:
Participation in NGN Standardization Activities"
In the Asia Pacific region, there is a high technological growth and
demand that requires the enabling environment in terms of regulation to
be updated. A large number of countries are in a state of transition to
IP-based Next Generation Networks (NGN) where participation in
standardization work requires efforts to address human capacity building
and involving countries in the process.
WTDC-06, through revision of Resolution 17, also called upon BDT to
implement regionally approved initiatives at the national, regional,
international and global levels. One of the five Regional Initiatives in
the Asia Pacific region is “Strengthening the collaboration between
ITU-T and ITU-D”, which aims to assist the developing countries that
lack the necessary human resources to understand ITU-T Recommendation.
This presentation provided snapshots of major initiatives undertaken by
ITU-D to address this challenge. |
Clifford Wignell, Director of Network Solutions
and Architecture, Alcatel-Lucent: The Asia Pacific Region development issues and case studies related to NGN
1. Why Standards? Why is it important for impendent bodies such as the
ITU to develop standards and recommendations
2. NGN, What is NGN? A condensed definition
3. Asia Pacific is not North America, a look at the differences between
the regions and the needs of APAC
4. Two basic case studies examining solutions to two different
requirements.
5. APAC is not NAR a summary of some things needed in APAC not seen in
other regions
6. The ITU and you, what is the ITU-T/D study group 13 and how to be
involved. |
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0900 - 1100 |
Session 4: An Implementable NGN Architecture, and its Capabilities
Session Chairman: Ghassem Koleyni, ITU Expert, (Independent
Telecom consultant)
Objectives: This session will discuss the
standards-based, implementable NGN architecture taking consideration of:
- Overall functional architecture of an
implementable NGN architecture
- Functional architecture for supporting
mobility and realization of FMC environments
- Architectural view points of “Quality of
Services” and “Network Performance” to meet NGN service requirements
from users and providers
- Relevance of IPV6 for NGN transportation
- NGN Access Networks
In addition, this session will discuss several
key underlying network/support capabilities essential for a successful
NGN.
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Tatsuro Murakami, Executive Research Engineer,
NTT, Japan: Technical challenges in building the NGN - NTT’s activities
NTT has built the NGN in accordance with global NGN standards defined by ITU-T. This presentation explains NTT's decisions in technical choice through constructing NGN and also shows what NGN can bring us.
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Marco Carugi, ITU Expert, Senior Advisor -
Nortel, Carrier Networks: Requirements and capabilities for an evolving
NGN infrastructure
The presentation will provide an overview of key requirements and
capabilities from a customer and service provider’ s perspective for a
converged NGN infrastructure able to support varying and evolving needs
in terms of applications and business models.
In line with approved and ongoing ITU-T recommendations developed to
satisfy the NGN Release 1 and Release 2 objectives, and using the basic
service-oriented concept of “NGN capabilities”, some key achievements
and future steps of the ITU-T NGN GSI (Global Standardization
Initiative) effort in various technical domains will be described. |
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Tilak De Silva, Chief Global & Networks
Officer, Sri Lanka Telecom: An Implementable NGN Architecture and its Capabilities |
Bharat Bhatia, Regional Director, India, SAARC
and South East Asia, Motorola: Access Network Solutions for NGN
implementations.
• Wireless access solutions for NGN
• Wireline access solutions for NGN
• Spectrum implications |
Mingdong Li, Rapporteur of Q13/SG13 and editor of Y.NGN-FRA, Chief Engineer of Standard Development and Industry Relations, ZTE Corporation: Converged Service Network
• Situation of service ecosystem & platform
• Trends of service evolution
• CSN – Converged Service Network |
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1100 - 1130 |
Coffee break |
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1130 - 1300 |
Session 5: Management, Signalling and Control
Session Chairman:
Objectives: This session will discuss the
necessary core capabilities for signalling and control within the NGN,
with a specific focus on IMS as the basis and the areas where critical
additional functionality are being specified. In particular, special
attention will be given to needed mechanisms for Priority Marking of
packets for Emergency Communications and the status of this standards
work. Additionally, the more general problem of Resource and Admission
Control will be discussed together with aspects related to NGN Traffic
management.
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Lakshmi Raman, Senior Staff Engineer, Intellectual Ventures, USA:
Preferential telecommunications service over access networks |
Kaoru Kenyoshi, Chief Manager, 1st Carrier
Solutions Operations Unit, NEC Corporation, Japan: NGN- Service PF
solutions and applications
This presentation introduces the NEC’s view on NGN and it also
introduces NEC’s technologies and solutions to realize the NGN. NEC
proposes various solutions such as PSTN migration, FMC solutions and
Triple Play or quadro-play Solutions to reduce CAPEX/ OPEX and generate
new revenue of the operators. |
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R N Padukone, Principal General Manager, BSNL, India: Service Provider concerns in Implementing effective NGN Control |
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1300 - 1430 |
Lunch |
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1430 - 1600 |
Session 6: Development trends of NGN technology and systems
Session Chairman: Ghassem Koleyni, ITU Expert, (Independent
Telecom consultant)
Objectives: This session will present the
relevant technologies on NGN accesses, service platforms, home, office
and mobile applications with special focus on convergence. Moreover,
charging and accounting principles for NGN, it will also look at
migration scenarios for NGN and accounting principles for NGN the
Management of end-to- end voice QoS in NGN and NGN terminal equipment
standardization.
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Marco Carugi, ITU Expert, (Senior Advisor -
Nortel, Carrier Networks): Towards an open service delivery
environment/platform for NGN
Across the telecom industry, much work is underway to separate the
communications capabilities in today’s networks from the networks
themselves and to make those capabilities available for integration into
the applications of the IT industry. This effort is making possible a
rich menu of modular building blocks that can be easily mixed and
matched with building blocks from the IT industry to form wholly new
kinds of multimedia services and automated business processes that marry
the rich content, data applications, and business processes of the IT
world with the intelligent, real-time, in-the-network functions of the
telecom domain (communications-enabled applications). The effort also
aims to promote reusability and portability of standardized
capabilities, in order to reduce application development costs, to
quickly adapt to varying customer requirements and to support an
increased variety of business models.
Key to this effort at the core of future multimedia service
architectures and service platforms are the SOA (Service Oriented
Architecture) and the WS (Web Services) frameworks. ITU-T has started
the development of specifications towards the integration of SOA and WS
technical approaches in the NGN context. In line with approved and
ongoing ITU-T recommendations, this presentation, building over the
basic concept of NGN capabilities and focusing on ongoing activities
within ITU-T SG13, will introduce some key objectives, requirements and
capabilities for the support of an advanced open service environment in
NGN. The integration of SOA and WS in NGN will be then examined,
including some achievements and current standardization challenges. |
BV Raman, Country Manager, CDMA
Development Group: CDMA/EVDO/LTE Interoperability and migration plans
The presentation will focus on having a CDMA core network and then
migrating smoothly with full forward & backward interoperability, from a
technology evolution planning perspective. |
Siva Ramamoorthy, Head of Marketing, Tejas Networks: Efficient Backhauling Strategies for NGNs using Carrier-Ethernet
The emergence and growth of new carrier-class services like VoIP,
Video-on-demand and Real-time gaming have prompted Service Providers to
migrate towards Next-Generation Networks. As Service Providers adopt
Next-Generation Networks, building a transport network that efficiently
backhauls these emerging services becomes an important decision facing
Service Providers. Several Next-Generation Transport technologies are
being developed to serve the transport needs of these networks, with
Carrier-Ethernet being at the fore-front of these technologies. This
presentation discusses the requirements that Next-Generation Networks
place on the transport network and the various attributes of
Carrier-Ethernet that makes it ideal for use as a Next-Generation
Transport technology. |
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A. Sethuraman, Executive Director, Huawei Technologies |
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1600 - 1630 |
Coffee break |
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1630 - 1730 |
Session 7: Security and regulatory issues in the NGN environment
Session Chairman: N. K. Goyal, Chairman, Telecommunications
Equipment Manufacturers Association, India
Objectives: this session will provide an overview of security standards
and current security standardization work. Security topics will include
technologies and convergence implications and will cover cybersecurity
issues e.g. combating spam, Identity Management, Authentication and
Authorization in NGN. The session will also address regulatory issues
and the role of the regulators and regulatory bodies in an NGN
convergent world.
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Satyen Gupta, ITU Expert, (Chief Regulatory
Advisor, BT GS, India and SAARC): Regulatory issues for next generation
access (NGA) in NGN
This presentation describes emerging trends in Next Generation Access (NGA)
leading to super fast broadband based services. It covers various
applications of NGN which needs NGA. Various emerging broadband
technologies like FTTH and GPON which enable NGA have been discussed.
Detailed discussion on Regulatory issues pertaining to NGA with special
reference to infrastructure sharing and functional separation is
included. In the end a case study of UK regulator, OFCOM, which has
issued a facilitating regulation for development of NGA has been
discussed. |
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Paolo Rosa, Head of Workshops and Promotion Division, (ITU/TSB): Security in NGN & the ITU Global Cybesercurity
Agenda |
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Sureswaran Ramadass, Director, National Advanced IPv6 Centre (NAv6): The National IPv6 Roadmap and its Regulatory Role |
S.K. Gupta, Advisor (Converged Network), Telecom Regulatory Authority of India: NGN - Regulatory and Security issues
The convergence of telecom, Information technology and broadcasting with
ever increasing digitization of the content is fast changing present
telecom eco-system and has posed new challenges. Increasing power of
computation, availability of multi-function devices at affordable cost
has re-emphasized the need for convergent telecom network. NGN has
emerged as new mantra for future telecom, however has highlighted the
need to look at present telecom scenario a fresh, both from technology
and regulatory prospective.
This presentation deals with changing telecom environment in respect to
convergence and NGN and highlights different regulatory concerns and
options to deal with such developments. Lot of intricate regulatory
issues has been deliberated. The need for standardization, maintenance
of interoperability and regulators role to foster competition and
innovation in the complex situation has been discussed. The presentation
also discuss net neutrality, emerging security threats, likely solutions
and need for appropriate change in eco-system to coordinate and evolve
solutions while ensuring lawful interception. |
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0900 - 1030 |
Session 8: Interconnection and Interoperability aspects of NGN
Session Chairman: Marco Carugi, ITU Expert, (Senior Advisor -
Nortel, Carrier Networks)
Objectives: A major component of
standardization activities is to produce standards which in turn would
facilitate and support interoperability. This brings an ideal situation
which would accomplish the notion of Plug and Play devices. As part of
NGN, there are various implementations and deployments that perform
Session/Border Control Functions (S/BCF), [aka, Session Border Control]
in service provider, enterprise, access and end-user networks. Defining
requirements for these functions and for mapping them to physical
implementations is needed to allow for vendor product interoperability.
Moreover, Number Portability and Network Address Translation and
Protocol Translation issues are vitally important as well as
Interworking of NGN and legacy networks.
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Ghassem Koleyni, ITU Expert, (Independent
Telecom consultant): Interoperability, why it is important
Beginning at the time when ISDN standardization was introduced and
digital technology entered into telecommunications, a new era of
unprecedented capabilities and technology innovation became evident.
With progress there also came problems of interoperability as some
implementations did not exactly follow specifications. As well, due to
market demand and the regionalization of standardization activities,
some discrepancies were noticed between different standards; something
that was not meant to exist. This presentation shows that
interoperability and interworking are two different entities and
concludes that the only way to have interoperability is to implement
based on global standards, where implementations are verified based on
globally accepted test suites. |
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H.C Soni, Vice President, ITU -APT Foundation
of India: Interconnection in NGN Environment |
Rajeshwar Dayal, Department of
Telecommunications, India: Need of Interoperability within an NGN - An approach
The presentation will be about the need for Interoperability “within”
NGN network and the requirements of standardisation process and
documents which should inherently cater for interoperability along with
the conformance. Also, an overview of existing standards in ITU, with
reference to interoperability in NGN. |
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S.K. Gupta, Advisor (Converged Network), Telecom Regulatory Authority of India: NGN - Interconnection |
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1030 - 1100 |
Coffee break |
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1100 - 1230 |
Session 9: NGN testing, conformity and interoperability requirements
and the ITU Mark Session Chairman: Tilak
de Silva, Chief Global & Networks Officer, Sri Lanka Telecom
Objectives: Interoperability is one of the
cornerstones of the NGN. Testing methods and procedures are essential
for meeting this goal. This session will discuss what kinds of tests
should be conducted for NGN functions/functional entities and services
in view of a worldwide assessment programme including the release of
conformance and interoperability. Relationship with WTSA-08 Resolution
76, related to aspects of the ITU Mark will be considered.
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Paolo Rosa, Head of Workshops and
Promotion Division, (ITU/TSB): WTSA-08 Resolution 76, Implementation
status and ITU mark for equipment and services |
R.K. Siddhartha, Department of
Telecommunications, India: Developing Physical architecture of NGN- A
methodology
The presentation will be about the utility of developing physical
architecture of NGN to cater testing of individual network elements of
NGN. The emphasis will be the facilitation of testing for ITU mark, in
the spirit of resolution 76, along with the availability of such
equipment level architecture in the upcoming NGN environment. |
Denis Andreev, Director of Technopark ZNISS,
Rapporteur of Q.10//11 ITU-T Study Group 11: Global approach of NGN
testing
Interoperability testing of NGN technical means and NGN
network-solutions that are built on their basis is very relevant under
the developing of the NGN standards and appearing of wide spectrum of
new telecommunication technologies.
At present the main standardization organizations such as ETSI and ITU
are developing the normative base which will be used on NGN technical
means testing (signalling protocols, functionality etc.). The last
standards under testing which are approved and are going to be approve
by SG11 regarding NGN testing take on special significance for ITU-T.
This approaches at this time to acquire the wide expansion through world
Network providers. Therefore after WTSA-08 five new questions regarding
testing were approved as a WP4/11 activities and SG11 take a new title
“Signalling requirements, protocols and test specifications”.
In the report the basic questions, concerning approaches NGN testing and
ITU-T standardization results, including classification NGN technical
means under test, basic architecture of model networks (Rec. ITU-T
Q.3900), methodology of NGN testing (Rec. ITU-T Q.3901) formalization of
testing methods based on the Known Database (Rec. ITU-T Q.3903) are
observed.
Also in the report some experience around NGN testing will be shown
including the often problems on interoperability different NGN equipment
and approaches for overcome it. The approaches to aggregate the
methodology, experience and experts in testing area is global purposes
of joint ITU/ZNIIS project concerning creation of International
Telecommunication Testing Center. During the report will be shown the
last results of ITTC work for CIS region. |
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1230 - 1400 |
Lunch |
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1400 - 1530 |
Session 10: Market Opportunities and Challenges
Session Chairman: Anil Prakash, Secretary General, ITU-APT
Foundation of India
Objectives: NGN provides a number of
opportunities for various kinds of businesses. Those include service
providers, application providers, transport providers in the access and
the backbone. It provides mechanisms to offer services to customers,
residential end-users, business users or re-sellers.
Challenges arise from a number of sources like
competition, cost of implementation, changing marketplaces, complex
migration scenarios and regulatory uncertainties.
This session aims to provide a
state-of-the-art overview on global trends with a focus to the
Asia-Pacific region from the different perspectives.
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Rajamanickam Thirumurthy, Head of Design. Midas Communications: Extending Voice & Data Coverage with Ease |
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Salmiah Abd Majid, General Manager of
Network Development Department, Telekom Malaysia: Telekom Malaysia's NGN Implementation Plan |
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Manoj Barara, General Manager, Sales
Engineering, UtStarcom Inc.: Gearing up to Launch |
T.S. Mohan Krishnan, Sr. Vice President, IMRB International:
How service providers can use NGNs to percolate into low-cost and BoP markets for efficient reach and services in these markets
How service providers can use NGNs to percolate into low-cost and BoP
markets for efficient reach and services in these markets. |
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1530 - 1600 |
Coffee break |
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1600 - 1730 |
Session 11: Broadcasting, multicasting, person-to-person and
machine-to-machine communications Session Chairman: A. Sethuraman, Executive Director, Huawei Technologies
Objectives: The support of streaming type
services over NGN, real-time conversational multimedia services,
fixed-mobile convergent environments are important and challenging
issues. Offering currently available services over NGN, in addition to
entirely new services, will bring additional value to subscribers and
providers. This session will identify the various challenges and
important issues relating to broadcast, multicast, P2P and interactive
M2M environments and relevant aspects such as QoS, security, IdM,
digital rights management (DRM), middleware, applications and content
platforms.
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Ashwani Kumar, Director, Sales Engineering,
UtStarcom Inc.: Evolution of NGN infrastructure for Multi-media applications & FMC |
Pradeep de Almeida, Group Chief Technology Officer, Dialog: Real-time Data Streaming – The Next Generation
Conceivable suite of applications that can leverage on real-time data
streaming technology spans from light-weight applications like data
gathering and data disseminating to media delivery with demanding
bandwidth and quality of service assurance from the network.
Capabilities of the present day NGN core network have evolved to a great
extent, compared to the state it was a decade ago. But, the capabilities
of access network is still at cross roads in terms of technology
maturity, standardization, device availability and wide spread adaption
in global context.
The presentation briefly touches on the principles of few in-band and
out-of-band technologies that are at various states ranging from just
technical realization with a promising roadmap to that are currently
being piloted or at early deployment stage. Along with technical
comparison, the presentation also illustrates the mapping of
applications to access network technology. |
Nigel Dye, Director, Business Development Global Telecoms Market, British Telecom:
21st Century Network (21CN)
NGN’S are a natural progression for operators, there is a lot of “hype”
out there in the market, however, several issues remain true.
a) We need to manage our cost base to fight off competition and remain
profitable businesses serving our customers
b) The Internet (IP) has changed our business model and that of our
business and residential customers.
c) Convergence is a technical but also commercial play and the NGN’s we
are deploying need to reflect the business as well as the technical
platforms.
The “smart” companies are making good profits off the operator
infrastructure. Smart companies are using and commercialising knowledge,
they harness the power of the infrastructure by making it easy for the
users and customers. Operators need to face up to the fact that
flexibility and business agility are key. Our NGN’S should reflect the
commercial interests of our business and that of our customers. As an
industry, we have sometimes missed the window of opportunity.
Building and Open NGN platform will allow operators to harness their
internal and external commercial innovation, develop new business models
to survive and prosper in the internet age. In the 21st Century It is no
longer relevant to deliver base products we must develop an agile
service layer. It is our Service Layer that differentiates us and
ultimately provides our revenue and profit for growth. We should not be
closed organisations, but become learning organisations who use
strategic knowledge assets.
Open NGN Platforms allow the operator to utilise Web 2.0 technology, to
let authorised 3rd parties to build services on the platform and extend
the value to the customer.
NGN’s are not “One-size-fits-all” the timing and scale of deployment
should be carefully planned. It is now no longer a question of “if NGN
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0900 - 1030 |
Session 12: The Future of NGN Session
Chairman: Ghassem Koleyni, ITU Expert, (Independent Telecom
consultant):
Objectives: NGN includes the major themes of
convergence and mobility. This session will look at the convergence of
fixed and mobile services within telecoms, and more broadly the
convergence of telecoms, IT and broadcast. This convergence is closely
linked to the evolution of enabling access technologies, and especially
what emerging broadband mobile wireless access technologies ("4G")
impact to the evolution of NGNs and the services they support.
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Sureswaran Ramadass, Director, National Advanced IPv6 Centre (NAv6): A Pilot Implementation of an NGN Dual Stack IPv4/IPv6 network for MEWC, Malaysia |
Pradeep de Almeida, Group Chief Technology
Officer, Dialog: Multimedia service delivery on Next Generation Networks and Challenges
Multimedia services like video streaming, voice over IP, social
networking and file sharing are becoming increasingly popular with
today’s consumers. With developments in mobile access technologies like
HSPA/HSPA+, WiMAX and LTE, more and more bandwidth is becoming available
to end users for multimedia consumption. However offering multimedia on
all IP networks bring about a new set of challenges to network
operators. Quality of service guarantee on access and transport networks
becomes a must when delivering multimedia content as bandwidth
consumption by individual users rise. Security is another key challenge
with the exposure of network to threats inherent in IP networks. This
becomes more critical when it comes to inter-operator connectivity and
delivery of internet based services through NGN. Legacy wireless
networks have historically being poor in addressing these requirements.
By definition, an NGN is a packet based network capable of using a
multitude of QoS enabled transport networks to deliver services
independent of the technology used by the underlying networks. The
application or service layer in a NGN seeks to remedy one of the major
weaknesses of service delivery on legacy networks. Legacy services have
always been tightly integrated to the transport and access networks.
This has led to higher operational expenditure and slower service
delivery. The separation of service, control and access layers of NGNs
allow access agnostic applications / services, which can be deployed
with minimal integration effort ultimately enabling operators to offer
converged services on multiple access networks.
This presentation will focus on aspects such as methodology, quality of
service, security, capacity, device aspects and network evolution for
multimedia service delivery on all IP next generation networks. |
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Don Rasantha Hettithanthrige, Senior General
Manager – Engineering & Operations, Mobitel, Sri Lanka |
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1030 - 1100 |
Coffee break |
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1100 - 1200 |
Session 13: Open discussion Chairman:
Malcolm Johnson, Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau
(TSB), ITU
Sessions Chairmen as panellists on the topics
presented in the previous sessions and discussion with participants on
hot NGN topics such as regulatory convergence, services, security,
management, deployment, migration and needs for standards.
(Panellists):
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- Bharat Bhatia, Regional Director, India, SAARC and South
East Asia, Motorola, President TEMA
- Ghassem Koleyni, ITU Expert, (Independent Telecom
consultant)
- S.K. Gupta, Advisor (Converged Network), Telecom
Regulatory Authority of India
- Marco Carugi, ITU Expert, Senior Advisor - Nortel,
Carrier Networks
- Tilak De Silva, Chief Global & Networks Officer, Sri
Lanka Telecom
- Anil Prakash, Secretary General, ITU-APT Foundation of
India
- A. Sethuraman, Executive Director, Huawei Technologies
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1200 - 1230 |
Closing Session Chairman: Pryantha
Kariyapperuma, Director General, Telecommunications Regulatory
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