• Chairman of the Forum: Mr Priyantha Kariyapperuma, Director General of Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka
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• Lighting of the oil lamp

Welcome address:

• Mr Priyantha Kariyapperuma, Director General of Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka
  [ BIOGRAPHY | WELCOME ADDRESS ]
• 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
  [ BIOGRAPHY | WELCOME ADDRESS ]
• Message by Dr. Hamadoun I. Touré, Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union
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• Mr Marcel Belingue, Senior Manager, Programmes, CTO
  [ WELCOME ADDRESS ]

Keynote address:

• Dr Hans Wijayasuriya, Group Chief Operating Officer, TM International (TMI), Group Chief Executive Officer, Dialog Telekom

Session Chairman: R N Padukone, Principal General Manager, BSNL, India
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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 in ITU activities from developing countries and academia.

• 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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Session Chairman: David Burks, Director, Telecommunication Industry, IBM Growth Markets
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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.

• Ghassem Koleyni, ITU Expert, (Independent Telecom consultant): Migration towards converged networks
  [ BIOGRAPHY | ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
• Marco Carugi, ITU Expert, (Senior Advisor - Nortel, Carrier Networks): NGN services and progress in ITU-T related standardization activities
  [ BIOGRAPHY | ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
• Ghassem Koleyni, ITU Expert, (Independent Telecom consultant): Towards a harmonized global IPTV standard
  [ BIOGRAPHY | ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]

Session Chairman: Bharat Bhatia, Regional Director, India, SAARC and South East Asia
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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.

• Tatsuro Murakami, Executive Research Engineer, NTT, Japan: Launching an NGN commercial service - NTT’s approach
  [ BIOGRAPHY | ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
• Satya N. Gupta, ITU Expert, (Chief Regulatory Advisor, BT GS, India and SAARC): Developing NGN Ecosystem for emerging markets: India case study
  [ BIOGRAPHY | ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
• Sameer Sharma, Senior Advisor, ITU Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok: Overview of ITU-D Sector: Participation in NGN Standardization Activities"
  [ BIOGRAPHY | ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
• Clifford Wignell, Director of Network Solutions and Architecture, Alcatel-Lucent Australia: The Asia Pacific region development issues and case studies
  [ BIOGRAPHY | ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]

Session Chairman: Ghassem Koleyni, ITU Expert, (Independent Telecom consultant)
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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.

• Tatsuro Murakami, Executive Research Engineer, NTT, Japan: Technical challenges in building the NGN - NTT’s activities
  [ BIOGRAPHY | ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
• Marco Carugi, ITU Expert, Senior Advisor - Nortel, Carrier Networks: Requirements and capabilities for an evolving NGN infrastructure
  [ BIOGRAPHY | ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
• Tilak De Silva, Chief Global & Networks Officer, Sri Lanka Telecom: An Implementable NGN Architecture and its Capabilities
  [ BIOGRAPHY | PRESENTATION ]
• Bharat Bhatia, Regional Director, India, SAARC and South East Asia, Motorola: Access Network Solutions for NGN implementations
  [ BIOGRAPHY | ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
• 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
  [ BIOGRAPHY | ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]

Session Chairman: Wasi Ahmed, General Manager, BSNL, India

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.

• Lakshmi Raman, Senior Staff Engineer, Intellectual Ventures, USA: Preferential telecommunications service over access networks
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• Kaoru Kenyoshi, Chief Manager, 1^st Carrier Solutions Operations Unit, NEC Corporation, Japan: NGN- Service PF solutions and applications
  [ BIOGRAPHY | ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
• R N Padukone, Principal General Manager, BSNL, India: Service Provider concerns in Implementing effective NGN Control
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Session Chairman: Ghassem Koleyni, ITU Expert, (Independent Telecom consultant)
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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.

• Marco Carugi, ITU Expert, (Senior Advisor - Nortel, Carrier Networks): Towards an open service delivery environment/platform for NGN
  [ BIOGRAPHY | ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
• BV Raman, Country Manager, CDMA Development Group: CDMA/EVDO/LTE Interoperability and migration plans
  [ BIOGRAPHY | ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
• Siva Ramamoorthy, Head of Marketing, Tejas Networks: Efficient Backhauling Strategies for NGNs using Carrier-Ethernet
  [ BIOGRAPHY | ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
• A. Sethuraman, Executive Director, Huawei Technologies
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Session Chairman: N. K. Goyal, Chairman, Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturers Association, India
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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.

• Satya N. Gupta, ITU Expert, (Chief Regulatory Advisor, BT GS, India and SAARC): Regulatory issues for next generation access (NGA) in NGN
  [ BIOGRAPHY | ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
• 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
  [ BIOGRAPHY | PRESENTATION ]
• S.K. Gupta, Advisor (Converged Network), Telecom Regulatory Authority of India: NGN - Regulatory and Security issues
  [ BIOGRAPHY | ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]

Session Chairman: Marco Carugi, ITU Expert, (Senior Advisor - Nortel, Carrier Networks)
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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.

• Ghassem Koleyni, ITU Expert, (Independent Telecom consultant): Interoperability, why it is important
  [ BIOGRAPHY | ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
• H.C Soni, Vice President, ITU -APT Foundation of India: Relevance of Interconnect in NGN Environment
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• Rajeshwar Dayal, Director, TEC, Department of Telecommunications, India: Need of Interoperability within an NGN - An approach
  [ BIOGRAPHY | ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
• S.K. Gupta, Advisor (Converged Network), Telecom Regulatory Authority of India: NGN - Interconnection
  [ BIOGRAPHY | PRESENTATION ]

Session Chairman: Tilak de Silva, Chief Global & Networks Officer, Sri Lanka Telecom
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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.

• Paolo Rosa, Head of Workshops and Promotion Division, (ITU/TSB): WTSA-08 Resolution 76, Implementation status and ITU mark for equipment and services
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• R.K. Siddhartha, Director, TEC, Department of Telecommunications, India: Developing Physical architecture of NGN- A methodology
  [ BIOGRAPHY | ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
• Denis Andreev, Director of Technopark ZNISS, Rapporteur of Q.10//11 ITU-T Study Group 11: Global approach of NGN testing
  [ BIOGRAPHY | ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]

Session Chairman: Anil Prakash, Secretary General, ITU-APT Foundation of India
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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.

• 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
  [ BIOGRAPHY | PRESENTATION ]
• T.S. Mohan Krishnan, Sr. Vice President, IMRB International: Marketing & NGN: Contextualizing to Emerging market needs
  [ BIOGRAPHY | ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]

Session Chairman: A. Sethuraman, Executive Director, Huawei Technologies
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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.

• Ashwani Kumar, Director, Sales Engineering, UtStarcom Inc.: Evolution of NGN infrastructure for Multi-media applications & FMC
  [ BIOGRAPHY | PRESENTATIONS: Part 1 and Part 2 ]
• Pradeep de Almeida, Group Chief Technology Officer, Dialog: Real-time Data Streaming – The Next Generation
  [ BIOGRAPHY | ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
• Nigel Dye, Director, Business Development Global Telecoms Market, British Telecom: 21^st Century Network (21CN)
  [ BIOGRAPHY | ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]

Session Chairman: Ghassem Koleyni, ITU Expert, (Independent Telecom consultant):
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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.

• Sureswaran Ramadass, Director, National Advanced IPv6 Centre (NAv6): A Pilot Implementation of an NGN Dual Stack IPv4/IPv6 network for MEWC, Malaysia
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• Pradeep de Almeida, Group Chief Technology Officer, Dialog: Multimedia Service Delivery on Next Generation Networks
  [ BIOGRAPHY | ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
• Don Rasantha Hettithanthrige, Senior General Manager – Engineering & Operations, Mobitel, Sri Lanka: A Profile of Future Market Expectations of Next Gen Networks & Technologies
  [ BIOGRAPHY | PRESENTATION: Part 1 ]

Chairman: Mr Priyantha Kariyapperuma, Director General of Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka
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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.

(Panelists):

• Bharat Bhatia, Regional Director, India, SAARC and South East Asia, Motorola, President TEMA
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• Ghassem Koleyni, ITU Expert, (Independent Telecom consultant)
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• S.K. Gupta, Advisor (Converged Network), Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
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• Marco Carugi, ITU Expert, Senior Advisor - Nortel, Carrier Networks
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• Tilak De Silva, Chief Global & Networks Officer, Sri Lanka Telecom
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• Anil Prakash, Secretary General, ITU-APT Foundation of India
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• A. Sethuraman, Executive Director, Huawei Technologies
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• Session 3
• Session 4
• Session 6
• Session 7
• Session 8
• Session 10
• Session 11
• Session 12

Chairman: Mr Priyantha Kariyapperuma, Director General, Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka