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Programme
ITU-D Regional Development Forum for
the Arab Region:
"NGN and Broadband, Opportunities and Challenges"
Cairo
(Egypt)
13-15 December 2010 |
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Day 1 -
Day 2 - Day 3
Day 1
(13 December 2010)
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10:00 – 10:30 hours
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Opening Ceremony
Opening remarks:
- Dr. Miloud Ameziane,
Regional Director, ITU ARO
- Dr. Amr Badawi, Executive President of NTRA
and Chairman of the Forum
- H.E. Dr. Tarek Kamel, Minister of
Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), Egypt
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Coffee break: 10:30 – 10:50 hours |
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10:50 – 12:30 hours
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Session 1: New
Telecommunication Technologies: Promise and Potential for Leapfrogging Digital Divide
Session Chairman:
Natasa Gospic (University
of Belgrade)
Objectives:
This session will focus on the potential of new
technologies
NGN and Broadband
and will address the development experiences and opportunities in the
Region.
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| Lunch break: 12:30 - 14:00 hours |
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14:00 - 15:30 hours
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Session 2: Regional Developmental
issues and Regional Initiatives
Session Chairman: Miloud Ameziane (ITU
Regional Office, Cairo)
Objectives: This session
will focus on ITU-D activities with special
reference to Regional Initiatives. In addition the activities of the
ITU-D Regional Office will be highlighted.
The ITU-D Sector Regional Initiatives
and Activities for
Arab Region:
Ahmed Elhefnawy (ITU Regional Office, Cairo)
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BIOGRAPHY |
ABSTRACT |
PRESENTATION ]ITU-D Activities
on Broadband and NGN:
Riccardo Passerini (ITU/BDT)
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BIOGRAPHY |
ABSTRACT |
PRESENTATION ]
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| Coffee
break : 15:30 – 16:00 hours |
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16:00 - 17:30 hours
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Session 3: ITU Standardization
Activities on NGN and Broadband
Session Chairman: Marco Carugi (ZTE
Corporation)
Objectives: This session
will provide an overview of ITU standardization activities from
different ITU Sectors. Focusing on current standardization topics form
ITU Sectors, it will specifically address:
Bridging the Standardization Gap:
Venkatesen Mauree (ITU-TSB)
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BIOGRAPHY |
ABSTRACT |
PRESENTATION ]
ITU-T
Standardization on NGN: Venkatesen Mauree (ITU-TSB)
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BIOGRAPHY |
ABSTRACT
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PRESENTATION
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ITU-R Standardization of IMT-Advanced:
Colin Langtry (ITU-BR)
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BIOGRAPHY |
ABSTRACT |
PRESENTATION ]
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Day 1 -
Day 2 - Day 3
Day 2
(14 December 2010)
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8:30 – 11:00 hours
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Session 4: Bridging the Digital
Divide by Broadband
Session Chairman:
Satya N. Gupta (BT Global
Services)
Objectives: This session
will discuss the status of ICT deployment in the Region and role of ICT
in connecting the unconnected with specific focus on broadband. The role of
technology, policy and enabling regulatory environment for encouraging widescale deployment of broadband in the Region will be also discussed.
Issues will include:
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Coffee break: 11:00 – 11:15 hours |
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11:15 – 13:30 hours
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Session 5: Trends of NGN Technology and Migration Aspects
Session Chairman: Ignat Stanev (Assoc.
Professor, HCTP,
Bulgaria, ITC Member)
Objectives:
This session will present the evolution
of NGN and future perspectives in the relevant access technologies,
service and network architecture with special focus on convergence,
home, office and mobile applications, Internet protocol-based platforms
and multiple access networks. It will be devoted to the evolution of the
network architecture towards NGN (IMS based or otherwise), fixed-mobile
convergence, evolution: towards a new generation of broadband mobile,
PSTN/ISDN evolution to NGN, cases studies and scenarios
taking into consideration the relevant business models and opportunities.
Emphasis will be on.
- IP Interconnect Next Gen Interconnect
topologies and enabling new service models: Tim Ward (NEUSTAR)
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BIOGRAPHY |
ABSTRACT |
PRESENTATION ] -
Next Generation Networks - Technology,
Architecture, Applications: Satya N. Gupta (BT Global Services)
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BIOGRAPHY |
ABSTRACT |
PRESENTATION ]-
Principles for the management of NGN: Natasa Gospic (University of Belgrade)
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BIOGRAPHY |
ABSTRACT
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PRESENTATION ] - NGN Migration
Strategies and Scenarios per Network Segment:
Oscar Gonzalez-Soto (ITU-D Consultant)
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BIOGRAPHY |
ABSTRACT |
PRESENTATION ] Transition from
PSTN to NGN: Possible scenarios: Arnaud
Braud (France Telecom Orange)
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BIOGRAPHY |
ABSTRACT |
PRESENTATION ]
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14:30 – 16:30 hours
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Session 6: Interconnection,
Interoperability and Security Aspects in NGN
Session Chairman: Riccardo Passerini (ITU-BDT)
Objectives: This session
will begin with discussion on the User-to-Network Interface supporting
the services defined for the NGN. In addition, accomplishment of the
goal of Plug and Play devices place requirements in at least three major
areas, Auto-Provisioning, Standard SIP Profile & Call flows, and
Standardized limited codec selection will be discussed. Currently there
are various implementations and deployments that perform Session/Border
Control Functions (S/BCF), in service provider, enterprise, access and
end-user networks. Defining requirements for these functions and for
mapping these to physical implementations is needed to allow for vendor
product interoperability and network interconnection. Moreover, Number
Portability and Network Address, Translation and Protocol Translation
issues will be considered as well as Interconnection of NGN and legacy
networks. This session will also 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. Topics to be discussed are:
- The model
network methodology for NGN testing:
Approach of service and QoS Testing:
Denis Andreev (ZNIIS)
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BIOGRAPHY |
ABSTRACT |
PRESENTATION ]-
The International Testing
Center Project. Approaches of Testing Labs creation. Purposes, task
and facilities of Testing Labs: Denis
Andreev (ZNIIS)
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BIOGRAPHY |
ABSTRACT |
PRESENTATION ]
Conformance and Interoperability: WTSA-08 - Res.
76 and PP-10:
Venkatesen Mauree (ITU-TSB)
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BIOGRAPHY |
ABSTRACT |
PRESENTATION ]
Traffic Trends and QoS in NGN:
Oscar Gonzalez-Soto (ITU-D Consultant)
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BIOGRAPHY |
ABSTRACT |
PRESENTATION ]
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16:45 – 19:00 hours
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Session 7: NGN and Broadband:
Policy and Regulatory Issues
Session Chairman: Stewart White (KPMG)
Objectives: This session will focus on the challenges that the
policy makers and regulators face while considering introduction of NGN
and Broadband technologies. Current regulatory frameworks based on
technologies and/or service specific licenses have limitations. In order
to ensure investment in NGN and Broadband, regulators need to encourage
conditions, which lowers entry barriers, promotes competition and
encourage investment in infrastructure. Emphasis will be on:
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Broadband Policies and Regulation: Turhan
Muluk (Intel)
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BIOGRAPHY |
ABSTRACT |
PRESENTATION ]-
Emerging Trends in
Broadband Policy and Regulation - Case Study from Emerging Market:
Satya N. Gupta (BT Global Services)
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BIOGRAPHY |
ABSTRACT |
PRESENTATION ]-
Emerging Trends in NGA Policy and Innovative Financing Models - NGN
Interconnection Case Study from Emerging Market:
Satya N. Gupta (BT Global Services)
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BIOGRAPHY |
ABSTRACT |
PRESENTATION:
Part 1 -
Part 2 ]
How supportive regulations can help loosen the backbone bottlenecks
and foster broadband and NGN deployments: Stéphane Lecomte (Alcatel-Lucent)
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BIOGRAPHY |
ABSTRACT |
PRESENTATION ]
Next Generation Access Regulation and Trends:
Gamal Hegazy (Alcatel-Lucent)
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BIOGRAPHY |
ABSTRACT |
PRESENTATION ]
On the Road to 3rd Generation Regulation:
Essam Mitwally (Saudi Telecommunications Company)
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BIOGRAPHY |
ABSTRACT |
PRESENTATION ]
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Day 1 -
Day 2 - Day 3
Day 3
(15 December 2010)
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8:30 – 10:30 hours
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Session 8:
Services and applications offered by
NGN and Broadband
Session Chairman: Amr Abdel Rahim Abdallah
(Consultant in Technology)
Objectives:
This session will address applications
and new services offered by NGN and broadband due to convergence. These
applications and services provide opportunities to the service providers
for offering new revenue generating services as well as for offering new
competitive service for consumers. This session explores:
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Coffee break: 10:30 – 11:00 hours |
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11:00 – 13:00 hours
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Session 9: Market Opportunities
and Challenges
Session Chairman: Amr Hashem (Nile
Ventures)
Objectives: NGN provides
a number of opportunities for variety of businesses. Those include
service providers, application providers, transport providers in the
access and the backbone. NGN also provides mechanisms to offer services
to residential and business users as well as to re-sellers. Challenges
arise from a number of sources like competition, implementation
costs, 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 on Region from different perspectives.
This session will also include discussion on:
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Lunch break: 13:00 - 14:00 hours |
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14:00 – 15:30 hours
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Session 10:
Challenges and opportunities
facing Broadband Wireless
Session Chairman: Natasa Gospic (University
of Belgrade)
Objectives:
This session will present some of the challenges and
problems related to the implementation of Broadband Wireless Networks.
Security and aspects related to Infrastructure sharing will be analysed.
This session explores:
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Coffee break: 15:30 – 15:45 hours |
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15:45 – 17:00 hours |
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Session 11: Panel Discussion
Ways Forward: How to foster the development of NGN
and Broadband in the Region?
Session Chairman: Dr. Amr Badawi (Executive
Director, NTRA, Egypt) / Stewart White (KPMG)
Moderator: t.b.d.
Objectives: This
discussion aims to examine experience and lessons learned in the Region,
and how the points raised in this Forum may be applied to address
specific problems encountered or anticipated. The Forum will close with a brief
summation by the Chairman of the Forum
Panelists:
- Oscar Gonzales Soto (ITU consultant): Experience in supporting
operators in fostering broadband and NGN development and related
services.
- Jeremy Foster (UMTS Forum): Challenges and Actions for
facilitating the development of Broadband in the Region
- Ignat Stanev (ITC, Bulgaria): Use of Network Planning Tools to
facilitate the development of NGN and Broadband in the Region
- Satya Gupta (BT Global Services, India): How Policy makers and
Regulatory bodies can facilitate the development of NGN and Broadband in
the Region
- Natasa Gospic (University of Belgrade): Universal Service,
Opportunity for development Broadband in the Region
- Noel Kirkaldi (Motorola): Perspective of the market for Broadband
in the Region
- Amr Hashem (Nile Ventures): Experience in the Region for
transition to NGN and introducing Broadband
- Denis Andreev (ZNIIS): Interoperability between equipment and
systems, obstacle for NGN and Broadband Development, how to face the
problem
- Essam Mitwally (Saudi Telecom Company): Next Generation Access
Regulation: Fostering the development of NGN and Broadband
- Ayman El-Sherbini (UN-ESCWA): Broadband for Development in the
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17:00 – 17:30 hours
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Closing Ceremony
- Closing Remarks: ITU/BDT
- Closing Remarks: Host
Country
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Day 1 -
Day 2 - Day 3
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