The Converged Edge for Fixed and Mobile Networks
Several current trends are affecting service providers' networks, including the consolidation of fixed and mobile network assets and increasing sophistication of mobile devices. The growing penetration of traditional fixed and mobile broadband is driving the need for IP services end-to-end across a converged IP network, while devices are becoming more and more complex, creating interoperability challenges for service providers. This presentation will explore the factors that are creating the need for converged edge solutions. In addition, it will discuss the key technology elements that are required for operators to support secure, multiple device interoperability for different types of users, traffic models, and applications.

Aaron Sipper, Director, Product Marketing, NextPoint Networks

Pre-Emptive Infrastructure Management of Converged Networks

The proliferation of devices and applications using converged networks raises the risks from security and other failures of the IP infrastructure exponentially. The inherent resilience of IP, one of the drivers for adopting it as the convergent platform, means security and other failures reach crisis level before security or infrastructure operations discover the problem. Root cause analysis of the failures is often hindered by the crisis level utilisation of the infrastructure preventing timely response to operator queries. Using Network Behavioural Analysis (NBA) technology enables transformation of infrastructure and security operations from reactive to proactive identification, interpretation and remediation of problems. Use of NBA results in discovery of problems, including hour-zero security events, often hours before they reach crisis level; this is accomplished through the detection of small behavioural changes in the IP traffic.

Peter Heavyside, Managing Director, T hird-i international limited

Emerging Trends with LBS – Which Applications are Hot and in Demand

The variety and breadth of possible location-based services (LBS), from pure content and advertising, to navigational aids, social networking, gaming, and asset tracking services highlight its vast potential. Operators, handset manufacturers, developers, and middleware platform providers are all recognising the boundless commercial appeal of enterprise and consumer LBS applications and continue to seek next generation solutions.

Marc Naddell, Vice President, Partner & Developer Programs, NAVTEQ

Meeting the Bandwidth Challenge: How much is enough?

New consumer devices encourage the use of rich media – but service providers will be responsible for providing bandwidth to transmit all these new media between users. This session will explore the current and predicted applications and services that will drive demand for increased bandwidth to the home and within the home. It will also sponsor a technology review to suggest how advanced access network techniques, home networking technologies, compression technology, IPv6, and other emerging technology solutions are preparing to meet the challenge.

Joshua Eum, Director, Solutions Group Home & Networks Mobility, Motorola Asia Pacific Limited

Many Asian carriers are rolling out networks based on all-IP NGN architecture to converge multiple services such as VoIP, IP video, high-speed Internet on to common network. This NGN architecture also enables new rich, multimedia services that are characterized by personalization, seamless connectivity and presence-based interactivity and are broadly referred to as Web 2.0 applications. These bandwidth-hungry, dynamic IP services coupled with ultra-broadband access networks based on FTTH, WiMax, and 3G/4G technologies being deployed in many Asian countries, are spurring carriers to scale IP router trunk capacity while optimizing IP and optical transport network architecture. This presentation will talk about:

• Reviewing key IP over Optical network architecture options that can affect the network operators’ ability to cost-effectively scale network capacity.
• Methods of cost reduction of core IP/Optical networks by optimizing the overall IP and optical network architecture rather than designing independent IP and optical networks.
• Migration to 40G and 100G router trunks, increasing IP router bypass, implementing reconfigurable digital optical networks (ROADMs), implementing UNI-based IP-optical inter-working using GMPLS and exploring optimal system architectures for integrating packet bandwidth management with reconfigurable multi-wavelength optical transport.

Mark Yin, VP of Market Development, Infinera

End-to-End NGN Monitoring

With the demand to deploy 3G wireless, and wireless IP networks in tandem with legacy wireless and next generation networks, it’s difficult for Service Providers to get the end-to- end visibility they need across networks to improve overall network utilisation and increase productivity. This presentation will provide an overview of how to proactively manage multi- vendor, multi-technology networks. The presentation will also discuss:

• Capturing and analyzing network metrics across disparate networks to improve network utilization and increase productivity
• Generating shared KPIs to ensure that all users have access to the same consistent data
• Proactively monitoring and predicting trends to support network planning Introducing new, quality services rapidly and efficiently
• Effectively managing on going changes in the network

Christoph Kupper, Executive Vice President, Marketing, Nexus Telecom AG

Application Network Readiness

The success of customer facing applications like financial portals and interactive services is contingent upon end-user experience. The popularity of such applications generates large amounts of traffic. It is essential that such applications operate successfully on underlying networks, despite factors such as bandwidth constraints and security requirements. Often new applications are not adequately assessed to verify that service level objectives can be met. Pre-deployment analysis plays an important role in fixing performance problems before an application is deployed in production. It ensures a satisfactory end-user experience, resulting in a significant potential savings in time and money. Application Network Readiness (ANR) is a methodology for optimal performance engineering in a pre-production environment. This session will discuss ANR, including case studies that describe the implementation of this methodology, and associated business value.

Sanjit Ganguli, Associate Vice President, OPNET Technologies, Inc.

The Network Entering the Home

The evolution of the gateway from a network termination point to a service platform enabling services, made operators face many challenges. The gateway became a managed device for the operator, bringing new and value added services to the end user. During this session we’ll focus on the trends and technologies that facilitate the management of the home network. Next to that the evolution of the role of the residential gateway will be discussed, including new value added services.

Geatan Delcroix, Business Manager APAC IP Premises Systems, Thomson

GlobalPlatform–Facilitating Smart Card Migration to IP

This presentation will address:

• Introduce the smart card specifications provider, GlobalPlatform
• Provide an insight into GlobalPlatform’s card framework within a mobile telecoms context, and the business benefits of adopting an interoperable, scalable infrastructure
• Summarize how GlobalPlatform Specifications assist in facilitating new business relationships
• Outline the evolution towards managing applications within an IP environment and the migration path offered by GlobalPlatform technology
• Discuss GlobalPlatform’s future role within the mobile telecoms sector

Gil Bernabeu, Technical Director, GlobalPlatform

How to Monetise Over-The-Top Video?

The ISP role in the new media ecosystem is under scrutiny. How can ISPs financially benefit from the demand for Over-The-Top (OTT) video services and become key players in the content delivery supply chain? At present, most service providers are mere bandwidth conduits, without seeing any financial gain from the increasing demand for Internet video flowing through their networks. Addressing this issue, this presentation will outline how next-generation solutions deployed at the ISP network can accelerate premium OTT video and offer monetisable quality of service guarantees and provide examples of revenue generating opportunities for ISPs, based on the same core technology.

Danny Lahav, VP of Emerging Business, Oversi