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1 - NextGen Services and Networks |
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Chair: Richard
Hooper, Deputy Chairman, Ofcom |
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Welcome and Introduction |
| 10.00 |
Keynote1 – Re-inventing
the future - the value of networks in
an all-IP world |
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Leading US thinker David
Isenberg (www.isen.com)
charts the rise of the ‘stupid
network’ and the potential for
cataclysmic impacts of the telecoms
world bringing an international perspective
to highlight the issues the UK faces
in rolling out new services. |
| 10.30 |
Keynote 2 – Delivering
Next Generation Services in an all IP
world |
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The service environment
is shifting rapidly, enabling service
providers to innovate and add value
through new services as conventional
service revenues fall and margins erode.
What’s out there that can bring
a smile to a Telco’s face? Is
the triple play a reality and how will
converged services be delivered? Are
Gigabit networks in businesses and homes
a real prospect for growth in an environment
where many households and businesses
seem to be slow to adopt ‘cool
new stuff’.
Dr.
Stefan Henss,
Vice President, Solution Marketing,
Siemens AG |
| 11.00 |
Networking Break |
| 11.15 |
Keynote 3 – ‘Being
There’ |
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How hot applications in
the consumer space are driving into
corporate territory and challenging
service providers’ preconceptions.
It's more than voice -- it's the sense
of ‘Being There’. Think
of presence not as icons on a desktop,
but as the "virtual water cooler".
Blend a whole raft of techniques (inc.
regular voice) to make people in different
places not feel the distance between
them.
Martin
Geddes is a thinker, writer,
coder, inventor, agitator and consultant.
He writes the popular telecom strategy
weblog www.telepocalypse.net,
cited by Business Week and Forbes among
others. He will look at ways of creating
value through harnessing the innovation
potential of IP. |
| 11.40 |
Up, down, over and across
– carrier class Ethernet gets
everywhere |
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Ethernet continues to
grow at the heart of NextGen networks:
• Up
in speed
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Down to the very edge of the
network
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Over wireless
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Across the metro ‘telechasm’
Nan
Chen is the founding President of
the Metro Ethernet Forum, the not-for-profit
worldwide industry consortium created
to accelerate the adoption of optical
Ethernet in Metro networks. He places
ethernet’s continuing surge into
the carrier market in a strategic context
bringing you the latest market statistics
and the likely development paths to
and beyond 2008.
In a special presentation geared towards
the needs of Service Providers, Nan
Chen outlines the MEF certification
program and its benefits to the Provider
and their customers, highlighting how
certification delivers competitive advantage
now to the Provider. You will benefit
from Nan’s experience and insight
into rapidly growing solutions that
are becoming vital for survival in a
highly competitive and lucrative market.
Nan
Chen |
| 12.00 |
Working
and Living In A Wired World |
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New
services are emerging faster than most
service providers can cope with, driven
by the needs of corporates and consumers.
In this workshop we will ask you provocative
questions and involve you in the discussion.
Does today's connected world offer unprecedented
opportunities for collaboration or just
information overload? Are service providers
ready for the challenges?
Martin
Geddes of the telecom strategy
weblog Telepocalypse and previously
technology specialist and product strategy
manager at Sprint will facilitate and
ask difficult questions.
Euan
Semple,
Head of Knowledge Management at the
BBC takes a look at this wired-up world
of work and how businesses are dealing
with the impact that forums, blogs,
wikis and citizen journalism are having.
Brian Condon
of the Access to Broadband Campaign
provides a vision of the bandwidth hungry
market of future consumers - exactly
the people service providers want.
Expect a lively session! |
| 13.00 |
Lunch
and Exhibition Visit |
| 14.00 |
Leveraging the Wholesale
VOIP Market |
The VOIP market
is growing very rapidly, offering new
opportunities. Covering the latest developments
in the VoIP market and future global
trends, this session will help you understand
how to leverage the wholesale voice
market. Learn how you can take advantage
of the wholesale business model and
find out what you really need to know
before signing up to begin offering
VOIP. The session will include case
study evidence and time for your questions.
PCCW Global offers a wide range of international
data and voice services with a full
suite of value-added services for carriers,
service providers and enterprises over
its global network with coverage to
over 60 countries. PCCW Global is a
Business Unit of PCCW Limited, a leader
in next generation broadband solutions
with holdings that include the former
Hong Kong Telephone Company.
Marc Halbfinger,
President (EMEA) of PCCW Global |
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| 14.30 |
Building new service
propositions |
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In this session, we look
at how service providers are assessing
the future service environment and anticipating
the market. The traditional service
provider ‘silo mentality’
is changing rapidly to deliver NextGen
services.
Phil
Knight of Telecomplete
Telecomplete is a rapidly growing
UK based Internet Service Provider.
Established in 2002, Telecomplete has
expanded rapidly doubling in size year
on year, currently provide Internet
connectivity, carrier services, hosting,
security solutions and co-location in
purpose-built data centres to businesses
in the UK and across Europe. |
| 15.00 |
Networking break |
| 15.30 |
Keynote – Regulating
the future service environment |
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Voice over Broadband is
massively disruptive and poses huge
challenges to regulators. The internet
is sometimes likened to the ‘Wild
West’ – which makes the
traditional heavily regulated UK voice
market look like a sedate tea-party
with Palm Court orchestra. How will
Ofcom deliver regulation as the market
for future IP services explodes? Hear
the latest thinking and take part in
the discussion.
Chinyelu
Onwurah - Head
of Telecoms Technology, Ofcom |
| 16.00 |
Business development
and transformation through the introduction
of broadband |
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Mark
Firth of Yorkshire
Forward presents the results
of a ground-breaking intervention in
providing broadband to a rural community
delivering a surprising number of businesses
with levels of take-up and use most
service providers can only dream about.
This work shows the wide ranging benefits
of what people are doing now as result
of the introduction of broadband. Can
a community-centred approach be generalised
to larger Communities of Interest? See
the results of recent work on-the-ground.
A 'must-see' session for service providers
and enterprises alike. |
| 16.45 |
Closing Plenary |
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Reports back from the
workshop sessions
2 minute Elevator Pitches from selected
exhibitors/sponsors
Summary of issues from the day |
| 17.30 |
Networking and Drinks
reception |
| 19.30 |
Networking Dinner |
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DAY 2 - NextGen Services
and Networks |
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Welcome
and Introduction |
| 10.00 |
The
NextGen services dilemma |
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YuuGuu
has found a disconnect between
the hype surrounding fixed, mobile
and broadband convergence and
IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)
and real business users needs
for improved productivity and
reduced communication costs.
To address this issue YuuGuu is
currently conducting a market
research study with 100+ SMEs
and mid-market organisations to
better understand their awareness
of the benefits of converged communications,
their frustrations and needs before
they take the plunge and jump
wholeheartedly into the brave
new world of converged multimedia
communications.
Philip Hemsted of YuuGuu, (the name
is derived from the Japanese word
for ‘fusion’) is a
start-up based in the North West
and founded by three telecom/digital
industry entrepreneurs. He will
present a summary of the research
and conclusions to stimulate debate
on how to drive productivity and
reduce communication costs through
converged multimedia communications.
Philip
Hemsted - YuuGuu |
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Business
Benefits of Converged Next Generation
Networks - a real-world implementation
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As broadband
penetrates end-user markets and
becomes the norm for businesses
of all types – what applications
are really delivering business
benefits?
Today's IP network infrastructure
brings a number of advantages
to business in terms of lower
cost/higher bandwidth data connections.
But more recently additional benefits
are available when carrying VoIP
traffic and innovative applications
such as radio broadcast. The presentation
will cover basic IP, MPLS, multicast
and convergence and will include
details of a radio broadcast network
implemented by THUS plc at GWR
Group (now trading as Gcap Media,
after its merger with Capital
Radio).
Falk
Bleyl - VoIP - THUS |
| 11.00 |
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VOIP security –
issues and solutions |
New business creation
– real examples |
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How robust is VOIP and
what are the risks in implementing
voice services? How can Quality
of Service (QoS) be guaranteed
and what are service providers
doing to help with secure implementation.
Jason Velody,
CTO
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Are the worries about
Denial of Service attacks valid
or just hysteria? How are businesses
coping with the risks?
Howard Lamb
- National Hi-Tec Crime Unit
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Discussion - What do
Enterprises really want?
Chaired by Richard
Lander
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Enterprises are
being created from access to IP
and VoB. Hear about how it’s
being done and whether it can
succeed.
CBN
– all around the country,
new businesses are springing up
– rooted in their communities
and delivering value. Hear from
Malcolm Corbett,
Director of the Community Broadband
Network, how, why and where it’s
happening.
Tynephone
– integrated services targeted
at SMEs (Partners are Cybermoor,
The Phone Coop, ONE NE, Northumberland
Strategic Partnership) Yorkshire
Forward - creating new
businesses – the RDA perspective. |
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| 12.00 |
Plenary
Session |
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Next
Generation Services and Networks
– view from the Edge |
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Chair:
Steve Coppins - Siemens
In this session, led by experienced
and insightful practitioners,
we explore new terrain. What does
the Edge look like and how can
next generation services be delivered?
In the Far East, 100 MB for $30
a month is possible – are
we missing the point? Does what’s
happening internationally help
us see the ‘wood from the
trees”? At the ABC conference
in Aviemore in November 2004,
there was so much interest in
our workshop on this topic that
there was standing room only and
delegates told us more time was
needed! So we promote it to a
plenary session and you just have
to be there!
Gerard MacNamee
- CTO, UK Broadband
Alan Ryan
- Head of Broadband Channels,
Easynet |
| 13.00 |
Lunch
and Exhibition Visit |
| 14.00 |
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Open
Source VOIP – real or not? |
IP for Remote &
Flexible Working – myth
or reality? |
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Numerous
open source solutions are emerging
– but do they make sense
in today’s demanding enterprise
environments? Can you really replace
a PBX with a PC running Linux?
In this session, we focus on the
open source movement and its ability
to deliver using real examples.
Can you harness open source applications
to deliver low-cost highly scalable
solutions? Find out in this workshop.
Adrian
Wooster –
Great Technology Company |
In
the drive towards remote working
can TCP/IP deliver integrated
call centre solutions that make
sense for service providers and
users? Is the distributed call
centre a real possibility? What
other services will enable enterprises
to deliver richer customer experiences
over Broadband Infrastructure?
In this applications focused workshop,
we deliver the insight you need
to separate myth from reality.
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| 15.00 |
Focus
on content over NextGen Networks |
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“Content”
is changing and changing rapidly
– in a world where a daft
ringtone on a mobile phone can
sell bigger than a major band
how can we make sense of this?
This is a session where new ways
of accessing content are explored
and we cover real examples of
the new world order potential. |
| 15.05 |
Where
are the content markets in a NextGen
convergent age? |
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New
players will rise, fuelled by
NextGen and unencumbered by traditional
business models. Outfits like
Information TV are using the changes
to transform the whole way organisations
communicate. NextGen TV –
available over multiple networks
can now allow organisations to
reach their target audiences in
ways and with economics never
possible before.
As technology developments drive
Innovation, what new kinds of
business model are emerging? A
young TV broadcaster demonstrates
how to break the mould of the
traditional approach to TV broadcasting,
and unlike the traditional TV
industry, is excited by the convergence
of broadband with other forms
of TV delivery.
Fred
Perkins, founding Chair
and CEO of Information
TV provides you with a unique
insight into the future of content
over NextGen networks and the
opportunities available. |
| 15.35 |
Building
global open source collaboration
from London to Taipei |
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Gordon
Cook, one of the US’s
leading writers and strategic
thinkers on Internet issues is
launching the European version
of his popular The
COOK Report on Internet Protocol
at NextGen.
In this session he argues “Future
success is to be found in capability
building via collaboration based
on open source infrastructure
and collaborative tools such as
blogs and wikis.”
Using examples spanning global
investment banks and leading academic
institutions, this short talk
will highlight the commonality
of approaches where the economic
power and payoff of collaboration
will ultimately triumph.
The exciting example of the national
digital archive program of Taiwan
which is digitizing artifacts
in 15 different disciplines and
using open source technology to
construct a database that permits
a query in one discipline to travel
across all 14 other disciplines.
Economics will drive things to
this success. Hear how new business
can be made through collaborative
innovation. |
| 16.05 |
Content
is what you make it |
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Brian
Condon, CEO of the Access to Broadband
Campaign looks at how self-generated
content can provide serious insights
into the use of digital technologies
and the “future of broadband”. |
| 16.35 |
Conference
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