Evolving Broadband Architectures and Advances

Increasing demand for new services poses challenges on the evolution of today's broadband access architectures. Applications such as video distribution and video-on-demand require at least an order of magnitude higher bandwidth to be constantly available to a large number of end users. New expectations with respect to mobility force wireless technologies to be part of the overall access infrastructure. Multiple users in one single household who require very distinct services bring up the need for highly differentiated service support end-to-end through the access network. In addition, new technologies such as PON, high-bitrate DSL, and all-Ethernet based network architectures provide a means to improve the overall capabilities of the broadband access platform. Last but not least, traffic monitoring must be introduced that allows operators to create appropriate service offerings and billing methods.

This session examines the impact of these changes in customer requirements and technological advances and how they affect the overall evolution of the broadband access network architecture.

Chairperson:
Dr. Jürgen Anders, Director-Systems Engineering, Siemens ICN, started his industrial career with Siemens in product planning and marketing of narrow- and wideband wireline access networks. In 1995 he moved into product-line management of broadband wireline products deploying new xDSL technologies. Since 1999, he has been director of systems engineering for Siemens' wireline access products.

Speakers:

Dr. Bernd Grossman, Product-Line Management, Packet Networks, Siemens ICN, joined the portfolio strategy group for carrier products at Siemens ICN in 2002.

Robert Healey, Regional Product Manager, Juniper Networks Asia Pacific, focuses on the development of new features and functionality for Juniper Networks' E-Series Broadband Edge Router platform. Robert also assists the regional Systems Engineers of Juniper as a consulting engineer on major accounts.