Broadband access, as a profitable growth engine, is gradually becoming a ubiquitous facility, especially when offering multiple services bundles. The convergence of the network technologies to deliver all services to all subscribers over a single infrastructure is the key strategy for telecom operators to achieve this growth. While most of the already deployed networks are targeting a single service, telecom operators are now looking at converged network infrastructures, focused on triple play delivery over broadband - both fixed and mobile - setting up their strategy among four key dimensions:

• Differentiation of the services in a common infrastructure: guaranteeing QoS, prioritization, content integrity
• Increased role and IP technology as a converged protocol in the end-to-end architecture
• Converged architectures - like the IMS network architecture - for greenfield and migrating environments
• New challenges for the operations and management of multiple services over the same infrastructure

This workshop will highlight current strategies and answers from market players, the key enabling technologies for effective video, voice and data convergence and discuss the different migration scenarios given access and call control evolution. Incumbent and competitive providers will share their perspective with major industry players.

Jean-Pierre Lartigue
Vice President, Marketing and Communications, Access Networks Division
Alcatel

Prior to joining Alcatel, Mr. Lartigue was a manager at Boston Consulting Group. He has been an active member of the technology and communication practice and involved with worldwide telecom and chipset vendors and with U.S./European telecom operators. Mr. Lartigue has dealt with a variety of issues, such as innovation and new product development, market entry strategies and planning, and mergers. He has also been deputy director general in the Vision 1250 group, where he was in charge of major events, engineering, market strategies, worldwide promotion, R&D, and project financing.

Jean-Marc Frangos Senior Vice President, Technology and Innovation, BT, is responsible for sourcing BT's external innovation in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Mr. Frangos identifies disruptive technologies and innovative service opportunities and establishes the technical and commercial links with BT's Research and Operational divisions. He is also responsible for innovation central, as well as BT's Applied Technology Center. Until June 2000, Mr. Frangos managed BT's development concerning the Internet and multimedia, including organic growth and regional partnerships in continental Europe.

Jo Goubert, General Manager, Business Development and Product Strategy, DSL, Thomson, has 20 years of experience in telecommunications and DSL technology. He began working for Alcatel in 1984, where he first filled positions in ASIC design and system engineering of broadband access systems to become head of the design center. Mr. Goubert became general manager of product management for the business products of the DSL modem range. After the transition of the DSL business from Alcatel to Thomson, he remained on the same track, extending his responsibilities to his current role.

Xu Jianfeng, China Telecom

Kevin Liu, Vice President, Marketing, Alcatel Shanghai Bell

MT Louie, Director, Network Development, CASCADE

Tatsuro Murakami, Executive Manager, NTT, joined Musashino Electrical Communication Laboratories at NTT in 1981. He has been engaged in research and development of communication network architectures and communication switching software. Currently, he is working on establishing NTT's next-generation communication network architectures and planning the overall research and development strategies toward NTT's next-generation communication networks. He is executive research engineer at NTT Service Integration Laboratories.