France Telecom will use the strength of fixed and mobile broadband technology to implement its integrated operator strategy and vision. France Telecom considers IMS the key technology for delivering a control layer on top of broadband networks.

How can IMS be applied in the context of a fixed-mobile strategy? What is the impact on the network architectures and design organization? Does it change the relationship with the supplier? This keynote will summarize how France Telecom sees IMS changing the service offers, but also how IMS has already influenced France Telecom's way of working and provided a fantastic driver for the evolution of the fixed and mobile network architecture. It concludes with the impact of IMS on network organization.

Alain Maloberti Vice President, Network Architecture and Design France Telecom Group

Mr. Maloberti joined France Télécom Group Mobiles, now Orange, France Telecom Group, in 1994, where he was responsible for the mobile network and services development in France. He has been involved in CEPT, COST, CCIR, and ETSI work on digital cellular mobile radio systems since 1984. He was notably chairman of the sub-technical committee SMG2 (radio aspects of the GSM system) from 1985 to 1995. In 1983, he joined the research center of France Télécom Group (Centre National d'Études des Télécommunications, CNET, now Division R&D of France Telecom Group) to lead the radio transmission as part of a research project on a digital cellular mobile radio system in the 900 MHz band, which contributed to the definition of the GSM system. There, he was involved in studies such as multipath propagation modeling, multiple access for digital mobile radio, modulation and coding for mobile radio, and physical layer specification.