Q: Why should industry professionals attend the Broadband World Forum Europe?
A: In my opinion there is lot happening in the Telecommunication area and specifically on the Broadband side with IPTV and converged services. Broadband World Forum Europe is the place to get overview of what's happening and meet vendors and other operators to exchange experience and ideas and help you take the right step forward.
Q: What do you plan to talk about?
A: My presentation is titled "Broadband Landscape of the future", based on the achievements Siminn-Iceland Telecom has had with Internet, ADSL, IPTV and FTTC/FTTB penetration. I will give the background for Siminn-Iceland Telecom's decision for investing in IPTV, overview of the implementation of IPTV. Finally, summarizing key lessons learned, and the very interesting results.
Chief Technology Officer
Q: How important is continuing professional education in our industry?
A: Continuing education and further training is critical to our success. Particularly in the face of the rapid technical development cycles it is extremely important for us for our employees always to have up-to-date knowledge so that they are able to main a high level of quality for the customer and in executing processes. Because this is so important to us, we are considering entering into cooperation with a university in the field of service to give a clear signal of how important continuous top-level training is to us. That is the only way we can maintain / gain international market leadership in this sector.
Q: Why should industry professionals attend the Broadband World Forum Europe?
A: The attendees of the Broadband World Forum will experience an excellent congress where material will be presented by practitioners for practitioners. There will be a very broad range of topics, meaning that presentations on the right subject will be available relating to every aspect of broadband. Furthermore, attendees will have the opportunity to discuss with top executives from all round the world, exchanging personal experiences of preparations for the roll-out of a broadband infrastructure.
Q: How important is continuing professional education in our industry?
A: The industry is moving incredibly fast. Since the internet arrived around 10 years ago it has moved from a snail-like dial-up network for enthusiasts to a fast information path which is now core to pretty much any business - large or small. Keeping up with trends like that is an essential part of the job. If you don't understand IP and the services which can run on it, then your future communications career is likely to be short lived! Reading the press is part of it, but attending industry events is an invaluable way of keeping up to date with what is going on in the wider industry.
Q: What do you feel attendees can gain from your session?
A: The session will cover a number of the key issues which are facing operators as they roll out all-IP networks including convergence, triple-play and devices in the home. I will be talking specifically about technical issues within the networks and at the borders between networks.
Q: What do you plan to talk about?
A: The main keys in the transformation (customer habits, new services,...), the impact on the networks (access, transport, core), the instability of the existing model and the need for a new scenario in the near future.
Q: How important is continuing professional education in our industry?
A: It is key. The changes happen so quickly that the main subjects of today where not even identified a few years ago.
Q: Why should industry professionals attend the Broadband World Forum Europe?
A: It is a big opportunity to understand the challenges of the different agents in this sector as well as the fundamentals of the business.
