In the overall network transformation, all portions of the network are moving to IP. It is important to view the home as an extended segment of your IP network that must interwork with access and core to provide services, QoS, security, and end-to-end management.

To make this happen, you need to consider the IP home gateway part of your access network and be concerned with managing the digital home as well as the rest of the network. After all, your network has become a true asset to your business. The problem is that your customers may like your competitor's network better if yours cannot deliver (in an easy and straightforward way) the new services they want. And it is exactly the emergence of all complex customer-premises technologies supporting these new services, a hostile wiring environment, and what is often a non-technical end user that make inclusion of the subscriber's home very challenging in the deployment of any broadband solution.

Therefore, the central topic that will be addressed here includes the question, "What service definitions, gateway strategy, and digital services value propositions do I need to develop and communicate in order to win the battle for the digital home?" - thus addressing the opportunity and challenge keeping service providers awake at night.

Yves T'Joens Product Unit Head, Home Access Support Systems Alcatel-Lucent

Mr. T'Joens is responsible for the product offer in this space. Prior to obtaining this position, he was chief technology officer for the wireline access division from 2003-06, where he overlooked Alcatel's global access portfolio and technology strategy. Mr. T'Joens has written papers and patents and has actively contributed to the standardization of access networking in IP/Ethernet and ATM access architecture.

Geert De Jonghe Director, Customer Operations Belgacom

Mr. De Jonghe has been in his current role since 2004. With his team, he is in charge of the provisioning, maintenance, and repair activities for fixed-line services to residential, corporate, and wholesale customers. Recent evolutions in this domain include the introduction of iDTV services to residential and WLAN solutions to professional customers. Prior to his current assignment, he held director positions in network deployment and inside operations.

Jaime Fink Vice President, Technology and Strategy 2Wire

Mr. Fink oversees the strategic development of managed IP-based products and services for the digital home. While overseeing the deployment of more than 8 million managed residential gateways to date, he has also served as a leading industry visionary, defining the role of the residential gateway in end-to-end IPTV and VoIP architectures. Over the past five years, Mr. Fink has also led 2Wire's industry standards efforts to drive key residential gateway requirements in the DSL Forum and HGI and played a key role in developing the highly successful DSL Forum TR-069 CPE WAN management protocol.

Jo Goubert General Manager, Triple Play Thomson

Mr. Goubert brings 20 years of experience in telecommunications and DSL technology. He started working for Alcatel in 1984. There, Mr. Goubert first filled positions in ASIC design and system engineering of broadband access systems to become head of the design center. He 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, Mr. Goubert kept on the same track, extending his responsibilities to general manager of product strategy and business development.

Enrico Lavoro Head of Innovation Plan, Marketing Telecom Italia

Mr. Lavoro is responsible for the innovation plan in the marketing division of Telecom Italia's domestic fixed services and is mainly in charge of identifying new trends and guidelines for innovation, evaluating the adoption of new technologies, and rolling out strategic projects aimed at enabling new services and offers. He joined Telecom Italia, where he started dealing with the innovation of products, services, and offers, in 1995. After a brief experience in Alenia Spazio, Mr. Lavoro moved in 1992 to TILab, the R&D department in the Telecom Italia group, where he mainly dealt with building service requirements for new services.

Paolo Pastorino Chief Technology Officer Home Gateway Initiative

Mr. Pastorino's experience ranges from the design of optoelectronic devices to advanced residential/SOHO broadband networking and service solutions. He managed several national and international projects in the broadband home networking domain, designing advanced architectures, network nodes, services, and devices. He has written papers about home networking and spoken in several international conferences. He has a degree in physics (M.S.) from the University of Torino in Italy and a master's degree in telecommunications and information technology from COREP/SSGRR in Italy.