This session invites speakers and analysis to forecast on the current and future relationship between IPTV and mobile TV, two emerging multimedia technologies. Due to bandwidth limitations in radio access networks today, mobile TV solutions do not utilize IP unicast or multicast technologies such as IPTV, but directly receive over-the-air TV broadcast signals instead. However, will mobile TV ever converge to IP technologies someday, with the rapid advances in radio access networks?

How can we converge mobile TV and IPTV? For example, how do we seamlessly hand over the currently active TV program from an IPTV session over a TV set to a mobile TV session over a handset when a user needs to leave home? How do we use the same mechanism to program and control both mobile TV services on handsets and IPTV services in the home? What experiences can be learned from between IPTV deployments and mobile TV deployments? Discussions on such questions lead to better understanding and planning to the major trend of network and service convergence.

Weijun Lee Vice President, Network Architecture ZTE USA

Mr. Lee is responsible for the global technical marketing of ZTE's core network solutions, including IPTV, VAS, and IMS. He has more than 15 years of experience in multiple areas of telecommunications, including switching, wireless, optical, IP, VoIP, network management in the functions of system design, software development, network planning, and business case analysis. Prior to ZTE, Mr. Lee was a system architect in the CTO office of Santera Systems and a system engineering manager and professional service consultant at Nortel Networks.

Dori Ben-Moshe Head of Soutions Management, World-Wide Multimedia Integration Practice Alcatel-Lucent

Mr. Ben-Moshe has more than 12 years of international experience with positions spanning various technical and management roles. He co-established Integra5 in unified messaging over TV and was personally responsible for the design, implementation, and deployment of a world-class IPTV middleware. Since joining Alcatel-Lucent, Mr. Ben-Moshe has taken senior responsibilities for E2E triple-play solutions projects, including Swisscom's triple-play deployment, and has been involved in numerous projects such as AT&T, Slovak Telecom, Ya.com, Chunghwa Telecom, Arcor, and SingTel. He was chairman of consortium and overall project leader of Deutsche Telecom's triple-play project, and he also led the project executive steering committee.

Thang Vu Duong Senior NGN and IPTV Network Architect France Telecom - Orange

Mr. Duong is a senior network architect at France Telecom R&D/Orange Labs, working on NGNs and IP-based networks, and has been in charge of IPTV network design since 2000. He also contributes to the definition of NGN and IPTV architectures for standardization (ITU-T, ETSI's TISPAN, Open IPTV Forum, etc.). His main research interests are NGN architecture, QoS-based routing, IPTV, and fixed-mobile convergence for multi-play services in telecommunications networks. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in computer science and telecommunications from Hanoi University of Technology, the French-speaking Institute for Computer Science, and ENSEEIHT (a French "grande ecole" specializing in technology) respectively.

Dawn Xie Director, Network Architecture ZTE USA

Ms. Xie has more than 17 years of extensive industry experience in multiple telecommunication areas, including multimedia services (IPTV, VAS), data networking (IP, Ethernet, MPLS), optical, ATM, and network management, in the functions of technical marketing, system engineering, and software development. Prior to ZTE, she was principal system engineer and technical marketing manager in start-up Xebeo Communication Inc. and lead senior system engineer and software developer in Lucent and AT&T.