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Didier Bellens President and Chief Executive Officer Belgacom Q. What did you share with the audience during your keynote at the Broadband World Forum Europe 2008? A.

Philippe Rogge Vice President, Business Development and Planning, Enterprise Business Unit Belgacom Q. At Broadband World Forum Europe 2008 you spoke in a plenary panel discussing how enterprise can benefit from business applications hosted by end-to-end ICT service providers. What did you share with the audience there? A.

• Deploying IPV6: Issues and Strategies

IPv6 is coming, whether we like it or not. It isn't a matter of new features or "killer applications," although those may come with time. Rather, it is the rapid depletion of the remaining IPv4 addresses that is leaving IPv6 as the only feasible alternative for the continued growth of networks beyond the next few years. Governments and service providers in many regions of the world have been cognizant of this fact for years, and are currently in various stages of planning for IP6 deployment in their networks.

With thorough, clear planning IPv6 can be deployed safely and within acceptable costs. Understanding the elements of a good deployment plan is essential, however, as is an understanding of the various mechanisms and methodologies available for IPv6 implementation. Juniper Networks is the acknowledged leader in high-performance, low-risk IPv6 deployment, with a rich set of IPv6 features available in all JUNOS-based platforms.

• 21st-Century Communications: Petascale Services, Multiservice Integration, Grid Networks, and Global Facilities

Requirements for 21st-century communication services will be substantially different from those that are common today. Major trends in the evolution of digital communication services are being driven both by new demands and by the opportunities presented by numerous emerging innovative architectures and technologies. These trends are motivating a fundamental reconsideration of all aspects of communication services, including the basic concepts of what services are, the way they should be created and provided, and the design of supporting facilities. These requirements and trends will determine the future shape of communication services and the organizations that provide them.

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• Empowering Next-Generation IP Communications

With IPv6 networks becoming the norm and commercial deployments happening around the globe, there have been tremendous movements toward the direction and common infrastructure based on Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6). This paper provides the comprehensive wave toward IPv6 networksÑits standards, business drivers and applicationsÑalong with a business case and strategies for deployment.

• Cover story: Issuing a challenge

  Telefonica has quietly been laying the foundations to make an impact in the multinational enterprise services arena. Now it has won a major deal.

• How Can Enterprise Benefit from Business Applications Hosted by End-to-End ICT Service Providers

  Enterprises are looking for communication cost reduction and employee productivity improvement while dealing with ever-increasing mobility. An Economist Intelligence Unit survey indicates that nearly half of firms between 51% and 100% of employees use allocated mobile devices, while in three years, 71% of firms will be the case. Are service providers well positioned to solve these enterprise business issues? And how could service providers capture such opportunity and deliver value to enterprises? A new wave of managed services could transform opportunities into reality for both enterprises and service providers. With managed services, including managed business communication and managed data networking, service providers can meet more and more expected enterprise requirements via flexible models (e.g. hosted, managed and service on demand...). With the most experience to satisfy small, medium, and large enterprises, as well as service providers, this session will address these new requirements by leveraging cross-industry knowledge, research and innovation, flexible deployment models, comprehensive go-to-market support and broad partners eco-system.

  Chairperson:

  Laszlo Gyalog,

  Vice President, Enterprise Solutions, Alcatel-Lucent Carrier Business Group

  Speakers:

  Benoit Felten,	Senior Analyst, Enterprise Mobility Research, Alcatel-Lucent
  Yuhong Huang,	Director, Department of Wireless Communication Technology, Research Institute, Yankee Group
  Thomas Grewing,	Head of VoIP Product Management, Converged Core Business Unit, Nokia Siemens Networks
  Pierre Hanoune,	Collaboration Strategy Director, Global Enterprise, Orange Business Unit
  Philippe Rogge,	Vice President, Business Development and Planning, Enterprise Business Unit, Belgacom

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