IEC Newsletter
May 2006, Volume 2 go to newsletter archive
Special Edition:
Broadband in Asia and More
As Asia leads the world in broadband penetration and innovative services, learn about some of the latest broadband thoughts and developments in Asia as the IEC takes the Broadband World Forum Asia 2006 to Hong Kong this 15-18 May.
Executive Perspectives
Critical insights from key industry leaders
The IEC's Executive Perspectives allow industry professionals and students alike to learn from leading key experts' insights and experiences. Viewers can access answers to pressing industry questions and challenges instantly with this learning opportunity.
Jong-Lok Yoon
Executive Vice President
Korea Telecom
Recorded at Executive ComForum 2005

Jong-Lok Yoon, Executive Vice President of Korea Telecom (KT), discusses KT's vision of the wireless future and the role of WiBro, the successfully tested wireless IPv6 in next-generation Internet, KT's experiences with IPTV, and the broadband network of the future.

Andy Stevenson
Chief Executive Officer
Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe
Recorded at 21st Communications World Forum 2006

Chief Executive Officer of Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe, discusses Fujitsu's expansion in Europe and shares his views on migration to an all IP-based 21st Century Network, the installation of more than 4 million lines in the UK and continental Europe, major customer benefits in the converged network solutions world, and Fujitsu's plans, progress, and vision.

Technology Briefing
Broadband Trends:
The New World of ICT Superpowers
Educational content provided by JS3 Global Consulting
With ICT globalization, the absolute superiority of U.S. innovation has been eclipsed. It is not that American innovation has failed, as U.S. innovators are thriving. Rather, new ICT players, such as India and China are thriving even more. This article covers the win-win potential of prosperity increase in the developed, as well as in the developing nations, and in helping bring hundreds of millions of poor out from poverty worldwide. Read more...

Media Spotlight
Mobile's broadband danger
By Robert Clark, Senior Contributing Editor, Telecom Asia
Educational content provided by Telecom Asia
Cellular faces the biggest disruption of all: broadband. The coming of HSDPA is going to up-end the mobile business as we know it. Read more...

The battle to cover backhaul costs
By Robert Clark, Senior Contributing Editor, Telecom Asia
Educational content provided by Telecom Asia
As end-users, locked into flat-rate plans, start to chase content that's not only bandwidth-intensive but also sensitive to latency, backbone costs will rise and QoS will become increasingly important to specific types of content. Read more...

Analyst Corner
The Analyst Corner features perspectives from a range of leading information industry experts.

An Economical Broadband Network with High Added Value -The IP Tendency of the Broadband Access Network
Wu Haining
Director, Fixed Network Marketing
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Educational content provided by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

As the scale of the broadband network gets bigger, and its services become richer, the xDSL network architecture brews new improvements, enabling the broadband network to provide content and applications not imagined before. These improvements are based the Internet protocol (IP) direction of the broadband access network's development. Read more...

Online Education Feature

IPTV Tutorial: Internet Protocol Television (IPTV)

The IPTV Global ComForum premieres as a co-located event at Broadband World Forum Asia focusing on communications service providers who must shift from a voice-centric revenue model to a broadband/IP-centric model.

Learn more on IPTV (Internet Protocol over a broadband connection), a system used to deliver digital television services to the consumers who are registered subscribers for this system and read about how carriers are using a managed network rather than the public Internet to preserve quality of service guarantees.

Fellows in the News
Mitel Chairman Sir Terry Matthews Honored with IEC Fellow Award at 21st Century Communications World Forum in London
The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) awarded Mitel Chairman Sir Terry Matthews with the IEC Fellow Award last week before his keynote address at the 21st Century Communications World Forum in London, England. Honored with the most prestigious tribute from the IEC, Sir Matthews received his award in front of hundreds of industry professionals.

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Upcoming Events
Conference
15–18 May 2006
Exhibition
16–17 May 2006
Hong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Hong Kong, China

Conference
15–18 May 2006
Exhibition
16–17 May 2006
Hong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Hong Kong, China

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