This panel will address the key business and technology drivers for outsourcing and managed services and the associated benefits and advantages for other communication providers and their customers. It will also address the impact of outsourcing and managed services on the legacy operations together with the challenges faced by telecom operators to transform legacy processes and systems.

With shrinking legacy revenues and the growth of new revenues happening slower than expected, cost efficiency is becoming more and more important for carriers together with the challenges of speed to market and customer focus – outsourcing can help carriers transform their business and make it a reality. BT has a wealth of experience and in-depth understanding of the importance, complexity, and mechanics of outsourcing and managed services.

Service deployment is the lifeblood of service provider revenue streams, but it has traditionally been the riskiest and most expensive strategy. It's now widely acknowledged that the "killer app" no longer exists, and it's the breadth of services on offer and attractive bundles that allow operators to continue to thrive.

During this session, industry best practice in service innovation, collaboration, and delivery will be discussed.

The Web 2.0 world gives control to users. Users can decide where they want to go to get a service/ product and decide to use a different business each time. With no limitations and a proliferation of businesses, what business model survives? At what point does it become a risk? How is the right balance achieved?

In the present era of service convergence, enhanced multimedia has exploded into a digital revolution. Subscribers demand rich applications on a single device, thereby originating the need for device convergence.

Envisaging such converged and yet perpetually evolving multimedia products is a challenge to the OEMs and ODMs.

On the other hand, with the advancement of network bandwidth and continuous convergence of functions into end-user devices, the breadth of services has grown considerably. While this might be an opportune time for manufacturers and network operators, end users are overwhelmed by the complexity of services. This is especially evident when content and functions are developed without keeping end users in mind.

Therefore, the focus should also be on to develop a user experience that is so intrinsic in nature that no prior training is necessary for end users to take full advantage of the services' value.

Service providers continue to evaluate and pursue different IP transformation techniques and more flexible service deployment and building human capabilities essential for competing in a converged media and communications industry.

As operators in the midst of IP transformation acknowledge that successful programs require more than successful technology implementation, operators about to embark on transformation initiatives have much to learn from the early movers, including where the big wins lie.

Achieving success in business, network, and operations transformation demands that operators depart from business as usual practices. Leaders in the market will discuss how they have addressed the challenge of getting beyond business as usual in their transformation programs.

Topics will include the following:

• Business strategies and risk mitigation for fundamentally breaking the mold on vendor relationships to drive transformation
• Training your staff to be customer-centric
• Best practices to address operations in an all-IP environment to achieve a new world business model
• What it takes to build a next-generation telecom

The next revolution in communications is well under way. It is not a new technology, but rather the integration of different silos of communication and collaboration technologies into a single, transparent user experience accessible from familiar telephony devices and workgroup applications.

By combining voice, video, and Web communication with instant messaging and presence detection for people and devices, users will have the most powerful communication and collaboration capabilities to date.

Hear the vision behind this emerging trend, learn about the integration work already under way from major telecommunications and workgroup application companies, and how these next-generation solutions will drive greater productivity in the workplace.

This panel discusses what technological innovations result from the conversion of voice and data transmission and the opportunities and risks for service providers and customers.

Discussion topics include the following:

• What are the technological risks?
• What opportunities does new technology reveal?
• What efficiencies does it yield?
• How will the customer benefit from new technology?
• Will the customer have to prepare (with extensive hardware/software) for new technology?
• Will the customer have to expect sacrifices for using the new voice and data transmission?

Operators together with their primary architectural advisers have outlined Next Generation Network architectures and the respective domains to provide the new Broadband services. The key success factor is to set-up an Application Environment to exploit IMS and Federation Services.

These new services will be provided to residential, enterprise and mobile end-users. Siemens is a leading adviser to fixed-line, cable and mobile operators how SDP, IMS and legacy networks should be linked together.

In this keynote speech, Jin Wang, Vice President of Huawei Technologies, covers consumer wants and needs in the ICT convergence era; potential value chain structure models for ICT convergence; and options for enabling infrastructure.

As serial data rates climb above 2 Gbps and voltage swings shrink to conserve power, the timing jitter in a system becomes a significant percentage of the signaling interval. Under these circumstances, jitter becomes a fundamental performance limit.

This TecForum panel, consisting of industry-leading design engineers who work on high-speed serial-data designs and jitter-application engineers from test and measurement companies, will provide insight and discussion around different jitter measurement approaches.

Get to know more about the people behind the service providers in the new Executive Interview iForum with Jeff Lee, founder of Fathom Solutions and Telecom Practice Manager at Cognizant Technology Solutions. Lee discusses why his company made the move to become part of the next generation's way of delivering award winning technology solutions, globally.

Broadband is clearly driving the current economic recovery as companies are looking to ride the wave of growth in their broadband services and network infrastructures. Evolving services such as new content services, peer to peer, data storage, streaming content, online collaboration, and other applications are driving the demand for bandwidth, and the bottleneck in the access network has finally being broken. Critical to your riding the broadband wave, is for you to stay abreast of the latest market, service and technology developments.

Join senior executives from leading companies as they address the inherent issues of including integrated voice and data end-to-end capability using IP architectures. Learn the new business models for success, evaluate the latest architectures for an all-IP world, determine migration strategies for services and networks, and observe the real-life experiences and lessons learned of leading organizations.

Tomohiro Ishihara discusses the future of home appliance networking and the possibilities and interactions it promises to usher in with the penetration of the broadband market.

Music downloads, video P2P file transfers, video on demand, on-line multiplayer gaming, mobile multimedia messaging, next-generation TV – what will be the services that define success for broadband carriers? What content do end users want, and how can carriers deliver it?

This session will take a look at some of the hot applications and services for broadband carriers, as well as the lessons learned to date in making them a reality.

As video on demand and other entertainment services begin to change the nature of communications networks, the business model for carrier success is also changing. The ability to deliver a triple play of data, voice, and video services is becoming critical to future success, as is the successful migration from legacy networks to next-generation fiber and xDSL architectures. This panel of industry leaders will discuss these issues and other imperatives for success in the evolving broadband environment.

Innovative service providers in the Asia-Pacific region are leading the world in broadband network and services deployment. These carriers are helping define the business model for next-generation broadband applications and how to transform traditional business operations to meet emerging opportunities. In this panel, executives from key service provider companies--KT, DT, China Netcom, BT, and NTT--discuss the pace of broadband network rollout, services that will reside on the network, and plans for the future. As such, it gives unique insight into the future of network evolution both in Asia-Pacific and Europe.

In this Executive Hot Seat session, Clive Ansell, Group Strategy Director at BT, and Robert Lloyd, President of EMEA at Cisco, examine the opportunities, challenges, and potential inherent in rolling out the next-generation, converged network.

What is the role of this new network?

What services will it enable?

This lively debate gets at concrete answers to these key issues, and more.

The 21st Century Communications World Forum Wednesday Keynote Address delivered by Roderick Randall, Senior Managing Director, Vesbridge Partners, examines the future of network intelligence and what service providers need to do in order to ensure profitability and viable business models going forward. The creation and enablement of new network services based on revenue streams is discussed, as well as preventing unnecessary profit erosion arising from new IP-based applications.

Dr. Aart De Geus, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Synopsys, delivered the Tuesday Keynote at DesignCon 2005. This iForum, which showcases this Tuesday Keynote, focuses on "Techonomics" — the technological and economic pressures present in the electronics industry today. Dr. De Geus presents a systemic approach to designing semicondunctors and demonstrates ways that engineers, manufacturers and designers are changing the world.

Wireless technologies have been present in the enterprise network environment for many years. As 3G technology and wireless LANs become more prevalent, companies are now faced with new challenges in ensuring network security, achieving integration and interoperability, and accommodating new wireless information appliances.

The Forum will address questions such as the following:

• What are the trends in 3G and wireless LAN technologies?
• How can these advancements help commercial enterprises improve productivity while lowering network costs?
• What are the unique security threats posed by wireless technologies, and what is the best way to address them?
• What kinds of data services are offered by next-generation wireless broadband, and what problems do they solve?

Personalized and entertainment applications are set to be the next big drivers for mobile services revenue. In this iForum, Yankee Group Senior Analyst Matt Hatton provides an overview of the mobile entertainment market and discusses real-world mobile operator strategies for successful content-based services. It also looks at the role that 3G networks and handset features play in mobile entertainment services, as well as, examines the barriers to deployment and adoption that still remain including the challenge of content and subscriber management.

The verdict is in: consumers want the triple play of video, voice, and high-speed data service. Gone are the days of voice-only service. What is required is the emergence of the integrated media company that can deliver a compelling bundle of video-on-demand, telephony, and other enhanced IP-driven broadband applications.

This discussion will examine the entertainment, information, and interactive applications that are driving the demand for next-generation, multimedia broadband services, as well as how carriers can deploy them effectively and profitably.

The Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (AdvancedTCA) is a relatively new open industry specification for building high-performance telecommunications and data communications systems. Developed by the PICMG consortium, AdvancedTCA appears poised to make considerable inroads into a market that has traditionally been dominated by vertically integrated proprietary systems.

This iForum provides an overview of AdvancedTCA and then details many aspects of the AdvancedTCA specification such as the switching fabrics, mechanical configuration, shelf and system management, power and cooling, and other important features. This iForum also describes NMS Communications' involvement in the development of the AdvancedTCA specification and other recent AdvancedTCA activities.

View the IEC Information Industry Keynote Address given by Alcatel's Chairman and Chief Information Officer Serge Tchuruk at IEC @ SUPERCOMM, which took place on Tuesday, June 22, 2004.

The floodgates have opened for acceptance of broadband services. The desire to upgrade Internet access for speed purposes alone is giving way to the user desires for new opportunities, such as VoIP, content-rich services, and next-generation devices. This session brings together senior executives from industry leading companies to assess the current state of broadband in the world and discuss the next steps to be applied for the rapid growth stage of the market cycle.

Topics covered include:

• Meeting competition in the broadband arena
• Applications and services that drive revenues
• The role of content in broadband services
• Technology advances
• Next step architectures

Global communications industry players have laid the groundwork and are deploying services and applications to meet the market opportunities and competitive threats in their respective sectors. Players have positioned their organizations for revenue growth and increased operating efficiency.

Industry executives discuss the meaningful content regarding critical business directions and opportunities:

• Emerging global sector market opportunities
• Winning services and applications
• Network impacts to support the new service directions
• Technology

Gain insight from Barry Allen in his IEC@SUPERCOMM keynote address as he analyzes what is excellent with the competitive communications industry as Qwest, a major provider, emerges with a forward-looking vision of their path to success.

Watch Ned Barnholt in his IEC Executive Forum @ SUPERCOMM keynote address as he delves into network strategies and opportunities that will position your organization for success, and identifies how the evolving network will support the next wave of winning applications.

The communications industry is racing to deploy and market broadband capabilities and services. All players seek to position their organizations to capture their share of mass-market broadband growth.

In this iForum you'll gain access to the industry executives that presented at the IEC Executive Forum @ SUPERCOMM 2004. Each executive presenter offers their views on the near-term future of broadband in the communications industry.

Topics Covered include:

• Broadband options for all customer segments
• IP network migration and architectures
• DSL and wireless broadband directions and architectures
• Successfully evolving legacy network

In his presentation at the IEC Executive Forum @ SUPERCOMM, Vinton Cerf, widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," and co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet, delivers his unique perspective on the history and future of on-line applications, devices, and the power of Internet as a whole.

He discusses the opportunities and challenges of a Web-enabled world and finishes with a challenge to all to envision a world 50 years hence given the current trajectory of IP.

Captured on location at the Broadband World Forum Seoul 2004 in Korea, this iForum provides a global perspective on the growth of broadband.

In the move toward tomorrow's full-service networks, it's the carriers who must deliver and make the dream a reality for millions of subscribers in the real world. This involves making high-stakes commitments to infrastructure upgrades, technology deployments, and new business models. The transition to mass-market broadband services is one of the most costly and revolutionary transitions in communications history. And leading that transition from old PSTN to next-generation broadband ultimately falls to those who own the network and must deliver on the bottom line.

This panel of carrier executives will provide an update of where things stand regarding broadband rollout in their service footprints including where things stand at present, future strategies, as well as their vision of the services that will take broadband to new levels over the coming years.

Taped at DesignCon 2004 in Silicon Valley (California) this iForum provides a global executive perspective on the pros and cons of FPGA design, ASIC design and the structured ASIC solution as a viable third choice.

Hear viewpoints from six distinguished panelists representing Altera, EDN Magazine, Gartner Dataquest, LSI Logic, Toshiba and Xilinx.

Some of the areas addressed in this iForum presentation are:
What are the trade offs? Designs that were done in ASICs in the past are done by FPGAs today, faster and for less cost. Complex FPGA design is driving new design approaches. ASIC designs are specialized, offer power and flexibility, and accommodate large designs where FPGA falls short.

With so much at stake, where should your company's focus lie? Or is it more of a middle area - a place where structured ASIC can fill the gap?

View this iForum today and take advantage of this unique opportunity to gain insight from today's design engineering leaders as to how FPGA and ASIC designs are shaping the future of Electronic Design Automation (EDA).

Garner the insight from four Agilent Technologies speakers as they discuss Agilent's perspective on the subject of wireless data service assurance.

Three main areas are covered:

1. The impact and importance of service quality
2. Service management challenges in an ever increasingly complex environment
3. Service management evolution from a network centric to a customer and service centric view of quality

Filmed live at the IEC's Broadband World Forum in London, and now available for viewing on-demand, this iForum provides a truly global executive perspective on the current state and future of broadband.

Broadband World Forum: Executive Perspectives gives an inside look at the plans and perspectives of six of the many distinguished conference plenary panelists. View this iForum for a first-hand look at where the broadband industry is heading and to gain the knowledge needed to make better decisions today.

Executives will focus on the following critical issues concerning broadband, as well as many others:

• Developing a mass market in broadband
• Alternatives for the next generation network
• The direction of new broadband services

The depth and detail of the information provided in this iForum is something that no industry professional should be without. View this iForum today and take advantage of this unique opportunity to gain insight from today's communications leaders.

At SUPERCOMM 2003, the International Engineering Consortium presented a special panel in its Executive Forum addressing the subject "Broadband Services: ILEC Compelling Plans."

The panel, titled the "Executive Summit Workshop" is comprised of the senior network/technology officers of the four Regional Bell Operating Companies and a representative of the venture capital community.

The forum brought the RBOC representatives together for the first time in a public setting to discuss one of the most critical issues facing the industry - building the nation's broadband infrastructure. Coming as it did, shortly after the issuance of an RFP for a fiber to the premises by three of the panel members that had adopted a set of common technical requirements, the session could not have been more timely.

This iForum provides an unique opportunity for industry professionals to contrast and compare the plans of the RBOCs and hear how the venture capital community views the prospects for capital infusion.

This 70-minute iForum features presentations by Mark Winther, IDC, Group Vice President, Worldwide Telecommunications and R. Brough Turner, NMS Communications, Senior Vice President, Technology.

The iForum provides an understanding of both the market trends and technology and architectural requirements for IP media servers designed for enhanced communication service applications. The tutorial opens with a look at key trends in converged networks including new applications and market drivers and inhibitors.

This iForum then discusses the emergence of the media server as a key component of the Next Generation Network architecture. It then focuses in detail on the technology and architectural consideration behind IP media server design.

Topics include decomposed network architectures, session control and scripting paradigms, handling for message and video media types, conferencing engines, and finally a look at partnering models for enhanced value delivery.

This one-day tutorial on nanotechnology was presented by the IEC Santa Clara, California, in conjunction with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association, and with financial support from the National Science Foundation. A distinguished panel of leaders in the field from academia, government and industry provide an overview of the current state and future prospects for this exciting area.

The tutorial opened with overviews on the state of nanotechnology from both government and industry perspectives, followed by a series of detailed looks at specific topics. Topics covered include nanocomputing, nanoscale sensors & devices, and data storage technology. Panelists also shared perspectives on educational needs, challenges and opportunities.

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DSL Forum is pleased to sponsor three special presentations that aim to educate the industry regarding some of the most important issues for broadband today. Our first presentation, led by Jim Southworth and titled "Internet Security: Broadband Implications and Remedies", shares real world security issues, and how DSL users can prepare and protect themselves in the world of hackers and viruses.

The second presentation, led by Jay Fausch and titled "Yesterday's Challenges—Today's Solutions", provides a DSL Update on where DSL has encountered roadblocks in the past, and how the technology solutions of today set the stage for a healthy DSL future. Finally the program is rounded out by Michael Brusca, whose presentation, "A Service Provider's View: A Call for Employing Industry-Recognized Interoperability Program" provides a call to action for all service providers to get behind DSL product interoperability as a key component to DSL demand and ultimately adoption.

DSL Forum is a consortium of approximately 250 leading industry telecommunications, equipment, computing, networking and service provider companies. Established in 1994, the Forum continues its drive for a mass market for DSL, to deliver the benefits of this technology to end users around the world over existing copper telephone wire infrastructures. In seven years, the DSL Forum has moved through defining the core Digital Subscriber Line technology to delivering maximum effectiveness in its deployment and use. More information on DSL Forum is available from its industry site www.dslforum.org or its consumer site www.dsllife.com.

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Robert B. Hammond, Ph.D., Senior Vice President and CTO, examines STI's SuperFilter technology, product performance, and economic benefits. Hammond outlines how the superior sensitivity and selectivity of SuperFilter technology allows for increased coverage, higher capacity utilization, and improved service quality in wireless networks, leading to lower capital and operating expenses.

Mike Eddy, Vice President, Business Development, discusses the technology underlying STI's SuperFilter® technology. Eddy outlines the benefits of cryogenic receiver front ends (CRFEs) relative to conventional systems and highlights the SuperFilter's simple integration, reliability, and proven value.

Andrew Miceli, STI National Carrier Sales Director, and Amir Shahegh, Staff Manager, ALLTEL Corporate Engineering, together explore the benefits of HTS technology from a "real world" perspective. Using data from an urban, CDMA field trial, they discuss the substantial improvements to RF signal quality and network capacity utilization that SuperFilter Systems provided.

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Today's challenges to reduce costs, increase revenue, and attract and retain customers can best be met with highly automated flow-through business processes. This drives the need for operations support systems (OSSs) that are integrated and easy to use. Keith Willetts, chairman and founder, TeleManagement Forum, and Matt Izzo, manager of OSS architecture strategy, Agilent Technologies, present an overview of integrated OSSs. New-generation OSS (NG–OSS) is introduced, and its key architectural principles described. The discussion concludes with OSS architecture trends and how Agilent OSS solutions are leading the way in integrated OSS.

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James P. Simmons, Jr., Vice President, Marketing, at Conductus, discusses the economic benefits of deploying superconductor front-end technology. Simmons gives an overview of urban TDMA and CDMA benefits, including increased capacity and quality of service, and expanded coverage, and increased 2.5G and 3G data throughput.

Todd Arnold, Sr. Systems Engineer, describes Conductus' ClearSite front-end receivers, configurations, and features. Arnold also gives considerable focus on selectivity and sensitivity with respect to its importance in a cellular network. Additionally, he shares recent field trial results from TDMA case studies.

Elliott Drucker, President of Drucker Associates, an experienced RF consulting firm, reviews field case studies of the impact of superconductor front ends on interference, capacity, coverage, and quality of service.

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In this inaugural iForum, sponsored by the DSL Forum, Tom Starr, Senior Member of Technical Staff at SBC, discusses technologies for extending the reach of DSL, improved loop qualification, and new varieties of DSL on the horizon. He is joined by William Rodey, Chairman & President of the DSL Forum, on how DSL is uniquely positioned to meet the mass-market demand for life-changing broadband services to the home and business. Multimedia services over DSL are covered, as are the issues facing carriers in escalating the rollout of DSL in their service regions.

The third presenter within this iForum is Mark Peden of Simpler Networks, who takes a behind-the-scenes look at DSL provisioning. Mark traces the flow of a customer’s DSL order from first request to final installation, comparing today’s optimal flow-through process with yesterday’s manual procedures.

Taken together, these perspectives provide a rounded view of the current state of DSL technologies, deployment, and challenges that remain.

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This new iForum examines the efficiencies, advantages and network alternatives for delivering IP over optical infrastructures. QoS realities are discussed, as is the key role of GMPLS in unifying protocols and network layers. The discussion looks at the market forces that are compelling carriers to offer voice, private line, and packet data over the same network, and the potential of intelligent optical networking to allow best-effort IP, streaming video, and other critical serivces to co-exist in a cost-effective manner.

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This new iForum takes a careful look at the present and near-term future of the broadband Internet, as it has become a critical infrastructure in the opinion of many industry professionals. Frederick R. Chang President and CEO, SBC Technology Resources, Inc provides an historical context for the growth of today's broadband Internet; explores the drivers for the accelerated growth of broadband among Internet users-those who are "hooked on broadband;" reviews the impact of wiring today's home for tomorrow; and demonstrates many applications that are available over today's Internet.

He concludes with a review of many technologies that will increase bandwidth in the network and discusses the challenges to making the network smarter, of higher quality, scalable, more secure and easier to manage.