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Overview
Emerging broadband services are changing the business model for carriers of all varieties. As revenue from traditional voice service continues to decline, service providers are looking to broadband for new service offerings to offset such losses. This involves migrating the PSTN to a converged, next-generation IP-centric network based on a broadband-capable access infrastructure. In making this transition, carriers must select from a variety of broadband architectures and technology options to ensure service delivery, QoS, and a seamless, optimal customer experience. They must also ensure adequate services management, billing, and provisioning.

The presentations on this IEC ProForum Series CD focus on the latest technology and architecture developments that enable the broadband network. Such developments include next-generation Ethernet topologies, carrier-class VoIP networks, xDSL advancements, and current options for migrating the access network. Together, these presentations give a timely and comprehensive overview of the alternatives facing carriers as they look to embrace the broadband future.

Contents:

End-to-End Carrier-Built Ethernet Next-Generation Access Networks Last Mile Alternatives: Emerging Technologies and Standards Carrier-grade IP Network Technologies and Architectures Video Compression Advances and Challenges The Global Transition to Ethernet Access Broadband Service Provisioning and Current Condition Next-Generation Voice Networks: Fully Engineered SoftSwitch Solutions or Internet-Enabled Mass Market? Metro Ethernet Aggregation for Broadband Services Delivery Breakthroughs in Ultra High-Speed DSL Technology The Home Gateway: Enabling Platform for Residential Broadband Services

Carrier Ethernet is emerging as the mainstream technology to carry next-generation telecom services, particularly the converged triple-play of video, voice and data. But despite Ethernet's simplicity, scalability and cost effectiveness, it has faced technical barriers based on its LAN heritage, hampering mass deployments with carriers. In this workshop, we will first hear about service provider needs for Ethernet as their chosen technology for next-generation networks. We will hear about the role and vision that service providers anticipate for Carrier Ethernet, and how Ethernet has overcome its previous limitations. For instance, will Ethernet serve only as a low cost network for broadband services, or will it be a new converged layer, replacing ATM to achieve a unified, converged single network to address multiple services?

Next, we will discuss carrier requirements for next-generation Ethernet, including the Top 10 carrier requirements. Finally, from a vendor perspective, we will discuss various approaches and concepts to addressing carrier needs. We will see how vendors plan to comply with carrier's requirements, and develop cutting-edge products that meet their needs for ease-of-use, reliability, end-to-end service, and cost effectiveness.

Chairperson:
Dror Bar-On, Vice President, Marketing, Carrier Ethernet, Siemens

Speakers:
Ralf-Peter Braun, Senior Project Manager, T-Systems International GmbH
Michael Howard, Principal and Co-founder, Infonetics Research
Hong-Beom Jeon, Senior Vice President, Technology Strategy Team, New Business Planning Group, Korea Telecom
Juan Martin-Calle, Vice President, Business Management, Broadband Access, Siemens AG

Increasing demand for new services poses challenges in the evolution of today's broadband access architectures. Applications such as video distribution and video-on-demand require at least an order of magnitude higher bandwidth to be constantly available to a large number of end users. Multiple users in a single household who require very distinct services bring up the need for highly differentiated, end-to-end service support through the access network. In addition, new technologies such as PON provide a means to improve the overall capabilities of the broadband access platform. Last but not least, traffic monitoring must be introduced that allows operators to create appropriate service offerings and billing methods. This session examines the impact of these changes in customer requirements and technological advances and how they affect the overall evolution of the broadband access network architecture

Chairperson:
Yoichi Maeda, Senior Manager of Global Strategy, Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, NTT

Speakers:
Lionel Adnet, Alcatel
Didi Ivancovsky, Founder and Vice President of Products, BroadLight Inc.
Junichi Kani, Research Engineer, NTT Corporation
Soo-Jin Park, Principal Researcher, KT
Tetsuya Yokotani, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Quinn Zhao, Senior System Engineer, FTTH Project, Huawei Technologies Co.

Consumer and corporate expectations of next generation network services are presenting carriers with some interesting challenges. Undoubtedly the success or otherwise of carriers will depend to a large degree, on their selection of technologies in the last mile. There are some difficult choices to make. Depending largely on their current network infrastructure carriers must select a trajectory of access technologies covering fixed, wireless and convergence intelligence that can enhance the end-customer experience. The session on Last Mile Technologies looks at the selection process, the emergence of technologies and standards that hopefully provide some of the key solutions to these problems.

Chairperson:
Andy Stevenson, General Manager, Products and Technology, Fujitsu Telecommunications

Speakers:
Reza Ahy, Chief Executive Officer, Aperto
Dean Grumlose, Vice President, Marketing, Ikanos Communications
Ariel Maislos, President, Passave Technologies
Jorge Serrano, Product Line Manager, Corning

Today, more and more traffic is carried on IP-based networks. Not only best-effort services but also some mission-critical tasks are depending on IP networks. Network operators and service providers are now seriously concerned about how to build a "carrier-grade" IP network to meet these demands. This session will cover technologies and architectures for carrier-grade IP networks which bring guaranteed QoS, traffic management and control capability, high reliability, high scalability and so on. The session will include discussions on technology and product development trends, standardization status, and deployment experiences and plans for some of the key technologies, such as QoS control, MPLS/GMPLS, and photonic networks.

Chairperson:
Tohru Matsunaga, Executive Manager, Network System Innovation Project, Network Service Systems Laboratories, NTT

Speakers:
Alan Bugos, Vice President, Engineering, iBasis
Shinya Kukita, Assistant General Manager, Network Platform Planning Division, NEC Corporation
Fan Lingyuan, Chief System Engineer, IP Telecom Network Project, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Renaud Moignard, Research and Development, France Telecom
Ken-ichi Sato, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University

This session focuses on where compression technology is today and where it's going. It compares and contrasts compression techniques-primarily MPEG-4 AVC and Microsoft/SMPTE VC-1-and examines the relationship between advanced compression for SD and HD content and network, distribution, and delivery requirements. The discussion also considers key issues affecting the industry, including content sources, content rights, and home distribution.

Chairperson:
Nick Fielibert, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Europe and Asia Scientific-Atlanta Europe NV

Speakers: Noel Matthews, Director, Broadband, Tandberg Television
Jan Rychter, Chief Technology Officer, Sentivision
Feng Chi Wang, Technical Director, Conexant Systems
Keith Wymbs, Director, Product Marketing, Tut Systems

The transition from ATM centric to Ethernet centric broadband access networks was initially started in Asia but is now accelerating across the world. The transition is driven by the need to deploy more powerful networks to stay competitive for the basic Internet access offerings and to pave the road for cost efficient introduction of advanced video applications. The change in architecture represents the first major shift since the introduction of DSL in large scale in 1997. This session will give the audience a global overview on how Ethernet has been rolled out so far, the experiences gained, and successful strategies.

Chairperson:
Peter Linder, Technical Director and Vice President, Marketing (EFMA) Ericsson

Speakers:
Ariel Maislos, President, Management, Passavé Technologies
Mike McFarland, Senior Product Line Manager, Cisco
Björn Odenhammar, Director, Product Management Ethernet Access, Ericsson
Martin Thunman, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder, PacketFront

The needs of Internet users have been changing from small-bandwidth data services, such as information searching and e-mail, to huge-bandwidth data services, such as video image transmission and music downloads. For content holders, broadband business is the new opportunity to introduce broadband content and applications to potential users. On the other hand, the network should provide not only best-effort types of service, but also guaranteed, quality-controlled, and reliable service for POTS, VoIP, network television, etc. A network based on IPv6 should support such new services using personal IP addresses as well as IPsec for security. In this session, we will discuss and clarify requirements and expanding technology for the current and next-generation broadband network.

Chairperson:
Kiyoshi Ueda, Senior Manager, Research and Development Center, NTT West

Speakers:
Fuchun Joseph Lin, Chief Scientist, Applied Research, Telcordia Technologies
Kenichi Sakamoto

Voice-over-IP technology is coming of age, transforming the business models of operators as well as their networks. New types of operators are emerging - ISPs, VNOs, Voice-over-the net players - all competing with the traditional operators. Different approaches by different operators will be examined in this session, with particular reference to the business case and profitability of the different approaches. If voice is just another application, how do we enable users to support the world's infrastructure to talk? What kind of engineering effort is required to deliver reach, reliability and quality in the next-generation network? How do you put the Q in QEBBS (Quality Enabled BroadBand Service)? Among other issues, this session will look at the pros and cons of alternative architectural approaches to delivering end-to-end Quality of Service at all layers in the network.

Chairperson:
Devid Gubiani, Vice President-Marketing, Asia-Pacific, Marconi

Speakers: Kevin Hourigan, Vice President, Marketing, Marconi
Roger Ward, President, Multiservice Forum, BT
Ma Yan, Deputy Chief Technology Officer, China Netcom

Both the need for more cost-effective bandwidth required by video-over-DSL applications and the existing deployments of Metro Ethernet networks are making Ethernet technology more and more popular for DSL aggregation. This technology leapfrog is mainly impacting the central office access nodes, delivering more service-specific and layer 3 intelligence towards a service-aware packet network, and the Metro Ethernet networks (both Ethernet bridging or VPLS/VLL based). This session will describe the latest state-of-the-art functionalities of the different network components, as well as the problems in guaranteeing QoS, resilience, security, service delivery, and compatibility with legacy services. Chairperson:
Christian Gregoire, Senior Vice President, Alcatel Asia-Pacific

Speakers:
Daniel Hua, Vice President, IP Division, Alcatel Asia-Pacific
Xu Jianfeng, China Telecom
George Kimura, Director, Engineering, NTT Service Integration Laboratories

In this session, we introduce and discuss new high-bandwidth DSL technologies, such as VDSL2 and UDSL (Uni-DSL), which are backwards compatible with operators´ current infrastructure and will make it possible to add competitive video service revenue to their existing data and voice services. The UDSL technology, for example, raises the bandwidth of DSL to the level necessary to deliver High Definition Television (HDTV) and other advanced video services, as well as voice and data, throughout the home with limited fiber deployment. The backwards compatibility of UDSL-based head-end equipment will also allow operators to affordably deploy a flexible menu of services using ADSL, ADSL2, and VDSL2 CPEs and residential gateways coupled with a single line card design in the central office or cross connect cabinet in the field. Chairperson:
Peter S. Chow, Chief Technology Officer, DSL Business Unit, Texas Instruments

Speakers:
Steve Bieser, DSL CPE Engineering Manager, Texas Instruments
Wayne Daniel, Chief Technologist, Siemens Subscriber Networks

Fast Internet is far from being enough for today's end users. Cable operators already offer advanced services such as HDTV and VoD, turning the residential market to a very competitive arena for the telecom service providers. Telcos intending to shift their revenues from broadband connectivity into advanced services should be able to deliver and manage new content into and throughout the home environment while meeting strict quality of service (QoS) and service level agreements (SLAs).

The ability to deliver and manage several types of advanced content to multiple endpoints within the home positions the home gateway (also known as residential gateway) as a key platform for service providers who wish to offer advanced services and home networking solutions to their customer base.

This session will review the market and technology trends in Home Gateways for managed services and will focus on the major challenges that need to be addressed in order to achieve an enjoyable user experience. Among the issues to be addressed:

• Is Home Networking part of the telcos service offering?
• How do Home Gateways address QoS requirements for the various services?
• The HG as a necessary platform for obtaining QoS at Home while enabling configuration and management of services.
• Application processing - Centralized versus distributed architectures

Chairperson:
Barry Volinskey, Associate Vice President, Marketing, Broadband Home Products, Metalink

Speakers:
Nobuo Fujii, Executive Manager, NTT Corporation
Tomohiro Ishihara, Research Fellow, Network Systems Laboratories, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.
Simon Tong, Director of Sales, Greater China, 2Wire, Inc.