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Overview
Unified, ubiquitous, and mobile broadband service is the future of communications. Key enabling technologies such as the IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) are making it possible to align the fixed and wireless network on a single service platform. Such developments will make it possible for consumers to experience seamless service regardless of location or speed of mobility. What are the wireless technologies and networks that are making this possible? What will the service delivery platform look like for such an infrastructure? What kind of services management, QoS, and OSS capabilities will be necessary to make this ubiquitous experience a reality?

The presentations on this IEC ProForum Series CD examine the key issues involved achieving the next-generation mobile broadband network. Emerging technologies such as WiMAX are examined in comparison with other existing and developing options for wide-area network coverage. Carrier experiences to date are also explored, in addition to the work of important standards groups. Particular emphasis is placed on the Asian market, where innovation and deployment in the area of wireless broadband is currently leading the industry.

Contents:

Wireless Broadband - Services and Markets Next-Generation Network Standardization Issues Achieving Universal Network Convergence Achieving the Unified Service Delivery Platform Reliable & Flexible Network Management: Broadband OSS Challenges 3G vs. Fixed Broadband vs. WiMAX Solutions and Integration Wireless Broadband Access Technologies Delivering the Grand Slam: Architectural Imperatives for Delivering Voice, Video, Data and Wireless

Chairperson:
Martin Cooper, Chief Executive Officer, ArrayComm

Panelists:
Kazuo Imai, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Network Laboratories, NTT DoCoMo
Rudy Leser, Vice President, Marketing, Alvarion
Sachio Semmoto, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, eAccess

Global communications industry players are racing to develop a next-generation network consisting of transport, access, and services to meet market demand. This panel will cover high-level overviews of standardization activities for both the transport layer and service layer. It also will deal with issues ranging from network infrastructure to services and will include operation and management. Distinguished speakers from the leading standards bodies will present their views on the activities and targets for the standardization of the next-generation network.

Chairperson:
Hisashi Tada, Vice Chair, TeleManagement Forum

Panelists:
Chae-Sub Lee, Chair, Next-Generation Networks Focus Group, ITU-T, Korea Telecom
Alain Le Roux, Chair, TISPAN, ETSI, Senior Consultant, France Telecom
Roger Ward, President, BT Exact, President, Board of Directors, Multiservice Forum

Broadband access, as a profitable growth engine, is gradually becoming a ubiquitous facility, especially when offering multiple services bundles. The convergence of the network technologies to deliver all services to all subscribers over a single infrastructure is the key strategy for telecom operators to achieve this growth. While most of the already deployed networks are targeting a single service, telecom operators are now looking at converged network infrastructures, focused on triple play delivery over broadband - both fixed and mobile - setting up their strategy among four key dimensions:

• Differentiation of the services in a common infrastructure: guaranteeing QoS, prioritization, content integrity
• Increased role and IP technology as a converged protocol in the end-to-end architecture
• Converged architectures - like the IMS network architecture - for greenfield and migrating environments
• New challenges for the operations and management of multiple services over the same infrastructure

This workshop will highlight current strategies and answers from market players, the key enabling technologies for effective video, voice and data convergence and discuss the different migration scenarios given access and call control evolution. Incumbent and competitive providers will share their perspective with major industry players.

Chairperson:
Jean-Pierre Lartigue, Vice President, Marketing and Communications, Access Networks Division, Alcatel

Speakers:
Jean-Marc Frangos, Senior Vice President, Technology and Innovation, BT
Jo Goubert, General Manager, Business Development and Product Strategy, DSL, Thomson
Xu Jianfeng, China Telecom
Kevin Liu, Vice President, Marketing, Alcatel Shanghai Bell
MT Louie, Director, Network Development, CASCADE
Tatsuro Murakami, Executive Manager, NTT

The worldwide movement toward broadband and IP in the network has led to the various ubiquitous services that we see around us today. These services have been implemented through the evolution of technologies that will enable the next generation of advanced telecommunication services, IMS, and FMC. Already, many companies have been advocating various SDP architectures, bringing new aspects to this concept worldwide. Common APIs, such as Parlay and Java, are the representative technologies that heavily contribute to this area, providing easy and speedy convergence of the IT and telecom arenas. This session will examine the unified SDP concept from a technology and solution perspective, as developed by various telecom companies in Japan.

Chairperson:
Yutaka Nozawa, General Manager, Architecture Department, IS Division, Vodafone K.K.

Speakers:
Mauricio Arango, Technology Solutions Director, Global Telco Industry Sales, Sun Microsystems
Chris King, Senior Director, Worldwide Telecommunications Markets, BEA Systems
Yasushi Yoshikawa, NEC

The advent of triple play has two distinct effects on broadband networks today: the increasing amount of subscribers and services to be supported and the introduction of IP and Ethernet as aggregation technology.

To sustain profitability in this context, current OSS and network management tools should go further in helping operators to reduce their operational expenses and ameliorate the customer experience. They should be able to identify more specifically possible error conditions and corrective actions or even take pro-actively preventive measures on impairments that could reduce customer satisfaction. All new features and service configurations should follow the same look and feel strategy to avoid important training needs and complex configurations that could be hidden from daily operations by means of configuration templates, improving activation or service upgrade activities. OSS Interfaces should enable the operator to provide end to end customized solutions for mass deployment and operations allowing fast time-to-market and improved customer satisfaction rate, avoiding churn.

This session will give an overview of the evolution of OSS and management applications for broadband access services. Several operators will share their view on the different requirements they expect from OSS applications and how these impact their business case.

Chairperson:
Jason Collins, Senior IP Market Analyst, Spirent Communications

Speakers:
Sanjay Castelino, Vice President, Industry Marketing, Motive
John M. Cioffi, Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Jo Goubert, General Manager, Business Development and Product Strategy, DSL, Thomson
Jurgen Hofkens, Director, Product and Services Marketing, Access Networking Division, Alcatel
Tom McBeath, Chief Technical Officer, Spirent Communications

By the time the BBWF Asia 2005 is held, both solution vendors and network operators will have made first experiences with WiMAX deployments as a wireless substitute to wired DSL systems for the delivery of broadband services to residential users, SOHO and SMEs. In a second step, the maturity of the 802.16-2004 based technology will allow for deployments supporting nomadic mobility - denominating the user's capability to connect to different base stations after a session restart. In the long run, the enhancements defined in 802.16e will support enhanced mobility providing acceptable multimedia service experience for both real-time and non real-time services. At that time, a seamless migration of connections across various networks will be possible. Terminals with multi-access (3G, WiFi, WiMAX, DSL and FTTH) capabilities will enable end-users to access their applications over any network, at home or on the move.

WiMAX has its distinct identity as either a stand-alone solution for incumbent and competitive fixed network operators or as a complementary radio access solution for established 2G and 3G cellular network operators. Fixed-line operators, on the one hand, may consider WiMAX as a viable alternative to add mobility to the service portfolio, leveraging their huge subscriber base, in particular in countries where 3G licensing is delayed or not affordable. Mobile operators, on the other hand, consider several levels of integration:

1. Site integration of base stations with common use of transport (and even antenna) resources,
2. Shelf integration of both technologies within the same multi-service base station,
3. Platform of different technologies including joint control unit and
4. Integration of subscriber authentication and authorization.

Over the past three years, powerful forces have swept the communications industry. WiMAX will be one of those forces in the future. Eventually, along with the forthcoming standardization, WiMAX has the potential to substitute 3G and become a promising 4G candidate. Like IP, in the long run WiMAX may initiate another paradigm shift, allowing established IT-players to fundamentally reshape today's telecom industry.

Chairperson:
Rahul Aggarwal, Director, RHQ APAC, Siemens Multimedia

Speakers:
Klaus Kohrt, Senior Vice President, Siemens
Manoj Menon, Partner, Frost & Sullivan
Tomo Morohashi, Vice President, eMobile, Ltd.

Following global spread of Wideband CDMA (W-CDMA) commercial service, the era of high-speed mobile Internet has come. In this session, high-speed packet wireless access techniques and its standardization activities in 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and 3GPP2 are presented. Further, aiming at future cellular and wireless LAN systems with affinity to full-IP based core network, broadband air interface and radio access network (RAN) configuration are aggressively investigated. Thus, recent research activities of broadband air interfaces and RAN techniques are presented along with migration scenarios to the future systems beyond IMT-2000.

Chairperson:
Mamoru Sawahashi, Director, IP Radio Network Development Department, NTT DoCoMo

Speakers:
Mikael Gudmundson, Program Director, UMTS Evolution, Ericsson Research
Panyuh Joo, Samsung
Russell Klabouch, Vice President, International Sales, General Bandwidth
Joseph Nowack, Motorola Labs

The reality of broadband entertainment network services over DSL or fiber offers content owners the potential for billions of dollars of new revenues. But with the mix of broadcast television, HDTV and VoD, combined with network time-shifting (network PVR), how can service providers deliver this content on a massive scale to subscribers? Along with delivering content, TVoDSL/triple play service providers now have to look at deploying wireless-enabled set-top-boxes, as well as blending mobile IP devices, such as dual-mode GSM/WiFi handsets, into their offerings to maintain "ownership" and subscriber loyalty. However, this means managing handset populations, delivering content at lower bit rates, transcoding and more.

This session will look at the technologies and topologies required for service providers to make voice, video, data and wireless service delivery a reality in very-large-scale IP networks. Speakers will explore the deployment and manageability issues of a wireless-enabled "grand slam" architecture, including dynamic, tiered content distribution mechanisms/protocols, streaming technologies and set-top box/handset requirements.

Chairperson:
Jeffrey Paine, Vice President, Strategic Marketing, UTStarcom

Speakers:
Joseph Chou, Director, Technical Marketing, DSP Streaming Media Group, Texas Instruments
Leif Aarthun Ims, Director, Network Strategy and Innovation, Telenor Nordic Fixed
Terry Poindexter, Vice President and General Manager, Asia-Pacific, SupportSoft, Inc.