Agenda Day 1
TUESDAY 18TH MAY 2010
- 08:15
Registration & Coffee
- 08:50
- Sabah Hussain, Senior Conference Researcher, Informa Telecoms & Media, UK
Conference Welcome & Speed Networking Session
- 08:55
- Thomas Wehmeier,Principle Analyst, Informa Telecoms & Media, UK
Chairman’s Opening Remarks
- 09:00
- Tommy Ljunggren, SVP and Head of System Development at Mobility Services, TeliaSonera, Sweden
TeliaSonera Opening Keynote
- 09:20
- Malcolm Lorang, CTO and Founder, MetroPCS, USA
- MetroPCS is a tier two operator in the USA that caused a lot of excitement in the industry when they announced that they would be deploying LTE. Working with Ericsson, MetroPCS will be looking to launch the network in 2010 and have already confirmed that Samsung will provide thier first LTE device!
Can LTE Provide Low Cost Data to the Mass Market?
- 09:40
- Senior Executive, Telenor/Tele2, Sweden
- Launching the world's first LTE-900 network, the world's first GSM/LTE shared network and a very early LTE 2600 network
- Enabling mobile internet connectivity for 99% of the Swedish population
- Offering customers mobile services for high speed data communication and voice
- Examining the cost savings that the partnership is expected to being to both operators
Rolling Out LTE Through the Net4Mobility Joint Venture in Sweden
- 10:00
- Seizo Onoe, SVP & Managing Director, R&D Strategy Department, NTT DoCoMo, Japan
- Launching NTT DoCoMo data services through data cards and dongles
- Examining the 8 band power amplifier for mobile devices
- What is the future of current 2G and 3G networks?
- Further evolution to 4G/LTE Advanced
Launching LTE and Generating Revenues Through Data Only Services
- 10:20
- Tim Watkins,, Vice President West EU Region, Huawei
LTE Commercial Readiness Across Different Spectrum Bandss
- 10:40
- Tommy Ljunggren, SVP and Head of System Development at Mobility Services, TeliaSonera, Sweden
- Ben Parker, Director of Wireless Transport Group, Verizon Wireless, USA
- Seizo Onoe,, SVP & Managing Director, R&D Strategy Department, NTT DoCoMo, Japan
- Malcolm Lorang, CTO and Founder, MetroPCS, USA
- Delegates have the opportunity to ask operators from the highest level questions about how they see the future of mobile broadband and the opportunities with LTE to generate new revenue streams and business models. Email your questions in advance to sabah.hussain@informa.com or ask on the day!
Keynote CxO Panel
- 11:10
Morning Refreshments & Exhibition Visit
- TOPIC
SAE and the All-IP Business Case
- 12:10
- Denis Gros-Jean,, Head of Mobile Packet Switched Systems, France Telecom, France
- What is the EPC? What are the benefits to operators?
- Improving network performance by the separation of control and data planes
- Flattened IP architecture and reducing the hierarchy between mobile data elements
The Evolved Packet Core – A New Internet Model For The Telecoms World?
- 12:30
- Tim Hubbard,, Head of Wholesale Data Solutions, BT, UK
- Simplifying interoperability, management and offering the user transparency and convenience
- Seamless connectivity across wireline and wireless access boundaries
- The importance of user convenience and ubiquitous availability of any service
- Lowering the OPEX and cost per bit by transitioning to a pure PS network
The Importance of Having a New Core Network to Build a Sustainable Business Model in the 4G Era
- 12:50
- Balazs Bertenyi, Chairman of 3GPP SA2 – Architecture, 3GPP
- Overview of the standardisation work on SAE
- Examining the role of SAE and IMS in providing data services as well as voice and realtime multimedia services with IMS
- How is the EPC different to current core networks?
- QoS performance targets for the EPC
Examining the Standards and Developments in SAE
- 13:10
Networking Lunch and Exhibition Visit
- 14:30
- Dana Gauthier, Member of Steering Group, LSTI
- Overview of who the LSTI is and the trial work that is taking place across the industry by various partners
- What trials have been conducted on SAE performance?
- Roadmap for future testing on SAE and the EPC
An Update from LTE/SAE Trial Initiative
- TOPIC
SAE QoS and Traffic Management
- 14:50
- Matt McCann, Principal Engineer, CTO Office, Tekelec
- Evolving from SS7 (2G/3G) to Diameter/SIP (LTE/IMS)
- Creating a robust and scalable EPC and IMS signalling core using Diameter
- Securing the network and adding value via Diameter signalling
- Guaranteeing QOS and deriving business intelligence from Diameter signalling
From SS7 to the Evolved Signalling Core
- 15:15
- Dana Gauthier, , Member of Steering Group, LSTI
- Balazs Bertenyi, Chairman of 3GPP SA2 – Architecture, 3GPP
- Tim Hubbard, Head of Wholesale Data Solutions,BT, UK
- Examining the end to end ability to set up QoS and charge accordingly
- Should an upper limit be placed on QoS?
- Is deep packet inspection and other advanced packet processing required at the beginning of a deployment to ensure QoS?
Panel Discussion: Managing and Enabling Differentiation of Real Time, Non-Real Time Services and Mission Critical Traffic and Services
- 15:45
- Mike Morash, Director, Product Line Management, Bridgewater Systems, USA
- How big a change is PCRF from previous mobile systems, where service control was realized primarily through UE authentication by the network?
- Examining how PCRF dynamically controls and manages all data sessions and provides appropriate interfaces towards charging and billing systems
- Utilising PCRF to enable new functionality to deliver unrivalled network intelligence
- Measuring the value of enforcing policy decisions at the most efficient part of the network
Providing Policy Control and a Reduction in OPEX and CAPEX for the Operator Via the PCRF Approach
- 16:10
Afternoon Refreshments & Exhibition Visit
- 16:45
- Roberto Minerva, Manager - Focal Point Long Term Research,Telecom Italia, Italy
- The need to prepare in advance a broad ecosystem of actors and services/functions
- Making SAE and LTE an opportunity at the service level
Network Paradoxes and the Impact on the Deployment of SAE
- 17:10
- Roberto Minerva, Manager - Focal Point Long Term Research,Telecom Italia, Italy
- Mike Morash, Director, Product Line Management, Bridgewater Systems, USA
- Tim Hubbard, Head of Wholesale Data Solutions, BT, UK
- Examining flat rate and charging based on QoS models that are required to be supported in SAE
- How important is charging for QoS going to be as a business model, will customers be willing to pay for a better quality service?
- What role will IMS play in charging when it is rolled out?
Panel Discussion: Implementing Different Charging Mechanisms in the Core
- TOPIC
SAE Security
- 17:30
- Robert Bienias, Senior Telecommunication Security Specialist, Polkomtel, Poland
- Information authenticity between the mobile terminal and the network
- Examining the levels of user privacy: communication confidentiality, location privacy and identity protection
- How does the SAE -based system hide the identity of the users, protect the content, origin, destination and location from unauthorized third parties?
- Delivering network and basestation security, how can operators best secure the network?
- Advantages and disadvantages of encrypted content in the network
- Comparison between authentication methods used in current mobile networks and SAE
SAE Advanced Security Mechanisms to Protect Against Threats and Attacks, Including Those Present on the Internet
- 17:50
