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NGMN - Next Generation Mobile Networks '07

Defining the Future of Mobile Broadband Services

20-21 November 2007, Marriott Hotel, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Main Agenda

DAY ONE - 20 November 2007

Ensure that your wireless network is profitable by discovering what the market drivers are and how to meet the customers' needs

Registration

08.00

Coffee and Speed Networking

08.50
Speed Networking: A chance to get to know your peers before the start of the conference and set a relaxed and informal atmosphere

Chairman's Introduction

09.00
  • Dr Howard Benn, Chair 3GPP RAN4 & Director Cellular Standards, Motorola Mobile Devices, UK

Keynote - Introducing Next Generation Mobile Networks

How the NGMN Alliance drives next generation mobile networks

09.10
  • Mission and role of the NGMN Alliance
  • Members, sponsors and advisors
  • Key streams of activity
  • NGMN requirements, standards alignment, trials
  • Roadmap and challenges ahead
  • Dr. Peter Meissner, Operating Officer, NGMN Ltd, UK

Development of NGMNs and How WiMAX will Fit into These Networks?

09.35
Operator
  • What will be the WiMAX strategy within 4G?
  • How will WiMAX fit with current technologies?
  • What will the new applications be?
  • What will be the benefits?
  • Tom Crook, VP Innovation Evaluation, Sprint, USA

Defining NGMN - Technology Evolution Beyond 3G to the Next Generation of Mobile Broadband

10.00
Operator
  • What are the opportunities and requirements to drive forward the development of NGMNs?
  • NGMN - a selection between LTE, WiMAX and UMB?
  • What are the performance targets, recommendations and deployment scenarios?
  • How to deliver a predictable and transparent IPR regime
  • Achieving simplicity and reliability - minimising the complexity of architecture and protocols
  • Moving towards seamless mobility, low-latency, high throughput, support for QoS and support for security
  • Reinhard Kreft, Global Head of Industry Initiatives & Standardisation, Vodafone, Germany

Coffee and Refreshments

10.25

Ecosystem Development for NGMN

10.55
Operator
  • Current status of mobile industry value chain • Transformation of the mobile industry value chain • Customer benefits of a transformed mobile industry
  • Potential business models for NGMN
  • Key success enablers for NGMN
  • Members of NGMN ecosystem & their motivations
  • Creating win-win propositions
  • Dr. Hossein Moiin, Group VP Technical Strategy, T-Mobile International, UK

The Roadmap to a True Mobile Broadband Experience

11.20
  • Operator business models and the path towards fixed mobile convergence
  • Forecasts for HSPA, LTE, WiMAX and UMB worldwide
  • Comparing the performance costs and suitability of the various technologies
  • Mike Roberts, Principal Analyst, Informa Telecoms & Media, UK

What is NGMN and What does it mean for the Different Value Chain Players?

11.45
Panel discussion
  • What are the operator requirements for next generation technology (eg LTE, UMB, Mobile WiMax)?
  • How to ensure that the industry as a whole is mindful of cost and doesn't simply highlight the technical merits
  • Enabling seamless integration for the profitable introduction of mobile broadband services
  • Moderator: Dr. Peter Meissner, Operating Officer, NGMN Ltd, UK
  • Jean-Pierre Bienaimé, Chairman, UMTS Forum & Strategy & Regulation, Orange, France
  • Mike Roberts, Principal Analyst, Informa Telecoms & Media, UK
  • Tim Hewitt, Regulatory Working Group Chairman, WiMAX Forum, UK
  • Tom Crook, VP Innovation Evaluation, Sprint, USA
  • Dr. Hossein Moiin, Group VP Technical Strategy, T-Mobile International, UK

What are the Market Drivers and the Business Case for Next Generation Mobile Networks?

A Conceptual Frame Work for Financing Next Generation Mobile Networks

12.10
Bank
  • Potential project financing for NGMN
  • Building on the extraordinary success of GSM mobile
  • What lessons can be learnt from 3G?
  • What could be different for Next Generation Mobile Networks?
  • What are the conclusions from the conceptual frame work?
  • Habir Singh Nat, Executive Director, ABN AMRO, UK

The Business Case for NGMNs - Will They be Profitable?

12.35
  • Placing bets: reviewing the evolution of mobile networks and how they will shape the technology and business plans of wireless industry players?
  • How may drivers for NGMNs differ for pure mobile operators versus those with a fixed line or broadband business?
  • What deployment strategies may operators take, and what are the migration issues and implicit obstacles, and how do they affect the business case?
  • What about the customer perspective and expectations of NGMN, and how may these impact the business case?
  • Milan Sallaba, Director and Office Head, Oliver Wyman, Dubai

Lunch

13.00

LTE/SAE Trial Initiative: First Aggregated Results of the First Measurement Phase

14.00
  • Presentation and overview of the Long Term Evolution / System Architecture Evolution (LTE / SAE) Trial Initiative ( LSTI )
  • Implementing the project’s first phase - First results: analysis and discussion
  • Defining the next steps
  • Denis Rouffet, Representative, LSTI France

Stimulate Demand and Increase Service Revenues by Meeting the User's Needs from NGMN

What will be the Customer's Perspective of NGMN and how will this Differ from the Networks we Have Today?

14.20
  • Current issues facing mobile customers - focus on 'service to individual customer' rather than 'cost to customer'
  • The 'mobile & internet generation' and 'stickiness' of mobile data
  • 'Naked handsets' vs 'pre-packaged' handset and 'handset subsidy' model vs 'content and service provider' model
  • Mobile internet: 'dumb pipe' vs 'walled garden' approach
  • Mobile social networks & mobile P2P
  • Aditya Kaul, Senior Analyst, Emerging Wireless Technologies Practice, Pioneer Consulting, UK

How to Stimulate Demand for Next Generation Mobile Networks - Marketing NGMN Services to the Customer

14.45
Operator
  • Ensuring that customers receive exactly what they want
  • Delivering information in a multi-modal fashion and expecting ubiquity of service coverage, security and immediate satisfaction
  • Achieving competitively and affordable priced services (comparable to DSL connections)
  • Making it easy for the IT channel to sell their connection services
  • John Riordan, Senior Consulting Manager Real Time Services, Swisscom, Switzerland

Understand the Standards, Licensing and Spectrum Requirements for NGMN

NGMN - What are the Standardisation Timelines?

15.10
  • Comparisons/differences with 3G standards
  • Future outlook on the standardisation process
  • Claude Arzelier, Mobile Competence Centre/International Partnership Projects, ETSI, France

Afternoon Tea

15.35

Assessing the Spectrum and Capacity Needs for NGMN - Spectrum Issues for IMT-Advanced

15.55
Operator
  • ITU study period 2007-2011: Spectrum Issues between WRC-07 and WRC-11 / Spectrum for IMT-Advanced
  • Detailed overview of the WRC-07 results as well as the implications on future spectrum for IMT-2000 and IMT-Advanced.
  • View on the recent work of ITU-R WP8F / SG8, in particular the approval / implications of WiMax (IEEE 802.16e) as the 6th radio interface for IMT-2000.
  • Uwe Löwenstein, Manager Spectrum Technology, O2 Group Technology, Telefonica O2 Europe, Germany

How to Achieve Compatible Standardisation for a Seamless Network and Customer Experience

16.20
Panel Discussion
  • How will NGMN compliment and support the work within standardisation bodies to provide a coherent view of what the operator community is going to require beyond 2010?
  • What will be the frequency issues and spectrum needs - availability, cost and the impact of technology neutral allocations?
  • How to balance costs verses performance - is the answer investing in spectrum to achieve capacity and performance or reusing spectrum?
  • Andreas Geiss, Policy Developer, Information Society Directorate General, Radio Spectrum Policy, European Commission, Belgium
  • Uwe Löwenstein, Manager Spectrum Technology, O2 Group Technology, Telefonica O2 Europe, Germany
  • Claude Arzelier, Mobile Competence Centre/International Partnership Projects, ETSI, France
  • Dr. Alfred Baier, Senior Technical Programme Manager, NGMN Ltd., UK

Developing Seamless Mobility User Devices for NGMN

Seamless Mobility - Developing Handsets for NGMN

16.45
  • LTE and WiMAX device creation and deployment
  • Developing handsets for NGMN
  • Seamless Mobility and Multi-mode operation
  • NGMN terminal working group objectives
  • Charles Sturman, LTE Chipset and IP Product Manager, Motorola UK

Developing NGMN Handsets and Platforms for Service Creation and Delivery

17.10
  • Initial deployment targets for terminals: technical, operational and certification
  • Early availability of user equipment
  • Support for multiple access technologies
  • How will device manufacturers achieve optimised terminals with the appropriate specs to deliver these new services and data rates, whilst still offering sensible power consumption, pricing and form-factor / sizing
  • Charles Sturman, LTE Chipset and IP Product Manager, Motorola, UK
  • Jin-Sung Choi, Senior Vice President, Head Mobile Communication Technology Lab., LG lectronics, Korea
  • Louis Jouanny, Head of Mobility Marketing Programmes - EMEA, Fujitsu Siemens Computers France

End of Day 1

17.35:

DAY TWO - 21 November 2007

Improving the Customer Experience and Lower Costs with Efficient Technology Inter-working,Transparent IPR and Seamless Mobility Devices for NGMN

Chairman's Introduction: The Challenges for NGMN Operators

08.45
  • Robert Westwick, Principal Consultant and David Ramsbottom, Principal Consultant, Wireless Technology Practice, PA Consulting, UK

Innovative NGMN Service Deployment Scenarios from Around the Globe

Deploying NGMN in America

09.00
Operator
  • Background on the wireless status of the South American region
  • What will LTE and NGMN mean for the region and how will this differ from the US and Europe?
  • Scope on the South American frequencies for 3G, LTE and Wimax
  • Commercial service deployment strategies for NGMN
  • Christopher Collins, Manager of Studies and Technological Analysis, Entel PCS, Chile

3G Evolution Towards 4G and How this Evolution fits into NGMN

09.25
Operator
  • The status and growth of DoCoMo's UMTS services “FOMA” and the ongoing HSDPA enhancements
  • What is DoCoMo's 3G long term evolution?
  • “Super 3G” concept
  • Standardisation activity
  • Current research towards 4G radio access
  • Over 100 Mbps data transmission
  • 1Gbps (and more bps) data transmission)
  • “Super 3G” and next generation mobile networks
  • Dr Toru Otsu, President and CEO, DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe

Network Convergence Towards NGMN

09.50
Operator
  • KDDI cellular ("au") services
  • CDMA2000 technology and its evolution
  • Other access technologies including fixed network
  • Core network evolution
  • KDDI's network convergence concept “Ultra 3G”
  • Masaaki Koga, Head of Standards Strategy Section, Emerging Technologies and Spectrum Division, KDDI Corporation, Japan

Evolution of the Core Network for NGMN to Decrease Costs, Increase Capacity and Lower Latency

Migration of the Packet Core Network to the SAE (System Architecture Evolution) Standard and Towards NGMN

10.15
  • Evaluating the key benefits of SAE • Simplified network architecture
  • Increased capacity and lower latency
  • Cost efficient support of Mobile Broadband • IMS for IP based services
  • Identifying the migration steps towards SAE of an existing packet core network
  • Alignment of the evolution of radio network (LTE), Packet Core network (SAE) and terminal equipment
  • Anders Lundström, Director Product Management Packet Core Evolution Ericsson

Coffee and Refreshments

10.40

Achieving Cost/Performance Advantages with the Evolution of the Radio Network for NGMN

Making NGMN a Success with Higher Spectrum Efficiency and Lower Network Operational Costs

11:05
  • How can new radio technology achieve the cost/performance advantage?
  • What new evolved flat network architecture can offer to future network?
  • Generic reprogrammable base station architecture
  • Seamless network evolution to the future
  • Donglin Shen, VP Wireless Technology, ZTE USA

Mobile Broadband Air Interface Principles

11.30
  • Technology design principles for broadband mobile systems
  • Elements required in the future
  • Assessment of current standardisation activities
  • Serge Willenegger, Senior Director, Technology, QUALCOMM, Switzerland

Overcoming the Technical Challenges for NGMNs

Self Organising Networks - A Must Have for the Future?

11.55
Operator
  • Why do we need it?
  • Mandatory for NGMN: cut operating costs
  • Challenge: operability of increasingly complex and large networks
  • Required now: Change of mindset
  • Benefit from Moore's law also in operability
  • Dr Klaus-Jürgen Krath, Executive Vice President Radio Networks Engineering & Quality, T-Mobile, Germany

How to Achieve Low Levels of Latency, Low Operation and Maintenance Costs Achieving Optimised Solutions

12.20
  • Backhaul and meshed networks
  • Multi-vendor RAN capability Self Organizing networks and Self optimization
  • Network performance assessment
  • Mark Grayson, Distinguished Consulting Engineer, Service Provider System Development, Cisco Systems, UK

NGMN Policy-Based QoS Provisioning

12.45
  • NGMN QoS management issues
  • The role of standards
  • Policy-based models
  • Applying PBNM concepts within FOKUS Institute
  • Towards NGMN FOKUS Testbed
  • Fabricio Carvalho de Gouveia, NGN Senior Architect, Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany

Lunch

13.10

Solving the Integration and Convergence Challenges (LTE, UMB, WiMAX,Wi-Fi, Femtocells) to Achieve Fully Interoperable Networks

Opportunities and Challenges for Broadband Wireless Access Technologies: HSPA+,Wimax, LTE

14.10
Operator
  • Is there a need for Mobile Broadband Access technologies?
  • HSPA+, Mobile Wimax and LTE : a misleading comparison
  • How to integrate a MBWA technologies
  • The evolution path towards a Next Generation Mobile Network
  • Massimo Barbiero, Project Manager, Wireless Technologies, Telecom Italia, Italy

Comparing the Alternative Technologies for NGMN (focus on LTE and WiMAX)

14.35
  • Coverage, capacity and latency
  • Economies of scale
  • Interworking & interoperability
  • Reuse of infrastructure
  • Magnus Frodigh, Director Wireless Access Networks, Ericsson Research

What will be the Role of Wi-Fi in NGMN?

15.00
  • Examining the good, the bad and the ugly of WiFi
  • Small unconnected cells - the key to broadband capacity
  • The importance of lowest cost
  • Spectrum aspects
  • End-user financed CapEx and OpEX
  • Capacity requirements for fixed/nomadic vs. mobile
  • QoE - roaming, billing and interference
  • WiFi cellular integration for laptops and mobiles
  • What could NGMNs really look like?
  • What technologies and policies will enable NGMN?
  • Moray Rumney, Lead Technologist, Agilent, UK

What will be the Role of the Femtocell in NGMN?

15.25
  • Service evolution and the domestic environment
  • Femtocell technology status and evolution
  • Femtocell business models • LTE femtocells and rapid evolution
  • The need for standards
  • Prof. Simon Saunders, Chairman, Femtoforum, UK

Afternoon Tea

15.50

Comparing the Technology Choices - LTE,WiMAX, UMB, Femtocells?

16.15
Panel Discussion
  • Comparing the cost and performance of the various technologies
  • What are the benefits of the various technologies - LTE, WiMAX, UMB, Femtocells and DVB-H?
  • What are the challenges of getting the different networks to work together?
  • Panel Moderator: Jean-Paul Rissen, Director of Wireless Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent
  • Dr Pouya Taaghol, Representative, IEEE 802.21 and Wireless Mobility Group Director, Intel
  • Prof. Simon Saunders, Chairman, Femtoforum, UK
  • Werner Wiedermann, Senior Experts, Strategic Projects, Mobilkom Austria
  • Massimo Barbiero, Project Manager, Wireless Technologies, Telecom Italia, Italy
  • Dr. Mohammad Shahbaz, Chairman NGMN Technical Working Group, KPN/E-Plus, Germany
  • Dr Tim Wilkinson, Representative, UMTS TDD Alliance and VP Technical Marketing, IPWireless, USA

The Benefits of Achieving Predictability and Transparency of IPR Costs for NGMN

How to Reach Predictability and Transparency of IPR Costs

16.40
Panel Discussion
  • Recognising the value in IPR - rewards for innovation
  • NGMN's framework for IPR and how they differ from FRAND - propose a mandatory ex-antedisclosure regime
  • How to achieve the balance in IPR needed to afford beyond 3G for all?
  • Panel Moderator: Graham Bell, Principal Consultant, PA Consulting, UK
  • Derek Aberle, Senior Vice President & General Manager, CDMA Licensing, QUALCOMM Inc., USA
  • Frederic Vincent, VP Business Development, 3G Licensing Ltd, UK
  • Praduman Jain, Director, Technology Strategy of Sprint Nextel Corporation, USA
  • Paul Davey, Head of NGMN IPR Working Group, Vodafone Group, UK

End of Conference

17.10