IP Network Transformation Forum 2008

Your opportunity to get to know your peers before the start of the conference and set a relaxed and informal atmosphere

• Reviewing BT’s service portfolio and network requirements
• The value and challenges of deploying IP/MPLS/Ethernet for converging legacy and new services
• How BT 21 CN is answering to the changing network requirements

• Market overview of traditional PSTN services and understanding why IP convergence is a necessity
• Reviewing IP/MPLS and Ethernet core and edge market growth
• The need to reduce network cost and increase capacity
• The story so far: Reviewing CAPEX and OPEX benefits of efficient and extensible packet infrastructures

• Network operator strategies for migrating legacy services to IP: Key business drivers and benefits for migration
• Key drivers and target metrics for aggressive VS gradual transformation
• What are the network technologies available and what is their role in achieving network convergence?
• Technical and commercial barriers to deploying a NGN infrastructure

• Examing the business case and strategies for operators
• Learning from end-user case studies of IP implementations
• Considerations, challenges, and solutions to network migration
• A review of Cisco’s experiences with IP transformation

• Reviewing Interoute’s major steps to All-IP
• NGN concepts and legacy networks. - Is there life beyond asset sweating?
• Bridging the product feature gap between MPLS platform solutions and NGN platform solutions
• Defining the possible steps in the evolution towards an all-optical network

• Roadmap of Telecom Italia’s NGN2 network rollout
• The need to increase capacity and remove bandwidth availability
• Supporting next generation services: IPTV, VoIP and super fast ADSL
• Distributing the network ce ntral intelligence between the edge and core
• Using edge intelligence to provide network scalability for triple play services

• Making the core network capable of processing multiple types of traffic
• Guaranteeing large capacity and high performance of the core network
• Guaranteeing end-to-end QoS, security and scalability of the IP bearer network

• Reviewing fixed-mobile convergence scenarios in the industry convergence scenarios in the industry
• What challenges lay ahead in the evolution to VoIP?
• Deploying IPTV in the unified IP network
• Optical and IP network integration
• Exploring the new interconnection models in an all-IP context

• Accelerating the deployment of interoperable MPLS technology
• Tackling the issues faced when deploying multi-vendor MPLS networks
• Allowing service providers to migrate existing services to an MPLS infrastructure while preserving today's valuable revenue sources - ATM, Frame Relay, Voice and TDM

• Identifying the NGN Services: Future of Ethernet and IP services
• The role of transport and services groups
• Network architecture trends
• ‘The Purple Line’ and the service provider organization

• Policy control and QoS policy setting: Defining policy based routing, setting IP recedence and dynamic identification of flows
• How can we respond to congestion management and prioritise traffic effectively?
• Can we guarantee QoS of the core network by converging traffic to different QoS levels?
• The need to integrate the backbone with underlying data link layers network technologies and non-IP protocols

• Assessing network requirements to deliver high quality voice, data and video services
• The current network and technology roll-out and the steps ahead
• An introduction to Belgacom Explore: The operator’s new service platform

• Strategic vision: What are the main obstacles in achieving IP network and service convergence?
• How heavy is legacy infrastructure?
• Capacity, scalability, flexibility and manageability: What is the most difficult to deal with?
• How can we guarantee cost efficiency and scalability of our IP networks?
• Which direction should our networks evolve to and what strategy should be followed for this evolution?

• Migrating from ATM-NW to IP-NW
• Discussing the All IP-NW principle
• Analysing 3GPP SAE standards and the harmonization with fixed NGN
• Making mobility over all-IP networks a reality: NTT DoCoMo's experience

• Creating and positioning VoIP services: network requirements and customers’ perceptions
• Key requirements and VoIP innovation
• Addressing service and network inter-working issues
• Lessons learned from deployments

• Challenges of integrating NGN architecture to support IPTV and video Services
• What are the main design decisions behind IPTV deployment by a service provider?
• The evolution of an IPTV architecture: from non NGN to pre-IMS and IMS based IPTV architectures
• Confronting IPTV evolution trends and IPTV standardization

• Creating and positioning VPN services: network requirements and customers’ perceptions
• Providing QoS, redundancy and scalability
• Developing SLAs based on Ethernet OAM
• Addressing service and network inter-working issues
• Lessons learned from deployments

• The need to fill in the depleting IPv4 address space
• The need to expand addressing capacity to cater for Internet growth and sustainability
• Improved features in IPv6: Auto-configuration, QoS, built-in security, multicast and mobility
• Presenting real IPv6 deployment showcases and moving adoption forward

• Addressing network complexity in the IMS environment
• The benefits of IMS as the nervous system of the IP network
• The challenge of combining IMS with pre-IM and non-IMS environments
• Monitoring and troubleshooting functions to ensure the quality and performance and the overall QoE of IMS based services
• Guaranteeing end-to-end management as the key to success

• How will IP convergence impact the industry value chain and what role will IMS play in carrier network transformation?
• Can we define a coherent commercial vision for IMS within NGN?
• To what extent are operators progressing towards actual deployments?
• What are the other possible solutions for resource control in the next generation networks?

• Operational and business drivers for migrating to IP from a carrier’s perspective
• Defining the major challenges in the migration process
• The impact of IP network tranformation on service provisioning
• The Impact of IP network tranformation on the business
• Advantages and results

• Enabling service providers to exchange IP-based traffic securely and with a guaranteed quality of service
• Reviewing GSMA’s IP exchange recommendations
• Development of the IPX initiative: results from phase 1 trials

• When will lMS networks require service peering?
• IMS Roaming - Maintaining service continuity
• Mobile, wireline and next generation service providers - Can they all play together?
• Utilizing VoIP peering model for IMS - Where does the model breakdown?
• IMS interworking requirements - How to enable a sustainable business model
• IPX as a next generation IMS service peering model
• Can traditional VoIP networks and IMS networks interwork?

• Reviewing the transition challenges and business drivers in the mobile world
• Illustrative challenges seen in migrating to an all IP-core
• Experiences and lessons learnt from major core network transitions