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IP Network Transformation Forum 2008

Bulding the Next Generation All-IP Network

10-11 June 2008, Cafe Royal, London

Main Agenda

Day 1 - Tuesday 10 June 2008

Conference Welcome & Speed Networking

09.00

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

  • Daniele Tricarico, Conference Researcher, Informa Telecoms & Media, UK

Chairman’s Welcome and Opening Address

09.10
  • Mark Seery, VP Switching and Routing, Ovum-RHK, USA

Opening Keynote: Providing Cost Effective and Flexible Network Platforms by Extending IP/MPLS and Ethernet into the Backbone

09.15
  • 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
  • Tim Hubbard, Head of 21CN Solutions Strategy, BT, UK

BUILDING THE ALL-IP BUSINESS CASE

Defining the Business Drivers behind IP Migration from Cost Saving to Revenue Generation

9.45
  • 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
  • Mark Seery, VP Switching and Routing, Ovum-RHK, USA

Building the Business Case for Migration to Next Generation IP Networks

10.15
  • 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
  • Tim Connelly, Managing Principal, Alcatel-Lucent Services, France

Networking and Refreshments Break

10.45

Releasing the Power of the Network and Making the Transition to all-IP

11.25
  • 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
  • Uwe Labrette, Director, Service Provider Practice, Internet Business Soultions, Cisco, Europe

SERVICE PROVIDERS’ STRATEGIES AND ROADMAPS FOR MIGRATION TO NEXT GENERATION IP NETWORKS

The Need for a Cost Efficient and More Evolution-Oriented NGN Networks: Can They Really Compete?

11.55
  • 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
  • Jonathan Wright, Director of Infrastructure and Bandwidth, Interoute, UK

Case Study: Telecom Italia’s NGN2 - Targeting "Ultra-Broadband" with NGN2 All-IP Rollout

12.25
  • 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
  • Lorenzo Magnone, Innovation, Engineering, Testing Program and Process Management, Telecom Italia, Italy

Networking Lunch

12.55

The Importance of a Smooth Evolution that Can Cope with Growing Service Demands and New Network Equipment

14.00
  • 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
  • Radovan Sernec, Head of Network Solutions and Service Development Office, Telekom Slovenije, Slovenia
Slovenia

The Future Telecom Network: Driving All-IP Transition in the Road to Network and Service Convergence

14.30
  • 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
  • Javier Achirica Lopez, IP Network Evolution Expert, Telefonica, Spain

PROVIDING QUALITY OF SERVICE AT THE IP LEVEL: MPLS AND ETHERNET DEPLOYMENT IN THE CORE

Driving the Evolution of IP/MPLS and Understanding How Ethernet Fits in the IP Backbone Context

15.00
  • 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
  • Matthew Bocci, Director of Technology and Standards, Alcatel-Lucent, UK, and Interworking WG Chair, IP/MPLS Forum, USA

Carrier Ethernet: Looking at the Big Picture

15.30
  • 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
  • Ahmed Guetari, Technical Director, Service Provider EMEA, Juniper Networks, France

Networking and Refreshments Break

16.00

Panel Discussion: How Can We Successfully Manage the Demanding QoS Requirements of a NGN for the Successful Transition to All-IP?

16.30
  • 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
  • Moderator: Mark Seery, VP Switching and Routing, Ovum-RHK, USA
  • Ahmed Guetari, Technical Director, Service Provider EMEA, Juniper Networks, France

Case Study: Migrating to a Single MPLS-Based Services Platform - Presenting Belgacom’s New Carrier Ethernet MPLS Based Network

17.15
  • 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
  • Els Haentjens, Product Manager, Data Services, Belgacom, Belgium

Panel Discussion: How Can We Respond to the Key Convergence Requirements of our IP Networks?

17.45
  • 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?
  • Moderator: Mark Seery, VP Switching and Routing, Ovum-RHK, USA
  • Pat Moore, Director of Business Development, Data Connection, UK
  • Kevin Mitchell, Representative, SIP Forum, Director, Solutions Marketing, Acme Packet, USA
  • Tim Hubbard, Head of 21CN Solutions Strategy, BT, UK
  • Michael H. Cooper, Vice President, Marketing and Strategy Convergence Business Group, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

Chair Closing Remarks and End of Day 1

18.30

Drinks Reception

18.40

Day 2 - Wednesday 11 June 2008

Registration & Coffee

08.30

Chairman’s Welcome and Opening Address

09.00
  • Rolf Schonhowd, Principal Analyst - Enterprise Mobility Europe, Current Analysis, Netherlands

Opening Keynote: Making the Move to the All-IP Converged Network

09.15
  • 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
  • Yukichi Saito, Director of Core Network Development Department, NTT DoCoMo, Japan

NGN EVOLUTION FOR THE DEPLOYMENT OF IPTV VOIP AND VPNS

Building a VoIP Business Services Portfolio - Keeping it Simple and Maximising Return

09.45
  • 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
  • John Baldwin, Head of Managed IP and VoIP Services, COLT Telecom, UK

Assessing Network Evolution for the Delivery of Next Generation Video Services: NGN based IPTV Architecture and Services

10.15
  • 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
  • Eugen Mikóczy, Senior Designer Application and Service, T-Com Slovak Telekom, Head of NGNlab, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia

Networking and Refreshments Break

10.45

Lessons Learned During the Development and Delivery of VPN Services

11.25
  • 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 Evolution from IPv4 to IPv6/IP Next Generation: Opportunities and Challenges

11.55
  • 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
  • Kevin Quinn, Research Manager, Telecommunication Software & Systems Group

THE ROLE AND IMPORTANCE OF IMS FOR NGN

Integrating IMS within the Overall IP NGN: The Centre of Intelligence for the Delivery of IP Services

12.25
  • 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
  • Paul Gowans, Triple Play Global Business Development Manager, Agilent Technologies, UK

Networking Lunch

12.55

Exploring the Imperative to Invest in NGNs and Challenging Perceptions About the Extent to Which IMS is Central to a NGN Architecture Strategies

14.00
  • 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?
  • Rolf Schonhowd, Principal Analyst - Enterprise Mobility Europe, Current Analysis, Netherlands
  • Scott Poretsky, CTO, IMS Forum, USA
  • Pierre-André Rulmont, Director Service Engineering and Operations, Belgacom International Carrier Services, Belgium
  • Tim Connelly, Managing Principal, Alcatel-Lucent Services, France

IP INTERNETWORKING AND INTEROPERABILITY

What Challenges are Service Providers Facing with IP Implementation in the International Signalling Network?

14.45
  • 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
  • Sybren Vanbentum, Director Portfolio Management Mobile Services, iBasis / KPN Global Carrier Services, Netherlands

What Opportunities Lay Ahead for IPX Internetworking in the Transition to All-IP?

15.15
  • 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
  • Pierre-André Rulmont, Director Service Engineering and Operations, Belgacom International Carrier Services, Belgium

Networking and Refreshments Break

15.45

IPX-IMS Interworking - Enabling a Sustainable Inter-Operator Service Model

16.15
  • 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?
  • Gary Miller, Director Product Innovation and Strategy, Syniverse Technologies, USA

LESSONS FROM THE PURE MOBILE WORLD

Understanding the Challenges in the Transition from Legacy to IP-based Mobile Core Networks

16.45
  • 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
  • Yakeen Prabdial, Strategic Consulting Director, Advantage Consultants, UK

Chair Closing Remarks and End of Conference

17.15