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LTE Workshop
Sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent at the LTE/NGMN Summit, Nov 17 in London
Matching business vision and technical innovation for LTE success
Date and Time
Nov 17, 14:00-18:30
This small, exclusive workshop will discuss new innovative approaches to network and ecosystem development to make LTE take-off a success. The value of attending this pre-conference workshop is networking and discussion with CxOs from mobile and converged service providers, telecom vendors, device manufacturers, content developers and the media industry. Alcatel-Lucent brings global experience across all subjects to set the foundation for an open and informed dialogue. Topics include end-to-end network evolution to LTE (CDMA and WCDMA), the convergence of wireline and wireless technology in building LTE networks, innovative future applications and service delivery techniques, benefits of device partnerships, and experience gained from first operator trials.
13:30-14:00
Registration and coffee + dessert
Innovation to define the winning LTE strategy
14:00-15:00
- Speaker: Derek Kuhn, VP Business Development LTE/ 4G, Applications Division, Alcatel-Lucent
- SDario Talmesio, Senior Analyst, Informa Mobile
- New revenue streams from non-voice services: Mobile 2.0, mobile entertainment, advertising and payment
- Case studies of new business models: VoIP, MVNOs, wholesale models, network outsourcing
- Defining the next-generation ecosystem: partnerships required?
- Linking network transformation requirements with new business models
Educational seminar - Understanding the key value of LTE innovations
15:00-16:00
- Speaker: Anthony Berkeley, Director, LTE Business Strategy, Alcatel-Lucent
- Paul Smith, Director LTE Product Line Management, Alcatel-Lucent
- What are the key features of LTE and how will they change networks?
- How do LTE deployments need to be different from 2G/3G?
- The grand reduction: how LTE benefits network total cost of ownership
- Enabling Quality of Experience for an IP wireless network
Educational seminar – Understanding the Evolved Packet Core
16:30-17:30
- Speaker: Gary Leonard, Director Mobile Solutions Marketing, IP Division, Alcatel-Lucent
- Alex Pavlovic, Senior Manager, Mobile Solutions Marketing, IP Division, Alcatel-Lucent
- LTE and all-IP: A multi-technology approach to new business
- Definition and functional description of the Evolved Packet System (EPC)
- Understanding the main building blocks of the EPC (gateways, MME, PCRF)
- New mobile core requirements: service awareness, QoS, dynamic management of mobility, policies, data and control plane
- Leveraging the experience and best practices from fixed multi-service IP delivery for delivering innovative evolved mobile broadband
- EPC as the enabler of mobile triple/quad play and fixed-mobile convergence
2008 LTE update: Learning from today’s trial deployments
17:30-18:30
- Speaker: Denis Rouffet, Director LTE Technology Strategy, Alcatel-Lucent
- External speaker (tbd)
- What have been the key challenges in implementing trials?
- Assessing trial success –what are the key KPI’s
- Are trial results validating 3GPP performance?
- Coexistence with CDMA and GSM/UMTS networks/devices
- Assessing capacity and performance trade offs
For Sponsorship and Exhibition opportunities please contact:
Caroline McColl
Tel:
+44 (0)20 7017 5719
E-mail: caroline.
mccoll@informa.com
