Programme

Delivering a high value service as a key to reducing churn and increasing the ISP’s share of wallet in the content market

• Role of Aggregation and intermediation in facilitating triple play
• Media and content usage patterns
• Using content to increase ARPU and reduce churn

Evolution of the access network

• Trends and challenges in wireline access network
• Requirements of broadband services
• What are the pros and cons of various FTTx access network solutions?
  

The Convergence of platforms to a single infrastructure – is triple play or even quad play just an intermission

• Convergence of platforms to a single infrastructure is inevitable and it’s happening now
• Moving towards common data paths where the main qualitative differentiator is whether its streamed data or file transfer is unstoppable
• Regulation fails if it does not recognise this convergence
• Key to the future of regulation going forward must therefore ensure consumers have open access to multiple providers at an
  individual level and ensuring that regulation is not itself a barrier to entry

The future in content (ion) - can service providers win a share of the digital content market?

• The rise of the digital content market and the investment case for telecommunications service providers in digital content delivery
• Value beyond delivery – the trend towards flexibility choice and control
• The role of telecommunication service providers in the emerging "telemedia" value chain and the developing role of advertising
  

The role of home gateway in new services from an hgi (home gateway initiative) perspective

• Understanding how the Home Gateway can be used as the central point to manage home network QoS
• Using the Home Gateway to efficiently manage fixed-mobile convergence
• Should IMS be terminated at Home Gateway?
  IPTV and Home Gateway
  

Leading the digital home revolution through the use of Gateway Software Platforms

• Using Residential Gateway Software to allow operators to offer the best of all worlds 
• Creating new revenue generating services
• Proving reductions in hardware and support costs via this technology
• Simplifying customer interaction with services and providers
  

Traversing the Triangle: Triple Play interoperability, inter-networking and multi-level payments

• Understanding the necessity for robust, interoperable multi-service device management for the successful delivery of Triple Play
• Optimising Multiplay with distributed IP routing all types of equipment to maintain revenue growth
• Making the investment decision to collectively provide a future-proofed environment or service delivery

How FTTH can fuel local Economic Development (LED)

• What is meant by LED, who are the key stakeholders, what are their interests and how do you manage them?
• Generating LED – technical requirements on FTTH and the business models and fiber infrastructure to fuel it
• Case study – Öresundskraft, Sweden

Belgacom TV, an interesting story!

• Exploring the opportunities of VOD via TV VOD programs
• Exploiting the revenue earning potential of a Barker Channel on platform and web Development new products
  

Streamline buying and selling of digital content by driving industry adoption of open protocols

• Build a system for consumers to use any application to browse and purchase from globally distributed collection of content catalogues
• Create a more pleasurable buying experience for consumers by increase reach for content owners
• Metadata content tagging, rights management and payment system transaction interoperability

Panel Discussion:  Exploiting opportunities on offer with targeted content delivery

• How to tap into the revenue opportunities in peer-to-peer generated content
• Reaching your target population through truly interactive media and information layering
• Utilising Internet communities and interest-groups to optimise marketing campaigns

Integrating and leveraging wireless mobility

• The emerging wireless broadband mobility platform introduced by WiFi and WiMax technologies Implications of customer adoption of wireless broadband technologies in the home and enterprise
• The business case for wireless broadband in mobility product and service strategies

The All Play Evolution: fulfilling the promise of service convergence at Portugal’s TV Cabo

• Exploring the OSS All Play environment enabling any service, device, network - delivering integrated service convergence
• Introducing TV Cabo, the largest national Pay-TV provider in Portugal, and its implementation of Sigma Systems’ All Play for
• cable, satellite, DSL and WiFI services
• The TV Cabo Solution: Sigma Service Management Platform (SMP) and the benefits of an SOA and standards-based OSS
• Platform for an enterprise-wide deployment

Hosted VoIP Telephony, and the key business drivers of Fixed to Mobile convergence

• Driving Efficiency over laziness
• Increasing ARPU and reducing churn
• Flexibility of the workforce

The new paradigm for online storage: from data storage to intelligent multimedia applications

• Using and sharing personal content from everywhere and on any device,
• Integrating IP TV and mobile with personal digital assets: local and online data,
• Business cases for BSP and portals: addressing issues of churn/loyalty, ARPU, future development

The impact of convergence on the management of wireless networks

• Cost and security implications of wireless / fixed convergence
• Voice-data prioritisation over wireless networks and ensuring backhaul capacity and Quality of Service
• The role of WiMax as a bearer for converged services
• Case study: delivering vital public sector services over converged networks

Exploiting the benefits of evolving NGN, convergent and NGOSS/BSS for the management of capital and operational expenditure

• Developing effective planning and maintenance strategies using efficient inventory management for coping with increasingly complex services
• Manage your business processes with an integrated workflow designer and Process-driven Resource and Service Inventory
• Determining the strategies for using Resource and Service Inventory for globally reaching operators

Understanding the role of MPLS and T-MPLS in NGN deployment and fixed-mobile convergence

• Defining the Next Generation Network (NGN)
• Considering the evolution towards NGN in the mobile and fixed networks and the role of NGN in fixed-mobile convergence
• Examining the evolution of MPLS, from technology to services and assessing the value of T-MPLS
• Addressing the role of pseudo wires

Examining the opportunities for new value added services in a converged world

• Convergence as a key strategic driver and the services that make convergence become a reality
• Key lessons from the first convergent services launched
• Specific focus on image based services

Reclaiming subscribers’ Personal Digital Media to drive new revenues

• Current Personal Digital Media offerings and service provider opportunities
• Personal Digital Media application and platform considerations
• A case study in personal media portals – consumer trends and preferences

The key barriers and success factors in the TV over broadband market

• Key trends in bundling services and what services will the infrastructure be able to deliver?
• The costs of upgrading access infrastructure for TV
• How will TV over broadband impact competition?

Telecom Access network technologies driving the multi-play revolution

• From centralised edge to the distributed access-edge
• Is copper dead? DSM as a life extender and Access-IMS as a policy broker
• Will the long-tail break the network? Introducing the Content Distribution Network

Architectural considerations for the shift to all IP networks

• The role of MPLS and Transport MPLS in supporting the IP backbone
• The role of Ethernet and converged Ethernet
• MPLS or Ethernet. Which will survive evolving network architecture?