Transcript technical summary 2009

Summary of Technical Sessions
Wim van der Bijl
Chairman
Technical Programme Committee
Session 1: “ICT Transformation in Czech
Republic”
• Frank Meywerk – CTO of T-Mobile CZ summarized
actual developments and deployments in mobile
communication with special accent on increasing of
datatransmission bitrates in general and focused on
technological as well as business issues particularly
seen inside the Czechia itself.
• Zdeněk Brabec of FEL CVUT completed series of
various statistics performing telecommunications in the
CZ mirrored to all other Europe from domestic as well as
various, mainly EU or OECD sources. It was
demonstrated that the current state of the CZ
telecommunication is fully comparable with all the other
in Europe.
Session 1: “ICT Transformation in Czech
Republic”
• Petr Zeman – director for international affairs of CTU – Czech
regulatory body - complemented in opening session performed basic
information by Pavel Dvorak, the Chairman of the CTU Council. He
summarised actually solved open regulatory tasks concerning
relevant markets, digital dividend as well as spectrum aspects.
• Anton Kuchar presented a role of small and medium CATV
operators in CR in providing e-Services. The permanently increasing
demand for BB brings a good chance for the CATV operators to
successfully compete with the traditional telco operators. The paper
performs CZ Telecom theatre focusing on the challenge for small
and medium ones particularly.
Overall conclusion can be that the actual situation in ICT business in
CZ overall is comparable now with the situation in all other Europe
countries
Session 2: “InfoSociety 2.0”
• Telecommunication has reached capacity and quality not expected
years ago. Ubiquity is a strong requirement and technology cost will
continue to decrease. New economics are going to appear and
influence the telcos of the future.
• Telecom Operators require a drastic change in service orientation
and business models to cope with new entrants in the markets.
Telco 2.0 innovation combines solutions from the Telecom and the
IT sector using IP based services provided by Next Generation
Intelligent Network
• Today the user-generated content is available on Internet. All this
content is shared with the world, but at the moment all this world is
only considered for consumer usage.
• The usage of Multi-Touch Tables for Virtual Reality Interactive
Storytelling allows a better immersive experience.
Session 3: “Solutions for delivering multimedia
services”
Important issues on the requirements and solutions for NG
and BB services:
– Detailed trends and user requirements for a Digital Home
described in a study in the U.S.A.
• Simultaneous use of PC and TV for accessing services (multitasking) now
an activity in all age-groups
• Basic communications and entertainment is the main use of digital home
systems
– A detailed economic analysis made of the different cost
elements of providing FTTH solutions
• Differences between the costs for PON solutions and Pnt-Pnt (homerun)
implementations analysed
• Specific detailed cost figures given for various implementations
Session 3: “Solutions for delivering multimedia
services
Architectures & implementations
• A review of Telekom Austria's plans for NGN &
”Broadband for Everyone”
– Descriptions of FTTx trials in different Austrian towns
& cities
• Conflicting QoS requirements for different “over
the top” services on BB accesses
– A network architecture using Resource Allocation
Functions described how to solve the above problem
Session 4: “Will the ICT Transformation result in
a green InfoSociety?”
• ICT products and services (P&Ss) act as a
general backbone network for the society and
their lifestyle
– Sustainable Development and Environmental
Protection are essential parts of ICT P&Ss
– Code of conducts developed to enforce this
• A “Green Supply Chain” for ICT Products &
Services is the only solution for sustainable
developments
– Energy Efficiency will be part of a modern Lifestyle
within the Info-Society!
Session 4: “Will the ICT Transformation result in
a green InfoSociety?”
• Early consideration of experts knowledge avoid
wasting of resources due to non-optimal
decisions.
– Total Cost of Ownership TCO-calculations can
enable early investment in new technologies to
reduce energy consumption i.e. operational costs
– ICT investments pays back for the society
Session 5: New developments in mobility (1)
• V2V communication:
– aiming at improving road safety and traffic efficiency.
– is possible via modulation techniques in de visual spectrum of
high power LED lighting device in cars.
• Advanced wireless network Relay Topology has
promising advantages:
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Extension of coverage & capacity.
Offers an economic solution to deliver broadband data.
No backhauling required, resulting in lower CAPEX & OPEX.
Fast network rollout.
Session 5: New developments in mobility (2)
• Segmentation and adoption of internet on trains:
– Interesting segmentation model based on the PSAP
methodology, extended with a timing base is able to
predict potential market penetration of wireless
Internet services on trains .
– A business case for the Belgian situation shows that
• Using only 3G networks limits the viability of the business
case as mobile data costs outrange revenues gained.
• Migrating towards WiMAX when bandwidth exceeds 3G
limitations, allows a more optimized solution.
But ... what will convince the Railroad companies ?
Session 5: New developments in mobility (3)
• To keep a telecoms infrastructure such as Carrier
Ethernet sustainable a strategy can be:
– Reducing the Cost per Bit by scale, convergence and
automation
– Enhancing the Value per Bit via Managed Services
• Directly for B2B market
• Through development of managed service capabilities to the
consumer market
– Embrace Collaboration to win revenue share from Content
services and Adjacent Opportunities
Session 6: “Effective ICT Business processes”
• NGOSS allows Network Operators to save costs on one hand and at
the same could them enable them to utilize the (customer related)
data available in the network management layer as a control point to
create new services alone or in a ecozone with 3rd parties
– Utilising the key control points is necessary to compete with other actors as
Google, Apple and Nokia
• Creating a single advanced web-based interface to represent data
available in all system monitoring platforms enables simplifying the
information integration availability for system engineers and users
and also dissemination in other systems
• Networks becoming more important and providing end-to-end
services over the multiple networks is becoming more and more
important and complex.
– Building an autonomic management or self-managing network
(management system) could help to overcome this. SEMNET is
researching this issue and developing solutions
Session 7: “Information security & regulatory
legal aspects”
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How not to achieve “Broadband for all”
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The effect of regulation on Next Generation Access Networks
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Imposition of regulated prices for universal service provision requires unavoidable the
imposition of forced sales for broadband access in the high cost areas.
To avoid shortages, the government may decide to subsidize the difference between costs
and prices.
Price established outside the market is arbitrary
There is a close interaction between investment and regulation
Demand uncertainty, high civil engineering costs and lack of a clear regulatory framework
are deterring NGAN roll out plans
GSM Band’s refarming Public Policy Review
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There is not “one size fits all” solution for refarming. National particularities determines
specific regulatory solutions
Digital Dividend constitutes an opportunity for introducing flexibility in the refarming process,
broadening the number of alternatives
Session 8: “Transforming ICT: what’s in it for
the user?
• Algorithms and techniques can solve bottleneck problems and
improve the quality (almost no packet losses) in high speed BB
networks
• Business models achieve improved financial transactions among
operators in international VoIP interconnected networks
• Disabled people now are able to have access to advanced
technologies through the invention of platforms
• Extended-Home Infrastructures could bloom the social
transformation and trigger users to require new added value
services
Session 9: New ICT developments
Legislation on Grid and Cloud computing
• The legal framework is not neutral in facilitating or impeding the
expansion of Grid/Cloud businesses and innovations.
• European Patent Convention 1973: software ‘as such’ delivered
through a Grid/Cloud infrastructure is not patentable.
• In the USA software patentability is not excluded as such
– American software houses are in a more competitive position
• As from 2015 rules change: taxation at the rate of the customer’s
Member State :
• extra compliance costs for companies to apply the correct VAT
rate
• For the majority of consumers price will increase.
Findings of Poster sessions
The poster presenters used the direct contact to
the interested audience
• One poster presenter used a 3-dimentional
model to explain the “Free Cooling System”
• Extended-Home infrastructures could bloom the
social transformation towards e-Society
• A first approach of network tomographic
techniques has been described
Findings of Poster sessions
• One poster explained the opening of service
creation directly by the user for automatic
service discovery
• Engineering schools can use ICT platforms to
deliver better education/curricula to our
changing society
The experience with Poster presentations in the
coffee break area is, that the posters enriched
the congress structure
Overall conclusions
• Presentations were not dominated by the financial crisis but
much more by the need for more bandwidth for lower
price/higher value per bit
• Many presentations touched upon the business model:
– On which area should Telecom Operators focus in the value chain, what
should this the business model be?
• Green IT is starting to get attention
• Regulation of the highly technical telecom area is still a
challenge
• Not so much attention for the user and service creation:
– We leave that to the market and become enablers only
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Panel Questions
• Overall conclusion can be that the actual
situation in ICT business in CZ overall is
comparable now with the situation in all other
Europe countries
– Can we conclude that ICT Business situation is
generally comparable in Europe?
– Can we speak of one ICT market in Europe?
Panel Questions
• Telecommunication has reached capacity and
quality not expected years ago. Ubiquity is a
strong requirement and technology cost will
continue to decrease. New economics are going
to appear and influence the telcos of the future.
– Are market stakeholders able to understand the new
economics which will drive the business of the future?
Panel Questions
• Telecom Operators require a drastic change in service
orientation and business models to cope with new
entrants in the markets. Telco 2.0 innovation combines
solutions from the Telecom and the IT sector using IP
based services provided by Next Generation Intelligent
Network
– Does this combination provide a sustainable competitive
advantage in a fast developing market?
– Should Telco’s focus on services and outsource the network as it
becomes a commodity do the convergence to All-IP?
– Will Over The Top Providers be interested in cooperation
Panel Questions
• Today the user-generated content is available
on Internet. All this content is shared with the
world, but at the moment all this world is only
considered for consumer usage.
– Can we do something else with this user-generated
content, extending the usage, enriching existing
services and creating the opportunity for new ones?
– Should Telco’s focus more on content creation
themselves or should we leave to the market and act
only as enabler for services
Panel Questions
• Developments FTTH are still ongoing
– What does BB for everybody really mean? How many
Mb/s?, to 100% of homes?
– Is there any Telco experience of implementing and
comparing PON vs PntPnt FTTH solutions?
– How will the proposals on network neutrality impact
on the network architectures? Will it imply mandatory
resource allocation function?
– THE BIG Question! How can Telcos justify the
business case for FTTH and PntPnt FTTH in
particular?
Panel Questions(Green ICT)
• Are companies willing to invest for “Green
solutions” when the pay-back is calculated after
3 years?
• Do we need regulative measures, when the
competitive market fails for delivering
sustainable ICT Products&Services?
Panel Questions
• How not to achieve “Broadband for all”
– In a free market scenario, how can competition reduce the digital
divide in current underserved areas?
• The effect of regulation on Next Generation Access
Networks
– What are the effects of direct application of current regulatory
principles for legacy copper network framework to Next
Generation Access Networks?
• GSM Band’s refarming Public Policy Review
– Does an early availability of digital dividend reduce the
complexity of the refarming process?
Panel Questions
• How can we achieve triple play (VoIP, video,
data) services with quality and offer to users a
good perception on BB advanced services?
• Can Home Infrastructures bring revenues to
operators and at the same time help users to
improve their daily ICT needs?
• Do you think that the European Commission
should take initiatives (through sponsorship) to
promote work in the development of
technologies for the disabled people?
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Panel Questions
• Cloud computing
– Opportunity or threat?