Transcript Chairmen`s Conclusions

SESSION 1.1
“The Battlefield”
Chairperson
Wolfgang Messow
15:30 “ETSI-Standards - a solid Basis for fair Competition”
Walter Weigel (General Director of ETSI)
15:50 Bridging the Digital Divide: the Satellite Solution
Emmanuel Rammos (European Space Agency)
16:10 Deployed Modular Multi-Beam Active Arrays for Space Communications
Shey S. Sabripour (Sonsor - Lockheed Martin)
16:30 Internet Safety and Trust
Carles Martin - Badell (IQUA/ Spain)
16:50 Return of the profits: if – when – how
Jos Gerrese (GANESHA consult / The Netherlands)
Balance the Battlefield – or not?
• Profit is not a primary target – it will be a result
(or not)!
• Costumers’ wishes have top priority – as long as
they will be „good“ Consumers (Revenue)
• To research, specify, develop and build
infrastructure is a task for all
(governments, enterprises, companies…)
• Regulators should understand Technology
Scientists to regulate wise!
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(refer also to Session 7.1.4 Data Retention Directive/Lawyers aspects)
• Competition starts already in the Phase of
Standardization (IEEE; ETSI, ITU)
Space Segments and Internet
• Multibeam Space Segments are new
developments to save investments
(due to multiple use of investments)
• Internet Trust and Security Gadgets are
essential for the Consumers Acceptance
within our Information Society
(refer to Session 7.1.2 Privacy Protection)
SESSION 2.1
“Profitable Services”
Chairperson
George Diakonikolaou
17:30
Service Delivery Framework: A vehicle to reduce risk for carriers and suppliers
Klaus Zauner (Siemens AG/Germany)
17:50
DRM applied to Digital TV area: DVB-H, MHP and IPTV
Rosa M. Bayona (Ericsson / Spain)
18:10
An event-driven LBS for public transport: design and feasibility study of GSM-based positioning
Nico Deblauwe (Vrije Universiteit Brussel/Belgium)
18:30
IPTV Deployment: Trigger for Advanced Network Services!
Koert Vlaeminck (Ghent University/Belgium)
18:50
New Flavors in IPTV service provisioning
C. Boukouvalas (Sponsor - OTE S.A.)
Findings of 2.1
• Broadband services is a reality and a necessity
for Telecoms
(a) Everybody is going to provide them
(b) It is primarily a way to keep or secure your customer base and are
(c) Possibly profitable
• They present new challenges to Telecoms
(a) There is a strong possibility that major re-engineering of the existing
network infrastructure will be needed
(b) They also demand more specialised (and expensive) personnel so
• Caution and careful planning is needed
• Simple and popular services can be the most
profitable ones
SESSION 3.1
“How to Converge”
Chairperson
Marc Verbruggen
9:00 Fixed Mobile Convergence: Why, when, how and what then -WiMAX and Wireless Broadband
ZTE WiMAX Vision and Solutions
Angeliki Philippopoulou - Spyros Skiadopoulos (Sponsor - ZTE)
9:20 Fixed versus Mobile: Turning Convergence into Reality
Dieter Schuler (Lucent Tech. / Germany)
9:40 An analysis of technologies and strategies to facilitate convergence towards a unique data network
platform
Luis Enrique García – Fernandez (Polythecnic University of Madrid/ Spain)
10:00 What’s So Important About Convergence?
A R Valdar (University College London / UK)
10:20 Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC)
Emmanuel Dujardin (France Telecom R&D / France)
FMC means different things for different players ……
Fixed Line Operators
Mobile Operators
Cable Operators
Converged Operators
VoIP providers - @-companies
Various access methods, 1 Handset (dual mode, UMA, …)
Key Technologies (SIP, IMS, IP-DSLAM, MAN & OPT
ETHERNET, AToM, NG Multiservice Routers ...)
FMC is about Services, not Technology
Networks INTEGRATE ……
Services CONVERGE …….
SESSION 3.2
“Opportunities in Telecoms”
Chairperson
Nikos Pronios
9:00 Pave the way into the IP future for both subscribers and the network
Bernd Hildebrandt (Sponsor-Siemens)
9:20 Trends in Modern CDNs
John Vlontzos (Sponsor - Intracom Telecom)
9:40 Telecoms for the Empowerment in the Information Age
Spyros Konidaris (Sponsor-Infote)
10:00 Broadband Triple Play: Business Opportunities and Technology Challenges
Periklis Lytras (Sponsor-Otenet)
10:20 Comparative Study and Techno-Economic Analysis of Broadband Access Technologies: GEPON and
GESON
Ioannis Tomkos (Sponsor - AIT)
 New value networks are being created
 Intelligent bundling of broadband services is key to
success, supporting all solutions seamlessly across
services, devices and networks
 IP networking is becoming a common denominator
 VoIP was a first step for FMC and triple/quadruple play
 There is a need for strong differentiation to prevent
commoditization and price wars
 Consolidation takes place to increase customer base,
international footprint, or reduce expenses
 Caution should be exercised for New Service offerings in
 Business planning
 User Segmention
 Integration and testing
 Plan for the new active users and empower them!
SESSION 4.2
“Service Assurance and
Security”
Chairperson
Costas Boukouvalas
11:00 Improving service provision of modern telecommunication networks by increasing the network
immunity to unreliable power and thus increasing the income of the operator
Andreas Koulaxouzidis (Sponsor - Raycap)
11:20 Non- combatants in Telecom Wars: human rights and consumer rights
Eva Charalabopoulou (Panteion University / Greece)
11:40 New Services & Products. The Business need for Triple Play Services
Ioannis Kaptsis (Sponsor - Intracom Telecom)
12:00 On the Establishment of Dynamic Security and Trust Relations among Next Generation
Heterogeneous Networks
M. Tsagkaropoulos (University of Patras / Greece)
12:20 Personal Networks: Security Risks and Solutions
Dimitris M. Kyriazanos (National Technical University of Athens / Greece)
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Significant loss of revenue and degradation of the quality of service
due to power related failures
Adopting the recent developments in power supply regulation and
surge suppression will improve the reliability of the networks,
minimizing at the same time the loss of revenue to the operators.
Security has a significant financial impact
Telcos can self-regulate and Technology can outperform the Legal
System.
A successful “Triple-Play” strategy should address: Scalability,
Flexibility, End-user experience, Local color, Marketability, content
Heterogeneous NGN networks require QoS aware AAA mechanisms
– Ensuring security of end-to-end communications
– Establishing trust relationships between subscribers, service
providers and operators
– Deployment of oncoming AAA protocols in future All-IP based
networks
The Human Factor holds the greater risk for Personal Networks
Security should not be provided with a great loss in usability and a
substantial increase in cost.
User-centric security mechanisms based on examination of social
networking aspects inside the PNs and PN federations will minimize
the impact of the human factor.
SESSION 5.1
“The mobile way forward”
Chairperson
Hans Otto Ehmke
14:00 Our goal: No war! T-Mobile's Health & Electromagnetic Policy
Dimitra Gaitanidou (T-Mobile / Germany)
14:20 Support for Moving Users Through Thin Clients: Hype or Future?
Pieter Simoens (Ghent University / Belgium)
14:40 The Emerging NGN Platform for Mobile Services & Automotive Telematics
Gregory Yovanof (Athens Inf. Tech. Univ. / Greece)
15:00 GSM-Railway on track for success
Ionut Bibac (Nortel Networks / France)
15:20 B3G technology competition in Europe
Jarmo Harno (Nokia / Finland)
5.1.1. T-Mobile‘s Health & EMF policy
Considering fear and missing acceptance of
antenna sites for mobile base stations – a
communication strategy with politicians
and citizens has been implemented
• Transparency
• Information
• Participation
• Promotion of Sience
5.1.2. Support for Moving User
through Thin Clients: Hype or Future?
• Thin client mobility requires low latency
• Server selection based on context
information
• Context aware platform presented
• Use Case in train environment
5.1.3. The Emerging NGN Platform for
mobile Services
• Next Generation Telematics Networks (NGTN)
• Vehicular Environment e-CAR
• Car2Car Communication
5.1.4. GSM-R on Track for Success
• With GSM-R, the European railways have
definitely made the right choice.
• The basic functionality of GSM-R is already
implemented and tested.
• About 30 European railways have committed
themselves to introducing this technology on
their international network.
5.1.5. B3G technology competition in Europe
• The Revenue per User ARPU will not
increase, but keep level summarized over all
UMTS business segments
• UMTS seems to be more successive than
WiMAX
SESSION 5.2
“Creating Value (May the Force
Be With You!)”
Chairperson
Kevin Fogarty
14:00 Metropolitan Wireless Access Networks: A Techno-economic Analysis Framework
Nikos Pronios ( Intracom Telecom /Greece)
14:20 Strategies to Minimise Broadband Access Roll-out Risk in Rural Areas
Luis Enrique García - Fernandez (Polythecnic University of Madrid / Spain)
14:40 RFID as a new Business Model
Bernhard Schweiger (Austrian Post AG / Austria)
15:00 The future is IP-NGN: Effective Expansion and Evolution
Sotiris Leventis (Sponsor-Cisco Systems)
15:20 Wimax Rollout in Greece
Constantinos Bakalis (Invited-Hellenic Telecommunications & Post Commission (EETT) / Greece)
5.2.1 Metropolitan Wireless area
Networks
• Hype or reality?
• Techno-economic analysis provided
• Advantages: Ease of planning, reduced
backhaul requirements, resilience
• Disadvantages: security, scalability
5.2.2 Strategies to minimise
Broadband Access Rollout risk in
Rural areas
• How to use copper and radio to deploy
broadband in rural areas?
• Problem of the digital divide – different
service offerings to urban and rural
customers
• What happens when the goal posts move?
5.2.3 RFID as a new Business
Model
• A simple, very cheap short range
communication mechanism
• RFID now starting to take off
• Major opportunities for network operators
to exploit this as an ICT product
5.2.4 The future is IP-NGN:
effective expansion and evolution
• Cisco´s vision for NGN
• Analysis of what convergence means at
various layers:
– Application layer
– Service layer
– Network layer
5.2.5 WiMax rollout in Greece
• Regulators approach to WiMax
• Analysis of spectrum issues and the
different frequency allocations in different
European countries
• Spectrum auction in Greece – high price
paid – something special about Greek
market/network
• See Session 6.2
SESSION 6.1
“Understanding Customer Value
and Behavior”
Chairperson
Andy Valdar
16:00 Young Customer Hothousing
Tony Houghton (BT / UK)
16:20 Municipal public utilities – telecom networks and their social impact GIS and Location based services
Raluca Damian (AITR/AEGEE Iaşi / Romania)
16:40 How the Provision of Information and Content for end user Devices can Increase the Profit of SMEs and Incumbent
Operators
George Agapiou (OTE S.A. / Greece)
17:00 Children are joining the ranks of telecom researchers
Bart Van Der Meerssche (Alcatel Bell / Belgium) Veerle Van Rompaey (K.U.Leuven - Faculty of Social Sciences / Belgium)
17:20 Re-regulation of the Info-Communications Market Delivering Content Services under the new European Framework for
Audiovisual Media: Fair Play or Unfair Competition?
Peggy Valcke (ICRI – K.U.Leuven – IBBT / Belgium)
17:40 Trend in Triple Play
Roland Thienpont (Sponsor - Alcatel)
6 presentations, 4 printed papers
Main Conclusions:
1. The importance of working with potential customers/users
(especially children) to determine new service features:
Example of children designing prototype
services/features
“hothousing does work”
2. Managing the public perception of telcos’ activities – use of
geographical informative services (GIS):
radio masts
Overhead cables & poles
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Video/tv dominates!
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2nd inflection point (total video traffic now exceeds data)
Move to distributed policy management architecture
…….but beware:
EC audio-media services directive
(AMS)
{“TV without frontiers”}
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horizontal approach
Mobile Internet services can enable customers to
better serve their customers
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Information & content services
API (parlay)
SESSION 6.2
“BroadBand Wireless Access
Solutions”
Chairperson
Armin Sumsgutner
16:00 Wimax: The Path to Success
Dimitrios Skribas (Sponsor - Marac S.A.)
16:20 A Heuristic Strategy for IEEE 802.16 WiMAX scheduler for Quality of Service
G. S. Paschos (University of Patras / Greece)
16:40 Evaluating WiMAX Performance in Dense Urban, Urban, Suburban and Rural Environments Konstantinos Filis
(Sponsor - COSMOTE)
17:00 Broadband services in Rail Tracks. The business case for fast roaming WLAN
Ir.H.B.J. ter Harmsel (KPN Telecom and Tech. Univ. of Delft / The Netherlands)
17:20 Optimizing Backhauling Technology & Services: The WIBAS approach
Christos Xynogalas (Sponsor - Intracom Telecom)
17:40 Assessing the WiMAX Global market
Edwin Ronacher (Kapsch CarrierCom AG / Austria)
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A phased approach for a successful WIMAX
deployment is neccessary (fixed to mobile)
802.16 offers advanced QoS mechanisms for BWA
and efficient QoS strategies can be applied and allow
SLAs
The deployment of WIMAX solutions is mainly
dependent on licensing, availability of products, costs
(network, license, substitution), bandwidth, the
topology and environmental factors
A combination of WLAN and UMTS a cost effective
and efficient technology mix and provide wireless
broadband services in public transports
• Next Generation Packet Networks demand more efficient
and future proof backhauling solutions which can be
provided by P2MPt 802.16 backhauling solution
• The „Return of the Profit“ is independent of the access
technology but strongly correlated with the availability of
appropriate services
• As many technologies provide services competing for
the same share of wallet a proper technology strategy
planning has to be done
SESSION 8.1
“New Technologies and
Services”
Chairperson
Dimitris Charalampopoulos
11:00 Unified Service Development - Usability of Infrastructure
Dimitrios Kabilafkas (OTE S.A. / Greece)
11:20 SmartEyes: An efficient mobile phone/navigator for blind or visually impaired people
Hadjileontiadis Leontios (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/Greece)
11:40 Will Telecos of Today become the Digital Supermarkets of Tomorrow?
Anne Elvidge(BT OneIT / UK)
12:00 Content Distribution & Delivery: A novel solution overview / New Services & Products: The Business
need for Triple-Play services
Ioannis Kaptsis (Sponsor-Intracom Telecom)
12:20 An IMS Gateway for Service Convergence in Connected Homes
Torbjörn Cagenius (Sponsor - Ericsson)
The Art of Telecom War
• Convergence of Services on integrated
Platforms
• Re-use of Technologies
• Multiple Applications on single Network
• Innovative Services over existing
Technologies
SESSION 8.2
“Network Design Is Never
Finished”
Chairperson
George Agapiou
11:00 SIP: The killer application in the future converged networks
Michael K. Sidiropoulos (Univ. of Patras / Greece)
11:20 Multiple Wireless Protocol Advertising System, Enabling Automatic Access Selection and Local
services
Ir. Nico Baken (Delft University of Technology / The Netherlands)
11:40 Wireless Security Issues in m-government
M. Ntaliani (Agricultural University of Athens / Greece)
12:00 Design of a Resilient Network to backhaul Triple Play Services
Paul Flanagan (Eircom Ltd / Ireland)
12:20 The new broadband world: back to circuits again?!
Ir. Nico Baken (Delft University of Technology / The Netherlands)
Dynamic switching between access techs
revenues
traffic &
Regulation is needed for untrusted wireless access points
Security between different layers for m-government
applications
NGN will require all traffic to be backhauled by optical
networks contrary to wireless networks
Personal GWs and λ converters provide higher BW and
increase QoS
All optical solution is the key to the future for broadband
access anywhere, anytime for offering high QoS services
SESSION 9.1
“Broadband for All”
Chairperson
Wim Van Der Bijl
14:00 Transport Consolidation and Resource Control in Triple Play networks
F.W. Willems (Lucent Technologies / The Netherlands)
14:20 Estimation of the achievable DSL service
Carine Neus (Vrije Universiteit Brussel / Belgium)
14:40 Integration of Innovative Access Technologies for Wider Broadband Coverage
Tilemachos Doukoglou (OTE S.A. / Greece)
15:00 Adaptation of Digital Home communications infrastructure to carry IPTV and High Definition content
(HDTV) in the triple-play
eraJosu Bilbao Ugalde (IKERLAN Technological Research Centre / Spain)
15:20 Czech way to broadband
Anton Kuchar (Czech Academy of Sciences / Czech Republic)
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Broadband for all requires still Research and Development in the
access network.
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Capability of the existing Copper
Impact of introducing new access systems
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The development to Triple Play services increases the bandwidth
demand and put higher requirements in controlling the network. This
requires additional costs, will there be a Return Of Investment?
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Network operators need careful consideration how to reduce the costs
of the infrastructure while improving the quality of Experience of the
Customer
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Broadband for all also impact the user: new challenges within the
home environment to connect all devices
Stimulation of competition by appropriate legislation still required in
some countries.
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