Keynote Address IP services are changing the service provider business model>>
-The new competitive landscape
-IP trends and what they mean for the business
-BT’s view of the market and the challenges
-Case study as an example: BT IP Managed Voice Service Manuel Arias Perez, BT Global Telecoms Markets
>>10h10
| 10h40
Keynote Address Migration towards mobile VoIP - An operators view>>
- voice in classical mobile networks, key success factors - development of future mobile networks and its impact on voice - requirements for evolution of voice services and the ecosystem to make mobile VoIP a success Franz Seiser, T-Mobile International AG
>>10h40
| 11h00
Coffee Break>>
>>11h00
| 11h30
Open Communications - Visionary concepts for pragmatical benefits>>
The growing convergence between the different poles of communication opens new Unified Communications perspectives: Solutions that place all media like voice, video, messaging, conferencing and collaboration a click away promise important gains in productivity. In a universe with Technologies in quick evolution it is essential to follow concepts with long-term vision to ensure that a solution that is innovative today won’t be outdated tomorrow. The greatest benefit will thus be made real with robust open architectures that are oriented to Open Service Delivery. Luis Martins, Siemens Enterprise Communications
>>11h30
| 12h00
Nokia Mobile Unified communications>>
Simplifying Business Communications and reduce telecommunications expenses Artur Mendes, Nokia
>>12h00
| 12h30
Unified Communications – A new generation of IP communication>>
VoIP over Mobile WiMAX: How to transform a promising technology in a real business>>
Even if the future of broadband services is foreseen to evolve towards the concept of “personal data”, voice is and will remain a key driver in operators’ business. Therefore, in a scenario of fixed-mobile convergence and service integration, VoIP is considered as the real killer application of communications. However, there are a lot of uncertainties about the real impact of the introduction of VoIP over Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) Networks. How to choose the technology to be used in the deployment of the network infrastructure correctly? What problems does the operator have to tackle in the process of network planning, design, implementation and management? How to evaluate investments and, above all, operative costs rightly? This speech will set out valuable answers to these crucial questions. Firstly, it will outline the metrics to be taken into account in the choice of a technological solution related to such application scenarios and will explain why, to date, Mobile WiMAX is one of the optimal solutions. This is the latest version of the WiMAX standard, sometimes referred to as 802.16e or 802.16e-2005 or just WiMAX “e”, and it is the one that the vast majority of vendors and operators around the world are currently focused on implementing. Secondly it will analyze the various problems, which come out in the deployment of BWA infrastructures that support real time services, such as VoIP. Thirdly, it will point out guidelines for a correct approach in order to design the network properly, to minimize the time-to-market and to reduce CAPEX and OPEX. The presentation will be supported by some case histories from telecommunication operators who have chosen WiTech as technological partner for their WiMAX initiatives. Claudio Adriani, Witech
>>13h00
| 14h30
Lunch>>
>>14h30
| 16h00
Breakout Sessions Carrier / Enterprise>>
Breakout Session Carrier (14.30-16.00 Room 1):
14.30 - 15.00 Sven Gschweitl, Austrian Regulatory Authority for Broadcasting and Telecommunications
Next Generation Networks, VoIP and ENUM in Austria: Examining the Effect of Regulation on VoIP This Presentation gives an overview about the regulatory framework for VoIP (ENUM and NGN) and the situation in Europe in general and in Austria in special.
* Determining the legal background and regulator’s guidelines for VoIP service providers in Austria * Examining the status of VoIP regulation in Europe * Outlining how Austria and other countries classify and regulate VoIP, including: - What is ECS (Electronic Communication Service)? - What is PATS (Publicly Available Telephone Service)? - Allocating numbers in the VoIP environment - Use of geographic numbers - Porting of numbers - Emergency call facilities
About ENUM: - Outlining the principles, reference model/architecture and operational and administrative issues behind ENUM - Evaluating the pros and cons of using a federation or a public infrastructure ENUM in order to optimise interconnection - Determining whether infrastructure ENUM will provide the means for VoIP providers to interconnect directly with IP-based technology - Reviewing the latest development in the standardisation of ENUM and IP interconnection from the relevant Institutions - Outlining the implementation of ENUM in Austria
15.00 - 15.30 Patrice Hervouet, Nominum
Routing plan management for cost-effective IP interconnects With the emergence of Voice over IP (VoIP) and the shift to using IP at the core of telephony networks, carriers are facing the pressing and essential challenge of migrating existing business models to a telephony environment dominated by IP networks – without sacrificing call quality or profitability.
This talk discusses an IP-based approach to interconnections that enables carriers to smoothly migrate their telephony traffic to IP, preserving the existing business model yet expanding their revenues and improving their margins. This approach is about consolidating routing information from diverse sources in IP-based networks through a networking element called the IP-Application Routing Directory (IPRD).
Using the IPRD, carriers have a path to IP telephony that minimizes disruption, because it supports existing business models by enabling and optimizing termination routes. And with the future of telephony including IP at the core and fixed/mobile convergence, this approach embeds in IP networks device and network routing intelligence that will be essential to tomorrow’s networks.
15.30 - 16.00 Fabien Maisl, Thomson
Options for Deploying Fixed Mobile Convergence Services Fixed-Mobile Convergence can take various forms depending on the type of operator you are, the network architecture you have and your roadmap to IMS: Wireless VoIP, UMA, 3G Femtocell, Mobile IP Centrex, etc. Looking at real FMC deployments in both the consumer and the business markets.
Breakout Session Enterprise (14.30-16.00 Room 2):
14.30 - 15.00 Xavier Casajoana,VozTelecom
On-Demand Communications for Enterprises Unified Communications for Enterprises (UC) has been widely adopted by large corporations through premised based solutions from traditional telecommunications vendors. More recently Microsoft has entered into the UC market with a complete software suit around its own Communication Server, addressing mid sized companies with a wholly integrated software solution. Recently software industry has stared to offer its application suites on a new adopting model, called SaaS (Software as a Service) where the applications resides into the internet and are deployed through the web browser, with significant benefits for small and mid-sized companies. Nowadays some unified communications applications starts to become available as SaaS for enterprises too, and a big revolution will come into enterprise communications. All telephony systems like traditional PBXs are not needed, and no server or local software installs required anymore. Communication service and features comes from the Internet and not only telephony is available, Unified Communications applications like Instant Messaging, Presence, Faxing, E-mail, Conference, Web Collaboration, Video … are available too as SaaS, empowering individual and group communication into the Enterprises. The VoIP industry providers are moving from traditional IP-Centrex services to on-demand communication services, where hosted VoIP market forecast in Europe will develop revenues increasing from €178 million to €1,039 over the 2006-2011 periods. VoIP and IP-Telephony are the past, on-demand communications (CaaS) is the present and the future trend into enterprise market.
15.00 - 15.30 Jon 'maddog' Hall, Linux International
Using Free and Open Source Software to Integrate IT with IP Communications Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) promises to allow end users to modify their Phones and systems to meet their business needs. This talk will address some of the issues facing business people and how FOSS can help integrate telecommunications with the rest of the IT stack in a company.
15.30 - 16.00 Richard Edmunds, Acme Packet
Security challenges in delivering VoIP & Unified Communications in the Enterprise.
We continually hear about SIP, but do you find yourself bewildered by the buzzwords and terminology? Wish someone would tell you what a SIP Proxy was, and why it might feel the need to fork? What advantages does SIP bring? Why should I move now? This ‘back to basics’ session will take a high level look at the SIP protocol and the power it puts in the hands of application developers and solution architects. We will discuss the building blocks required to put together a SIP deployment so you can talk with confidence about how the next generation of telephony products will be built
Breakout Session Carrier (Room 1): SIP
16.30 - 17.00 Conrad Mallon, Xconnect
VoIP Peering -Bridging the IP Communications Islands. Network architectures, interconnects and end-user services are increasingly defined by the dynamic capabilities of IP, but how to we as an industry unify the "Babel" of different VoIP, Mobile, Multimedia, NGN service Islands as they emerge? Peering Federations enable operators to keep more calls on-net, delivering reduced termination costs, higher service quality, and along the way facilitating the mass adoption of exciting cross-network multi-media services. This session will explain how SIP and ENUM, as well as peering policies, security methodologies and new business models combine to form the building blocks of peering federations. The session will detail several examples of Peering Federations emerging globally; focusing on applications for different industry segments, including retail, wholesale and strategic opportunities.
17.00 - 18.00 Panel Discussion
Conrad Mallon, Xconnect Sven Gschweitl, Austrian Regulatory Authority for Broadcasting and Telecommunications Christian Wieser, University of Oulu Richard Edmonds, Acme Packet Moderator: Xavier Casajoana, Voz Telecom
Breakout Session Enterprise (16.30-18.00 Room 2): VoIP Deployment Case Studies
This session will introduce strategies of implementing IP Based Next Generation Networkes.
16.30 - 17.00 Speaker to be confirmed
17.00 - 17.30 Tito Vieira, Universidade do Porto
Presentation of Universidade do Porto
17.30 - 18.00 Raul Oliveira, Iportalmais
IPBrick, towards Unified Communications over IP (UCoIP) IPBrick it is today one the first communication systems that implement the UCoIP (Unified Communications over IP) concept. IPBrick allow the implementation of communications based uniquely on the username, for all types of enterprise communications: Voice, Mail, IM and Web. To achieve this IPBrick uses uniquely the Internet communication services: SIP, SMTP/IMAP, XMPP e HTTP, on top of the support services DNS and LDAP correctly integrated. This UCoIP concept that IPBrick implements it is the open way of allowing the unified communications between systems from different vendors.
