Day 2
Day Two
09.00 Registration
09.30 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
09.40 EPC nodes positioning as the cornerstone for best LTE transport design
• Optimising the EPC and LTE nodes location
• Considering fixed network transport infrastructure and new LTE/EPC mobile requirements
• Including traffic forecasts, scalability, services, security, mobility, migration
• Integrating dense urban and rural areas specificities into transport design
• Identifying Base Station hostelling and network sharing opportunities
Marion Duprez, LTE and IP Transport Architect, Orange Labs
10.10 Architectural Evolution in Optical Core Packet Networks – Getting ready for the traffic explosion
• A new breed of packet optical switches (OTN/MPLS-TP) – what are their properties and how do they lower the cost of core networks?
• Scalability for the packet optical core
• Flexibility through improved optical switching and enhanced control
Josef Lorenz, CTO West & Southern Europe, Nokia Siemens Networks
10.40 Discussing key future updates of mobile networks
• HSPA deployment experiences so far
• *Discussing actual data transfer speeds experienced by the user
• Understanding the deployment of services on HSPA/UMTS/WCDMA
• Detailing experiences with WLAN/WiMAX deployment
• HSPA+
• The next step – planning for LTE and 4G
Peter Zidar, Head of Standardisation Office, Mobitel Slovenia
11.10 Morning Coffee
11.35 Evolution towards All IP: PTN Networks and PTN Products
• Drivers for PTN in the key areas of mobile backhauling and business services
• When and how will MPLS replace SDH?
- Lifecycle of SDH products
- Co-existence of SDH and MPLS-TP
- CAPEX and OPEX analysis
• Technology choices and product realisation
- Native packet
- Native TDM
- OTN
- Hybrid solutions
Huawei
12.05 PANEL DISCUSSION – Analysing the future outlook for mobile backhaul in tomorrow’s transport infrastructure
• Assessing the current impact of LTE on the design of today’s transport infrastructure
• Discussing the optimal migration strategy towards HSPA, HSPA+ and LTE
• Evaluating the current role of Ethernet in mobile backhaul networks and how will the deployment of Ethernet change as the backhaul network continues to evolve?
Panellists will include: Saad Zaman Asif, Manager of Transmission Strategy, Telenor Pakistan
13.00 Networking Lunch
14.15 Mobile IP Evolution – What’s the reality?
An engaging presentation on the issues both solved and created in the evolution to an ‘All-IP mobile network’. We look at the reality of implementing current IP solution in a large mobile communications provider
• Where is IP currently in the network?
• IP evolution in the RAN
• IP evolution for voice interconnect
• IP as a transport for legacy protocols (2G and 3G)
• IP security in the mobile network
• Public IPv4 address depletion strategies
Matt Stagg, Principal Designer, Orange UK
14.45 Challenges and remedies for today’s and tomorrow’s mobile backhaul
• Technological advancements to address challenges in mobile backhaul
• Case of FTTx for 2G & 3G operators
• Highlighting the importance of Gigabit Ethernet radios for HSPA & LTE
• Sharing opportunities of 2G/3G backhaul networks
Saad Zaman Asif, Manager of Transmission Strategy, Telenor Pakistan
15.15 Is there life after ALL-IP?
• Where do we stand now?
• Orchestrating the network
• What is the differentiator between two All-IP networks?
• Beyond all IP
Onder Ergun, Transport Network Architecture & Product Design, Turkcell
15.45 Afternoon Tea
16.10 Roundtable Discussions (co-located with delegates from the Optimising Networks for Video Delivery conference)
Topics will include:
• Synchronisation for mobile networks
• LTE reference architecture
• Next Generation microwave
• Meeting consumers high quality of experience expectations for video
• Standards and interoperability for media traffic
• Effectively managing video traffic on the network
17.30 Close of conference
