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WiFi telephony or VoWLAN/VoWiFi is taking the world by storm but it is a stop-gap measure that will hold us all over until dual-mode phones that bridge WiFi telephony and cellular networks are produced. How will these solutions be sold into an enterprise and who will profit from them? Will it be today's VoIP service providers? Cellular carriers? The handset makers? This summit is all about dual-mode and it will illuminate where the opportunities lie in this exciting space.
Track: Fixed Mobile Convergence/Dual Mode (tp)
Fixed/Mobile Convergence Primer (FMC-01)
Monday - 09/10/07, 9:00-9:45am
One phone, one number that works anywhere and everywhere – that’s the main appeal of fixed mobile convergence (FMC). As the industry moves toward this trend, dual-mode phones are becoming a popular commodity. But looking beyond the benefits of FMC, companies face the challenge of adjusting business and IT support models to fit changing needs.
In this session, we’ll examine the technologies, implementations and impact of FMC and look at how the landscape will change in the coming years. Included will be a discussion of the factors now driving FMC, which technologies will continue to be important, which ones will fall by the wayside, and a look into the industry’s feelings and perceptions towards FMC.
Seamless Services Across Fixed & Mobile Networks (FMC-02)
Monday - 09/10/07, 10:00-10:45am
As Voice and Data services over IP start to dominate business and consumer communications, there is an accelerating demand to extend mobile services to IP devices such as PDAs, and PCs. Exciting — and “addictive” — applications that are available for mobile phones and portable PDAs are being extended to the PC and the desktop. To make the “Converged” experience truly seamless for the end-user, there must be appropriate user software, devices, and a high-bandwidth IP infrastructure to support these services. This session will identify the barriers that are being overcome to achieve seamless converged services and the likely market timeline over the next two years.
Presented by:
Matt Lukens Vice President and General Manager - Americas CIPC Comverse
WiFi/cellular convergence is set to deliver lucrative business opportunities to service providers in both developing and developed markets. New market entrants are arriving, competing against incumbent fixed-line and cable providers who in turn will challenge traditional mobile operators. Marketing innovation combined with the right business systems and tool-sets will enable service providers to quickly and efficiently deliver differentiated high-end service packages. To do this, service providers will need a convergent billing system. Incumbents and new entrants introducing fixed-mobile convergent services will require pricing and billing systems that offer inherent flexibility, reactivity, and the capabilities to rapidly tailor their new packages to keep ahead of the competition in this increasingly customer centric market. Attend this presentation to learn all about the benefits of selecting the right convergent billing system for fixed/mobile convergence.
We hear a lot about the advent of fixed/mobile convergence services from the enterprise or consumer side, specifically the benefits to the enterprise and how FMC stands to make enterprise communications more efficient for all. But what about the service providers? Where do they stand on this issue? And what steps are they taking to enable FMC services? Come to this session to learn all about what service providers think about offering FMC and how they think this will ultimately affect the market.
Presented by:
Rodrigue Ullens
Voxbone
Michael Stanford (Moderator) Consultant Michael Stanford LLC
Clayton Foster Co-founder and VP of Product Management Sotto
The coexistence of fixed and mobile communications for residential and business users has created a new landscape for the next generation of VoIP and IP services. These new real-time services — voice, video, instant messaging (IM), multimedia conferencing and other presence-enabled business applications — must be deployed using a standard architecture, and the telecom industry is turning to IMS to define this architecture.
Both enterprises and remote users will benefit from an industry-wide transition to IMS because it enables the fully-secure deployment of real-time, converged services. However, this evolution to IMS cannot happen immediately. This session will explain how service providers are able to deliver advanced services such as FMC today while they intelligently evolve their infrastructures towards full IMS compliance and ready their networks for the future. Awareness of the phased approach to IMS will educate attendees on the key concepts that are driving the evolution of the industry.
Presented by:
Pete Russo Director of US Convergence Programs BT Americas
David H. Yedwab (Moderator) Partner Market Strategy and Analytics Partners
Ian Dent Vice President of Business Development Reef Point Systems
Andy Huckridge Director, NGN Solution Marketing Spirent Communications
Ken Kuenzel Founder, VP Engineering and CTO Covergence
Vivek Khuller CEO & Founder DiVitas Networks
Guanglu Wang Director - Int'l mSwitch Product Management - Core Switching UTStarcom Inc.
In this presentation, the speaker will talk about existing market trials for IMS and WiMAX and the experience in working with leading OEMs and carriers and their perspective on these technologies. In addition, the speaker will present critical architecture similarities and differences between IMS and WiMAX-based networks and discuss in depth about whether it is feasible to expect that only technology will survive, or whether, in reality, vendors will need to support both.
With the fast pace of wireless technology, product announcements and mergers, it is critical to accurately predict what the next 24 months hold. Dual-mode mobile/WiFi handsets trends are thought to be a key driver to mass consumer adoption of VoIP by 2009. The dual-mode phone market will grow substantially over the next few years. This market will most likely start in the enterprise sector and then move to the consumer sector; however various opinions may differ regarding which market will adopt the technology first. Currently, major emphasis needs to be on reducing the costs of a dual-mode handset on the client side and deploying appropriate FMC (Fixed Mobile Convergence) infrastructure on the operator side.
Many field trials of this technology are already underway and more will happen over the course of the year. Commercial deployment of the same has begun in the high-end market segment, however mass deployment for the consumer sector will start only when handset costs are reduced. This market will experience explosive growth over the next 4 years.
Presented by:
Allan Johnson Vice President of Business Development, Wireless Group HelloSoft Inc.
Allan Johnson Vice President of Business Development, Wireless Group HelloSoft Inc.
Peter Thornycroft Product Marketing Manager Aruba Networks
Peter Thornycroft Product Marketing Manager Aruba Networks
Shahadat Khan CTO Eyeball Networks
Shahadat Khan CTO Eyeball Networks
Greg Galitzine (Moderator) Editorial Director of TMC's IP Communications Brand TMC
Greg Galitzine (Moderator) Editorial Director of TMC's IP Communications Brand TMC
