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 Co-Founder, CEO 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 & Analytics Partners
Ian Dent Vice President of Business Development Reef Point Systems
Andy Huckridge Director, NGN Solution Marketing Spirent Communications
Jose Acosta Vice President, Business Development Covergence
Richard Watson Director of Product Management DiVitas Networks
Guanglu Wang Director - Int'l mSwitch Product Management - Core Switching UTStarcom Inc.
