Open Broadband Access: Impact on your Business Models

Wednesday June 2, 2010 TIME: 15:00 CET/9:00am ET

The introduction of open broadband access brings new opportunities and challenges to all the parties involved in the service-delivery chain. The business success of network and service providers depends mostly on the customers' satisfaction with the services. The approaches to open access and their implementation differ in terms of the business models and the technology. Several challenges that need to be successfully addressed are:

• regulatory demands
• service monitoring
• quality-of-service and quality-of-experience assurance
• end-to-end service provisioning and self-provisioning
• demarcation between network and service providers
• efficient troubleshooting in a multi-provider environment

The webinar reviews the reasons for open access and the current state of open access. Furthermore, it answers the question of how to enable open access in the efficient, economical and future-proof way. Find the answers to the challenges of open broadband access that are going to lead you to develop the best possible business model.

Who should attend:

• Incumbents and Telcos that need to comply with new regulatory demands
• Alternative operators and network providers that adopt new business models to gain new sources of revenue
• System integrators that look for innovative solutions that ensure future-proof network-deployment concepts
• New players in the telecommunication business - communities, utility companies, municipalities etc.

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Presenters

Staša Ilić

Product Marketing Manager, Access Networks, Iskratel

At Iskratel, Staša is currently working as a Broadband Access Product Marketing Manager. Her main responsibilities are: creating product strategies, designing and implementing new product launches, and identifying new business opportunities. Staša holds her B.Sc. degree from the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana. She started as an R&D engineer in 2005 at Iskratel. From 2007-2009 Staša a worked as xDSL Product Manager at Iskratel. Currently, she is finishing her master's degree at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana.

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Erik K Linask

Group Editorial Director TMCnet

Erik oversees the daily operation of TMCnet, which delivers news, information, videos, white papers, podcasts, and more to three million visitors each month. He is also a contributor to TMCnet as well as TMC's IP Communications publications. Prior to joining the TMC team, several years ago, he was Managing Editor at Global Custodian, a global securities services publication, where he also managed the magazine's survey research. Erik began his professional career at management consulting firm Leadership Research Institute.