ADDRESSING THE KEY TECHNICAL CHALLENGES AND MAKING THE RIGHT DEPLOYMENT DECISIONS
- Chairman: Antonios Drossos, Managing Partner, Rewheel, Finland
- 09.15
- Dr Achilles Petras, Head of Broadband QoS Solutions, BT Wholesale, UK
- A holistic framework of capacity performance-traffic management
- Focus on delivering quality not just headline speeds both upstream and downstream
- Customer experience is about functional services not bandwidth allocations or rate limits
- Differentiate application performance by managing quality network degradations (losses and delays)
- DPI is an important tool that works in parallel with other QoS techniques end-to-end
End-to-End Performance and Traffic Management for Broadband Application Assurance and Enhanced Quality of Experience
- 09.45
- Sylvain Thevenot, Senior Director, Products & Strategy, TalkTalk Group, UK
- Guy Bradshaw, Head of Broadband Commercial Strategy, Vodafone, UK
- Walid Thabet, Director Data Services, Mobily, Saudi Arabia
- Dr Achilles Petras, Head of Broadband QoS Solutions, BT Wholesale, UK
- Voice calls vs. video streaming: How many subscribers can you fit on one cell
- How do you manage real-time media-rich applications?
PANEL DISCUSSION Exploring The Evolution Of Data Traffic Patterns: How Operators Are Meeting The New Challenge Of Managing Real-Time Streaming And Bandwidth-Hogs
- 10.30
- Sylvain Thevenot, Senior Director, Products & Strategy, TalkTalk Group, UK
- How does operator capacity strategy affect churn
- What factors frame an operator’s decision to add capacity or deploy a new bandwidth control mechanism?
- Is broadband all about bandwidth or are there other customer considerations?
- How do you manage customer expectations in the context of broadband?
- To what extent does it make sense to over-provision a network to ensure performance?
Cash-Constraints and Increasing Customer Expectations: How Does An Operator Manage Investment In Network Capacity To Ensure Customer Satisfaction?
- 11:00
Networking & Refreshments Break
- 11.30
- Benny Lim, Director, Public IP Engineering, Singtel, Singapore
- How close can today’s DPI systems get to achieving zero false positives?
- How do new client software releases affect accuracy of detection?
- To what extent are DPI systems able to capture different types of protocols accurately?
- Strategies for realising the benefits of packet sniffing
Overcoming Encryption And Other Traffic Management Avoidance Mechanisms: To What Extent Is Accuracy Still A Challenge For Today’s Technology?
- 12.00
- Ståle Pedersen, Head of OSS, Telenor Group, Norway
- Assessing the value of data and the customer’s need for speed
- What is the operator’s key concern? Recognition, mediation or billing?
- Promoting the improved performance of a managed connection to end-
Telenor’s View on Traffic Management: A Real-World Approach
- 12.30
- Eric Klinker, President & CEO, BitTorrent, USA
- Introduction to uTP and the design principles behind the new transport
- To what extent does the transport have the potential to change the CAPEX profile of telcos?
- What will be the implications for existing traffic management solutions
- How is uTP friendlier than TCP as a solution to the IETF's LEDBAT working group?
How BitTorrent’s New uTP Congestion Control Protocol Will Help Telcos Deal With BitTorrent Traffic in the Context of Congestion Management
- 13.00
Networking & Lunch Break
- 14.00
- Shannon Bell, Director of PLM, Bridgewater Systems, USA
- Benny Lim, Director, Public IP Engineering, Singtel, Singapore
- Extending Policy Control from the Network to Application and Subscribers
- Empowering subscribers to manage mobile data usage, set limits and notifications an receive special offers
- The importance of policy in addressing new EU “Bill Shock” and data roaming regulations
PANEL DISCUSSION Understanding The Relevance of Policy in Apps Stores: Preventing Bill Shock and Delivering Personalized Services
- 15.00
- Walid Thabet, Director Data Services, Mobily, Saudi Arabia
- Utilising policy + PCRF functionality to deliver unrivalled network intelligence
- Measuring the value of enforcing policy decisions at the most efficient part of the network
Reducing CAPEX And OPEX Across The Network: Capitalising Upon The Cost Savings That Can Be Achieved From A PCRF-Based Approach To Traffic Management
- 15.30
- Pavel Roytberg, Product Director, MTS, Russia
- What is the relationship between data traffic and devices?
- How can iPhone operators monetise increased demand for mobile internet?
Exploring the Relationship Between Introducing Devices and Increasing Data Traffic: Assessing the Impact of USB Dongles and the iPhone Upon User Behaviour
- 16.00
Networking & Refreshments Break
REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT: LAWFUL INTERCEPT AND NET NEUTRALITY
- 16.30
- Karim Antonio Lesina, Executive Director, EMEA Government Affairs, AT&T, Belgium
- Qualifying the evolving regulatory standpoint on traffic management moving forward
- What factors have led to a need for a new framework for electronic communications?
Readiness of the New Framework for the Future Development of the Electronic Communications
- 17.00
- Jean Jacques Sahel, Director Government and Regulatory Affairs Europe, Skype, UK
- Richard Fletcher, Development Director, Plusnet, UK
- Karim Antonio Lesina, Executive Director, EMEA Government Affairs, AT&T, Belgium
- Michael Bartholomew, Director, Director, ETNO, Belgium
- What does net neutrality mean for traffic management?
- What concessions to net neutrality have already been made in early DPI deployments?
- To what extent could net neutrality have an adverse effect on a carrier’s competitive edge?
- Does net neutrality regulation provide an unfair advantage to smaller service providers?
PANEL DISCUSSION Should All Packets Be Treated Equal and To What Extent Should This Raise Alarm Bells With Regulators?
- 17.30
