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Connect-World EMEA 2006 |
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Magazine introduction
Connect-World EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) explores how technology ties and binds growing relations between the developing and the developed regions of the world. The theme of this issue is EMEA and ICT — positioning for change.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is shaping the way the world is developing. This is nothing new, of course. Historically, every major new technology has shaped, re-shaped and divided the world between those that control and use the technology and those that do not.
The digital divide could have been just one more example of this, but the rapid drop in the technology’s cost, the rapid return on investment, as well as the concerted efforts of governments, institutions and international organisations, turn ICT into the cure for its own ills.
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The EMEA region encompasses a broad range, not just of geographies, but also of societies and needs. The new technologies bring opportunity to all, but the sort of change they will bring to the Middle East and Africa is several orders of magnitude more earth shaking than the change they will bring to Europe. Whereas in most of Europe ICT will bring important, but incremental change, in much of Africa and the Middle East the changes will be nothingless than revolutionary.
Regions long cut-off from the benefits of the latest technologies, from any substantial commerce with the more developed parts of the world, and with little cultural interchange, will now, for better and worse, comeface-to-face with all the changes these developments bring.Governments, international agencies, regional industries, service providers, businesses large and small, and local communities all now need to position themselves to absorb the benefits and minimise the social and business risks.
Connect-World EMEA focuses upon what this technology invasion means to people, communities, businesses, service providers and equipment suppliers in Europe the Middle East and Africa. It points to the need of governments and companies to plan for the change.
Similarly, in Connect-World’s Africa and the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, Europe, India, North America and Latin America issues, each region’s leaders look at the issues that drive the development of their home regions or countries.
Current discussions centre upon the changes wrought in industry and society by the latest generation of information and communications technology - especially Internet protocol digital communications, and how both business and society are changing, need to change, as a result. |
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| Theme: VoIP, Changing the voice/data model |
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1 |
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IP telephony, the telecom revolution, and regulatory challenge |
| Author: |
Marc Furrer |
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President |
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The Swiss Federal Communications Commission |
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Marc Furrer is the President of the Swiss Federal Communications Commission (ComCom), the regulatory authority for telecommunications in Switzerland. As Secretary of State, he was responsible for Switzerland’s preparations for the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva (2003) and head of the Swiss delegation for the WSIS 2005 in Tunis. In 2003-2004, he presided over the European Conference of Postal and Tele-communications Administrations (CEPT) and in 1999 the Independent European Regulatory Group (IRG). He served previously as the Director General of the Swiss Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM) and as the personal political secretary to Minister Adolf Ogi, Head of the Federal Department of Transport, Communications and Energy.
Marc Furrer earned a Master’s Degree in Law from the University of Berne and graduated as an attorney and notary. |
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| Each type of Internet voice telephony presents a different regulatory situation. PC-to-PC Internet calls and Internet-based, corporate communications systems are not regulated. ‘Public’ VoIP is regulated because users can be reached from an ordinary telephone. Given the technical limitations, 'public' VoIP service providers are not required to provide carrier pre-selection, or the locations of emergency callers. On the other hand, users of 'public' VoIP receive telephone numbers that are portable and can be transferred throughout the public telephone system. |
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2 |
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VoIP over WiMAX and wireless broadband |
| Author: |
Tzvika Friedman |
| Title: |
CEO |
| Organisation: |
Alvarion |
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Tzvika Friedman is the CEO of Alvarion, a major provider of WiMAX and wireless broadband network equipment for carriers, ISPs and private network operators. Mr Friedman previously served as Alvarion’s President and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining Alvarion he held senior roles at ECI Telecom.
Mr Friedman earned a Bachelor’s and then a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, from Tel Aviv University, and graduated with distinction with a Master’s in Science from the Sloan Program of Management, at the London Business School. |
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| Today, with the advent of Internet Protocol, IP, networks and Voice over IP, VoIP, competitive carriers and service providers are looking to standards-based WiMAX networks to offer economically voice and data in the same package. Operators in Europe have already started these services and those in the Middle East and Africa are just waiting for regulators to establish the guidelines and license the service. Operators, however, need to plan carefully their systems to ensure the quality of service users demand. |
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3 |
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VoIP, the WiMAX killer app? |
| Author: |
Mike Pratt |
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President and CEO |
| Organisation: |
Aperto Networks |
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440KB |
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Mike Pratt is the President and CEO of Aperto Networks, a developer of advanced WiMAX base stations and subscriber units. Mr Pratt, a telecommunications executive with over 20 years of general management, engineering, marketing and manufacturing experience, was until recently the President of ADC’s Active Infrastructure business unit. Prior to this, he served as Executive Vice President, Worldwide Access/Broadband Systems at Marconi, and has held executive and managerial positions at RELTEC, DSC and Bell Labs.
Mr Pratt holds a Master’s of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Bachelor’s of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nebraska. |
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| Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, WiMAX, is a new, heavy-duty, standardized broadband wireless technology that handles fixed and mobile voice and data. Unlike Wi-Fi, that typically can be used only for short distances, WiMAX is a long-range technology that, depending upon the terrain, might reach as far as 30 miles. This makes it ideal for wireless IP networks that handle both data and voice. Early data shows that voice - VoIP - might well be the WiMAX ‘killer application’ in emerging markets. |
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Article no.: |
4 |
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The growing rush to VoIP |
| Author: |
Rupert Galliers-Pratt |
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Founder and Executive Chairman |
| Organisation: |
Vistula Communications |
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Rupert Galliers-Pratt is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Vistula Communications. Rupert Galliers-Pratt has served on the board of several publicly traded companies in the UK and the US. He currently serves as Chairman of both Cardlink Holdings Limited and Vistula Limited. He also served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Petersburg Long Distance Inc. (NASDAQ). During that time, he was responsible for establishing ZAO PeterStar, the dominant Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) in St Petersburg, and Altel, which was the first cellular operator in Kazakhstan.
He received his degree (general disciplines) from Eton College, Berkshire, UK. |
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| Voice over IP, VoIP, is transforming voice communications and the telecommunications industry itself. The flexibility, functionality and lower cost of VoIP communications have redefined what users, especially businesses, expect from telephony and started an industry-wide, worldwide, migration to VoIP telephony. Competition is forcing partnerships and mergers among the players and many, unable to compete, will be squeezed from the market. Market growth depends upon broadband access and the widespread availability of wireless broadband will revolutionise and re-structure the mobile industry. |
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Article no.: |
5 |
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Quality calling - VoIP comes of age |
| Author: |
Gad Tobaly |
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CEO and Member of the Board of Directors |
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InfoVista |
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Gad Tobaly is the Chief Executive Officer and a Member of the Board of Directors of InfoVista. Previously, Mr Tobaly spent four years at Computer Associates (CA) in the United States as Senior Vice President and General Manager, holding regional and global management positions within Field Operations. Before joining CA, Mr Tobaly was Managing Director with Platinum Technology in Europe and was responsible for the company’s operations in France and Africa.
Mr Tobaly, who is fluent in four languages, earned mathematics and physics degrees from the Paris Jussieu University and has a Masters in Management Information Systems from Paris-Dauphine University. |
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| The growing use of VoIP - a voice technology that seems destined, one day, to replace traditional circuit-switched telephony - makes the reliability, performance and quality of service, QoS, of increasing concern to users and service providers alike. Widespread adoption of VoIP will depend upon overcoming performance and security issues, including access to emergency (911) services, deterring security threats and hackers, ensuring QoS and providing the sort of services with VoIP that phone users have come to expect. |
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Article no.: |
6 |
| Topic: |
Seamless communications |
| Author: |
Peter Newcombe |
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President, Carrier Packet Networks |
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Nortel, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) |
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260KB |
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Peter Newcombe is the President of Carrier Packet Networks for Nortel in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) responsible for Nortel’s communications solutions for carriers, including broadband fixed access, voice over IP, triple-play solutions, carrier Ethernet and optical networks. Mr Newcombe began his career at STC Telecommunications, later acquired by Nortel, as a hardware engineer, working on Public Switching products. Over the years, he moved up to his current role through a series of increasingly responsible technical, product marketing and business development positions in Europe, Asia and Latin America and the United States.
Peter Newcombe graduated from UMIST University, Manchester with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics. |
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| With VoIP, voice and advanced features - call diversion, caller display, unified messaging, multimedia, video, presence and messaging - can be economically delivered via broadband to workers in large and small businesses whatever their location. Service providers can now supply these services with business-grade security and carrier-grade reliability. At home, service providers bundle VoIP with Internet, IPTV and even mobile calling. Dual-mode handsets enable low-cost VoIP calling using WiFi at home, in offices and public hotspots, whilst switching to cell networks elsewhere. |
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Article no.: |
7 |
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The evolution of VoIP - the challenge and business case |
| Author: |
Cees de Jong |
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Senior Vice President |
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Global Telecom Marketing, Atos Origin |
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296KB |
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Cees de Jong is Atos Origin’s Senior Vice President, Global Telecom Marketing operations. He is responsible for global sales, marketing and strategy and strategic partnerships as well as internal and external marketing communications. Prior to joining Atos Origin, Mr de Jong held several managerial positions with the Dutch telecom operator KPN, where he started his career as a project manager in the IT department. Most recently, he was Managing Director of KPN Datacenter, which later outsourced its IT operations to Atos Origin.
Cees de Jong holds a Technical Degree from the HTS Electrical Engineering in Leeuwarden, as well as an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management. |
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| Low cost voice calling over the Internet is transforming communications in the developing world, in businesses everywhere, and threatening established operators. Voice over IP, VoIP, is forcing operators worldwide to re-think their business. VoIP has grown together with the rapid growth of broadband access, often wireless, throughout the world. Household names such as Google will soon join VoIP providers such as Skype and Vonage in the marketplace. This will accelerate both the competition and the growth of the market. |
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Article no.: |
8 |
| Topic: |
IPTV - open issues |
| Author: |
Helmut Leopold |
| Title: |
Chairman |
| Organisation: |
Broadband Services Forum |
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252KB |
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Helmut Leopold is the Chairman of the Broadband Services Forum. He is also the Managing Director of Platform and Technology Management at Telekom Austria. He worked previously at Alcatel, where he served as a research engineer at Alcatel’s ELIN Research Center, specialising in high performance networking and multimedia communications. Mr Leopold is the Vice President of the Austrian Research Center Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien (FTW), and President of the IPV6 Task Force in Austria. Helmut Leopold has been actively involved in European projects in broadband (ESPRIT, RACE, ACTS, IST and COST) and in international standardization (ETSI), as well as in various task forces in telecommunication programmes of the Austrian government. He has lectured on broadband communications at the University of Technology in Vienna for many years, and has been evaluator in the R&D programmes of the European Commission.
Mr Leopold holds a Degree in Electronics and Communications from the Technical College HTBLV Rankweil, Austria and a Degree in Computer Science from the University of Technology in Vienna. |
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| IPTV, Internet Protocol television, a quickly growing force in home entertainment, uses DSL, digital subscriber line, technology to deliver television programming to the home via the existing public telephone network. Traditional telephone operating companies see this as a way to compete with the cable TV companies that are starting to compete with them by offering inexpensive voice services. IPTV can provide time-shifted and on-demand programming inexpensively, and is ideal for the distribution of user-generated content to local community or special interest groups. |
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Article no.: |
9 |
| Topic: |
Securing the brave new TV world |
| Author: |
Jeremy Thorp |
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CEO |
| Organisation: |
Latens Systems |
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312KB |
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Jeremy Thorp is the CEO of Latens Systems; he has served in a number of high-level positions in the broadcast industry on both sides of the technology divide - as both an operator and as a technology vendor. Prior to founding Latens in 2002, Jeremy Thorp was Chief Technology Officer at Tandberg Television. Previously, Mr Thorp served as Group Managing Director, responsible for design and roll out of interactive cable systems, Internet content and other services and as NTL’s Director of Strategy. Mr Thorp began his career at Bain & Co, a leading management-consulting firm.
Mr Thorp earned his Degree in Engineering from London University. |
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| The growth of IP based TV content distribution depends upon the provider’s ability to control access to content and receive payment for it. Conditional Access, CA, and Digital Rights Management, DRM, solutions work together to protect access. Together, they make sure that only authorized users can access and transfer (or not) the content between authorised devices, and that the service and content providers can bill for providing such access. Many current solutions are hardware-based; newer, more flexible solutions use software. |
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Article no.: |
10 |
| Topic: |
The IPTV quality challenge |
| Author: |
Peter Collingwood |
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Regional Vice President, Europe, Middle East & Africa |
| Organisation: |
JDSU Communications Test division |
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448KB |
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Peter Collingwood is Regional Vice President, Europe, and Middle East & Africa for JDSU’s Communications Test division (formerly Acterna). Mr Collingwood has been with the organization for over 18 years and has served in senior level corporate positions in Europe and the United States.
Mr Collingwood holds a Bachelor of Science Electronics Engineering and Diploma in Industrial Studies from Loughborough University of Technology. |
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| Triple play, the combination of voice, data and video, is the package service providers need to compete in the marketplace today. The changeover from traditional telephony calls for more than just upgrading the network to transmit a TV signal. Video quality requirements are quite different from those for voice and data - and significantly more difficult to maintain. Subscriber satisfaction and retention depends upon quality of service, reduced installation and support problems, and constant end-to-end testing to guarantee high-quality reception. |
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Article no.: |
11 |
| Topic: |
The changing IP Telephony business model |
| Author: |
Allen Timpany |
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founder and CEO |
| Organisation: |
Vanco |
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380KB |
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Allen Timpany is the founder and CEO of Vanco. He is the pioneer of the asset-light approach to networking. Mr Timpany coined the term ‘Virtual Network Operator’, which has become an industry standard. Allen Timpany has previously built a number of IT companies, including the largest IBM desktop-support business in the UK. Companies previously founded by Mr Timpany include: Wakebourne Limited, specialising in the installation and maintenance of PCs and LANs; Tycom Limited, a UK-based PC manufacturer; and Guestel Limited, an Apple Computer dealer.
Mr Timpany graduated from Bath University with a First Class Honours Degree in Electrical Engineering - Thermodynamics. |
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| Virtual Network Operators pay to use excess capacity on existing networks and sell fully managed solutions, customised for each client, under their own names. Since they do not invest in infrastructure, they can provide services cheaply. Internet telephony’s claim to fame has been its low, at times free, per minute costs, however the cost of handsets, support and training eliminate much of this advantage. Currently, the true value of IPT comes from the advanced business support applications it makes possible. |
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Article no.: |
12 |
| Topic: |
IP telephony - bring on the change |
| Author: |
Vivek Badrinath |
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Executive Vice President, Products, Technology & Innovation |
| Organisation: |
Orange |
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Vivek Badrinath joined Orange in 2004 as Chief Technology Officer and, within a year, his role was expanded to Executive Vice President, Products, Technology and Innovation. Prior to Orange, Mr Badrinath spent four years with the consumer electronics firm Thomson. As Chairman and CEO of its Indian subsidiary, Vivek Badrinath was in charge of both manufacturing and sales. Vivek also spent four years in the France Telecom group. He originally joined France Telecom in 1996, just as France was opening up its telecommunications market to competition. Vivek began his career at the French Ministry of Industry, where he was in charge of the country’s innovation-related policies and investments.
He has a Degree in Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique, a Degree in Statistics from the University of Paris, and has also studied at Telecom Paris. |
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| Here comes IP telephony. Whether operators like it or not, telephony, the world over, is moving towards voice over IP, VoIP. So far, fixed VoIP has been the rule and wireless IP the exception, but given the advent of dual phones - standard mobile handsets that also receive VoIP at public WiFi hotspots and home networks - wireless VoIP will grow rapidly. Carriers have begun to offer ‘managed VoIP services’ to businesses that include WiFi and cellular wireless voice and data. |
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Article no.: |
13 |
| Topic: |
Networks in the age of IP |
| Author: |
Mauro Righetti |
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CEO and board member |
| Organisation: |
Italtel |
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| Mauro Righetti is the CEO of Italtel and a member of its board. Previously, he took part in the creation of Smart Venture Partners, a venture capital firm active in the hi-tech sector. With the Oracle group, he founded and managed Oracle Italia, was Vice President of Oracle South Europe, Chairman of the Corporation Management Advisory Board, and Chairman and Member of the board of Network Computer Inc. – a NASDAQ-listed member of the group. Mr Righetti started his career with Olivetti, where he assumed roles of increasing responsibility until his appointment as industrial area manager and member of the management committee. |
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| To remain competitive, operators throughout the world are upgrading their infrastructures to integrated IP-based networks for voice and data. These next generation networks, NGN, let them offer a wide range of enhanced voice- and data-based features, including VoIP, data, video, video-telephony and broadcast TV, among others. It also gives operators the flexibility to provide business customers with a range of managed and hosted services, such as IP-PBX switchboards, which offer fixed and wireless convergence to facilitate company communications. |
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14 |
| Topic: |
ICT and hope in Kenya |
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Dr Kai Uwe Wulff |
| Title: |
Managing Director |
| Organisation: |
Kenya Data Networks |
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Dr Kai Uwe Wulff is the Managing Director of Kenya Data Networks where he has overseen the growth of KDN’s infrastructure, including the roll out of WiMAX and fibre optics. Prior to Kenya Data Networks, he worked with the African Safari Club Group of companies. There, he served as the Marketing Director & CIO until appointed the Managing Director of the African Safari Club, African Safari Airways. Previously, Dr Wulff owned and worked with WULFF EDV Systemhaus AG in Germany, a solution provider for networks, hardware and software, business/management consulting and IT audits.
Kai Uwe Wulff is a Doctor in Economic Science, a licensed commercial pilot and a trained officer of the German Air Force. |
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| Kenya’s economic development will depend upon the introduction of an extensive broadband infrastructure throughout the country, especially in rural areas. The liberalization of Kenya’s telecommunication sector, and the introduction of competition, made the build out of wired and wireless networks throughout the country economically viable. These networks will stimulate the development of an ICT support service sector, encourage advanced services for outsourcing, such as call-centres, and motivate the migration of some production and, eventually, R&D to rural areas. |
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15 |
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Diversity and growth in the Arab telecom markets |
| Author: |
Jawad J. Abbassi |
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General Manager, Arab Advisors Group, a member of the Arab Jordan Investment Bank Group |
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Arab Advisors Group/The Arab Jordan Investment Bank Group |
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Jawad J. Abbassi is the General Manager of the Arab Advisors Group, a member of the Arab Jordan Investment Bank Group. Before founding Arab Advisors Group, Mr Abbassi was a Senior Telecommunications and Technology Consultant at the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in Boston, USA. There Mr Abbassi produced comprehensive research reports on, among other things, the markets for African wireless, Middle East communications and Egyptian communications. Working as a EUI Consultant to the World Bank, he quantified the ‘information economy infrastructure’ in Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Previously, Mr Abbassi worked as a Corporate Accounts Manager for Jordan’s leading Internet service provider (NETS), worked for an Apple Computers’ dealership, and was a weekly Information Technology columnist for Jordan’s leading English weekly. Mr Abbassi is a frequent guest speaker at conferences and seminars related to technology and communications in the Arab World.
Mr Abbassi received a BSc in Engineering from the American University in Cairo (Egypt - 1993) and his MSc in Information Systems from the London School of Economics (United Kingdom - 1998). |
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| Telecommunications penetration in the Arab region is surprisingly high. In eight of the 16 countries studied, total penetration, because of users with multiple lines, is greater than 100 per cent; and in only two is it less than 50 per cent. Although high penetration is typically associated with competition, the UAE and Qatar, where total telecom penetration exceeds 200 per cent, are still monopolies. ARPUs, however, vary widely from US$9 to US$69, depending upon rates, income and usage. |
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16 |
| Topic: |
Creating tomorrow’s communications services today |
| Author: |
Bahaa Moukadam |
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Vice-President, IP Telephony |
| Organisation: |
Spirent Communications |
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Bahaa Moukadam is the Vice-President for IP Telephony at Spirent Communications. Mr Moukadam has more than 18 years’ experience in the communications test and measurement industry. He has held positions in design engineering, product marketing, marketing, business development, and executive management at Hewlett Packard (now Agilent), Wandel & Goltermann Technologies (now Acterna), and Telex Computer Products. Mr Moukadam has written industry articles for internal publications and has spoken at several industry events.
He holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Kansas and a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from the University of Missouri. |
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| IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, a standardised network architecture, facilitates convergence between all sorts of fixed and mobile, wired and wireless networks by providing seamless handovers between these dissimilar networks. VoIP/SIP, WiFi, WiMAX and cable all come within the scope of IMS. IMS offers carriers an easier evolutionary path to newer network technologies and easier adoption of new applications. Still, since all of the IMS protocols have yet to be standardised, its adoption may, at times, be somewhat troublesome. |
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17 |
| Topic: |
Device management for IP voice and data |
| Author: |
Gene Wang |
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Chairman and CEO |
| Organisation: |
Bitfone |
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Gene Wang is the Chairman and CEO of Bitfone. Gene Wang has over 21 years of experience leading high technology companies and has participated as the CEO in three startups. Prior to Bitfone, Mr Wang was CEO and Chairman of Photo Access, selling its hardware business unit to Agilent Technologies. Previously, he served as the CEO of Computer Motion, which he led through a successful IPO. He has also served as: Executive Vice President at Symantec, where he managed four divisions; Vice President and General Manager at Borland; and, early in his career, Vice President of Marketing at Gold Hill Computers.
Gene Wang received a BS Degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. |
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| Dual mode mobile handsets that access both mobile telephony and WiMAX for VoIP could soon be widely available. This will bring many benefits, including cheaper calling, but managing the devices that bring these services will complicate the operator’s job considerably. Managing the highly complex device hardware, software, roaming and problem resolution is a daunting chore. Specialised device management software that can handle these tasks over the air is coming to the operator’s rescue and facilitating the growth of the market. |
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18 |
| Topic: |
VoIP and market change |
| Author: |
Tony Lavender and Mark Main |
| Title: |
Tony Lavender, Director of Telecoms Research, and Mark Main, Senior Analyst |
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Ovum |
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Tony Lavender is Ovum’s Director of Telecoms Research. He is responsible for the company’s global telecoms research programme. He has 24 years’ experience in the telecoms industry. Prior to Ovum, Tony was at Oftel - now Ofcom - the United Kingdom’s telecom regulator where he played a leading role in competition and technical issues. Mr Lavender began his career with BT where he held a number of senior roles.
Tony Lavender studied Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Queen Mary College, London. He is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the UK Institution of Engineering and Technology.
Mark Main is a Senior Analyst with Ovum; he has 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. He is presently a member of the Broadband@Ovum advisory service team - responsible for the analysis of fixed-line consumer broadband services - but also works closely with other Ovum Advisory Services on broadband network issues. Before joining Ovum, Mr Main was a Communications Engineer at Nortel Networks’ Harlow Laboratories, developing advanced broadband and IP networking solutions. He had worked previously as a Communications Engineer at BT’s research and development laboratories.
Mark Main is a Chartered Engineer, holds a BSc Degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Southampton and has a post-graduate Diploma in Management Studies. He is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. |
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| VoIP is growing throughout the world wherever broadband penetration permits. Mobile broadband, hence mobile VoIP, is still quite limited. Although there are several VoIP service providers, they are not interconnected. A user of one VoIP service cannot directly call another without going through the public telephone system. The ‘SIP’ technology VoIP uses is not limited to voice, and it seems that voice will become just another component of transaction-based business rather than a significant cash-generating business in its own right. |
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| Confirmed authors (Order by article no.) |
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| Marc Furrer |
| President, The Swiss Federal Communications Commission |
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| Tzvika Friedman |
| CEO, Alvarion |
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| Mike Pratt |
| President and CEO, Aperto Networks |
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| Rupert Galliers-Pratt |
| Founder and Executive Chairman, Vistula Communications |
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| Gad Tobaly |
| CEO and Member of the Board of Directors, InfoVista |
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| Peter Newcombe |
| President, Carrier Packet Networks, Nortel, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) |
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| Cees de Jong |
| Senior Vice President, Global Telecom Marketing, Atos Origin |
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| Helmut Leopold |
| Chairman, Broadband Services Forum |
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| Jeremy Thorp |
| CEO, Latens Systems |
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| Peter Collingwood |
| Regional Vice President, Europe, Middle East & Africa, JDSU Communications Test division |
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| Allen Timpany |
| founder and CEO, Vanco |
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| Vivek Badrinath |
| Executive Vice President, Products, Technology & Innovation, Orange |
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| Mauro Righetti |
| CEO and board member, Italtel |
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| Dr Kai Uwe Wulff |
| Managing Director, Kenya Data Networks |
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| Jawad J. Abbassi |
| General Manager, Arab Advisors Group, a member of the Arab Jordan Investment Bank Group, Arab Advisors Group/The Arab Jordan Investment Bank Group |
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| Bahaa Moukadam |
| Vice-President, IP Telephony, Spirent Communications |
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| Gene Wang |
| Chairman and CEO, Bitfone |
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| Tony Lavender and Mark Main |
| Tony Lavender, Director of Telecoms Research, and Mark Main, Senior Analyst, Ovum |
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