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21st Century communications - standards and technologies for an interconnected world |
| Author: |
John R. Janowiak |
| Title: |
President |
| Organisation: |
International Engineering Consortium (IEC) |
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| Mr John R. Janowiak is President of the International Engineering Consortium, a non-profit organization headquartered in Chicago. Through its educational conferences and technology exhibitions, the IEC links industry and academia and serves as a catalyst for progress in several high-tech industries. During his more than 20-year career with the Consortium he has held a number of leadership positions. In his current role, Mr Janowiak is responsible for executive and university relations; international market development; and technology transfer between industry and academia. In this capacity, Mr Janowiak is active with and serves as the IEC’s principal liaison to many information industry corporations and non-profit organizations. |
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| The Information and Communication Technology revolution is the result of many factors, but few as important as the standardisation of key technologies. The widespread usage of the Internet was made possible by the Internet Protocol standardisation of digital traffic. IMS is just as revolutionary; it standardises the way communications systems of any sort can be built for the Internet. Similarly, the standardisation of WiFi and WiMAX wireless broadband technologies will facilitate their rapid spread, and rapidly falling network costs and consumer pricing. |
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2 |
| Topic: |
Public/private partnership to beat the digital divide |
| Author: |
Jean-Hervé Jenn |
| Title: |
International President |
| Organisation: |
Convergys Corporation |
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72KB |
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Jean-Hervé Jenn is President International for Convergys Corporation. He is responsible for the execution of Convergys’ strategic billing and customer care initiatives throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa (EMEA), Asia Pacific and South America. Before the expansion of his role, Mr Jenn served as President, EMEA, for Convergys’ Information Management Group (IMG). Prior to joining Convergys, Mr Jenn was at Goldman-Sachs, where he led a team responsible for all strategic dialogues with large corporate, institutional and government clients of Goldman-Sachs. Previously, Mr Jenn served as head of the European Information, Telecommunication and Entertainment practice for KPMG and was co-founder of KPMG Ventures.
Jean-Hervé Jenn earned his master’s degrees in science from Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics in Paris and in management from the University of California in Los Angeles. He also completed the Executive Management Program at INSEAD, France. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and trade representative to the Financial Services Authority. |
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| The Internet offers great promise to the people of the world – developed and developing, rich and poor. What was once a service for the few has become a tool for the many, increasingly helped by the ubiquity of communications networks. If the dream of universal Internet access is to be fulfilled, there are a number of hurdles yet to be overcome. A stronger partnership between government and the private sector is the way to advance the cause of universal access. |
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3 |
| Topic: |
The future of world communications satisfying the unstoppable demand for access |
| Author: |
Raghu Rau |
| Title: |
Senior Vice President, Global Marketing and Strategy |
| Organisation: |
Motorola Networks and Enterprise |
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Raghu Rau is Senior Vice President of Global Marketing and Strategy for Motorola Networks. Mr Rau is involved in the development of strategic plans for the networks business as well as managing the global marketing of communications solutions to wireless and wireline carriers worldwide. Raghu Rau has more than 17 years’ experience in the telecommunications industry. Mr Rau has held assignments in Asia, Europe and the United States, and has prior experience with multinational corporations and the establishment of start-ups. He has guest lectured at reputed universities worldwide and has spoken at numerous industry conferences.
Raghu Rau earned a Bachelor's Degree in engineering and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad). |
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| The telecom revolution has several drivers – cellular and the substitution of fixed for mobile service, wired and wireless broadband, hotspots, VoIP and rich IP-Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) applications – and all are fuelling user expectations and accelerating the change. Network, device, and applications, convergence, however, is what ties it all together and makes Information and Communications Technology an integral, moment-by-moment part of people’s lives. Seamless, ubiquitous service is what the market wants and what will sustain operator growth for years to come. |
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Article no.: |
4 |
| Topic: |
Modern telephony and our shrinking planet |
| Author: |
Judy Reed Smith |
| Title: |
CEO |
| Organisation: |
Atlantic–ACM |
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64KB |
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Judy Reed Smith is founder of Boston-based Atlantic-ACM, a research consultancy serving the telecommunications and information industries. In addition to her activities at Atlantic-ACM, Dr Smith is the founder of Marketplace Analysts Inc, a merger and acquisition advisory firm, and ACM Health-research, a research firm for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. She is a member of the Technology Advisory Council at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and has served on the boards of a number of non-profit and education institutions.
Dr Reed Smith has been published hundreds of times in technology and telecommunications industry media and is in high demand on the speaking circuit. Dr Reed Smith has been quoted and sourced in a wide range of business and mainstream publications, ranging from Kiplinger's and the Boston Globe to USA Today and The Wall Street Journal.
Judy Reed Smith holds a doctorate from Harvard University, a Master's Degree from Boston University and an undergraduate degree from Skidmore College. |
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| IP-based networks are now rapidly replacing traditional networks. Highly touted advanced technologies of the last decade such as frame relay and ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) are giving way to Multiprotocol layer switching (MPLS) which efficiently handles a number of protocols, especially IP. The advent of IP-based networks, and the convergence of networks and devices this has made possible, is not only shrinking the planet by bringing people everywhere into closer contact, it is changing economies, societies and cultures everywhere. |
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Article no.: |
5 |
| Topic: |
IPTV turf wars |
| Author: |
Ervin Leibovici |
| Title: |
CEO |
| Organisation: |
BitBand |
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96KB |
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Ervin Leibovici is the CEO of BitBand, a global provider of Video-On-Demand (VOD) server solutions for IPTV. Under his leadership, BitBand has partnered with the key players in the IP-TV industry and several high-profile investors. Prior to joining BitBand, Mr Leibovici spent five years with SGI as the region manager of SGI EMEA. Before that, Mr Leibovici held managing director positions for the Israeli subsidiaries of SGI and Cray Research, the supercomputer company.
Ervin Leibovici earned a B.Sc degree in Computer Science from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Rekanati Business School at the University of Tel Aviv. |
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| The service providers that can best personalise their services to meet the needs of their subscribers will win the battle for the consumer, the IPTV turf wars. There are a number of promising technologies – TVOD or TV On-Demand, PLTV, NPVR and TSTV – that unchain the subscriber from the broadcaster’s programming schedule and let him control when, where and what he can view. Of these, TVOD gives the viewer the greatest control; it seems destined to change the broadcasting industry forever. |
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Article no.: |
6 |
| Topic: |
All paths lead to convergence |
| Author: |
Dr Arun Sobti |
| Title: |
CEO and Chairman |
| Organisation: |
IP Unity |
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72KB |
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| The telecommunications industry is moving towards convergence – network convergence, service convergence, organisational convergence – convergence of any sort one can name. Accelerated adoption of the Internet Protocol is largely responsible. IP has made possible the interconnection of mobile, wired and wireless networks and the transmission of voice, data and video using any and all of these networks. The combination of existing services and the new services convergence has made possible and has changed forever what subscribers expect and what service providers offer. |
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| Arun Sobti is the Chairman and CEO of IP Unity. Prior to joining IP Unity, Dr Sobti was Senior Vice President of ADC and President of ADC's Broadband Access and Transport Group. Before ADC, Dr Sobti was at Motorola for 24 years, where he ran a number of their global businesses. Prior to leaving, he led Motorola's efforts towards participation in the third generation of wireless. Arun holds 18 patents, and has served on a variety of industry standards committees. He is on the boards of Onotologent Networks, Airespace, Inc. and ManyStreams Networks and is on the advisory board of a number of funds and companies. Arun Sobti earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Kansas and his B.S. in Engineering from Punjab Engineering College in India. |
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Article no.: |
7 |
| Topic: |
The future of the network - IMS and Next Generation Networks |
| Author: |
Camilla Dahlen |
| Title: |
President |
| Organisation: |
Highdeal Inc |
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224KB |
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| Camilla Dahlen is the President of Highdeal Inc, responsible for Highdeal’s strategy and operations in the Americas region. Previously, Ms Dahlen had global account management responsibilities for EHPT, a joint venture between Ericsson and Hewlett-Packard, where she served customers throughout Europe, South America and North America. She helped build EHPT's South American operations. Prior to EHPT, Ms Dahlen led strategic marketing and competitive analysis initiatives at Telia, the telecommunications leader in Scandinavia and northern Europe. A frequent speaker at leading industry events, Camilla Dahlen holds a B.Sc. in Business Administration from Boston College and a bilingual MBA in Spanish/English from Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain. |
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| Networks are not what they used to be. New technologies and new services threaten to turn many of the incumbent network operators into mere bit-pipes, carriers of services that others provide. Content, new applications and new services are driving the industry; traditional voice services are losing ground and no longer drive growth. IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) based systems give operators powerful tools to implement new services and re-establish themselves as key players in the changing telecommunications value chain. |
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Article no.: |
8 |
| Topic: |
Satellite communications for North American businesses and consumers |
| Author: |
David McGlade |
| Title: |
CEO |
| Organisation: |
Intelsat Ltd |
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108KB |
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| David McGlade is the CEO of Intelsat the world's largest combined network of commercial communications satellites and terrestrial connections. A 23-year veteran of the cable TV, media, broadband, and wireless industries, he is well versed in bringing new technologies and services to market. Mr. McGlade joined Intelsat in April 2005 following the company's acquisition by a group of private equity firms, collectively named Intelsat Holdings. Prior to joining Intelsat, Mr McGlade served as chief executive officer of O2 UK (previously BT Cellnet). Previously Mr. McGlade served as president, West Region, Sprint PCS, where he launched the first CDMA network outside Asia. Mr. McGlade is a board member of Intelsat Ltd., WildBlue Communications Inc, and Skyworks Solutions. He holds a Communications degree from Rutgers University in New Jersey. |
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| Satellite communications services, with satellite mini-dish antennas, provide Internet connectivity in many regions of the United States without terrestrial broadband links – to virtually any home or small business. Satellite-based systems, using standard cable-industry technology for the customer premise equipment and provide low cost Internet connectivity. Large retail and banking chains with remote branches often use VSAT systems to unify their network architecture. Last year’s hurricanes highlighted the role satellite communications play in emergency relief, substituting for damaged terrestrial systems. |
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Article no.: |
9 |
| Topic: |
Billing in a converged world |
| Author: |
Greg Carter |
| Title: |
Executive Vice President and COO |
| Organisation: |
BSG Clearing Solutions, North America |
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68KB |
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| Greg Carter is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Office of BSG Clearing Solutions. Mr Carter joined BSG Clearing Solutions (formerly Billing Concepts) in 2004 with extensive executive experience from a number of communications providers. His first-hand knowledge about the industry was gained in positions at Nii Communications (Payphone Channel), Qwest, Aptis Software and U.S. Long Distance. Greg Carter earned a degree in political science from the University of Iowa. |
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| Nowadays, the cell phone is more then a phone, it is a service delivery device. Mobile operators must continually offer newer, better services to survive the competition. Live TV, digital radio, m-commerce, banking transactions – to name a few of the newer services —all come from different service providers. Billing the subscriber for the services used – and then distributing payments appropriately to the providers — is a tremendously complex problem that can often be most efficiently resolved by third-party clearinghouses. |
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Article no.: |
10 |
| Topic: |
Evangelists and late adopters - the small business telecom revolution |
| Author: |
James F. Geiger |
| Title: |
President and CEO |
| Organisation: |
Cbeyond Communications |
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44KB |
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Jim Geiger is the Founder, President and CEO of Cbeyond Communications, a leader in the emerging bundled local voice and broadband services carrier market. Prior to founding Cbeyond, Mr Geiger was Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Intermedia Communications, an integrated communications provider, where he was in charge of Digex, Intermedia’s web-hosting organization. Mr Geiger was a founding principal of FiberNet, a metropolitan area network provider, and held various sales and marketing management positions at Frontier Communications, Inc. He began his career at Price Waterhouse.
Mr Geiger has served as the Chairman of the Association for Local Telecommunications Services (ALTS) and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Comptel/ASCENT. He is a member of the Marist School Board of Directors in Atlanta and of the Board of Directors of Hands on Network, a national
volunteer organization that promotes civic engagement in communities. In 2005, Mr Geiger was named "Telecom Professional of the Year" by the Atlanta Telecom Professionals Association.
Jim Geiger received his Bachelor’s Degree in public accounting and pre-law from Clarkson University. |
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| Smaller businesses, long ignored by major telecom service providers, are the target for emerging telecom service providers. By taking advantage of the powerful services and low costs made possible by IP, the new service providers have been able to provide smaller businesses with the sort of services that only big companies could afford in the past. Since small businesses typically do not have much in-house technical expertise, service providers must help these clients both choose and implement the new services. |
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Article no.: |
11 |
| Topic: |
The MVNO era of mobile innovation |
| Author: |
Stephan Ouaknine |
| Title: |
President and CEO |
| Organisation: |
Blueslice Networks |
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Stephan Ouaknine is the President, CEO and Founder of Blueslice Networks. He brings extensive experience in bridging the gap between marketing and development as well as in international marketing, finance and telecom. Prior to founding Blueslice, Mr Ouaknine was Founder and CEO of Airslide Systems, a world leader in SS7/IP and SMS Offload Smart Signaling Solutions for mobile carriers. Before the birth of Airslide, he was a member of the founding team at Emblaze (BLZ: LSE) and held the positions of Executive Manager in charge of Business Development as well as Marketing and Sales Director. Mr Ouaknine helped take the company public on the London Stock Exchange.
Born in Montreal, Canada, Stephan Ouaknine graduated from McGill University with a Bachelor Degree in International Relations. |
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| Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO) have no networks, lease wireless capacity from existing mobile service providers and re-sell services under their own brand name. They have little investment in technology to protect, but must differentiate themselves from the competition. They tend to be innovative and aggressive competitors. MVNOs are pioneering fixed/mobile convergence or FMC. FMC combines the low cost of wireless (WiFi, WiMAX) with the ubiquitous access of mobile telephony and liberates network resources to provide advanced services. |
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Article no.: |
12 |
| Topic: |
Getting to IMS: tips on changing engines at 35,000 feet |
| Author: |
David Hattey |
| Title: |
President and CEO |
| Organisation: |
SIPquest |
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84KB |
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David Hattey is President and Chief Executive Officer of SIPquest, a developer of Converged Multimedia Client software for desktop, WiFi, Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) environments. Prior to joining SIPquest, Mr Hattey served as Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Voice Solutions at 3Com, as President of EF.Johnson Company, as Vice President of Operations for RACOM Corporation, and has held executive and managerial positions in General Electric, an Ericsson/GE joint venture, and at Ericsson Inc.
David Hattey earned Bachelor Degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering from the University of Michigan and a MBA from Duke's Fuqua School of Business, and is the holder of 11 patents. |
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| The Internet is coming to cell phones and handheld devices around the world. Putting the infrastructure in place and developing the IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) services will be complicated. It will take a phased approach to implementation. Initially, operators will concentrate on serving the enterprise market segment. Phase 1 will offer VoIP, smartphones and a series of enterprises services. Subsequent phases will bring increasingly sophisticated IMS enabled services. Eventually, these services will link people throughout the world to the Internet. |
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13 |
| Topic: |
Making the public network personal |
| Author: |
Ian McLaren |
| Title: |
President and CEO |
| Organisation: |
Ubiquity Software Corporation |
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44KB |
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Ian McLaren is the President and CEO of Ubiquity Software Corporation. He has spent his career in sales and marketing within the computer and networking industries. Prior to joining Ubiquity, Mr Mclaren served as VP Marketing at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), President — International Operations at MCI Systemhouse, and, most recently, as President and CEO of CrossKeys Systems Corporation.
Ian McLaren is a director of several boards including March Networks, NewHeights Software Corporation and Solace Systems. He also serves on six advisory boards. |
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| The telecommunications sector has changed greatly in the last few years. The network convergence based upon the Internet Protocol (IP) and standards such as SIP and IMS make it economically possible to develop and offer a wide range of complex, multifunction services. Given the flexibility of the new technologies, service providers can now offer personalised services and specialised applications for just about any need. The services can, and often do, merge voice, data, video and mobile in the same application. |
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Article no.: |
14 |
| Topic: |
Voice over Wireless LANs |
| Author: |
Dan Simone |
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Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer |
| Organisation: |
Trapeze Networks |
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60KB |
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Dan Simone is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Trapeze Networks. Before Trapeze, Mr Simone was vice president of Product Management for Redback Networks. A 20-year veteran of the networking and communications industries, Mr Simone has worked in engineering, product management and marketing at several prominent companies. At Bay Networks (now Nortel Networks), he drove the development of hubs, switches and net management products. At Motorola, he headed up design, installation and management of the corporate LAN. Mr Simone co-authored the point-to-point protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) and holds several patents.
Dan Simone earned a MBA from the University of Chicago and BSEE and MSEE degrees from Marquette University. |
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| Voice-over-wireless LAN (VoWLAN) is an outgrowth of the growing use of WiFi-based wireless local area networks (WLANs) by businesses. Voice networks, a basic necessity in any company, are increasingly based upon VoIP (voice over IP). VoIP-based enterprise phone systems are rapidly replacing traditional PBX networks. VoWLAN adds mobility and accessibility to the list of VoIP benefits, greatly reduces the cost of voice and data communications, simplifies maintenance and eases integration with call centres and other IP-enabled voice solutions. |
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