Day One - 22nd September
09:00 Registration
09:30 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
09:40 An optical network equipment deployment update and an Ethernet services rollout market update
• Video is a driver for core optical network & Ethernet services upgrades and
• core network upgrades enable video services to proliferate
• Worldwide optical network summary of deployments and highlights of key
• technology trends
• Global Ethernet services rollouts; summary of deployments and highlights of
• key business and technology trends
Ian Redpath, Principal Analyst, Ovum
10:10 Telco CDN: The architecture for optimization and revenue opportunities
• Traffic growth: What’s the impact for the telco?
• Intelligent caching: Optimizing Internet video delivery
• Building value through advanced customer experience
• The CDN business model for Service Providers
Rajan Raghavan, VP and GM for Content and Media Business Unit, Juniper Networks
10:40 Determining the optimum network model for delivery of live and on demand video over IP networks
• Determining the optimum model for different service providers, taking into account:
- geographical distribution of subscribers - regulations
- density of subscribers - amount of fibre in the network
- location and capabilities of the access nodes
• Determining the best routed architecture for video traffic in the core
• Comparing a PPP over Ethernet solution with dynamic support for multicast services
• Forecasting the limitations of current routers and planning an upgrade strategy
• Balancing prioritising video traffic with OTT bandwidth demands
- Deploying walled gardens for video traffic
Giles Heron, Principal Network Architect, BT
11:10 Morning Coffee
11:35 Optimizing mobile networks for rapid growth in data and video traffic
• Describing the options for offloading mobile TV and video traffic
• Evaluating the mobile broadcast market around the globe
• Comparing the benefits of complementary video / mobile TV delivery solutions
• Presenting key lessons from different mobile TV ecosystems
Stefan Schneiders, Nokia Siemens Networks, Head of Mobile TV solutions, Nokia Siemens Networks
12:00 Optimising content delivery networks to effectively meet the bandwidth limitations of unicast delivery
• Balancing the high QoS supported by unicast with the high bandwidth requirements
• Examining the limits of server capacity for high volume unicast traffic
• Building content delivery networks further into the distribution access network to limit the need for unicast traffic on the network
Mattias Fridström, Director, Portfolio Management, TeliaSonera International Carrier
12:25 Panel Debate: Examining how a Carrier Ethernet infrastructure can support video traffic as compared with an IP/MPLS network
• Examining the conditions under which an operator might consider replacing LSRs with CE switches
• Examining progress of interoperability between IP/MPLS and CE based upon MPLS-TP/T-MPLS or Ethernet/PBB-TE
• Comparing the handling of multicast traffic in IP/MPLS versus PBT/PLSB networks
• Examining the advantages and disadvantages of pure Ethernet or Ethernet over MPLS
Giles Heron, Principal Network Architect, BT; Jorge Cardoso, Access and Transport Networks, Optimus; Carsten Rossenhövel, Research & Development, EANTC
13:00 Networking lunch
14:15 Deploying end-to-end application layer packet loss recovery mechanisms to transport MPEG video over IP networks with minimum degradation and maximum transport quality
• Outlining MPEG video requirements and IP network transport
• Examining packet loss recovery mechanisms
- Application versus PHY layer recovery mechanisms
- RTP based retransmission
- ALFEC
- Hybrid model
• IP multicast video and ALFEC ProMpeg COP#3 as an application for mass market IPTV
- Overall architecture
- ProMpeg COP#3 dimensioning
- Measuring loss
- Loss patterns
- Loss and quality of experience
- Defining transport quality targets and decision thresholds
- ADSL2+ case: PHY layer FEC and ProMPEG COP #3
Jorge Cardoso, Access and Transport Networks, Optimus
14:45 Reality check: Preparing MPLS-based transport networks for IPTV services from a test lab perspective
• Understanding the drivers for enabling multicast and video-aware network services at the IP/MPLS layer
• Examining the state of the art and challenges of enabling IP/MPLS multicast and recent developments and solutions
• Presenting the results of the latest EANTC tests of IPTV enabled network infrastructure and identifying where and how multicast can be enabled to use resources most efficiently
• Debate, Multicast versus Unicast: With the rise of VoD to what extent will future viewing be at set times and how will this impact network planning for unicast and multicast traffic?
Carsten Rossenhövel, Managing Director, EANTC
15:15 Case study: Examining how HELLENIC TELECOM ORGANIZATION is upgrading the access network to meet the multicast IPTV traffic demands
• Enhancing the last mile access network to meet high traffic demands.
• Number of channels versus last mile bandwidth requirements
• Drivers for upgrading the ADSL to VDSL2+ to meet future bandwidth requirements
• Determining bandwidth QoS parameters to support multicast services
• Driving fibre closer to the customer
• Deploy innovative wholesale bitstream connectivity services to delivermulticast traffic
Yiannis Vasilopoulos, Head of IP Network Services, O.T.E
15:45 Examining the different options for maximising DSL capacity to enable video transport on existing copper infrastructure
• Understanding the specific limitations of copper in delivering video traffic
• Determining a minimum Mbit/s availability to support IPTV services
• Clarifying the different options for DSL network acceleration:
• Driving fibre closer to the customer
• Bonding two copper pairs where possible
• Examining the recent standardisation of vector VDSL and results of trials to date
• Understanding the trade-offs and option for; ADSL2, ADSL 2+, VDSL2 & CDSL2
- determining whether VDSL and ASDL will be able to meet the future long term needs of IPTV traffic
• Deploying retransmission in a DSL network as opposed to FEC to enable MPEG 4 delivery
Robert Staniszewski, R&D Expert, Telekom Polska & Ambassador, Broadband Forum
16:15 Afternoon tea
16:40 Joint roundtable discussions with the Transport Network Strategies conference delegates focussing on long term network evolution. Topics for discussion will include:
• Future bandwidth requirements of video traffic on the network
• Optimum network technology and topology for video traffic
• Strategies for overcoming the access network bottleneck
• Packet Optical Transport options
• IP-Optical Integration – analysing traffic flow on the network in preparation for integration
• 40G/100G Evolution options
17:40 End of conference day one
