Day Two - 23rd September
09:00 Registration
09:30 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
09:40 Forecasting bandwidth requirements of video and visual networking applications and planning for the impact of HD and 3D vide traffic on the network
Forecasting growth rates for total video traffic in the different geographical regions to 2014
Examining the levels of P2P file sharing networks
Determining the levels of internet video as a percentage of all consumer internet traffic
Determining the network implications of HD, HDVoD and 3D service deployments Forecasting and determining the impact of video calling
Quantifying the extent to which multicast will minimise the capacity challenge
Forecasting the growth of unicast VOD and Network PVR services and their impact on capacity
Future proofing the network infrastructure with bandwidth capacity exceeding current requirements
Paolo Campoli, Senior Director,SP Architectures and Business Development, Cisco Visual Networking Index Team
10:10 Effectively combining QoS tools and techniques in a multi service environment to ensure optimum delivery of mass market video
• Outlining the challenges of combining QoS standards and tools to ensure QoS for: IPTV, VoIP, internet
• Determining the optimum number of classes of service to operate in the network
- Agreeing priority levels for each class of service
- Agreeing which applications to run on which CoS
• Determining whether to shape traffic for the different CoS levels
• Making the case for deploying WRED for specific CoS levels to avoid congestion
• Examining the drivers for deploying RSVP to ensure QoS in a multiservice environment
Francisco Eusebio, Head of network strategy for fixed access and transport, Portugal Telecom
10:40 Monitoring, measuring and controlling video QoE to the edge device whilst protecting other services
• Guaranteeing QoE even with network congestion
• Balancing between maximum QoE and efficient bandwidth
• Ensuring consistent, predictable and efficient QoE for network planning
• Achieving service demarcation and diagnostics across any device
Peter Thompson, Chief Scientist, GoS Networks
11:10 Morning Coffee
11:40 Optimising the Quality of Experience: Meeting customer expectations of video quality
• Outlining customer expectations of video in terms of:
- zapping time - HD/3D
- interactivity - Number of channels supported
• Addressing the challenge of latency in IPTV channel changes:
- Set top boxes contribution to latency
- Network infrastructure contribution to latency
• Ensuring sufficient aggregation devices to backhaul traffic and head end servers to deliver VoD and network PVR
Ali Dernaika, IPTV Services Senior Engineer, Technology, Du
12:10 Panel Debate: Evaluating optimum test, measurement and monitoring solutions to ensure IPTV QoE
• Setting metrics to monitor video signal quality delivered to consumer
• Placing probes in the network to monitor errors
• Monitoring the time taken for the IP delivery system to change channels
• Examining the development of standards for IPTV QoE measurement
Cristi Corobana, IPTV Network, Romtelecom (To be confirmed); Ali Dernaika, IPTV Services Senior Engineer, Technology, Du; Tom DiMicelli, Product Marketing Manager, Juniper Networks
13:00 Lunch
14:15 Making the business case for investing in Forward Error Correction solutions
• Outlining common error challenges for IPTV networks; packet loss, latency and jitter, and the impact of the customer experience
• Balancing the trade-off between the error rate and the amount of extra bandwidth needed for correction
• Determining the criteria for selecting the optimum FEC solution supplier
• Making the case for FEC as a competitive differentiator
Cristi Corobana, IPTV Network, Romtelecom
14:45 Analysys Mason report for Ofcom: Can UK broadband networks support an explosion in video traffic?
• Forecasting increases in video traffic in the UK
• Examining backhaul and core networks of broadband operators, and the cost implications of significant increases in broadband traffic
• Evaluating the different technological solutions (e.g. multicasting, caching and traffic shaping) that could minimise the impact of increased traffic upon broadband networks
• Quantifying the costs for different types of operator of the different demand scenarios both with and without technical solutions such as multicasting, caching and traffic shaping
• Determining the impact of the BT Wholesale 21CN migration on bandwidth availability
Cesar Bachelet, Senior Analyst, Analysys Mason
15:15 Standards and interoperability tools to enable media content delivery across platforms
• Tackling different business issues in the content delivery through standardization
• Examining the work of ETSI TISPAN in developing IPTV
• Examining the work of ETSI MCD on content distribution
• Determining the impact of standards on the various market stakeholders
Sonia Compans, Technical Officer, ETSI
15:45 Afternoon Tea
16:10 Determining best practise for managing video Traffic within the IP network, exploiting effective bandwidth and policy management
• Employing best practise in bandwidth management
• Monitoring video traffic distribution
• Understanding new traffic patterns in the network and dealing with unpredictable peaks in network utilisation
• Making the business case for deploying on demand QoS for video - Separating and prioritizing video traffic
• Optimising the customer experience with DPI and policy management
Joe Trainor, Director, Content Services, European Markets, Level 3 Communications
16:40 Joint roundtable discussions with the Transport Network Strategies conference delegates focussing on long term network evolution. Topics for discussion will include:
• Meeting consumer’s high quality of experience expectations for video
• Standards and interoperability for media traffic
• Effectively managing video traffic on the network
• Synchronisation for mobile networks
• LTE reference architecture
• Next Generation Microwave
17.40 End of conference
