Day Two
09.00 Registration and coffee
Opening Plenary
09.30 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
09.40 Overview of legislation, regulation and policy in the region and how it is driving evolution and development of the networks
Paul Sumner, Senior Manager, Analysys Mason
10.10 Discussion Forum: 100 G and beyond – where next? Preparing for the technological challenges ahead over the next decade
Paul Sumner, Senior Manager, Analysys Mason
Viraj Devapriya, Senior General Manager - Engineering,
Dialog Tele-Infrastructures, Dialog Telekom
10.40 Powering base stations from renewable energy sources to minimise power consumption – what are the options?
• Making wind and solar energy a viable option for powering base stations
• Improving energy efficiency and reducing base station power consumption
• Wind and solar hybrid as an environmentally friendly and cost-efficient solution for challenging sites
Viraj Devapriya, Senior General Manager - Engineering,
Dialog Tele-Infrastructures, Dialog Telekom
11.10 Morning Coffee
STREAM A: Developments in Packet Transport Networks
11.45 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
11.50 Keynote: Overview of packet optical transport trends in Asia – how are packet optical platforms evolving to meet the changing needs of operators?
Alex Connors, Head of International Product Management, Cable & Wireless
12.20 Migrating from TDM to packet whilst maintaining customer relationships and keeping costs to a minimum
• Comparing different approaches to packet and optical network migration – how will the transport networks develop and what are the costs likely to be?
• Understanding the challenges and potential solutions for maintaining synchronisation in packet transport networks
• Highlighting the new services and applications enabled by packet transport networks
• Minimising the risks and managing the challenges of migrating the network from TDM to packet transport
Vimar Perfecto, Associate Director, Network Planning & Engineering, Pacnet
12.50 Case study: Understanding the importance of flexibility when building a transport infrastructure to support rising demand for 40G/100G services
13.20 Networking Lunch
14.30 Adapting the network to maximise bandwidth efficiency and scalability, whilst reducing operational expense
• Building a flexible transport infrastructure to support rising demand for 40G/100G in the metro and core
• Investing in packet transport to cost effectively scale transport infrastructure
• Examining different network management approaches to packet transport networks and comparing packet transport management tools
Luc Ceuppens, Vice President of Marketing, High End Systems, Juniper Networks
15.00 Investigating the benefits and pitfalls of Hybrid Packet/TDM solutions
• Do hybrid solutions waste bandwidth?
• Cost considerations
• Device design
Jason Zhu, Director Optics APAC, Alcatel-Lucent
15.30 Afternoon Tea
16.00 Panel Discussion and questions from the floor: Examining changing customer needs and demands to identify how packet transport networks can deliver added value to customers
• Trends and developments in customer behaviour
• How do customer needs in the APAC region differ from elsewhere?
• Planning for the future
Alex Connors, Head of International Product Management, Cable & Wireless
Vimar Perfecto, Associate Director, Network Planning & Engineering, Pacnet
16.30 End of Conference Day Two
STREAM B: Next Generation Ethernet Networks
11.45 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
11.50 Keynote: How Ethernet can bring down costs and deliver next generation services
12.20 Building pure Ethernet networks: benefits and pitfalls to avoid
• Migrating 2G and 3G legacy backhaul to Carrier Ethernet
• Architecture options when building networks
• Understanding how to effectively deploy Carrier Ethernet for mobile backhaul
• Evaluating the business benefits and opportunities of pure Ethernet networks
Kok Ching Ong, M1
12.50 Identifying the Carrier Ethernet market opportunities for service providers in the APAC region
• Market analysis, scale and trends
• Optimizing existing infrastructure with Carrier Ethernet and WDM
• Commercial and technical drivers relating to carrier Ethernet opportunities
• To what extent are service providers in the region deploying carrier Ethernet?
• Identifying unique challenges and opportunities for service providers in the region
John Hoffman, Head of Ethernet Product Management, Tata Communications
13.20 Networking Lunch
14.30 Carrier Ethernet Standards Report
• The role of standards bodies - MEF, ITU, IEEE, IETF
• How MEF standards framework enables service innovation
• Industry work in progress report – spotlight on interconnect and mobile backhaul
• Status of standard-based implementation in APAC
MEF Marketing Group Representative
15.00 Case Study: Successfully implementing Carrier Ethernet services and interconnectivity in the region
Henri Setiawan, Senior Researcher, R&D Center PT Telkom Indonesia
15.30 Afternoon Tea
16.00 Panel discussion and questions from the floor: How to achieve greater economies of scale, and increased efficiency through better bandwidth utilisation of Ethernet compared to legacy systems
• Assessing evolution of technology offerings
• Key challenges and opportunities
• Managing costs
Kok Ching Ong, M1
John Hoffman, Head of Ethernet Product Management, Tata Communications
MEF Marketing Group Representative
16.30 End of Conference Day Two
