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IMPORTANT DATES:

> REGISTRATION OPENS
   25 November 2007

> TRIVIA CONTEST DEADLINE
   26 November 2007

> 50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
   27 November 2007

> EXPO OPENS
   27 November 2007


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ACCESS '07 EXECUTIVE BUSINESS FORUM
Dave Waring,
Telcordia Technologies,
Co-Chair of ACCESS '07 Executive Business Forum
Dr. Dilip Krishnaswamy,
Qualcomm
Co-Chair of ACCESS '07 Executive Business Forum
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Tuesday, 27 November 2007 • 10:00 am – 11:45 am
Regulatory Policies Driving Fiber Access


Unlike ADSL that has been deployed over an existing copper infrastructure, fiber access networks require significant investment in new loop facilities that must be justified in an era of strong open competition. Governments around the world struggle with crafting policies that at the same time encourage investment in fiber infrastructure (viewed as an important national goal) while also fostering telecommunications competition. Panel members will discuss the differing regulatory policies being applied in various world regions and their consequent impact on the deployment of fiber access networks.

Session Chair:

 
Dr. Niel Ransom, Board of directors of AMCC, ECI Telecom, Ellacoya Networks, Overture Networks, and Teknovis

Invited Speakers:
- David Young
, Verizon, Vice President Federal Regulatory Affairs
- Marcus Weinkopf, Deutsche Telekom, Executive Vice President Regulatory Strategy
- Dorothy Attwood, AT&T, Senior Vice President of Regulatory Planning and Policy
- Michel Huet, President, France Telecom North America
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Tuesday, 27 November 2007 • 10:00 am – 11:45 am
Operator Perspectives on Next Generation Mobile Networks

Mobile services have been evolving rapidly towards broadband and multimedia based on emerging 3G/4G technologies. Successful delivery of these emerging mobile services requires that mobile operators consider designing and deploying efficient and optimized next generation mobile networks to address various challenges. In this session, experts from top 5 mobile operators share their perspectives on:

  • Mobile services evolution
  • Key challenges and potential solutions to provide mobility of IP services
  • The need for smarter solutions to deliver the impressive performance of future radio networks in a real environment
  • Implementation of 3G/LTE
  • Need for a coherent organization and structure within a carrier to develop internal eco-systems
Session Chair:

 
Dr. Mallik Tatipamula, Juniper Networks

Invited Speakers:
- Dr. Kazuo Imai-san
, President and CEO of NTT DoCoMo, USA - Moving into the ubiquitous world: A new direction of B3G activities in Japan,
- Dr. Kalyani Bogineni, Director, Verizon Wireless - Considerations for Next Generation Networks to support IP Services in a Mobile World
- Dr. Klaus-Juergen Krath, Vice President, T-Mobile International - Next Generation Mobile Networks: Requirements beyond performance and spectral efficiency
- Remi Thomas, Senior Director, Orange/France Telecom - Benefits of Broadband mobile networks for Operators - From 3G/UMTS phase 1 to HSPA and 3G LTE
- Bob Pippert, Sprint-Nextel - Internal Ecosystems for Generational Evolution of Wireless Mobile Networks

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Tuesday, 27 November 2007 • 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
IPTV Network Requirements and Interoperability

The successful delivery of new and exciting IPTV services and applications demands industry attention and cooperation by a diverse group of stakeholders who have development and implementation priorities that are not always in concert.  The ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF) – comprised of the industry’s leading carriers, manufacturers and software providers – is recognized as the global leader in the development of requirements, standards, and specifications supporting the interoperability of an end-to-end deployment of IPTV services.  ATIS IIF is a lead source of technical contributions to standards bodies worldwide.  This session will explore architecture, DRM, and Quality of Service requirements for IPTV, as well as considerations for IMS applications among other areas, as defined by the ATIS IIF.  Attendees will gain from this session a thorough understanding of the technology and network planning direction for IPTV services.  Areas of focus in this session include the technical and network considerations for IPTV services and deployment as they pertain to:

  • Consumer Domain – the place where IPTV services will be consumed
  • Network Provider Domain – the domain connecting customer and service providers
  • Service Provider Domain – the domain providing service to a subscriber
  • Content Provider Domain – the domain that owns or is licensed to sell conte

Session Chair:
 
Dan O’Callaghan, ATIS IIF Chair, Verizon

Invited speakers:
- Randy Sharpe
, IIF Architecture Task Force Co-Chair, Alcatel-Lucent
- Kinney Bacon
, IIF Metadata Task Force Co-Chair, Scientific Atlanta, a Cisco Company
- Jeff Carr
, IIF DRM Task Force Co-Chair, Sony Electronics
- Kenneth Toney, IIF QoSM Task Force Co-Chair, Tektronix



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Tuesday, 27 November 2007 • 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Moving Spectrum Management Forward: Technical and Regulatory Challenges

This session will highlight major spectrum management issues today and those expected in the near future.  Among the issues will be public-safety spectrum management challenges, spectrum sharing, future auctions, broadband spectrum requirements, and spectrum for unlicensed devices. New spectrum management concepts will be described, and how they will improve access to the spectrum.  The results of the recently completed ITU radio conference, WRC-07, will be presented, emphasizing the possible impact on communications and other services.  The agenda for the next ITU radio conference and possible implications will be highlighted

Session Chair:

 
Fred Matos, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)

Invited Speakers:
- Ambassador Richard Russell,
Chairman, United States Delegation World Radio Conference 2007 (WRC-07) International Telecommunication Union
- Karl Nebbia,
Associate Administrator Director, Office of Spectrum Management National Telecommunications and Information Administration
- Steve Sharkey,
Director, Spectrum and Standards Strategy Motorola
- Dr. David Cohen,
Program Director, Telecommunication Studies University of Maryland/University College
- Julius Knapp,
Chief Officer, Engineering and Technology Federal Communications Commission


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Tuesday, 27 November 2007 • 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Next Generation Home Network and Home Gateway


Broadband services, such as FTTH, have been popularized. Many users have expected various services across access networks. For this purpose, home networks are installed widely. In particular, it is expected that the home gateway should provide high processing performance for interconnections between the broadband infrastructure and the home network, and interconnections among home appliances. In this session experts discuss the next generation home network from several points of view, such as requirements, functions, and implementation. Evolution of the NGN and its impact on the home network is discussed, including the impacts of multi-grade QoS and highly secure services on the home network and home gateway.

Session Chair:

Dr. Tetsuya Yokotani, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Optical Communication System Department R&D Center

Invited Speakers:
- Ryutaro Kawamura, NTT Cyber Solution Lab
- Tetsuya Yokotani, Mitsubishi Electric
- Lawrence Chee, PMC-Sierra
- Nikolay Guenov, Freescale Semiconductor
- Stanley Moyer, OSGi
- Paulo Pastorino, HGI
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Tuesday, 27 November 2007 • 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
The Road to 4G: Obstacles and Challenges


The latest developments in 3GPP-LTE, UMB and WiMAX and the effort to specify the 4G requirements within IMT-ADVANCED are paving the way towards 4G. In the road to 4G a number of technical and business challenges are being identified. The objective of this session is to discuss and debate on what the most critical challenges are and how they should be addressed.

Session Chair:

Angeliki Alexiou, Bell Labs, Wireless and Broadband Access Research, Alcatel-Lucent, UK, Chair WWRF Working Group on new air interfaces, relay-based systems and smart antennas

Invited Speakers:
- Farooq Khan, Samsung
- Richard Dean, Qualcomm
- Vahid Tarokh, Harvard University
- Kamran Etemad, Intel
- Angeliki Alexiou, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
- Klaus Hugl
, Nokia Research


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Wednesday, 28 November 2007 • 10:00 am – 11:45 am
Broadband Deployments

Operators around the world are making significant investments in new access network systems. Broadband is a critical component of the network evolution and this investment could determine the future of the wireline and mobile business. This session will provide an industry snapshot of broadband deployments worldwide.

Session Chair:

Bruno Orth, Deutsche Telekom

Invited Speakers:
- Dr. Shigeyuki Akiba, President and CEO, KDDI R&D Labs Inc., Japan
- Brian Whitton, Executive Director, Access Network Design and Integration, Verizon
- Dan Parsons, Director of Marketing, BroadLight Inc.
- Bruno Orth, Deutsche Telekom
- Malcolm Campbell, British Telecom

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Wednesday, 28 November 2007 • 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Lunchtime Executive Panel *
Title: Innovation and Competitiveness

With technologies evolving at record-fast speeds, and products and services pivotally affecting every day life, high-level officials from within leading telecommunications companies must anticipate the laws, policies and consumer demand of tomorrow. These well-aware influencers of technology and policy will discuss the United States' position in the current global market; what can be done to further our leadership position in the long-term; what the status of the industry is today; and what policies might affect our industry's growth.

Session Chair:

Grant Seiffert, President, Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA)

Panelists:
- Greg Farmer, Senior Vice President, Global Government Relations and International Trade, Nortel
- Jake MacLeod, PVP & CTO, Engineering and Technology, Bechtel Communications
- Timothy J. Regan, Senior Vice President, Global Government Affairs, Corning

* Box lunch will be provided at the session

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Wednesday, 28 November 2007 • 10:00 am – 11:45 am
Wireless Technologies/Platforms/Services for Mobile Entertainment

This session addresses wireless protocols and technologies, services, network architectures, and platforms, for mobile television and for mobile entertainment in general. Different wireless communication technology options exist to support mobile TV/entertainment. The session will present the strategies that service providers are adopting as they move from a limited market entry phase to a fully developed mass market phase. Trade-offs between personalization of the service vis-à-vis the cost and efficiency of delivering the service are considered. Wireless platform architecture requirements to provide support for such services are also considered. The session will discuss both the business and technical ramifications of these available choices to enable mobile television and entertainment services.

Session Chairs:

Dr. Dilip Krishnaswamy, Qualcomm Bob Larribeau, TelecomView

Invited Speakers:
- Mark Gannon
, VP Motorola Labs
- Alan Crouch
, Director and GM of Communications Technology Labs, Intel Corp.
- Dr. Phillip Alvelda
, Chairman and Co-Founder, MobiTV, Inc.
- Shaker Viswanathan
, Senior Director, Qualcomm MediaFLO Technologies
- Regis Paquette
, Alcatel-Lucent
- Scott Poretsky
, Director, Reef Point Systems

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Wednesday, 28 November 2007 • 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Operational Aspects of Fiber Access Systems

Besides the high cost for fiber deployment, operators are concerned as well with the cost of the network over its lifetime. These operational costs may change the overall picture significantly and have a substantial impact on the operators’ decision to deploy fiber access networks. On the one hand, low loss fiber installations allow for networks with low electrical power consumption while bridging long distances with high split factors and no intermediate regeneration. On the other hand, maintenance and trouble shooting of the highly sensitive optical network infrastructure puts a new burden onto the operators’s business model. Finally, the high initial costs for fiber infrastructure deployment forces operators to take development of future system technologies into account and to keep the network open for migration from one to the next generation system.

The speakers of this session will provide insights into operational aspects of optical access networks, from the perspectives of operators as well as system and test equipment vendors.

Session Chair:

Dr. Frank Effenberger, Huawei Technologies US


Invited Speakers:
- David Meis, Corning
- Malcolm Campbell, British Telecom
- Yves T'Joens, Alcatel-Lucent
- Dr. Ron Menendez, Telcordia Technologies
- Kevin Morgan, Corning.
- Robert Lingle,
Jr., OFS

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Wednesday, 28 November 2007 • 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Community/Municipal/Regional Networks

The past few years have seen remarkable growth in the deployment of local and regional networks designed to provide broadband Internet access, support public safety and other applications. As network technology options mature, it becomes increasingly realistic for organizations and coalitions to consider building their own infrastructures. Often this approach can meet the needs of constituencies that might not otherwise be served. This session discusses some of the latest trends and examples, including

  • Should a municipality be a service provider?
  • What are the incentives for a franchise holder?
  • What is the business model?
  • Will unlicensed spectrum really work (interference issues)?
  • Will these networks provide adequate capacity and scalability?
  • How does fiber fit in?
  • What can we expect in future technologies (WiMAX replaces WiFi, for example)?

Session Chair:

Dr. Richard Wolff, Gilhousen Chair, Montana State University

Panelists:
- Dr. Prathima Agrawal, Samuel Ginn Distinguished Professor and Director, Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center
- Dr. John Waclawsky, Chief Software Architect, Motorola
- Representative Cliff Stearns, Florida's Sixth District
- Dr. Jon Peha, Associate Director of the Center for Wireless & Broadband Networking, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
- Brian Mefford, President, Connected Nation, Inc.

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Thursday, 29 November 2007 • 10:00 am – 11:45 am
DSL Access and Gains from DSM

DSL's continued success is contingent on service providers offering the highest possible added-value services to the most customers. A competitive DSL access network much attain the goals of reaching a maximum number of customers, achieving the highest possible levels of speed for its customers, maintaining the highest levels of service quality, and minimizing capital and operational costs. Recent improvements for DSL monitoring, maintenance and operations arising from Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM) promise to greatly contribute to these goals by enabling tools to optimally tune and to reliably diagnose DSL links. 

The speakers of this session will include representatives from DSL service providers and companies implementing DSL management systems. They will provide views on the value to DSL operations offered by DSM techniques, experiences from DSM trials/deployments and insights into the next steps for DSM.

Session Chairs:

Dr. John Cioffi, Stanford University, Chairman, ASSIA Inc. Dr. George Ginis, ASSIA

Invited Speakers:
- Dr. Ken Kerpez
, Senior Scientist, Telcordia
- Tom Starr, xDSL Standards, AT&T
- Kevin Foster, Head of Addressing and Standards, BT Design, Chief Architect Office
- Jerome Le Masson , France Telecom R&D
- Dr. George Ginis, ASSIA Inc.
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Thursday, 29 November 2007 • 10:00 am – 11:45 am
Advanced Telecom and Computing Operations Support

Customer demand for a diverse range of broadband services is on an aggressive rise, with expectations to provide transparent access to grid computing services in the future. Existing operations infrastructures were designed mainly for services tightly coupled to specific network technology. The real challenge comes from IP ˆ and the decoupling of services from the underlying network it enables. Until recently, Network Management and Service Management were largely indistinguishable. Today, they are becoming quite separate disciplines, presenting a stress on older systems, and a challenge for the designers of new systems and operations architectures. The existing OSS environment has been hard pressed to economically provision, maintain and even bill the new services. Providing a high Quality of Service and difficulties in scalability have also been at issue. This panel provides carrier and vendor views on the main issues - and potential solutions - for successful operations of broadband networks and services.

Session Chair:

Dr. Joe Betser, The Aerospace Corp.

Invited Speakers:
- Joe Betser
, The Aerospace Corp.
- Roberto Saracco
, Telecom Italia
- Daniel Martin
, IBM
- Dr. Hideo Kuwahara
, Fellow, Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan
- Beauford Atwater, Telcordia Technologies