Wireless Broadband Forum/ November 2005

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WiMAX, FWA, MESH + More.
Forum and Exhibition


The annual conference of the Broadband Wireless Association will take place this year in Cambridge on 15th and 16th November 2005. A pre-forum research workshop on Broadband wireless will run on the 14th november and a post-forum workshop on Deployment and Business Planning of WiMAX networks will be run by ADTI on the 17th November

Operator Case studies, WiMAX , Broadband Wireless Access, WLAN hotspots, 3G, 4G, Ultrawideband, Rural broadband, Business planning, Results from the UK Spectrum Research Proramme and much more

A highly successful event organised in collaboration with the Broadband Wireless Association (BWA), the Wireless Broadband Forum consists of three distinct streams for professionals involved in the management and marketing of broadband wireless networks, in their design and integration, and in the academic research that makes them possible.

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Management Forum Day 1

Plenary Session

Keynote Addresses

Conference Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Stephen Lowe, Chairman Broadband Wireless Association,
Member OFCOM Spectrum Advisory Board, OSAB

09:15 The role of WiMAX and FWA within BT
Ian Robinson, Head of Emerging Products, BT Retail, Wireless Internet Access

09:45 The State of WiMAX (WiMAX Forum Keynote)
Sai Subramanian, VP, Product Management & Strategic Marketing, Navini Networks and WiMAX Forum

10:15 COFFEE

10:45 Flexible options for deploying WiMAX and HSDPA
Rupert Baines, VP Marketing, picoChip

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WiMAX vs. 3G/HSDPA: competing or complementary?
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Options for WiMAX deployment
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Future-proofing WiMAX installation

11:15 Key aspects of deploying a real WiMAX network.
Pablo Comellas, Iberbanda

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Iberbanda as a broadband access company
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WiMAX as an accelerator of the information society in Spain
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Real deployments and near plans
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Issues and concerns

11:45 Wireless broadband commercial opportunities: an investors perspective
Peter Gardner, Vice President – Wireless Investments 3i

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Where are the Wireless Technologies on the hype cycle
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Which technologies look attractive for investors and why
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What of WiFi hotspots
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What about VoIP over WiFi?
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Is 802.11 the only commercial hotspot reality
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A view from the investors in The Cloud, Kineto, Sonim and Vonage

12:15 Current Regulatory Environment For WiMAX
Graham McDonald, Wireless Standards and Regulations Manager, Intel

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Overview of current WiMAX and FWA regulatory status
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Where do regulations need to progress to for optimum WiMAX mobility
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Managing the regulatory challanges

12:45 LUNCH

14:00 Addressing Rural and Urban Broadband
Panel led by Stephen Lowe, Chairman BWA

Presentations from:

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Telabria Networks, Jim Baker CEO
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Aplus Denmark, Henrik Lind CEO
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Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) Ireland, Jim Connolly, Senior Manager, Spectrum Management
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Libera, Robert Condon CEO
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Digiweb Ireland, Colm Piercy, CEO

A focused panel session where each panel member presents their approach of addressing service delivery in either rural broadband, urban broadband or both environments. The session covers such issues as, ‘can rural broadband be a sustainable business?’ , ‘Is subsidy the only way to enable rural broadband services?’, ‘Is providing urban broadband the only practical business option?’, ‘What are the challenges?’ This session includes time for audience interactivity.

15:30 Fixed wireless access considerations for a mobile operator
Bruno Cornaglia, Director and Chair of Vodafone International Broadband Wireless, Vodafone Italy

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Microwave links and Point-to-Multipoint systems represent a good opportunities for reducing OPEX in the
access transmission area for a mobile operator
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Microwave links and Point-to-Multipoint systems also have other advantages for a mobile operator in terms
of flexibility (time to market, upgrades, …)
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The evolution of access network towards a pure IP network will represent a new challenge for microwave vendor
due to new Metro Ethernet offer in urban areas
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PMP systems shall evolve towards more spectrum efficiency in order to reduce the cost per bit per hertz by using
packet technologies in a efficient way
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WiMAX can represent an alternative PMP solution for backhauling low capacity sites in NLOS condition
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Microwave links shall evolve towards packet technologies for increasing the spectrum efficiency mainly during clear
sky condition

16:00 COFFEE

16:30 Deploying successful Mesh Networks for residential and business
Ellen Kirk, VP Marketing, Tropos Networks

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Mesh networks powering more than 200 metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh networks today
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Mesh technology is a low-cost, simple and scalable way to deliver true wireless broadband (>1 Mb/s,
symmetrical) over large geographic areas to low-cost standard Wi-Fi clients
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Supporting a variety of applications, including residential and small business broadband Internet access,
mobile broadband data access, video surveillance, meter reading and voice
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Mesh networks require 75% less capital expenditure than cable or DSL and 67% less capital expenditure
than EV-DO
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Operating expenses per subscriber are at least 40% lower than cable or DSL and at least 20% lower than
EV-DO
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WiMAX will be integrated into metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh networks in a three-phase fashion: mesh-to-PoP backhaul
first, intra-mesh links second, client connections third.
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WiMAX requires mesh to support symmetric, broadband services to low-power client devices such as laptops and
PDAs.

17:00 Justifying the broadband wireless business case below 11GHz (Panel Session)

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Philip Bolt, President and CEO, Orthogon Systems
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Chad Pralle, SR Telecom
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Manfred Mettendorf, Fujitsu
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Rob Mortimer, Alvarion

17:45 Chairman’s closing remarks
Stephen Lowe


17.50 CLOSE OF DAY 1

16 November 2005

Management Forum Day 2

Plenary Session

Chair: Stephen Lowe, Chairman Broadband Wireless Association,
Member OFCOM Spectrum Advisory Board, OSAB


Keynote Addresses

09:00 Broadband Wireless Association
Stephen Lowe, Chairman

09:30 Aperto Networks
Reza Ahy, Chairman & CEO

10.00 COFFEE

10:30 International opportunities and challenges through deploying wireless
Panel Chair Caroline Gabriel, Research Director, Rethink Research Associates

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Jagbir Singh, CTO, Bharti (India)
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Paul Doody, CEO Irish Broadband
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Mark Atkinson, VP, T-Systems Middle East and Asia Pacific
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Gerard MacNamee, CTO, UK Broadband

A focused panel session in which the key international operators present their view of opportunities and the challenges that are being overcome to achieve success. The panel will also cover views on where they see the key drivers and success factors for FWA and WiMAX to enable continued growth in service delivery over wireless.

12:00 The future of WiMAX Service Providers
Lindsay Schroth, Senior Analyst, Broadband Access Technologies, Yankee Group

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Market demand for advanced services
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Overcoming current obstacles
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State of the WiMAX Market
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WiMAX technology inovation creates emerging busines models : - Defining the players - deployment scenarios

12:30 LUNCH

14:00 Getting from base station to subscriber: exploring the planning myths
John Berry, CEO ATDI

bullet Showing that WiMAX is not an invention: it's technology re-packaged
bullet Demonstrating that path performance is well understood from 2GHz to 60GHz
bullet Adding the complexity of equipment parameters and their effects
bullet Illustrating resulting performance considering composite equipment and path parameters
bullet Dispelling the myths of LOS/NLOS in clear language

14:30 Next Generation LMDS and FWA for point to multipoint backhaul
Theo Wegbrans, Executive VP, Cambridge Broadband

bullet The Challenges of delivering effective backhaul solutions Combining multiple frequencies on a single platform
bullet Delivering the required QoS for backhaul at sub 11GHz and LMDS
bullet Service provisioning, and traffic optimisation
bullet Cost effective and economical deployment strategies
bullet Effective use of the LMDS spectrum

15:00 Operator Case Study - Amocom Net/Motorola
John O'Hare, Azotel Technologies

In 2002, Ireland was the first nation in Europe to open the unlicensed 5.7GHz band for wireless Internet access. And John O’Hare, a former principal staff engineer at Motorola, was busy founding Amocom Net, a Cork-based wireless broadband telecommunications company. In January 2003, Ireland’s Department for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources announced the selection of five trial projects co-funded by the government to deliver wireless broadband Internet access in Ireland. And Amocom Net was selected as the provider who would deploy a wireless network in Cork City [pop. 123,340] and its suburbs

15:30 COFFEE

16:00 Key Operator Presentation
Keimpe Algra, Director Local Loop, Wireless Business Unit, Enertel Wireless

16:30 WiMAX and beyond– Conference summary and interactive session
Panel Chairman Kevin Suitor, VP Business Development, Redline Communications

bullet Paul Beastall, Wireless Mobility Analyst and member of the WiMAX service providers group BT
bullet Caroline Gabriel, Research Director, Rethink Research Associates
bullet Graham Currier, Wireless Development Director, PIPEX
bullet Ingvar Henne, Product Manager WiMAX, NextGenTel AS

17:15 Conference close

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