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Connect-World Europe I 2010     Magazine introduction Wireless in all its forms is driving the direction and planning of the communications sector, including the fixed sector. Wireless is re-focusing IT growth and increasingly determining IT platforms and delivery mechanisms. Wireless is not the only game in town, but at times, it seems to be the only one that matters to both ICT and users sector executives. Exaggerated as some of the hype seems, wireless is - if not a new destructive technology - a destroyer of time-honoured business models and beliefs.     Theme: Wireless - growing on its own Articles Contributors Feature articles     Article no.: 1 Topic: Spectrum policy for wireless growth Author: Suvi Lindén Title: Minister of Communications Organisation: Finland PDF size: 226KB   About author: Suvi Lindén is Finland’s Minister of Communications. She served previously as Finland’s Minister of Culture. Ms Lindén is a member of the National Coalition Party and has been a Member of Parliament since 1995. In Parliament Ms Lindén has been Chair of the Education and Culture Committee, and Vice Chair of the parliamentary group of the National Coalition Party. Ms Lindén has also been Member of the Speaker’s Council, Foreign Affairs Committee, Committee for the Future, Transport and Communications Committee, Environment Committee, and the Finnish Delegation to the Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region.Ms Lindén has held positions of trust in a number of organisations. These include positions as Chair of the Ubiquitous Information Society Advisory Board, Member of the Board of the Finnish Cultural Heritage Foundation, Chair of the Vocational Education and Training Board and Member of the Oulu City Council, to mention only her more recent duties. Ms Lindén holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Oulu.   Article abstract: Effective communications policy is the key to promoting successful development of wireless communications. It is particularly important to ensure adequate access to spectrum. Finland’s priority is to allocate new frequency ranges to mobile communications; the 800 band, the ex- analogue television broadcasting ‘digital dividend’ frequencies, were recently allocated to mobile communications. To take advantage of today’s rapid technological evolution, Finland has opted for technological neutrality in spectrum management and has, for example, allowed use of LTE technology in the GSM 1800 range.   buy     Article no.: 2 Topic: Standardization - from innovation to success Author: Dr Walter Weigel Title: Director-General Organisation: European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) PDF size: 168KB   About author: Dr Walter Weigel is the Director-General of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) the leading global ICT standards organisation. Prior to this, Dr Weigel held various management positions with Siemens Germany where he began his career. Dr Walter Weigel graduated with a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich; he earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering on pattern recognition.   Article abstract: Standardization multiplies the value, impact and utility of each link in the value chain - from the initial concept, R&D, manufacturing and so on right through to the consumer - of any new technology. This is especially true of ICT, where every aspect - products, markets, technologies - is defined by standards. New products, new technologies, new market segments, all depend upon standardization at some point in time, in order to have an impact and to generate a return on investment.   buy     Article no.: 3 Topic: Global communications - connecting everything and everybody Author: Matthew Key Title: Chairman and CEO Organisation: by Matthew Key, Chairman and CEO Telefónica Europe PDF size: 173KB   About author: Matthew Key is the Chairman and CEO of Telefónica Europe and a member of the Telefónica, SA. Executive Committee. Prior to his current position, Mr Key was the CEO of Telefónica’s UK business. Mr Key joined Telefónicas Chief Financial Officer, where he was responsible for strategy, business development, regulatory functions and the establishment of the Tesco Mobile joint venture. Before joining Telefónica’s O2 group, Mr. Key worked with Vodafone as UK Operations Finance Director. He has also held various financial positions with Kingfisher, Coca-Cola, Schweppes and Grand Metropolitan. Matthew Key holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Birmingham, UK   Article abstract: Today’s economic downturn is not slowing the digital revolution. Other industries have faltered, but the Information Communications Technology (ICT) sector is a driver of economic recovery. Still, there are significant challenges to overcome if ICT is to remain an engine of European economic growth including addressing regulatory issues to safeguard future investment in technology. The wireless sector needs to rise to its own particular set of challenges to survive, particularly in the way it engages with customers, stakeholders and regulators.   buy     Article no.: 4 Topic: Transforming the network Author: Andy Williams Title: President, Services Organisation: Alcatel-Lucent PDF size: 219KB   About author: Andy Williams is Executive Vice President of Alcatel-Lucent and President of the Services Group. Previously, Mr Williams was the head of the Services Business Group’s Network Operations division for Alcatel-Lucent. Mr Williams joined the company as President of Lucent Technologies, Europe, the senior executive for Europe. Prior to Alcatel-Lucent, Mr Williams spent 25 years with IBM holding a number of senior leadership positions, most recently that of General Manager Public Sector EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) at IBM Global Services. Andy Williams holds degrees in Mathematics from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom.   Article abstract: The transition from current legacy platforms and proprietary networks to open all-IP infrastructures is often troubled and complex, but the new networks let service providers easily offer exciting new Internet and data- based applications as well as content services in partnership with the likes of Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Apple. Greater capacity is needed to handle the explosion of video content, but given net neutrality and competitive pricing pressures operators must simultaneously expand and reduce costs to maintain their margins.   buy     Article no.: 5 Topic: Low cost handsets and mobile TV Author: Samuel Sheng Title: Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technical Officer Organisation: by Samuel Sheng, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technical Officer, Telegent PDF size: 167KB   About author: Samuel Sheng is the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of Telegent. Prior to co-founding Telegent Systems, Mr Sheng was responsible at LSI Logic for architecting and implementing a series of silicon RF tuners for video-band applications, and highly integrated DVD front-end technologies. Before LSI Logic, Mr Sheng co-led the ADSL front-end (AFE) development effort at Datapath Systems, Inc. Mr Sheng was named Inventor of the Year at LSI Logic in 2002 and 2003 and was named the 2002 Distinguished Engineer at LSI Logic. Mr Sheng has authored numerous papers and publications on various topics such as low-power CMOS RF wireless systems and low-power CMOS digital design. Mr Sheng has been awarded seven patents in the areas of RF tuner and DSL modem design. Samuel Sheng holds a BA degree in applied mathematics and BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.   Article abstract: Affordable mobile TV is now in the reach of the great low-income masses in developing regions worldwide. Within the last two years, ‘broadcast’ TV receivers have been developed for mobile handsets and a variety of thin, low-cost, attractive handsets will be available prior to the World Cup in South Africa and the Cricket World Cup Tournament in India. Low cost handsets with TV receivers, free content and two exciting sports events should finally turn mobile TV into a mass-market phenomenon.   buy     Article no.: 6 Topic: Networking 2010 - extending the enterprise Author: Ted Higase Title: MD, EMEA Organisation: Global Crossing PDF size: 171KB   About author: Ted Higase is Global Crossing's Managing Director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Previously, Mr Higase was Global Crossing’s Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Experience Officer. Mr Higase also served as Global Crossing's Executive Vice President for Worldwide Carrier Services and as President, Carrier Services for Asia Global Crossing, a separately listed subsidiary of Global Crossing. Prior to Asia Global Crossing, Mr Higase was Corporate Director and General Manager for the Medium-Size Business Corporate Accounts Division at Dell Computer Corporation in Japan and as Corporate Director, Dell Online for Asia Pacific. Mr Higase began his career with AT&T in Japan where he held a wide range of senior and executive positions in marketing, sales and business management, most recently as service line director for networked voice premises management at AT&T Solutions' world headquarters in New Jersey, U.S. Mr Higase holds an M.B.A. from Drake University and a B.A. in International Relations from the University of California, Davis. He has also attended the Executive Development Program at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.   Article abstract: Next-generation enterprise applications - such as disaster recovery, storage, and packet voice and video - are driving steep increases in bandwidth demand. Traditional data using legacy technologies (such as private line, Frame Relay, and ATM) are not sufficient. They are expensive to scale, limited, inflexible, operationally complex, and slow to upgrade. Extending Ethernet beyond the LAN to the WAN with Ethernet VPLS offers an effective alternative to traditional broadband with greater performance, flexibility and reliability, all at relatively low cost.   buy     Article no.: 7 Topic: LTE/4G wireless backhaul with no strings attached Author: Ira Palti Title: President and CEO Organisation: Ceragon Networks Ltd. PDF size: 233KB   About author: Ira Palti is the President and CEO, Ceragon Networks Ltd. Mr Palti served previously as the CEO of Seabridge Ltd., a Siemens company in the broadband services and networks sector. Prior to joining Seabridge, he was the COO of VocalTec Communications Ltd., responsible for sales, marketing, customer support and product development. Before joining VocalTec Mr Palti founded Rosh Intelligent Systems, a company providing software maintenance and artificial intelligence diagnostic solutions and one of the first start-ups in Israel.   Article abstract: The growth of mobile networks depends significantly upon the backhaul structure that relays the traffic between the local radio base stations and the core network. As data traffic grows, the need for backhaul grows, requiring more base stations and faster links. Most backhaul relies upon either fibre or microwave links - each with its own advantages and disadvantages. Microwave is easier, less expensive and faster to deploy in many situations, but there are situations where fibre is a better long-term investment.   buy     Article no.: 8 Topic: Femtocells femtocell a promise for mobile users and operators Author: Dr. Heinrich J. Stüttgen Title: IEEE Fellow, Vice President Organisation: NEC Europe Ltd. PDF size: 233KB   About author: Dr Heinrich J. Stüttgen is Vice President of NEC Laboratories Europe, responsible for NEC’s network and IT related R&D activities in Europe; he joined NEC Europe Ltd. as the founding manager of NEC’s Network Laboratories in Heidelberg. Previously, Dr Stüttgen worked at IBM Germany in various R&D positions. Dr Stüttgen is an IEEE Fellow, the Director of Conference Development and a Member the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society. In 2009 he was Technical Program Vice-Chair of the IEEE ICC Conference in Dresden, the largest telecommunications research conferences world-wide. Heinrich Stüttgen was a Fulbright scholar at the State University of New York at Buffalo (NY) where he earned a Master of Science degree. He obtained his Doctor of Science degree in computer science from the University of Dortmund.   Article abstract: The majority of data traffic in cellular networks originates indoors, where macro cellular coverage is often patchy and data rates are low; femtocells are an attractive low-cost, licensed spectrum, plug and play solution to this problem. Femtocells use the customer’s own on-premise fixed-access connections to backhaul the traffic to the mobile network and help mobile operators to provide additional capacities at low cost. Although there are commercial deployments, femtocell is still an emerging technology and research and standards are still needed.   buy     Article no.: 9 Topic: Digging out - opportunities and challenges in a wireless world Author: John Aalbers Title: CEO Organisation: Volubill PDF size: 229KB   About author: John Aalbers is the CEO of Volubill. He joined the company from Intec Telecom Systems where he was the VP of Charging and Billing Products. Prior to joining Intec, Mr Aalbers built successful businesses in EMEA and APAC for CGI (Computer Generation Inc.) culminating in the sale of CGI to Intec. Mr Aalbers has direct experience in sales and business development, strategic and product marketing, delivery and support, acquisition integration and customer and partner management. John Aalbers attended the University of Melbourne.   Article abstract: Mobile is growing, despite the economy, throughout the world. Nevertheless, costs are rising faster than revenues in many markets and money needed for the network upgrades needed to maintain service levels is scarce. Big-name carriers face rising service quality complaints. A substantial percentage of these complaints reflect these operators’ success marketing devices like the iPhone together with flat-rate data plans coupled with their failure to keep up with the overwhelming demand for bandwidth these devices - and the applications they enable - generate.   buy     Article no.: 10 Topic: Android - changing the rules for mobile devices Author: Shrikant Latkar Title: AVP, Products and Solutions Marketing Organisation: Aricent PDF size: 219KB   About author: Shrikant Latkar, AVP for Products and Solutions Marketing at Aricent. Previously, Mr Latkar worked for Juniper Networks, defining and implementing the company’s solutions marketing strategies. Before Juniper Networks, Mr Latkar spent nine years at Avaya and Lucent Technologies in various leadership positions in the areas of Product Management, Marketing and Engineering. Shrikant Latkar has a B.S. in Engineering from Karnataka University, India, and also an MBA from the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, USA.   Article abstract: Android, is an ‘open’ mobile software platform that can be adapted to work on almost any hardware or application. The smartphone to beat among today’s platforms, if one wants to gain market, is Apple’s iPhone. Android can succeed, not by trying to match Apple, but by creating a new and superior user experience and by overcoming the difficulties and integrating such ‘must have’ applications as social networking, location based services and video-on-demand into a single integrated Android system.   buy     Article no.: 11 Topic: Partnering for growth Author: Russ Shaw Title: General Manager for EMEA and General Manager for Mobile Organisation: Skype PDF size: 225KB   About author: Russ Shaw is Skype’s General Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and General Manager for Mobile. Mr Shaw left Telefonica/O2, where he held a number of senior executive positions to join Skype. Most recently he was the Global Innovation Director for the Telefonica Group. Prior to this, Mr Shaw worked at O2, first as UK marketing director, then as Innovation Director for O2’s UK operations. Mr Shaw was also CEO of Mobileway, a mobile messaging start-up, and Managing Director at UK cable company NTL (now Virgin Media). Before entering the telecoms industry, Mr Shaw spent years marketing consumer financial services, including at American Express, based in London, in a variety of international marketing, advertising, and brand management roles in the Consumer Card and Global Network Services divisions. At Charles Schwab Mr Shaw served as SVP, International Marketing. Russ Shaw has a BS from Washington University in St. Louis and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is also a non-executive director for Dialog, a publicly-traded semiconductor company.   Article abstract: Use of the mobile Internet is a growing rapidly, a growing range of devices - netbooks, mobile phones, GPS devices, cameras and more - now use it. Mobile operators are rethinking their business models and many would like to impose ‘infrastructure fees’ to pay for their network expansion, but this will only throttle network usage and innovation. Operators can set themselves off from the competition, not only by partnering with device manufacturers, but by offering popular applications and content exclusively.   buy     Article no.: 12 Topic: Radio repeaters - old technology for new networks Author: Håkan Samuelsson Title: CTO Organisation: Axell Wireless PDF size: 169KB   About author: Håkan Samuelsson, the Chief Technology Officer of Axell Wireless, is the creator of some of the first cell enhancers in the industry more than 20 years ago. Mr Samuelsson began his career in wireless in the Swedish broadcasting industry. He later founded Avitec AB; Avitec merged with AFL to create Axell. Mr Samuelsson, an industry expert in both coverage solutions and wireless technology, is a frequent speaker at telecom conferences worldwide.   Article abstract: Mobile data traffic growth is forcing operators to upgrade their networks. Most mobile operators will eventually upgrade to LTE, but are holding back due to the high cost of deploying LTE using traditional network architectures. An old technology, radio repeaters, allied with a new digital technology, SDRs - software defined radios, provides an economical and technically robust way to provide coverage using existing antenna networks. SDRs can also be easily reconfigured - without hardware update - for use with future technologies.   buy     Article no.: 13 Topic: Policy control and charging for LTE Author: Joe Hogan Title: Founder and Chief Technology Officer Organisation: Openet PDF size: 172KB   About author: Joe Hogan is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Openet and the principal architect of Openet’s FusionWorks based solutions; he has more than 20 years of software engineering experience. Mr Hogan represents the company in the IETF, 3GPP, IPDR.org, and GBA forums and frequently speaks at, and chairs, conferences throughout Europe, Asia, and North America. He was also a senior architect with Sun Microsystems's European kernel development centre before leaving to found Openet.   Article abstract: Policy control allows service providers to establish policies, business rules, that define how a user will be treated, and its needs handled (QoS, priorities, bandwidth allocation, etc.). The level of service accorded is intimately related to the rates charged. With services such as LTE and EPC, ARPU growth will be slower than data growth so revenues per megabit will drop. Operators will need increasingly sophisticated and scalable policy control and charging to walk the line between profit margins and customer satisfaction.   buy     Article no.: 14 Topic: Where wireline meets wireless Author: Zeev Aviv Title: Acting President and CEO Organisation: Tadiran Telecom PDF size: 221KB   About author: Zeev Aviv is the Acting President and CEO of Tadiran Telecommunications; he has been with Tadiran for over 32 years. Prior to assuming his current post, he was the company's Vice-President in charge of Sales & Marketing. When Tadiran Telecommunications merged with ECI Mr. Aviv was appointed Director of International Sales & Marketing. Mr Aviv has also served as Tadiran’s Engineering & Product Support Manager. Zeev Aviv holds two B.Sc degrees - one from Century University in the US and the other from Tel Aviv University, Israel.   Article abstract: Fixed-mobile convergence, FMC, integrates wireline and wireless communications technologies so that, in principle, any service available from one network can also be accessed via the other a single dual-mode device that switches between networks as needed to provide better access, better service or lower cost connections. FMC, lets employees access any of the enterprise’s online resource, find co-workers wherever they may be and improve service by facilitating anytime anywhere access to company employees or services by customers and suppliers.   buy Confirmed authors (Order by article no.)   Suvi Lindén Minister of Communications, Finland   Dr Walter Weigel Director-General, European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)   Matthew Key Chairman and CEO , by Matthew Key, Chairman and CEO Telefónica Europe   Andy Williams President, Services, Alcatel-Lucent   Samuel Sheng Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technical Officer, by Samuel Sheng, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technical Officer, Telegent   Ted Higase MD, EMEA, Global Crossing   Ira Palti President and CEO, Ceragon Networks Ltd.   Dr. Heinrich J. Stüttgen IEEE Fellow, Vice President, NEC Europe Ltd.   John Aalbers CEO, Volubill   Shrikant Latkar AVP, Products and Solutions Marketing, Aricent   Russ Shaw General Manager for EMEA and General Manager for Mobile, Skype   Håkan Samuelsson CTO, Axell Wireless   Joe Hogan Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Openet   Zeev Aviv Acting President and CEO, Tadiran Telecom