Summary of Technical Sessions

1. Summary of Technical Sessions Wim van der Bijl Chairman Technical Programme Committee

2. Session 1: “ICT Transformation in Czech Republic” • Frank Meywerk – CTO of T-Mobile CZ summarized actual developments and deployments in mobile communication with special accent on increasing of datatransmission bitrates in general and focused on technological as well as business issues particularly seen inside the Czechia itself. • Zdeněk Brabec of FEL CVUT completed series of various statistics performing telecommunications in the CZ mirrored to all other Europe from domestic as well as various, mainly EU or OECD sources. It was demonstrated that the current state of the CZ telecommunication is fully comparable with all the otherin Europe.

3. Session 1: “ICT Transformation in Czech Republic” • Petr Zeman – director for international affairs of CTU – Czech regulatory body - complemented in opening session performed basic information by PavelDvorak, the Chairman of the CTU Council. He summarised actually solved open regulatory tasks concerning relevant markets, digital dividend as well as spectrum aspects. • Anton Kuchar presented a role of small and medium CATV operators in CR in providing e-Services. The permanently increasing demand for BB brings a good chance for the CATV operators to successfully compete with the traditional telco operators. The paper performs CZ Telecom theatre focusing on the challenge for small and medium ones particularly. Overall conclusion can be that the actual situation in ICT business in CZ overall is comparable now with the situation in all other Europe countries

4. Session 2: “InfoSociety 2.0” • Telecommunication has reached capacity and quality not expected years ago. Ubiquity is a strong requirement and technology cost will continue to decrease. New economics are going to appear and influence the telcos of the future. • Telecom Operators require a drastic change in service orientation and business models to cope with new entrants in the markets. Telco 2.0 innovation combines solutions from the Telecom and the IT sector using IP based services provided by Next Generation Intelligent Network • Today the user-generated content is available on Internet. All this content is shared with the world, but at the moment all this world is only considered for consumer usage. • The usage of Multi-Touch Tables for Virtual Reality Interactive Storytelling allows a better immersive experience.

5. Session 3: “Solutions for delivering multimedia services” Important issues on the requirements and solutions for NG and BB services: • Detailed trends and user requirements for a Digital Home described in a study in the U.S.A. • Simultaneous use of PC and TV for accessing services (multitasking) now an activity in all age-groups • Basic communications and entertainment is the main use of digital home systems • A detailed economic analysis made of the different cost elements of providing FTTH solutions • Differences between the costs for PON solutions and Pnt-Pnt (homerun) implementations analysed • Specific detailed cost figures given for various implementations

6. Session 3: “Solutions for delivering multimedia services Architectures & implementations • A review of Telekom Austria's plans for NGN & ”Broadband for Everyone” • Descriptions of FTTx trials in different Austrian towns & cities • Conflicting QoS requirements for different “over the top” services on BB accesses • A network architecture using Resource Allocation Functions described how to solve the above problem

7. Session 4: “Will the ICT Transformation result in a green InfoSociety?” • ICT products and services (P&Ss) act as a general backbone network for the society and their lifestyle • Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection are essential parts of ICT P&Ss • Code of conducts developed to enforce this • A “Green Supply Chain” for ICT Products & Services is the only solution for sustainable developments • Energy Efficiency will be part of a modern Lifestyle within the Info-Society!

8. Session 4: “Will the ICT Transformation result in a green InfoSociety?” • Early consideration of experts knowledge avoid wasting of resources due to non-optimal decisions. • Total Cost of Ownership TCO-calculations can enable early investment in new technologies to reduce energy consumption i.e. operational costs • ICT investments pays back for the society

9. Session 5: New developments in mobility (1) • V2V communication: • aiming at improving road safety and traffic efficiency. • is possible via modulation techniques in de visual spectrum of high power LED lighting device in cars. • Advanced wireless network Relay Topology has promising advantages: • Extension of coverage & capacity. • Offers an economic solution to deliver broadband data. • No backhauling required, resulting in lower CAPEX & OPEX. • Fast network rollout.

10. Session 5: New developments in mobility (2) • Segmentation and adoption of internet on trains: • Interesting segmentation model based on the PSAP methodology, extended with a timing base is able to predict potential market penetration of wireless Internet services on trains . • A business case for the Belgian situation shows that • Using only 3G networks limits the viability of the business case as mobile data costs outrange revenues gained. • Migrating towards WiMAX when bandwidth exceeds 3G limitations, allows a more optimized solution. But ... what will convince the Railroad companies ?

11. Session 5: New developments in mobility (3) • To keep a telecoms infrastructure such as Carrier Ethernet sustainable a strategy can be: • Reducing the Cost per Bit by scale, convergence and automation • Enhancing the Value per Bit via Managed Services • Directly for B2B market • Through development of managed service capabilities to the consumer market • Embrace Collaboration to win revenue share from Content services and Adjacent Opportunities

12. Session 6: “Effective ICT Business processes” • NGOSS allows Network Operators to save costs on one hand and at the same could them enable them to utilize the (customer related) data available in the network management layer as a control point to create new services alone or in a ecozone with 3rd parties • Utilising the key control points is necessary to compete with other actors as Google, Apple and Nokia • Creating a single advanced web-based interface to represent data available in all system monitoring platforms enables simplifying the information integration availability for system engineers and users and also dissemination in other systems • Networks becoming more important and providing end-to-end services over the multiple networks is becoming more and more important and complex. • Building an autonomic management or self-managing network (management system) could help to overcome this. SEMNET is researching this issue and developing solutions

13. Session 7: “Information security & regulatory legal aspects” • How not to achieve “Broadband for all” • Imposition of regulated prices for universal service provision requires unavoidable the imposition of forced sales for broadband access in the high cost areas. • To avoid shortages, the government may decide to subsidize the difference between costs and prices. • Price established outside the market is arbitrary • The effect of regulation on Next Generation Access Networks • There is a close interaction between investment and regulation • Demand uncertainty, high civil engineering costs and lack of a clear regulatory framework are deterring NGAN roll out plans • GSM Band’s refarming Public Policy Review • There is not “one size fits all” solution for refarming. National particularities determines specific regulatory solutions • Digital Dividend constitutes an opportunity for introducing flexibility in the refarming process, broadening the number of alternatives

14. Session 8: “Transforming ICT: what’s in it for the user? • Algorithms and techniques can solve bottleneck problems and improve the quality (almost no packet losses) in high speed BB networks • Business models achieve improved financial transactions among operators in international VoIP interconnected networks • Disabled people now are able to have access to advanced technologies through the invention of platforms • Extended-Home Infrastructures could bloom the social transformation and trigger users to require new added value services

15. Session 9: New ICT developments Legislation on Grid and Cloud computing • The legal framework is not neutral in facilitating or impeding the expansion of Grid/Cloud businesses and innovations. • European Patent Convention 1973: software ‘as such’ delivered through a Grid/Cloud infrastructure is not patentable. • In the USA software patentability is not excluded as such • American software houses are in a more competitive position • As from 2015 rules change: taxation at the rate of the customer’s Member State : • extra compliance costs for companies to apply the correct VAT rate • For the majority of consumers price will increase.

16. Findings of Poster sessions The poster presenters used the direct contact to the interested audience • One poster presenter used a 3-dimentional model to explain the “Free Cooling System” • Extended-Home infrastructures could bloom the social transformation towards e-Society • A first approach of network tomographic techniques has been described

17. Findings of Poster sessions • One poster explained the opening of service creation directly by the user for automatic service discovery • Engineering schools can use ICT platforms to deliver better education/curricula to our changing society The experience with Poster presentations in the coffee break area is, that the posters enriched the congress structure

18. Overall conclusions • Presentations were not dominated by the financial crisis but much more by the need for more bandwidth for lower price/higher value per bit • Many presentations touched upon the business model: • On which area should Telecom Operators focus in the value chain, what should this the business model be? • Green IT is starting to get attention • Regulation of the highly technical telecom area is still a challenge • Not so much attention for the user and service creation: • We leave that to the market and become enablers only

19. Panel Questions • Overall conclusion can be that the actual situation in ICT business in CZ overall is comparable now with the situation in all other Europe countries • Can we conclude that ICT Business situation is generally comparable in Europe? • Can we speak of one ICT market in Europe?

20. Panel Questions • Telecommunication has reached capacity and quality not expected years ago. Ubiquity is a strong requirement and technology cost will continue to decrease. New economics are going to appear and influence the telcos of the future. • Are market stakeholders able to understand the new economics which will drive the business of the future?

21. Panel Questions • Telecom Operators require a drastic change in service orientation and business models to cope with new entrants in the markets. Telco 2.0 innovation combines solutions from the Telecom and the IT sector using IP based services provided by Next Generation Intelligent Network • Does this combination provide a sustainable competitive advantage in a fast developing market? • Should Telco’s focus on services and outsource the network as it becomes a commodity do the convergence to All-IP? • Will Over The Top Providers be interested in cooperation

22. Panel Questions • Today the user-generated content is available on Internet. All this content is shared with the world, but at the moment all this world is only considered for consumer usage. • Can we do something else with this user-generated content, extending the usage, enriching existing services and creating the opportunity for new ones? • Should Telco’s focus more on content creation themselves or should we leave to the market and act only as enabler for services

23. Panel Questions • Developments FTTH are still ongoing • What does BB for everybody really mean? How many Mb/s?, to 100% of homes? • Is there any Telco experience of implementing and comparing PON vs PntPnt FTTH solutions? • How will the proposals on network neutrality impact on the network architectures? Will it imply mandatory resource allocation function? • THE BIG Question! How can Telcos justify the business case for FTTH and PntPnt FTTH in particular?

24. Panel Questions(Green ICT) • Are companies willing to invest for “Green solutions” when the pay-back is calculated after 3 years? • Do we need regulative measures, when the competitive market fails for delivering sustainable ICT Products&Services?

25. Panel Questions • How not to achieve “Broadband for all” • In a free market scenario, how can competition reduce the digital divide in current underserved areas? • The effect of regulation on Next Generation Access Networks • What are the effects of direct application of current regulatory principles for legacy copper network framework to Next Generation Access Networks? • GSM Band’s refarming Public Policy Review • Does an early availability of digital dividend reduce the complexity of the refarming process?

26. Panel Questions • How can we achieve triple play (VoIP, video, data) services with quality and offer to users a good perception on BB advanced services? • Can Home Infrastructures bring revenues to operators and at the same time help users to improve their daily ICT needs? • Do you think that the European Commission should take initiatives (through sponsorship) to promote work in the development of technologies for the disabled people?

27. Panel Questions • Cloud computing • Opportunity or threat?