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Intelligent Migration Strategies for Next Generation Networks
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Discuss the most intelligent evolution path to an all-IP network to avoid costly mistakes Evaluate the impact of IMS and decide whether migration to IMS is inevitable Assess the capacity of softswitches to support value-added applications to prepare for future demands Learn how to build all-IP triple-play services in the softswitch age to offer cost-effective and futureproof services Understand how to maintain QoS in order to safeguard the customers' acceptance Understand co-existence scenarios of an IP network & the PSTN in order to ensure interoperability Examine softswitches in a converged fixed-mobile network to efficiently move to a next generation structure
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From softswitching towards controlled provision of IP based multimedia services - Introduction to 3GPP IMS and TISPAN NGN service architectures

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Dear Colleague, The decrease in revenue for traditional voice services in 2005 demonstrates the need to provide next generation voice services in a cost-efficient way. VoIP technology using softswitches brings about lower operation and maintenance costs and has reached a very mature status. Therefore its implementation is considered as a very promising way to go. However, open questions remain. Where will the softswitch architecture end up? How intelligent should a network be? And, is the deployment of IMS in the long run inevitable? This is why you cannot afford to miss our high-level international congress on

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Evaluate the impact of IMS and decide whether migration to IMS is inevitable Assess the capacity of softswitches to support value-added applications to prepare for future demands Learn how to build all-IP triple-play services in the softswitch age to offer cost-effective and future-proof services Examine softswitches in a converged fixed-mobile network to efficiently move to a next generation structure Discuss the most intelligent evolution path to an all-IP network to avoid costly mistakes

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An unrivaled line-up of top-level speakers from NGN pioneers such as BT, Telecom Italia, Teliasonera, Belgacom, Fastweb, Thus, Telefonica and the Fraunhofer Fokus Institute are invited to report about first-hand experiences. We are looking forward to welcoming you to our congress in Berlin! Best regards IQPC Project Management Team - telecom IQ

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CONGRESS AGENDA Day one | Wednesday, 25th October 2006
8:30 9:00 Registration & coffee Chairman's welcome & opening address Jean-Charles Doineau, Telecoms Technology Practice Leader OVUM, UK Migration to an all-IP network - drivers and challenges 9:15 Assessing the drivers for an all-IP migration fixed, mobile, and convergent networks I Which are the business drivers to end to end IP service operation, and when will these drivers push the service providers into deploying all-IP technologies I Which economies of costs can be expected from running or deploying an all-IP network for each service provider I Feedback from live transformation program currently undergoing - what are they implying and which issues service providers have been facing with them Jean-Charles Doineau, Telecoms Technology Practice Leader OVUM, UK Defining an operator's motivation behind the evolution to an all-IP network I Assessing key market opportunities I Which challenges exist I What are the key services the evolution enables Anthony McGarry, Product Manager FIBERNET GROUP PLC., UK Refreshment break & networking The capacity of softswitches to support future applications I What requirements and opportunities do softswitches create for deploying value added services in next generation networks? I What sets a softswitch for mobile networks apart from a softswitch for fixed networks? How will these coexist in converged fixed-mobile networks? I Technologies for programming value added services in softswitches: SIP servlets, JAIN SLEE and OSA-Parlay: How do they relate? I Building complex softswitch applications from individual service enablers (with examples) Dr. Johan Zuidweg, Divisional Head TELEFNICA I+D, SPAIN Examining NGN architecture & migration strategies 12:00 Bringing NGN to the Nordic countries I Business drivers I Local versus centralised production in a multi-country operation scenario I Network architecture and deployment I NGN challenges and opportunities I Overall aspects on the time plan Gran Eriksson, Director, Network Architecture and Strategy TELIASONERA A.B., FINLAND Networking lunch 15:00 14:15 Examining efficient migration strategies to an allIP network I The role of softswitches I Do alternatives exist I How flexible do strategies have to be? Falk Bleyl, Senior Product Manager Voice over IP THUS PLC, UK NGN evolution from the service layer perspective I Analysis of service layer evolution I From IN to NGN: evolution or integration? I The role of SOA in telco oriented architecture evolution I Integration of content-based services Gianni Canal, Head of Service Layer and Messaging Innovation Department TELECOM ITALIA S.P .A., ITALY Refreshment break & networking The evolution to an all-IP network: Gamma Telecom's case study I Why Gamma Telecom chose to go into softswitching early I The story so far I The changes: From TDM/ SDH legacy to IP / NGN issues arising, lessons learned and pitfalls on the way I Change management culture: What are the issues during migration from TDM/SDH to Gig/E IP softswitch I Suppliers, standards & regulatory: A brief history of recent activities, mergers & takeovers, SIP standards and operating in a Pan European environment I Next steps: Softswitch, a straight forward voice replacement technology or a roadmap for IMS? Graham Hillman, Network Director GAMMA TELECOM LTD., UK NGN long term evolution - is the future IMS? 17:00 Evaluating the impact of IMS I Are softswitches pre-IMS? I Is the migration to IMS inevitable? I IMS and new value-added services Eugen Mikoczy, Product Development Specialist, T-COM SLOVAK TELEKOM, A.S. , SLOVAKIA Is there life without IMS? Alternatives for the telecom operators I Peer to peer and the bandwidth consumption I Web 2.0 and the network computer I Identity centric architectures I Are technologies colliding or it is business models? I A glimpse of the future: cooperating network and networked individuals Roberto Minerva, Head of Strategy TELECOM ITALIA S.P .A., ITALY End of Day One and closing remarks from the chair

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CONGRESS AGENDA Day two | Thursday, 26th October 2006
8:30 9:00 Registration & coffee Chairman's welcome & opening address Latif Ladid, President IPV6 FORUM, LUXEMBOURG Softswitches & IMS architecture for cost efficient and future-proof service delivery 9:15 NGN evolution from multiprotocol softswitches to the IMS model - building new value-added services I The FASTWEB's case: building all-IP triple-play services in the softswitch age I Introducing SIP for cost-effective and future-proof services I Protocols co-existence in converged IPCentrex services I The role of gateways in SIP: PSTN interworking and PBX interconnection I Preserving the investments: Softswitch's death and rebirth in the IMS age Stefano Gobbo, Head of Video and Multimedia Service Engineering FASTWEB S.P .A., ITALY Towards open softswitching: An open source IMS core system for multi access multi service environments I Extending softswitching towards structured Service Provisioning = IMS I Understanding IMS as an open multimedia service platform I Motivation for Open Source (OS) code within the telco environment I Design aspects and key components of the Open Source IMS Core I Usage of the OS IMS Core within the Open IMS Playground @ FOKUS I Usage of the OS IMS Core within the BMBF Project MAMS Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz, Head of 3G Beyond Division FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOKUS, GERMANY Refreshment break & networking Evaluating interoperability & NGN interconnect 11:15 BT's 21CN and resolving the issues of NGN interconnect I Introduction to 21CN I The practical realities and challenges of NGN interconnect I Solving the challenges of NGN interconnect Tim Hubbart, Principle Consultant 21CN Solutions BT GROUP , UK The co-existence between legacy and NGN network I Engineering & operations of the legacy switching network I Move towards NGN/IMS structure I Interoperability between legacy & NGN networks I Deployment of services NP; ENUM, prepaid; managed services Etienne Pipers, International Design & Operation Manager BELGACOM S.A., BELGIUM Networking lunch Standardisation & protocols for next generation networks 14:15 ETSI TISPAN - Standardization for a 21st century NGN I Integration of IMS and softswitch technologies I Fixed and mobile network convergence I PSTN emulation and simulation I Cooperation with 3GPP and other SDOs Richard Brennan, Vice Chair ETSI TISPAN, FRANCE The new internet based on IPv6 : The internet technology next giant step I IPv6: a critical infrastructure piece to enable end-to-end NGN: Benefits and deployment roadmap I Resolves the address space limitation of IPv4 I Enables global peer-to-peer services across different networks I What is possible with IPv4 in very limited scale, is globally possible with IPv6 I Less complexity in network maintenance I No private address spaces I No NATs (savings both in equipment and maintenance costs) I End-to-end security features are easier to deploy with global addresses I Relevance of IPv6 to 3GPP IMS I Relevance of IPv6 in 3GPP2 IMS I Role of SIP Latif Ladid, President IPV6 FORUM, LUXEMBURG End of congress and closing remarks from the chairman

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INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP DAY Workshop Day | Friday, 27th October 2006

Workshop A | 9:00 - 17:00 From softswitching towards controlled provision of IP based multimedia services - Introduction to 3GPP IMS and TISPAN NGN service architectures
Softswitching is today denoting the technical core network evolution from circuit switching to all-IP networks. Whereas softswitching was mainly about PSTN replacement by VoIP in mostly vendor specific approaches, these days the ongoing network convergence and the associated service concepts such as fixed-mobile convergence and triple play are demanding for a more structured and globally standardized all-IP service provisioning architecture. This is today represented by the 3GPP IP Multimedia System (IMS) and the ETSI TISPAN Next Generation Network (NGN) releases. This tutorial starts with a review of the core network evolution towards an all-IP network and motivates the need for seamless service delivery platforms (SDPs). After introducing the IMS/NGN concept the related standard bodies will be briefly reflected. The major tutorial emphasis is on the 3GPP IMS Release 6 core and application layers. The tutorial reviews the key components and their interactions. Based on this knowledge the tutorial introduces the different subsystems defined within the ETSI TISPAN NGN Release 1. A dedicated session is devoted to the IMS market situation in terms of key players and operator introduction strategies. The tutorial ends with an overview of the FOKUS IMS play ground and practical service examples and demos. 1. Network convergence, NGN and SDPs I Service drivers: VoIP , FMC, triple play I Core network evolution towards NGN I Service delivery platforms for NGN / all-IP networks I IMS motivation: IN + Internet I NGN standards bodies: IETF, 3GPP , ETSI TISPAN, ITU-T, ATIS, OMA

2. 3GPP IMS core layer I Understanding IMS as overlay architecture I IMS Core components and interactions (P-CSCF, I-CSCSF, S-CSCF, Client, HSS, MRF, MG) I User registration and IMS security I IMS session control and QoS I IMS charging architecture 3. IMS application layer I IMS AL components and interactions (HSS, AS, MRF, IMS enablers, clients) I Application server operation modes and example call flows I Service provisioning within IMS I AS options (CAMEL, OSA, Servlets) I IMS enablers: Presence, XDMS, devise management, messaging, etc. I IMS applications: VoIP , IM & Presence, Push2Talk / PoC, FMC, Triple Play I IMS vs. SDP aspects 4. ETSI TISPAN NGN Release 1 I General TISPAN NGN requirements and system overview I TISPAN IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) functionality, components and interactions I TISPAN PSTN Emulation Subsystem (PES) functionality, components and interactions I Upcoming TISPAN Streaming Subsystem outlook 5. IMS market overview I IMS market figures - from softswitches to IMS I Key IMS players (operators, vendors) I IMS Introduction scenarios (PTT; FMC, NGN) I IMS business models and key challenges 6. FOKUS Open IMS Playground as an IMS/NGN testbed I IMS testbed concept and service offerings Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz, Head of 3G Beyond Division FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOKUS, GERMANY

Workshop B | 9:00 - 12:30 Analysing the architecture of IMS - NGN service platforms and architecture evolution
This workshop will be focused on NGN based service platform and service stratum within NGN conception. We will compare differences between softswitch-based and IMS-based NGN architecture as well as architecture evolution towards all-IP NGN networks. Workshop will give to the participants a general overview about IMS based architecture, elements and related protocols. Significant part is concentrating to the NGN services and application layer interaction with control elements. Presentations will be finished with lesson learned from the real NGN deployment of T-Com/Slovak Telekom.

What the participants will learn: I Principles and concepts of NGN architecture I Differences between Softswitch-based and IMS-based NGN architectures I Overview of the important IMS elements and protocols I Functionalities of service stratum within NGN concept I Basic categorisation of NGN services and applications (with examples) I Real experience from NGN services deployments and product development I Future evolution of softswitching technologies and some remarks about technology trends Eugen Mikoczy, Product Development Specialist Juraj Matejka, Head of Voice Networks Service Team T-COM, SLOVAK TELEKOM, A.S. , SLOVAKIA

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