I will be participating in a number of sessions at LTE Americas in Dallas next week including the opening talk at Signaling Day on 13th. Here are the full details. Hope to see some of you there.
LTE Americas Sessions
13th
09.45 Signaling Market Overiew and Key Trends in the Signaling Space
• Signaling traffic growth – some perspectives
• Key strategies to deal with the traffic growth
• Applications and signaling – cause and effect
• Managing the signaling traffic growth
Chetan Sharma, President, Sharma Consulting
09.30- 10.00 PANEL DISCUSSION
Analysing the Signaling Environment: Why the Signaling Storm?
· Increasing number and hunger of users
· Explosion of M2M applications, mobile gaming, connected devices and multimedia services – data usage now surpassing voice
· Growth of the always-on service
· In what ways has the shift to usage-based services increased the difficulties of signaling reduction and control?
Moderated by Chetan Sharma, President, Chetan Sharma Consulting
Michael Thelander, Founder and CEO, Signals Research Group
Scot Yagel, Product Management and Marketing, Developing Solutions
Erik Neitzel, DMTS, Technology Development Group, U.S.Cellular
14th
16.55 – 17.25 PANEL DISCUSSION
How Is Mobile Video Challenging the Network Architecture of LTE? Mitigating the Bandwidth-Hogger
· Explosion in video content, given increased user generated content and usage of video for social interaction and social networking
· Evaluating the impact on bandwidth consumption
· Video usage changing: Shift in viewing from broadcast ‘Prime Time’ to convenient ‘My Time’: Exponential growth in on-demand viewing
· What challenges do these changes in video usage create for the network?
Moderated by Harry Wang, Director, Health & Mobile Product Research, Parks Associates
Marc Zionts, VP Strategic Mobile Service Providers, Allot Communications
Oliver Korfmacher, Head of Presales Policy, Siemens SCT
Chetan Sharma, President, Sharma Consulting
15th
12.10-12.40 PANEL DISCUSSION
Maintaining a Robust, MultiNetwork Environment with SON: Why SON is becoming increasingly Necessary
· Heightened network complexity and topology with LTE calling for increased feedback mechanisms
· Moving from a Coverage Centric focus to a Capacity Centric focus – increasing need for better spectrum efficiency per user area
· Leveraging the ability to utilise CAPEX better and reduce OPEX
· Customer expectations increasing making fast and controlled optimisation essential
Moderated by Chetan Sharma, President, Chetan Sharma Consulting
Bertrand Mizzi, Director of Strategic Marketing and Innovation, Astellia
Thomas Neubauer, Founder and MD, Symena
Arif Ansari, CTO, Reverb Networks
Başar Akpınar, CEO & Co-Founder, P.I.Works
Ahmad Armand, Staff VP LTE, MetroPCS
14.20 – 14.50 PANEL DISCUSSION
Harvesting Data Analytics for Improved Customer Personalisation
· Moving beyond the paradigm of ‘Carrier as Commoditised Access Model’ through Personalisation
· Using analytics to dynamically link customers to products and services, then back to financials and network quality for proactive response to QoS issues
· Moving beyond network monitoring to real-time Network Reaction
Moderated by Chetan Sharma, President, Sharma Consulting
Ray Bariso, VP, Strategy for OSS/BSS, Ericsson
Brian Holeman, Partner, TATA Consultancy Services
Keith Cobler, Marketing Manager, Tektronix Communications
Kenneth Jackson, Regional Account Director, The Now Factory
Paul Wakefield, VP & MD, Dingli Communications
16.30 – 17.00 PANEL DISCUSSION
End User Value for RCS
· Why RCS is critical for carriers?
· What RCS provides to end users?
· Unified user experience in RCS?
· Integration to social networking in RCS?
· How presence is going to Impact telephony services?
Solyman Ashrafi, VP, Product Management, MetroPCS
Ranjeet Bhattacharya, Principal Solutions Architect, Ericsson
Chetan Sharma, President, Chetan Sharma Consulting