Summit Day One: Tuesday, 22 March 2011

08:15 Summit Registration

08:45 Opening by Summit Chairperson

Siva Balendra
CTO
Loop Mobile

08:50 Improve Profitability, Maximise Data Revenue and Reduce Data Cost Through Intelligent Traffic Optimisation

• Maintaining and improving performance with rapid increase of traffic and subscribers through effective network settings
• Prioritization and dynamic quality of service
• Controlling traffic via broadband service optimization

Rohit Kanwar
GM Network Optimisation
PT Bakrie

09:30 A pragmatic Approach to Mobile Network Optimization: combining deep-dive network performances analysis with geolocation accuracy for improved effectiveness and efficiency

• Understand how to differentiate analysis and corrective actions based on indoor vs outdoor traffic profiles and optimize your network to better serve VIP customers
• Examine how to use automated performance measurement to cut time to identification and resolution of network problems and coverage issues
• Learn how to turn performance measurement data into a true opportunity for operational cost reduction
• Learn how to improve your analysis capability from monitoring network performance to analyzing users’ perception of quality

Lampson Lin
Test and Optimization
Tektronix Communications

10:00 To enhance Mobile Data Customer Experience while maximising cost savings through improved planning, dimensioning and optimisation techniques.

• Identifying relevant key measurement indicators to capture and enable enhancement on quality of experience
• Capacity management challenges for a mobile data network
• Upfront Planning, Iterative Management versus Optimum Cost Balance

Jamie Chee
Head of Radio Access Planning
Digi

10:40 Providing Capacity to Data Traffic Evolution & Solving Related Customer Complaints in a Transition Market

• Effective dimensioning to handle the widening gap between the exponentially rising data traffic and the saturating revenues
• Creating a network with subscriber awareness
• Understanding subscriber usage to implement quotas

Mohd. Mashiul Huq
Head of Optimisation
Banglalink

11:40 Removing bottlenecks from wireless networks
Sorting through the mobile traffic crunch

• 3G networks enable mobile broadband and the smartphones that use these networks are increasingly using more and more data intensive applications. In turn, the networks are being stressed as usage increases.
• Find out how to sort through the mobile traffic crunch and which techniques can be utilised. Specifi cally, this session will focus on bandwidth optimisation in the network.

Daniel Kwan
APAC VP of Mobile Network Infrastructure
Dialogic Inc.

12:10 Synchronizing Market Optimisation with Network Optimisation. An offensive WAR strategy

• Introduction: Market / Network Planning and Market / Network Optimisation
• WAR - Selecting the Battleground
• Four Quadrant Model to present distinct market and network optimisation strategies in each territory
• The Process of Implementation

Mothilal De Silva
Group Chief Strategy Officer
Dialog Telekom

12:50 Optimally Manage Traffic Between High Band U2100 And Low Band U850 Or U900) Along With The GSM Layer, And Meet The Challenges Of Smartphones

Jowed Khatiz
Vodafone Hutchison Australia

14:10 Smooth Convergence of 2G, 3G, HSDPA+ and 4G Networks to Ensure Seamless Service Provision

• Examining the E2E consolidation and co-relation in between all systems
• Balancing voice vs. data optimisation on your networks
• Current Investment strategy on 2G/3G technologies while minimizing the technology obsolescence in the march towards LTE

Wen-Hao Yang
Managing Director, Wireless Communications Lab.
Chunghwa Telecom Laboratories (CHT-TL)

14:50 Is your network prepared for the mobile video revolution?

• Optimize backhaul and transit capacity to cope with increasing amounts of video traffic
• Manage network bottlenecks by applying policy-based web and media optimisation techniques
• Plan and monitor your network better with advanced analytics capabilities

Chen Didi-Barnea
Director of Product Marketing
Flash Networks

15:20 Maintaining Good Quality and Coverage through Minimising Propagation Loss Difference between GSM & UMTS

• Preserving voice clarity with current legacy systems
• Effective integration and planning to reduce dropped calls and congestion

Konesh Kochal
Head of Technology Development
Bharti Airtel

16:20 From the Internet of Things to the Future Media Internet

• Introduction of future Internet: the Internet of Things, the future media Internet
• Dynamics of traffic pattern in the future Internet
• From tiny-band mass services to huge-band services
• Intelligent service control and traffi c engineering for fi xed/ mobile networks

Gyu Myoung Lee
Research Fellow, Institut Telecom
Telecom SudParis

17:00 Brainstorm! Automated Benchmarking Drive on Radio Access Networks

• Indicators to ensure drive test plan much more close to actual user experience
• Applying SON algorithms to optimise cell site design
• Effective neighbor planning to minimise interference

Roundtable Leader:

Wael Zakaria
Senior Director Access Network Operations & Management, Technology
Du Telecom

17:20 Centralized 3G Base Band Processing Solution For Optimised TCO

• Investigating settings to ensure maximum utilisation of CE sites with 3G optimisation
• Efficient management of network elements to reduce TCO

Wael Zakaria
Senior Director Access Network Operations & Management, Technology
Du Telecom

18:00 Chairperson’s Summary and Close of Summit Day One