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Heavy Reading 2013 Outlook: It's All About SDN
Software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) are taking the telecom industry by storm and are likely to dominate the network strategy agenda in 2013 and beyond. In this special webinar, Heavy Reading's top analysts will preview their SDN reseach agendas for 2013, offering their unique insights into what SDN is (and isn't) and how it is likely to transform the telecom landscape. What’s hype and what’s real? What can we expect to see deployed, and when? And who will be the winners and the losers?
01/14/13
Operator CDNs: Where do we go from here?
Several Tier I operators have launched their own CDNs, seeking to optimize network traffic and generate new revenue from content owners. However, to realize their ambition, operators will need to layer on additional functionality that will attract customers. This webinar will explore new operator CDN capabilities such as enterprise services and cloud integration, web and app acceleration, service and delivery analytics, interconnection and federation, policy controlled service delivery, integration with pay TV infrastructure and other key issues in this space.
01/16/13
Brokering Applications in the Cloud: the Telco Opportunity and Strategies for Success
This webinar will look at the market opportunity for operators to aggregate cloud services and offer them to different customer segments, including enterprises and consumers. It will define the brokerage platform technology needed to realize this opportunity and the functions such platforms need to have, including excellent and customisable self-service capabilities, support for consistent interface, security, administrative and business policies across all platform services and advanced features such as service orchestration and service lifecycle management. It will discuss the benefits of various delivery models for brokerage platforms, including marketplace as a service (MaaS) to accelerate operator time-to-market.
01/22/13
New Backhaul Solutions For The Era Of Public Access Small Cells
While some aspects of existing backhaul networks can be re-used as small cells are rolled out, including fiber points of presence, management systems and cell site aggregation infrastructure, new solutions will be required to push backhaul to where the small cell needs to go, since fiber can't be pulled to every lamppost or every building. New generations of wireless backhaul technologies at new frequencies are required, including NLOS solutions. New generations of miniaturized, cost-optimized cell site router and demarcation capabilities also are required. This webinar will share small cell backhaul requirements and a roadmap for how backhaul networking requirements must evolve.
01/23/13
Is M2M the next big driver for operator’s revenue growth?
In order to achieve the desired revenue growth from M2M operators need to transform their underlying BSS/OSS systems. In this webinar we will look at what software components are required for operators in order to streamline their business processes and differentiate their M2M service offerings.
01/29/13
SDM and Analytics: Key Tools for Operators
SDM and analytics have become two key tools in the network operator's arsenal in the migration to highly personalized services. Both SDM and analytics continue to evolve and merge, as operators embrace the ability to share data more seamlessly as part of their Customer Experience Management efforts. This webinar will look at the support, technology and application trends in this arena and lay out what is next for operators.
01/30/13
The Case for Cloud RAN
Operators are looking at Cloud Radio Access Networks or C-RANs, as a less costly way to build out their networks to deliver greater data capacity through more densely deployed radio units. This webinar will explore how baseband processing elements of a traditional base station can be centrally located and connected to smaller distributed radios, and the challenges and benefits of taking this approach.
02/05/13
Re-defining Packet-Optical Transport with Software Defined Networking
The optical control plane now tops the list in operator requirements for next-generation transport networks, in part because of the rising potential of OpenFlow and SDN. OpenFlow's applicability for more complex telco environments is being hotly debated, but its existence has sparked investigation of how SDN can be applied to telco networks, including the role of the IETF-defined Path Computation Element (PCE). In addition, the industry has seen new hardware, including switched OTN, CDC ROADMs, and converged packet-optical transport systems (P-OTS). This webinar will separate the hype from the reality to chart a realistic course for the future of SDN in optical and packet-optical transport networks.
02/06/13
Architecting Dynamic, CE 2.0-Enabled Carrier Cloud Networks
The telecom industry is moving in the direction of a broadband utility model in which utility computing and storage capabilities are connected by low-latency Ethernet and wavelength services and are delivered to a customer - with an on-demand option - through a single Ethernet user network interface that can handle many applications with SLA guarantees. But more needs to be done for operators to build on-demand cloud networks with broad service coverage. This webinar will explore what operators must do to take advantage of the latest innovations in Carrier Ethernet, MPLS, packet-optical, access, and software technologies to evolve toward a network architecture better optimized for cloud service delivery.
02/12/13
Proving The Cloud Is Secure
The leading issue for enterprises considering cloud services is knowing that applications and data are secure, not only in the data center but also when being accessed from a variety of devices, including mobile devices. This webinar will explore not only how cloud service providers must secure their services but how they must prove they are secure.
02/19/13
Copper Pushing the 100-Meg Envelope
DSL remains the global leader for broadband service, and recent developments have made copper-based options more attractive in new environments, such as rural networks. In addition to technological advances such as the advent of VDLS 2 bonding, vectoring, and more, the combination of DSL and other technologies – fiber and WiFi – gives telcos more options for delivering advanced broadband services to a wider base of customer, enabling new business models.
02/20/13
New Age RAN: Multimode, HetNet, Small Cells and CloudRAN:
Several new technologies are shaping the new age of radio access networks, including multimode base stations, HetNet, small cells and cloud based RAN architectures that leverage baseband resource pooling. This webinar will examine key requirements and business case benefits of new distributed base station architectures and multimode base stations supporting multiple spectrum bands and standards
02/26/13
Packet Optical Metro and Transport Components
Packet-optical transport brings the advantages of Sonet/SDH, DWDM, and packet-based networks, delivering a scalable and resilient transport infrastructure. Most carriers are shifting to packet-optical transport. Packet-optical transport platforms (P-OTP) will also be widely used in mobile backhaul applications, a key investment area for carriers driving LTE-based 4G services.
This webinar will discuss the latest developments in packet-optical devices and OTN framer/mapper devices and technologies, identifying the key requirements and highlighting the advantages they hold for equipment manufacturers.
02/27/13
Optimizing Carrier Ethernet:
Today's more advanced Ethernet options include multiple classes of service and differentiated QoS, putting service providers in position to offer virtual private line services that support multiple applications over a single network interface. This Webinar will look at efforts to move customers away from Ethernet private line services to more efficient and effective multipoint services.
03/06/13
Security Threat Detection In Carrier Networks
Signature-based detection is a tried and trusted approach to blocking malicious traffic in the telecom network. But with increasing evidence of attacks being custom designed for smaller, market-specific targets among carriers, end users and enterprises, artificial intelligence and advanced heuristics will be increasingly important as a compliment in security strategies going forward. This webinar will look at the combination of signature-based and heuristics-based solutions and how carriers can best leverage them to strengthen their security stance over time.
03/12/13
Are Cloud Services Moving to Standardization?
Enterprises are looking for standard approaches to cloud services, with open APIs and guarantees against lock-in. But are they looking for a standards-heavy, high-performance trusted cloud solution or whether they expect a new generation of cloud standards, aimed at delivering security and resiliency in the multi-tenant, dynamic, and non-geographic cloud realm, but at lower cost. This webinar addresses the full spectrum of cloud standards issues.
03/13/13
The Role of OpenFlow in Carrier Networks
Telecom network operators are exploring software defined networks to increase efficiency and lower cost, and the OpenFlow standard represents a key jumping off point. But early work with OpenFlow reveals scalability issues and other potential flaws. This webinar will explore how OpenFlow must evolve to create carrier class SDN capabilities, as well as how it may be used in the near-berm.
03/19/13
100G Transport: Technology and Components
New services, rapidly growing mobile broadband and the increased use of 10 Gigabit Ethernet are forcing carriers and enterprise network managers to look for higher bandwidth transport solutions. 100Gbit/s networking represents a major opportunity for carriers and system developers and, at this critical period, components are a key part of the 100G ecosystem. This Webinar will review the market need, the latest developments, the expanding range of components and the development options available to telecom equipment manufacturers as the industry moves to 100G networking.
03/26/13
Personalization: The Key To New Operator Revenue
As operators become the delivery pipe for an overwhelming set of applications and services – managed or otherwise – consumers will need help discovering, adopting and using new services. To facilitate adoption of new services and maintain high QoE, operators need to focus on personalized service delivery. This could take many forms, including variable service tiers, customized UIs, content prioritization, targeted advertising, personalized offers and self-care/self-provisioning amongst others. This webinar will look at how operators can personalize their service offerings and the advantages to them for doing so.
04/02/13
How Telcos Can Succeed in B2B Market
In many respects, the adoption of two-sided business model (B2B) based services such as m-Commerce are following the growth curve of smartphone and 3G and 4G subscriber growth. Accordingly, telecom operators must develop new strategies that allow them to play a “value add” role in end-to-end service delivery. Therefore, in this webinar we consider the factors operators must consider in business case creation, best practices as well as implementation challenges.
04/03/13
Wild About WiFi
Even as four major MSOs team with Verizon Wireless for advanced wireless broadband service, cable operators are launching ambitious plans to offer Wi-Fi service throughout the U.S. and Canada. Major MSOs are all now deploying thousands of Wi-Fi hotspots in their footprints. At the same time, five of the six biggest U.S. MSOs have signed Wi-Fi roaming pacts that will allow their broadband subscribers to tap into each other’s hotspots and possibly lead to a national Wi-Fi roaming architecture. In this webinar, we will examine why cable operators so bullish on Wi-Fi, what benefits they hope to gain, which areas they’re targeting and what kinds of challenges they face.
04/09/13
The Customer Experience Management Pathway to Profitability and Customer Satisfaction
This webinar will assess the growing impact of customer experience management (CEM) on operators' ability to differentiate themselves in the market through the attraction and retention of customers. It will examine CEM best practices and approaches and the business case for CEM adoption. It will look at the CEM systems needed to support a customer-centric approach and what telcos should look for in a CEM technology provider.
04/10/13
Policy, DPI and Analytics: The Perfect Match?
Policy control and DPI systems collect a wealth of data on traffic patterns, applications, and subscriber behavior, and there is rapidly increasing interest in mining this information and making it usable by both network design and product marketing departments. In this Webinar, we will ask how data can be turned into analytics tools that allow both real-time and longer-term decisions to be made about everything from networks and devices to applications and subscriber services.
04/17/13
Maximizing User Experience in the Mobile Cloud
The mobile cloud is emerging as one of the most important segments of the cloud market, as enterprises look to securely deliver apps and data to mobile workers via smartphones and other mobile devices. What role will cloud service providers play in the mobile cloud ecosystem and what preparations do they need to make now to be prepared for what may be their largest market? this webinar will explore those issues.
04/18/13
Building High-Speed Transport Networks for the Cloud Era
Cloud-based services are a potentially huge revenue opportunity for network operators. Yet, the underlying network requirements for cloud networks are very different from what is provided by the static-pipe networks of today. To share cloud resources efficiently, communications networks need to be deterministic (not best effort) and, in many cases, low latency so that applications and storage resources "feel" local, even when they are separated by many tens and hundreds of kilometers. In addition, the network needs to be dynamic so that bandwidth can be turned up and down quickly and as required by the applications. This webinar will delve into the critical role of optical networks in the cloud infrastructure.
04/23/13
Data Center Switching – Preparing for SDN
Flat network architectures and Software Defined Networking (SDN) are key requirements for next generation data center switching. Low latency switch devices with support for layer 3 routing, and complementary protocols such as OpenFlow, are changing the way companies design switching systems for data centers. The latest devices, with up to eighteen 40 Gbit/s ports, deliver far better performance and integration than previous generations. This Webinar will look at the technology and some of the switch solutions available for next generation data center switches and related systems.
04/24/13
The Changing Landscape of BSS/OSS Managed Services
CSPs are looking for help in transforming their legacy systems while also look for expertise in helping them bring new products and services to market in a timely manner. At the same time, CSPs are also more willing to outsource operations that are usually held closer to the vest, such as OSS, which means working with a vendor with established experience with such back office systems. This webinar will discuss the changing role of managed services providers in this new BSS/OSS environment.
05/01/13
The Role Of IP/MPLS In The Mobile Backhaul Network
Models of the backhaul network that presuppose a clean distinction between the access and aggregation layer on the one hand, and the use of L2 or L3 protocols on the other, oversimplify the operational reality in many networks. With some operators already running MPLS over a L2 network, others considering MPLS-TP, and many operators still preferring L2 in both the access and aggregation layers, this webinar will consider the role for different flavors of IP and MPLS in the backhaul network as early volumes of 3G data applications and traffic evolve to the next level with LTE.
05/02/13
Delivering Advanced Enterprise Services over LTE
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05/08/13
Dawn of A New EPoC?
Cable technologists wanting greater bandwidth and faster data transmission speeds without costly all-fiber builds are promoting the delivery of EPON signals over the industry’s hybrid fiber/coax (HFC) networks. Known as EPON Protocol over Coax (EPoC), the developing proposal at the IEEE would supersede Docsis 3.0 and bring symmetrical, PON-like speeds of 1 Gbit/s to 10 Gbit/s to cable. If the IEEE approves the EPoC project, the new standard could be ready in 2 to 3 years. But how would it work? Would it mesh well with Docsis? What would it take to implement EPoC on a large scale? This Webinar will look at the proposed EPoC spec, the opportunities that it could create and the challenges that it faces.
05/09/13
Software Defined Metro & The Virtualized Services Edge
The promise of software-defined networks and network virtualization is transcending data centers, the cloud, and the Carrier Ethernet Edge, creating compelling new opportunities for service providers. This webinar will explore the rapidly emerging role of metro SDNs, enriched by new software orchestration systems, multi-layer packet-optical transport systems, and virtualized services edge platforms in the Carrier Ethernet Edge to usher in a new era of services and accelerated innovations.
05/14/13
The Mobile Cloud: A New Business Paradigm
Cloud computing is a driver for new business models for mobile content and hosted applications. Enterprises look to enable the mobile worker to access corporate applications and data in a way that is controllable and secure, no matter whose device is being used and represent a potentially growing source of income for mobile operators. This webinar will discuss the new paradigm for cloud computing and hosted applications, targeting mobile consumers and workers with smartphones and tablets, etc. It will highlight the role of mobile broadband for entertainment content, education services and hosted applications made possible by cloud computing.
05/15/13
M-Commerce: Market Drivers and Implementation Considerations
As smartphones become the dominant end-user device globally, there is an increased focus on harnessing their intelligence to replace credit cards and to generally take m-commerce to the next level.
While it’s certainly an appealing market, questions remain what role mobile operators will play in the execution process. Therefore in this webinar we will consider the market drivers and how existing IP core and access network technologies can be leveraged to help them generate new revenue streams both from a B2C and B2B perspective.
05/21/13
Revenue Assurance for Mobile Operators
Depending on whose numbers you believe, mobile operators are "leaking" six percent to 10% of their revenues, because their billing, revenue assurance and fraud management systems and strategies aren't keeping up with their network deployments. The move to 4G/LTE and the rise of complex network systems, the growth in the volume of mCommerce and the number of third-party partners can make revenue leakage even worse. Simply bulking up revenue assurance systems capacity to process ever-increasing volumes of data will not be enough as operators need a comprehensive strategy for revenue assurance built on advanced analytics.
05/29/13
Is the Cloud Ready for Standards?
Telecom service providers have not looked to standardize their cloud offerings, but that is changing as enterprises seek open APIs and other standard approaches that will allow them to avoid being locked into one provider's cloud or to use multiple cloud providers by creating hybrid clouds. What's still not clear, however, is whether enterprises will pay for a standards-heavy cloud with guaranteed performance and security. This webinar will examine the current state of standards in the cloud market, including the role of industry standards groups, and look at who is driving the standards process.
06/04/13
Going OTT: A New Video Strategy
Smaller telcos are seeing their video profits consumed by high content costs and many are now turning to an OTT strategy to sell higher tier broadband service along with devices that can deliver OTT video to the TV set, and sometimes combine it with free off-air video programming. This webinar will explain how this strategy is paying off.
06/05/13
Cloud and Policy: Where do they meet?
Service providers are developing cloud services as quickly as they can determine how to – or buy a company with that knowledge – and they have already deployed policy management. These two deployment cycles actually connect in the development of new services, particularly for mobile devices. This webinar will explain how this intersection takes place.
06/12/13
Putting 100G to the Test
100G Ethernet is moving rapidly into the commercial realm, and this technology poses new testing challenges at every layer of the network, starting at the physical layer which now supports multiple lanes of traffic, and including routers and oather devices. Service providers must be able to test and prove the performance of every aspect of their networks for performance, scale, and quality of experience. This Webinar examines the challenge of testing 100G networks and explores some of the solutions.
06/13/13
Managing Diameter Signaling – Architecture Options and Services Impacts
Recent experience has shown that application/session volatility and device battery software optimization strategies make predicting Diameter signaling requirements very difficult. As a result, the industry is now focused on new approaches such as deploying standalone Diameter Signaling Controllers vs. relying on a peer to peer signaling model to ensure scalability and minimize latency. Accordingly, in this webinar we will examine the various implementation and architecture options and their impact on service delivery and execution.
06/19/13
What’s Next for Docsis?
Although Docsis 3.0 offers cable operators a solid path toward 1 Gbit/s downstream speeds, the industry’s brightest technical minds have already set their sights higher. Under the banner of Docsis 3.1, they are seeking a new range of enhancements to the Docsis spec that would widen the upstream path and make the overarching data platform more efficient than ever before. This Webinar will explore the ideas already on the table for the proposed new spec, examine what it might take to implement them, and offer some guidance on when the new spec cold be completed. It will also compare the Docsis 3.1 proposals with other next-gen proposals for cable’s access architecture, including EPON Protocol over Coax (EPoC).
06/25/13
