Webinars are free sponsored educational seminars that are accessed over the Internet. You can register for upcoming Webinars or view archived presentations via the links below.
Broadband ISPs' Role in the Smart Grid
Utility companies are advancing a smart grid strategy - the question is, will broadband ISPs become involved in a strategic way or just as the pipe provider? This webinar will look at partnerships and other direct plays by broadband ISPs to add remote energy management to their revenue-producing services.
05/22/12
Authentication as a Service for LTE*This webinar will point to a potentially lower cost model for authentication of eNode Bs in the LTE network. With this model, mobile operators can offload this small portion of their control traffic to third-party managed service providers that are specialized in providing specialized PKI authentication and other security services.
05/22/12
Mobile Content Delivery: Why a CDN approach?Who would have thought that people today would stream more video to their phones than was streamed to living-rooms only ten years ago? Video consumption has changed rapidly, with mobile devices emerging as video viewing platforms. Mobile operators need to adapt their content delivery approaches to ensure high QoE for subscribers, or risk losing them. This webinar will discuss trends in the mobile industry that justify a caching-centric solution for both arranged content delivery and OTT including: the adoption of HTTP; consolidation of user devices; higher bandwidth; and de-centralization of the network.
05/22/12
LTE TDD & FDD Convergence in Europe*The webinar will showcase the world's first LTE TDD/FDD dual-mode network being deployed by ZTE for Hi3G Access AB in Sweden. ZTE will highlight the benefits of its Uni-RAN SDR (Software Defined Radio) advanced dual-mode LTE base station technology for an end-to-end converged network solution housing three different mobile standards in the same physical infrastructure, including 3G HSPA+ and LTE TDD and FDD.*This is a custom webinar
05/23/12
Delivering Cost-Effective Carrier-Grade Systems Using ATCADelivering Cost Effective Carrier Grade Systems using ATCA Designing carrier grade systems can take several years and requires a large development team. By using AdvancedTCA system developers can achieve the right mix of custom development and off the shelf solutions. In this webinar we explain how you can take advantage of ATCA to deliver new systems using limited resources within tight schedules. The webinar will also cover software integration and options for high availability systems.
05/24/12
Ensuring Digital Video QualityWith the dawn of the multi-screen video era, digital video quality has emerged as a more pressing issue than ever. As pay TV providers scramble to compete by expanding to multiple screens, they risk even greater public exposure to any lingering video and audio glitches on their networks. As a result, MSOs are seeking more advanced video monitoring and testing tools to ensure that their signals are sound. They’re also looking for new ways to gauge customer satisfaction with their digital video services. In this webinar, we will look at the new tools and techniques that are available, as well as the new industry tech standards that attempt to address this problem.
05/29/12
IP Test and Measurement
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05/30/12
Ethernet Service ManagementService providers can now take advantage of new Ethernet OAM tools to lower the cost of service and gain greater visibility into network performance. This webinar will chart of the real-world progress of Ethernet service management, examining the hurdles that need to be overcome to allow operators to access data about network performance on an end-to-end basis, including sharing that information across multiple networks. The session will provide an overview of key OAM standards such as IEEE 802.1ag, ITU Y.1731, Y.1564 and MEF 17.
05/30/12
Managed Security for SMBs
Broadband service providers are making a major move into managed services, and managed security is proving particularly popular. The move of even small businesses into Web services and cloud-based offerings, and the increasing sophistication of Internet threats makes security a major concern. These trends have created a market for managed security services, and this Webinar will focus on how broadband service providers can tap into that market.
06/05/12
Cable’s Ethernet Play
Ethernet services continue to be the rage in commercial circles and seeking to lure new customers and expand into the wholesale carrier business, such major MSOs as Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, Charter, and Cablevision are increasingly rolling out both Ethernet over Docsis (EoD) and fiber-driven Ethernet solutions for data and voice transport and cellular backhaul, with the aid of such new technologies as Docsis 3.0, Radio Frequency over Glass (RFoG), and DPoE. In this session, we will look at the various Ethernet solutions, evaluate the challenges for each one, and provide updates on the industry’s progress in this area.
06/06/12
Ethernet/MPLS for the CloudCloud services are expected to be a major part of network operators' business service portfolio, this require them to overcome stringent requirements related scalability, high availability and improved traffic engineering to ensure proper quality of experience. This Webinar will explore how Ethernet and MPLS networks enables carriers to offer scalable and a differentiator for cloud services.
06/06/12
Utilizing Community-Based Approach to Simplify Cloud Management*In this webinar we will discuss how a community based approach towards cloud management will allow more responsive network capacity management and real-time problem resolution for complex converging networks. This provides a truly integrated experience to instantly access vital network and service information and collaborate with cross-organizational support groups across the globe.
*This is a custom webinar
06/06/12
Managing Mobile Video
Video is expected to be a major component of 3G and 4G wireless traffic, as consumers embrace smartphones that are video-enabled. Mobile service providers must be prepared to deliver bandwidth-hungry video services at a quality level that will meet consumer expectations, while managing the network congestion creating by the growth in video traffic. This webinar will explore both aspects of the video traffic management challenge.
06/07/12
Optimized Multi-Layer Transport (OMLT):
Network operators are facing an explosion of multimedia and video traffic that requires special treatment, and they must determine how to handle that traffic cost-effectively. The OMLT is an innovative new breed of transport platform that addresses network operators' scalability and profitability challenges. As a purpose-built, next-gen transport solution, it integrates multiple network layers in a single modular device, delivering flexibility, integrated multi-layer management and leading-edge optical technology. This Webinar will update OMLT developments and explore deployments as well.
06/07/12
TBD/Mobile Network Security
This webinar will explore techniques for distinguishing benign and malign “attack” traffic in the mobile network and addressing each of them optimally. It will depict and assess new performance benchmarks for security products and solutions like DDoS attack protection, IDS/IPS and new generation firewall products. It will explore the new security requirements of the LTE architecture, for example as they relate to circumstances where IPsec is required to secure “untrusted” backhaul networks as well as inter-operator handover in LTE roaming.
06/12/12
Multicore Packet Processing for Carrier NetworksMulticore packet processors present an exciting new opportunity for network system developers. Network processors, integrated multicore processors and general purpose multicore processors all have a role. In this webinar we will review the latest multicore processor developments and explain how developers can make the most of these flexible devices.
06/12/12
Video Publishing Platforms in a Multiscreen World
Typically video publishing platform vendors have been focused on managing video distribution by web sites. They have developed complex content management systems to manage a variety of video formats, containers and transcoding requirements. In addition, they may handle elements such as authentication, geoblocking and content expiry rules. As pay TV operators enter a multiscreen world, they are starting to look to video publishing platforms as a solution for pay TV as well. This webinar will explore how significant this trend is, and what the implications are for pay TV infrastructure vendors?
06/19/12
Optimizing the 3G & 4G Mobile Internet Experience
Mobile Operators and their suppliers face major challenges in improving the mobile broadband user experience, given the current lack of intelligence at device or application level. Most operators are limited to network centric metrics for coverage and connectivity, and there is no consensus on best practices for user-centric mobile analytics. Even the leading mobile operators have not met customer expectations on 3G while planning their 4G networks. This webinar is designed to drive awareness and build consensus on best practices for user-centric analytics and multi-dimensional intelligence to improve the 3G and 4G mobile broadband experience.
06/26/12
Beyond Cloud Ready: Building a Cloud Infrastructure for a Manageable, Billable Cloud
Service providers are rolling out cloud services, in some cases partnering with other infrastructure and networking providers. Going forward, as cloud computing becomes more widely deployed, service providers need to achieve greater integration and efficiency for their cloud offerings. This Webinar will look at what telecom network operators need to do to prepare and manage their networks, including breaking down internal barriers between the network transport and IT functions of the carrier operation, as well as opening up to third-party application providers, designing billing systems for pay-as-you-go charging models, and preparing back-office operations to deliver on SLAs for cloud customers.
06/28/12
CCAP: The Road to Cable Convergence?
For the past 15 years, cable’s digital video and broadband networks have largely developed in separate ways, building their own distinct service delivery silos. But now, with cable systems straining to carry both a rising volume of Internet traffic and an expanding array of advanced video services, the industry is looking to combine the two delivery systems into a single technology platform. Formerly known as CMAP, the Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP) strives to accomplish this task by combining CMTS and edge QAM functionality into a single, much denser, less costly box. This Webinar will examine CCAP’s status, explain the technical and operational issues that must be tackled, and explore where the CCAP quest may lead.
07/10/12
Using MPLS-TP to Simplify The Network
This session focuses on how operators can simplify their metro Ethernet networks and optimize them for transport by deploying an end-to-end MPLS-based Carrier Ethernet network that incorporates emerging MPLS-Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) interworking with IP/MPLS and packet-optical technologies. The MPLS-TP protocol promises to change the economic equation and enable more affordable end-to-end MPLS deployments by helping streamline operational models and consolidate/simplify network topologies.
07/11/12
Are SDPs Meeting Carriers Needs?
Though SDPs are helping carriers with reduced time to market, are SDPs providing enough of a roadmap and enabling content management? This webinar will discuss SDPs today and if vendors are considering the needs of the modern carrier. This includes migration to the cloud and on-demand capability.
07/17/12
Exploring the Machine-to-Machine Opportunity for Mobile Network Operators
Wireless networks have major role to play in the burgeoning machine-to-machine (M2M) market by enabling applications focused on sectors such as healthcare, industrials, utilities, and transport. At the same time, M2M also has the potential to dramatically increase the addressable market open to mobile operators and offers massive potential for business model innovation as networks become highly efficient distributors of 3rd party applications. This webinar will examine how operators can make a practical, step-wise, entry in the promising M2M market.
07/18/12
The Role of IMS in Next-Gen Networks
The limited uptake of IMS deployments over the past five years has been well documented. However, during this period an unprecedented level of innovation and IP deployment in mobile and networks has taken place which enhances the IMS value proposition. Accordingly, this webinar will examine the factors which now are triggering operators to reconsider IMS and commit to deployment.
07/25/12
Defending The Mobile Network Against Security Attacks
Mobile operators have responsibility to defend the network itself against security attacks which might reduce the performance of the network or trigger an outright network outage. This webinar will examine some of the latest products, toolsets, monitoring solutions and embedded capabilities in network equipment that can be leveraged to defend the mobile network against the growing risk of security attacks. The webinar will also examine the challenges involved in distinguishing benign from malign signaling traffic and will explore optimal methods for integrating different product and solutions within a unified security architecture for the mobile network.
08/01/12
3G and 4G Networks Drive Mobile Broadband Growth in India
All eyes are on India in 2012, to assess the results of the first year of 3G service competition among eight operators, as 4G LTE moves from trials to commercial offerings. The vendors also have a huge stake in whether the operators can realize a return on their spectrum and infrastructure investments. India will be the leading test-bed for deploying a nationwide HSPA+ and LTE TDD networks using new multimode 3G/4G base stations. But the key question is whether India’s highly advanced and competitive mobile industry can leverage these technologies to drive mobile broadband growth in India is largely undeveloped consumer Internet market.
08/07/12
Fair-Use Management
Wireless operators are differentiating their service through simple volume-based pricing tiers, but those will evolve toward personalization and user control over how policy is applied. This webinar will discuss how that evolution takes place and provide real-world examples of personalized services.
08/08/12
100 Gigabit Ethernet Update
100-gig solutions are now commercially available to help operators handle exploding traffic demands. This session will highlight recent 100 Gig deployment activity, explaining how the technology has evolved and what network operators can expect as they roll out this new technology. It also will update industry-wide efforts to address the technology and economic challenges previously associated with 100G.
08/15/12
What's Beyond 100G
Service providers are building 40G and 100G networks today, but they know the rapid increase in Internet traffic, driven by video, mobility adn machine-to-machine traffic, is drastically shortening the life-span of any new infrastructure. So what lies beyond 100G? The industry isn't yet sure, but in this Webinar, experts will weigh in on the possibilities.
08/21/12
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.
08/22/12
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
08/28/12
The Future of Legacy Services
IP transformation is a gradual process. This is due to a number of factors, including the requirement to ensure a seamless transition and services parity for existing subscribers. However, given the entrenched nature of legacy services, including those supported by Intelligent Networks (IN), this migration can be a complex undertaking. Accordingly, this webinar will examine the architecture options and best practices for supporting legacy services in all-IP networks.
08/29/12
Rich Communications Suite (RCS): A Foundation Service for the 4G-Era
Mobile operators looking reclaim the initiative in the communications services from the over-the-top (OTT) players are turning to RCS and its enhanced version, RCS-e, to create a new set of foundation services as subscribers migrate to all-IP 3G and 4G networks. This webinar will examine the emerging eco-system for RCS and RCS-e and look at how these cross-platform, interoperable services can be deployed at a mass-market scale as an alternative to OTT services, and potentially as a way to bridge these disparate third-party communities, as operators seek to broaden the accessibility of rich communication services.
09/05/12
Scaling Policy Deployment
Policy management is now a critical part of wireline and wireless networks, both to address congestion and traffic management but also to enable new applications and services. Service providers face choices as to how to scale their policy deployments to meet these new requirements, including the decision as to where in the network policy will reside and how it will – or won't – be controlled from a centralized point. This webinar will explore these options and their ramifications.
09/06/12
Network Hosting, Managed Networks and Wholesale LTE
Sprint and Lightsquared have each started new platforms to support other carriers entering the 4G market without bearing the cost of operating their own network. Sprint will be hosting the Lightsqaured spectrum on its new Network Vision platform and Lightsquared is offering wholesale LTE services that will be sold by other retail service providers. And Ericsson is providing outsourced managed network services to both Sprint and Clearwire under separate contracts. This webinar will explore these three trends and their prospects for transforming the 4G services market beyond these three operators in the United States.
09/11/12
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.
09/12/12
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.
09/12/12
OpenFlow and the New Ethernet Game Plan
In just a few years, the OpenFlow specification has grown from a Stanford project to an industry-wide phenomenon. It's brought a new excitement to enterprise Ethernet, with startups and established companies trying to explore the possibilities of software-defined networking. This session will update attendees on OpenFlow's progress and discuss potential applications such as network virtualization. And while no one's claiming OpenFlow will completely topple today's Ethernet-switch paradigms, we just might explore that possibility too
09/19/12
Extensibility: The key to maximizing caching investments
The key to maximizing caching investments: Network operators are deploying transparent caches to address exploding OTT traffic, but these can also provide a platform for new service deployment. Extending a caching platform to offer a commercial CDN or support delivery of the operator's own managed content services to PCs, tablets and mobile devices would be one way to generate new revenue. Layering policy and intelligence on to the caching platform could enable more personalized and targeted services, again resulting in new revenue. This webinar will explore the incremental revenue opportunities that can be enabled on the back of a caching platform.
09/19/12
Beyond SLA’s: Managing QoE in the Cloud Realm
The ability to deliver Service Level Agreements to guarantee reliability, security, visibility and availability of cloud services is critical to their success. Given the many varied and often shared elements that will comprise cloud services, success of service providers will be based on their ability to guarantee an end-to-end Quality of Experience to their cloud customers. This panel will address what QoE will look like in the cloud realm, and how to deliver and monitor it.
09/25/12
Building New-Gen Access Networks
Online video is rapidly expanding, and mobile video is just starting what is expected to be a growth explosion. Video alone is projected to constitute 90% of all traffic by 2013. This exponential could well require a new approach to access network design. This webinar will explore the demands for video and new possible ways service providers can prepare for a video-dominated network.
09/27/12
Federating Content Delivery Networks
The growth of operator CDNs and the financial benefits of caching is prompting the move to CDN federation, or interconnecting of CDNs to extend their footprint. Several initiatives are underway, some through standards bodies such as ATIS, IETF and ETSI, while individual operators and ad hoc groups like the OCX are also working on interconnectivity. This webinar will explore the issues and update developments.
10/02/12
Entering the New Age of Coherent Detection in Optical Networks
Following long spans of TDM in the 1980s followed by DWDM in the 1990s, optical transport is now moving into a new era based on digital coherent technology – a move from simple direct detection to sophisticated receivers that use DSPs to read phase, amplitude, polarization. Working with TDM and DWDM, coherent detection boosts channel capacity while increasing spectral efficiency in optical transport. This webinar will explore the benefits of coherent detection from 40G, 100G and beyond and discuss potential new applications for coherent detection, such as a role in colorless, directionless, and contentionless ROADMs.
10/04/12
Security Challenges for Cloud Services
In differentiating their services from Web-based cloud offerings, telecom service providers have often stressed higher security and reliability factors. To convince enterprise customers to move business-critical applications and sensitive data into the cloud, service providers need to deliver on the promise to keep their clouds safe from possible intrusion or data breaches while delivering better guaranteed service quality and SLAs. Businesses also are demanding transparency regarding data location and regulatory compliance information. This Webinar will look at the infrastructure service providers need to build in order to deliver on those promises and to differentiate their services.
10/09/12
Getting Dynamic with VoD Ads
Following years of fits and starts, dynamic ad insertion for cable video-on-demand (VoD) services finally appears to be on the verge of becoming a reality, enabling MSOs to compete against advertising systems that power Web-fed video services. Most recently, Comcast announced that it has begun a scaled deployment covering 17 markets, encompassing 7 million homes. The MSO expects to complete this deployment in 2012. The big question now is how quickly will other cable operators follow Comcast’s lead. This webinar will look at what Comcast, other major MSOs, and the cross-industry Canoe Ventures consortium are doing with dynamic VoD ads, the technical and competitive challenges that they face, and the opportunities that lie ahead.
10/16/12
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.
10/17/12
10GBase-T Adapters and Technology – Delivering Cost Effective Bandwidth
TK from Simon
10/23/12
Mobile Customer Intelligence and Analytics:
Mobile operators are gaining access to intelligence at device and application level designed to help reduce the cost of customer care and enhance the mobile broadband user experience. The combination of software embedded on smartphones and powerful analytics programs is providing operators with new visibility into network performance, and user-centric mobile intelligence. This webinar is designed to drive awareness and build consensus on best practices for real-time user-centric analytics and multi-dimensional intelligence to improve the 3G and 4G mobile broadband experience.
11/06/12
Managing the OTT Video flood
Over-the-top video is an ever-changing challenge for telecom and cable video players, as the volume of video traffic and the costs associated with delivering it continue to rise for operators. Telco and cable players are finding new ways to address this challenge and this webinar will look at the most interesting of those, including transparent caching, repricing of broadband pipes and use of policy to differentiate services.
11/27/12
Security As A Service: Opportunities For Mobile Operators
Enterprises are increasingly keen to leverage 3G and LTE networks as a platform to drive sales, improve customer care and increase productivity. At the same time, enterprise IT managers also fear the increased risk that comes from the proliferation of smartphone OSs and the proliferation of malware attacks on smartphones, laptops and other connected devices. Enterprise security solutions need to evolve rapidly in this landscape and mobile operators in turn need to identify optimal positions for themselves in this fluid value chain. This webinar will look at the different options available to mobile operators in providing security solutions for enterprise customers.
11/28/12
Security in the IPv6 Era
IPv6 was initially designed to be more secure than its predecessor, but the ever-changing nature of Internet attacks and the potential for software bugs with any major technology transition make it essential that planning for security and testing of all systems be part of the transition to IPv6. This webinar will lay out the challenges to security of this change and the opportunities to use IPv6 to make networks less vulnerable to attack.
12/04/12
NG PONs: Stepping Stone to 1 Gig Service?
Despite the fact that 10G PON standards are complete and products are commercially available, the extent to which this technology will be used is still unknown. Some service providers may choose to deploy NG PONs to meet the expected consumer need for 1 Gigabit per second service within the next 5 years, while others may be setting their sights on NG PON 2, or WDM PON, for more longer-term bandwidth. Many factors, including the potential use of local fiber networks for mobile backhaul, are driving carrier choices, and this webinar will explore those and show how they impact carrier decisions.
12/05/12
Next Generation Backhaul For Small Cells
Mobile operators recognize that fiber, copper and conventional microwave radio won’t meet their backhaul requirements as they deploy smaller cells with LTE. Whether it be in-band backhaul which leverages the 4G spectrum itself, the use of E-band spectrum at higher frequencies, new Non Line Of Sight or other radio innovations, new types of radio-based solutions are going to be needed to support a mobile broadband market in which 4G technologies are embedded in every day consumer and industrial devices. This webinar will explore the limitations of conventional backhaul and the readiness of equipment vendors to deliver a new generation of 4G-optimized radio backhaul solutions.
12/12/12
