40/100G Technology & Components
Date: 9/14/2010 12:00 p.m. New York / 5:00 p.m. London
Sponsors: JDSU, Nokia Siemens Networks
Host: Simon Stanley, Analyst at Large, Heavy Reading
Click Here to Register The rapidly growing number of broadband subscribers and the increased use of 10-Gigabit Ethernet are forcing carriers and enterprise network managers to look for higher-bandwidth solutions. 40/100-Gbit/s networking represents a major opportunity for system and component vendors, and at this critical period, components are a key part of the 40/100G ecosystem. This Webinar will review the market need, 40/100G technology, the remaining challenges, and the expanding range of components as the industry moves to 40 and 100G networking.

MPLS for Next-Generation Transport Network & Services
Date: 9/15/2010 12:00 p.m. New York / 5:00 p.m. London
Sponsors: Ericsson
Host: Stan Hubbard, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
Click Here to Register The industry has faced and has been facing many questions about what the correct way to ensure a successful network convergence is, especially considering the operational and sometimes organizational changes needed to realize the full cost-saving potential of a de-layered packet & transport network. This Webinar highlights how past and currently proposed extensions to MPLS transform the time-tested protocol suite into the solution for next-generation transport networks and services.

Converged Content Delivery Strategy for Network Service Providers
Date: 9/15/2010 2:00 p.m. New York / 7:00 p.m. London
Sponsors: Juniper Networks
Host: Adi Kishore, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
Click Here to Register Our connected culture is driving the exponential growth of Internet traffic, especially video traffic. Behind this growth is customers' mounting demand for Internet-delivered entertainment -- consumers increasingly expect that content should be available at any time, on any device. It’s a fundamental shift in viewing habits and one that will have a profound impact on service provider networks and business models. In this Webcast, featuring Prabakar Sundarrajan, Vice President, Strategy, Content and Media at Juniper Networks, we’ll look at the challenges service providers are facing and examine successful strategies to efficiently deliver content at scale, develop new ways to increase ARPU, and transform “over the top” traffic from a threat to an opportunity. We’ll look at the strategies and technologies that make it possible for service providers to move toward a model of converged content delivery, delivering any content to any device, at any time while ensuring a superior quality of experience.

Subscriber Data Management – Benchmark Survey Analysis*
Date: 9/16/2010 10:00 a.m. New York / 3:00 p.m. London
Sponsors: Openet
Host: Jim Hodges, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading and Michael Manzo, Chief Marketing Officer, Openet
Click Here to Register Subscriber Data Management (SDM) continues to gain recognition amongst carriers as a vital approach for managing customer relationships and enhancing the end-user experience. This Webinar presents the key findings of Light Reading’s exclusive, online “Subscriber Data Management Survey” taken by more than 350 operators. The survey provides a holistic industry-wide view of SDM evaluation and deployment timelines, capex requirements, strategic relevance, and implementation complexity. In addition, these same criteria are assessed individually for fixed, cable and wireless operators to provide a more granular view of implementation preferences and readiness. *This is a custom webinar.

Internet Offload in Mobile Networks
Date: 9/16/2010 12:00 p.m. New York / 5:00 p.m. London
Sponsors: LSI
Host: Berge Ayvazian, Senior Consultant, Heavy Reading, Sundar Vedantham, Ph.D., Technical Manager, LSI Corporation and Jeff Thompson, CEO of Towerstream
Click Here to Register Vast increases in mobile data traffic are forcing operators to think more creatively about how to manage best-effort Internet traffic. Increasingly there is a view that they need not bear the full cost of transporting this low-revenue-per-bit traffic on expensive, optimized, mobile networks, and attention has turned to the "Internet Offload" concept. The idea is to separate best-effort Internet traffic from high-value, delay-sensitive traffic and manage each type of data accordingly. This Webinar will examine the range of options and Internet Offload strategies open to mobile operators as they seek to reduce OPEX and generate profit from delivering low-cost Internet service.

Backhaul to the Future: Mobile Broadband Profitability Requires Smarter Backhaul Networks*
Date: 9/21/2010 10:00 a.m. New York / 3:00 p.m. London
Sponsors: Ceragon Networks, Sycamore Networks
Host: Patrick Donegan, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
Click Here to Register As Internet video usage on smartphones continues to grow, capacity bottlenecks are beginning to appear. The cost of scaling traditional backhaul from cell sites is causing mobile broadband operators to rethink their networks. This Webinar will examine the role for bandwidth-saving innovations such as end-to-end traffic management, caching acceleration, and selective Internet offloading within the backhaul network.

Debate: Getting Down to Business on Going Green - Live from Light Reading's Green Broadband 2010 Event
Date: 9/21/2010 10:30 a.m. New York / 3:30 p.m. London
Sponsors: Alcatel-Lucent
Host: Alan Breznick, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
Click Here to Register Despite all the positive attributes associated with green initiatives, environmental projects must be justifiable from a business case perspective and internally compete with other capex-driven telco initiatives. In order to calculate costs and benefits, there needs to be universally accepted means of measuring energy saved and resulting cost savings. At the same time, the telecom industry needs to be developing a universal set of telecom key performance indicators that can be used globally to measure operators’ performance. This opening debate will tackle the challenges to developing these key metrics, including a discussion of how viable global standards might be and which standards bodies or external groups should be involved in their development.

*This is being run as a special webinar, broadcast live from Light Reading's Green Broadband 2010 event.

Creating a Developer Ecosystem
Date: 9/23/2010 12:00 p.m. New York / 5:00 p.m. London
Sponsors: Alcatel Lucent
Host: Graham Finnie, Chief Analyst, Heavy Reading
Click Here to Register New applications are key to new revenue streams, but telcos admit they are not in the app development business. Network operators realize they need to build stronger platforms for working with third parties. This Webinar will explore the tools and techniques available to help telcos build stronger platforms to attract third-party app developers, and lay out the keys to success.

TD-LTE Technology Roadmap & Ecosystem Development 2010
Date: 9/28/2010 10:00 a.m. New York / 3:00 p.m. London
Sponsors: Sequans, Motorola, Alcatel-Lucent, and Huawei
Host: Berge Ayvazian, Senior Consultant, Heavy Reading
Click Here to Register After the successful end-to-end service demonstrations in the showcase network during the Shanghai World Expo, China Mobile is now preparing for large-scale TD-LTE field trials in selected cities in China, with a population coverage of more than 100 million. Now that the 3GPP LTE standard includes both LTE-FDD and TD-LTE, a growing ecosystem of enabling technology, infrastructure equipment and device vendors are preparing for the commercial deployment of TD-LTE services beginning in multiple countries beginning in 2012. This custom Webinar brings together China Mobile and four leading vendors to discuss the TD-LTE technology roadmap and ecosystem development in 2010 and beyond.

Policies Protect Profits: How End-to-End Policy Control Increases Return on Investments
Date: 9/29/2010 12:00 p.m. New York / 5:00 p.m. London
Sponsors: Ericsson
Host: Graham Finnie, Chief Analyst, Heavy Reading
Click Here to Register The launch of mobile broadband is a major success, and the service is enjoying extraordinary growth worldwide. This Webinar will explain how operators can increase return on investments in WCDMA and LTE networks by implementing end-to-end policy control solutions.

Session Border Controllers in the Enterprise
Date: 10/7/2010 12:00 p.m. New York / 5:00 p.m. London
Sponsors: Metaswitch, Genband and Sonus
Host: Jim Hodges, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
Click Here to Register Session Border Controllers (SBCs) are a well-established and fast-growing product segment. But most of the products and most of the deployments so far are with service providers. While that helps service providers manage their networks and protects them from external threats, it does not protect the enterprise. As a result, enterprise SBCs are the fastest-growing subset of the SBC market. But is an enterprise SBC just a cut-down service provider SBC? Or does it require a whole new set of functions with different architectural trade-offs and price points?

This Webinar will examine the applicability and viability of enterprise SBCs and chart how they will evolve moving forward.

Eliminating the Blind Spots in Your Mobile Workforce Operations
Date: 10/6/2010 2:00 p.m. New York / 7 p.m. London
Sponsors: ARRIS, SageQuest
Host: Alan Breznick, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
Click Here to Register With both labor and energy costs constantly on the rise, cable operators and other service providers are looking for ways to trim expenses, deploy their mobile workers more effectively, use their vehicles more efficiently, and reduce paper consumption and air pollution. Fortunately, there are improved methods to fully automate workflow tasks and use mobile and GPS technologies to give dispatchers, supervisors and executives better visibility of their workforce and vehicle activity. In this custom Webinar, we will look at one new seamless, integrated solution that enables broadband service providers to optimize mobile workforce effectiveness while also producing fuel savings, improved workforce and vehicle routing, greater installation success, and a reduced carbon footprint.

Cloud Service Delivery: Opportunities for Service Providers
Date: 10/14/2010 12:00 p.m. New York/5:00 p.m. London
Sponsors: Alcatel Lucent
Host: Caroline Chappell,Independent Analyst, Light Reading and Houman Modarres, Director of Product Marketing , Division of Alcatel-Lucent
Click Here to Register Enterprises are looking continually striving to reduce their overall IT costs and optimize their resource utilization rates. The demand for compute, storage and networking capabilities to support the range of business & end-user applications is increasingly hard to predict, leading to the twin dangers associated with overbuilding or underestimating demand. As such, enterprises seek creative means to strike a profitable balance flexible cloud-based models that reduce their risk and overall costs.

As datacenters cement their role at the heart of IT and internet infrastructure, mission critical service delivery challenges and new cloud-based service opportunities can no longer simply be considered an enterprise issue. Rather, it increasingly represents an opportunity for service providers as well. Telecom service providers are in a unique position to address enterprise needs across the realm of cloud services. With implicit proximity to end users, established IP network infrastructure and back office systems, and trusted billing and support relationships adhering to strict SLAs, many of the key ingredients for success are already in place.

This webinar will describe the value and opportunities of cloud service delivery for telecom service providers as they leverage natural extensions to VPN and hosting services they already offer today, leveraging decades of experience and their strong base of network and service delivery assets.