Gaining Packet Efficiencies: Innovative Ideas for Reducing Packet Transport Costs*
Date: 12/1/2009 12:00 p.m. New York / 5:00 p.m. London
Sponsors: Alcatel-Lucent
Host: Andy Bray, Independent Analyst, Light Reading
Click Here to Register Bandwidth demand is growing fast – sometimes faster than providers can upgrade their core Transport networks. As traffic volume increases, Core Routers come under pressure, sometimes threatening Service Level Agreements, particularly in terms of latency. This webinar will discuss strategies for relieving pressure on precious router ports by introducing better grooming at the Edge; and by enabling Core Router transit traffic to be offloaded onto carrier grade optical transport elements. Thus not only utilizing existing Core Routers more efficiently and facilitating scalability, but also increasing network capacity, while still reducing the cost per bit transported.

*This is a custom webinar.

Rethinking Mobile Data Rate Plans: What Consumers Think*
Date: 12/2/2009 11:00 a.m. New York / 4:00 p.m. London
Sponsors: Camiant
Host: Graham Finnie, Chief Analyst, Heavy Reading
Click Here to Register Mobile network operator revenue growth is currently being driven by data services, but those services are driving huge new traffic loads that are increasingly hard to manage -- or to justify. Is there a way out of this impasse? In this Webinar, we will be presenting exclusive new consumer research that suggests that there is. Our research suggests that consumers are highly receptive to innovative rate plans that would enable telcos to better manage traffic congestion than their current plans. In this Webinar, we'll discuss this research, and consider its implications for mobile operators.

*This is a custom Webinar.

Carrier Ethernet Services: Tools & Techniques for Differentiation in a Crowded Market
Date: 12/3/2009 12:00 p.m. New York / 5:00 p.m. London
Sponsors: EXFO, RAD Data Communications
Host: Stan Hubbard, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
Click Here to Register This Webinar explores a wide range of options service providers have to gain competitive advantage in the fast-moving Ethernet market. Topics covered will include: ubiquitous connectivity, value-added applications, end-to-end SLAs, robust service management/OAM, service interworking, high availability, bandwidth granularity and scaleability, tailored service options, robust Web service portals, and MEF services certification.

SIP: Location-Based Services & Privacy Concerns
Date: 12/7/2009 11:00 a.m. New York / 4:00 p.m. London
Sponsors: Tekelec
Host: Jim Hodges, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
Click Here to Register The devices we use every day have become location aware. Cellphones, laptops, and cars know where they are, and applications that use that information are emerging. As device, application, and API designers, it's far too easy to focus on making location easy to share without regard to the privacy concerns that are inherently coupled to that location. Fortunately, substantial work has been put into creating standard ways to address those concerns.

Testing & Optimizing LTE Networks
Date: 12/9/2009 12:00 p.m. New York / 5:00 p.m. London
Sponsors: Anritsu
Host: Carol Wilson, Chief Editor of Events, Light Reading
Click Here to Register Despite substantial global support for LTE, it’s still early days for the technology, with significant work to be done on developing, optimizing, and verifying user equipment (UE) and network equipment ahead of commercial service launch. This Webinar will examine the role of test and measurement across the LTE product development cycle from initial product design to field testing, commercial rollout, and ongoing performance optimization. The scope of this Webinar will include the complete end-to-end LTE network, from the UE through to the evolved packet core, with specific focus on air interface from both UE and enhanced Node B sides.

Targeted Advertising: Homing In on Viewers
Date: 12/9/2009 2:00 p.m. New York / 7:00 p.m. London
Sponsors: Alcatel-Lucent
Host: Alan Breznick, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
Click Here to Register Fearing the continued exodus of TV advertising dollars to the Internet, the cable industry has embarked on its most aggressive attempt yet to develop and deploy advanced advertising. Comcast, Charter, Cablevision, and other cable operators have begun testing next-gen ad systems that target commercials to viewers based on anonymous demographic data, while a new industry joint initiative, Canoe Ventures, is spearheading research and development efforts. This Webinar will examine cable’s fledgling targeted-TV efforts, delve into the opportunities and challenges that MSOs face, and discuss the new equipment, software, and other products that cable providers must employ to break into the advanced advertising business.

IP Goes Mobile: Redefining LTE Wireless Broadband*
Date: 12/10/2009 10:00 a.m. New York / 3:00 p.m. London
Sponsors: Alcatel-Lucent
Host: Gabriel Brown, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
Click Here to Register Please note: This is a live video broadcast with Twitter chat.

This live, interactive broadcast is based on Alcatel-Lucent Bell Lab findings in today’s wireless data networks, and addresses the following questions: How will a migration to LTE promote optimization of full—stream service costs while delivering an always-on wireless broadband subscriber experience? How can we leverage network self-optimizing techniques to enhance the user experience in the face of ever-growing congestion? And finally, what work can we do now to drive coordination between the LTE network and application providers to enable application delivery that is highly reliable and profitable?

As noted above, to make this a Web 2.0 experience, we’ve incorporated a twitter chat feature. Heavy Reading Senior Analyst, Gabriel Brown, will be moderating the Twitter chat session before and during the live broadcast. Want to chat with Gabriel and Alcatel-Lucent before the live broadcast? Follow us at www.twitter.com/ltelive and tweet with us using @LTElive and the #LTElive hashtag. To follow the conversation, check out: http://tweetchat.com/room/ltelive.

*This is a custom Webinar.

Deploying 40G Networks Today
Date: 12/10/2009 12:00 p.m. New York / 5:00 p.m. London
Sponsors: EXFO
Host: Sterling Perrin, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
Click Here to Register Network operator demand for higher capacities beyond 10 Gbit/s continues to swell. The good news is that, following a long and rocky road, 40G transport technology is here at last. This Webinar will discuss the key operator considerations in migrating from 10G to 40G, including interoperability with existing lines and systems, limitations in existing fibers, ROADM issues at 40G, testing 40G networks, and planning for 100G in the future. This Webinar will also detail some of the critical innovations that have made 40-Gig transport a commercial reality.

How to Build a Complete Robust Network for IPTV Delivery*
Date: 12/11/2009 9:00 a.m. New York / 2:00 p.m. London
Sponsors: Ericsson
Host: Adi Kishore, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
Click Here to Register Please note: This webinar will be run at a Euro-friendly time.

IPTV services put new requirements on broadband networks -- certainly when it comes to all the quality of service (QoS), capacity, and reliability aspects, but also when it comes to cost and business aspects. Also the investment should be future proof. It should be ready for service differentiation and TV convergence for the three screens, including the connected home. In this Webinar we will discuss some crucial features and how they are implemented throughout the network. We will comment on test results and give examples from live implementations.

*This is a custom Webinar.

Taming Internet Video
Date: 12/15/2009 12:00 p.m. New Tork / 5:00 p.m. London
Sponsors: LSI
Host: Adi Kishore, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
Click Here to Register Internet video viewing is growing rapidly. An increasing percentage of consumers is spending an increasing amount of time viewing Internet video, and it's having an impact on service providers' access networks. Video is a high-bandwidth application, and as higher resolution, professionally produced content gets online, the bandwidth impact will only become greater. At the same time, managing Internet traffic is a contentious issue deeply mired in the net neutrality debate. What solutions exist for service providers? How can they manage the steadily growing volume of video traffic on their last-mile networks?

Monetizing the Next-Generation Packet Core or Evolved Packet Core
Date: 12/16/2009 10:00 a.m. New York / 3:00 p.m. London
Sponsors: Alcatel-Lucent, Bridgewater Systems, Starent Networks
Host: Carol Wilson, Chief Editor of Events, Light Reading
Click Here to Register As multimedia traffic continues to surge, mobile operators are looking to increase revenue opportunities and improve network efficiency. The deployment of next-generation packet core or the Evolved Packet Core (EPC) provides an excellent opportunity to further monetize and optimize the network. An intelligent, high-performance EPC allows operators to manage transactions on a per-subscriber, per-service, per session basis, while increasing network performance. With major investments in radio access and backhaul, the packet core can be the most cost-effective place to enhance network profitability. This Webinar will discuss how a next-generation packet core enables the monetizing of services for new revenue streams while it optimizes traffic to lower capex and opex of the overall network.