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AGENDA
| Conference Day 1 |
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| 08:00 |
Registration & Coffee |
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| 09:00 |
Conference Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Barney Lane, Principal Asia, CRA International, Hong Kong |
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| 09:15
Association |
Evolution Of Mobile Communications In China: 3G And TD-LTE
- Restructure of Chinese service providers and 3G rollout in China.
- Future technology -- LTE
- Convergence LTE TDD and FDD
- Hong Kong ASTRI’s Achievements and Future plans on LTE
Dr Henry Ye, R&D Director, The Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited (ASTRI), Hong Kong |
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09:45
Operator |
Upgrading The Existing 3G/HSPA Networks For Mobile Broadband
- Understanding end-users usage pattern and perception of QoS to
determine network requirements
- Achieving technology evolution to meet customer demands
- The need for effective planning to reduce OPEX and CAPEX
Dr Yang Wen-Hao, Acting Managing Director, Chunghwa Telecom,
Taiwan
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10:15
Platinum Sponsor |
Effective Strategies For Fast Growing Operators To Optimize Network CAPEX & OPEX Investment, Manage Operational Risk And Drive Efficient Revenue Growth
- Ensure accurate and timely deployment of network assets on a “just-in-time” rather a “just-in-case basis
- Successful approaches to continually optimizing current capacity utilization for cost reduction in on-net traffic routing, leased capacity usage and power consumption
- Enabling increasingly efficient capacity utilization whilst also reducing risk of network congestion avoiding customer churn and revenue loss
- Facilitating agile and low risk customer and / or technology migrations
- Identifying opportunities to drive more profitable customer traffic onto available network capacity
Francis Chung, Product Marketing Director, Oracle Communications |
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| 10:45 |
Coffee reception |
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| 11:15
Association |
Network Cost Optimization And Managing Increasing Mobile Traffic
- What optimization challenges are needed to overcome in order to successfully deploy 3G+?
- Challenges and CAPEX/OPEX aspects in fibre deployment
- Mobile backhaul challenges and strategies
Dr. David Mun Geon Kyeong, PMTS, Mobile Communications Research,Broadcasting & Telecommunications Convergence Research Laboratory, ETRI, Korea |
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11:45
Pannel
Discussion |
Meeting The Demands Of Subscriber Needs Through Network
Optimisation
- Reviewing customer readiness for next generation multimedia
services
- Identifying areas in the network that can readily be optimized for
effective service delivery
- What are the current technological constraints?
Moderator:
Barney Lane, Principal Asia, CRA International, Hong Kong
Panelists:
- Lee Siak Kwee, Director Mobile Network Access, SingTel, Singapore
- Anky A Priyagung, VP of Network & Service Quality Management, Telkomsel, Indonesia
- Siva Balendra, VP & Head Network, Loop Telecom, India
- Dhananjaya Ponnamperuma, Manager –Radio Network Planning & Optimization, Mobitel Sri Lanka
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| 12:15 |
Network Lunch |
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| 14:00
Operator |
Examining Strategies To Successfully Optimize The 3G Network Towards
Higher Coverage, Capacity & Quality?
- Evaluating current network operation
- Assessing solutions to achieve network optimization
- What are the technical considerations for such solutions?
- Evaluating and aligning strategies towards achieving KPI and KQI
Lee Siak Kwee, Director Mobile Network Access, SingTel, Singapore |
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| 14:30
Operator |
Integration of WCDMA / HSPA Radio Access Networks : Ensuring A Smooth Migration Path And Intersystem With The 2G RAN
- Anticipating the significant degradation of radio network quality
due to un-proper technology for handling the basic service (Voice
Call) and weakness of vendors resources competence
- Resolving low accessibility and integrity in PS quality due to rapid
traffic growth of packet data
- Sustaining and maintaining RAN quality especially related to IRAT
- Developing SQM to be aligned with QoS in WCDMA
Anky A Priyagung, VP of Network & Service Quality Management, Telkomsel, Indonesia |
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| 15:00
Operator |
Developing A Strategy To Enhance End-User Mobile Experience At Reduced OPEX
- Challenges to understand end-user mobile experience in a data
network
- Monitoring and measuring QoS to optimize QoE
- End to end network optimization approach and principles
Jaime Chee, Head of Network Quality, DiGi Telecommunication, Malaysia |
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| 15:30 |
Coffee Reception |
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| 16:00 |
Network Sharing To Optimise Costs And Improve Coverage
- Assessing the economic benefits of radio access network sharing: cost savings as well as increased mobile voice and data coverage
- Alternative network sharing models (e.g. site sharing, active
equipment sharing, frequency sharing) and potential impact in different environments
- Outlining the practical challenges in successfully implementing network sharing
David Abecassis, Senior Manage Strategy Consulting, Analysys Mason,
Singapore |
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Advanced Technologies For The Next Generation Wireless Systems
- Reviewing and elaboration of the long-term roadmap and challenges of wireless systems evolution for the next 10-15 years.
- Introduce various fundamental core technologies that drive the evolution of wireless systems into the next generation systems
Prof. Vincent Lau, Associate Professor,Co-Director and Founder, Huawei-HKUST Joint Research Lab |
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17:00
Pannel
Discussion |
Optimisation Strategies For 2G / 3G/ HSPA For Backhaul Network
- Smashing the backhaul bottleneck
- Improving the speed in the air interface
- Increasing bandwidth
- Installing switch or access router at the base-station point to
improve traffic flow
- Benefits of network sharing
Moderator:
David Abecassis, Senior Manager Strategy Consulting, Analysys Mason,
Singapore
Panelist:
- Dhananjaya Ponnamperuma, Manager –Radio Network Planning & Optimization, Mobitel, Sri Lanka
- Dr. David Mun Geon Kyeong, PMTS, Mobile Communications
Research, Broadcasting & Telecommunications Convergence
Research Laboratory, ETRI, Korea
- Siva Balendra, VP & Head Network, Loop Telecom, India
- Arief Hamdani, Senior Officer, PT Telkom, Indonesia
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| 17:30 |
Chairman’s Summary and Closing |
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| 17:45 |
End of Conference Day 1 |
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