Day One Tuesday 30 January 2007
Registration and Coffee
08:30
Speed Networking
09:00
A chance to get to know your peers before the start
of the conference.
Chairman's Welcome and Introduction
09.15
- Chair: Dr. Walter Tuttlebee, Managing Editor and Founder, DECTweb
Analysing The Impact Of DECT
Next Generation And Re-Branding
Assessing the Implications of Additional Branding for DECT
09:30
- Why the improvements of the technology has resulted in an additional brand name
- What is the new brand and what is the potential for new possibilities?
- Will the brand offer scope for new products to emerge?
- Examining how it will affect future goals
Speaker(s):
- Erich Kamperschroer, Chairman, DECT Forum
Standards for the New Cordless Generation
10:00
- Is the standard ready?
- What does the 'New Generation' offer?
- Future outlook - the next phases of DECT
Speaker(s):
- Erich Kamperschroer, Chairman, DECT Forum
Market Overview for the Evolution of DECT
10:30
- Market update:
- 2006 DECT market per region
- Growth rates
- Key market developments
- Competitor positions
- Market opportunity 2006 to 2011
- Highlights of key opportunity markets to 2011 (analysis by region including US)
Speaker(s):
- Stephanie Watson, General Manager, MZA Consultants (UK)
Coffee and Refreshments
11:00
Assessing The Potential For New Services And Overcoming Technical Challenges
Overcoming Technical Challenges: An IC Manufacturer's Perspective
11:30
- How to enable a shorter time to market:
- Flexibility; processing power; family concept
- Strategies to support DECT NG and create new services
- Wide band audio; hands-free; video; Internet access; etc
- Moving from traditional analog line interface towards ethernet or modem interfaces
Speaker(s):
- Jos van der Loop, Product Marketing Manager, SiTel (The Netherlands)
Examining The Role Of Dect In The Move To Ip Networks
Skype and DECT: Taking Skype beyond the PC
12:00
OPERATOR
- Skype & moving beyond the PC
- Successful case studies: DECT cordless phones with Skype
- Challenges and future developments for Skype and DECT
Speaker(s):
- Liz Rice, Product Manager, Devices, Skype (UK)
Networking Lunch
12:30
Impact of DECT in the Networked Home
13:40
- Analysing home communications from a market point of view
- The mobile world versus the home world
- Deploying convergence from the consumer's perspective
Speaker(s):
- Thorsten Nicklass, Senior VP Marketing, Siemens (Germany)
Enabling the Next Generation Standard with High Integrated CMOS Solutions
14:10
- Strategies to utilise the new standard
- Enabling broadband voice with the first true single-chip CMOS solution as a platform for the new standard
- Optimising new system architectures
- Driving the convergence of DECT, VoIP and xDSL
Speaker(s):
- Dr.-Ing. Michael Neuhõuser, Director Program Management Digital Cordless (COM CNV DCL), Business Group Communication Solutions, Infineon Technologies (Germany)
Examining the Industry's Push Towards DECT Next Generation - Satisfying the Consumer Demand for All- IP Networks and How this Can Increase the User's Productivity
14:40
- Migration to IP based networks and multimedia services: Assessing
the benefits of digital voice control over the Internet protocol
- How this can increase productivity for the user
- Examining how DECT could interwork with other fixed and wireless
services and the ergonomic and usability issues
- ISPN and GSM
- Assessing the impact and potential of converging cordless telephony
devices with broadband technologies
- Evaluating the users' management of converged technologies
Speaker(s):
- David Marshall, VP Business Products, Plantronics (UK)
Challenges of Designing the Next Generation IC Architecture for DECT and VoIP
15:10
- Integration
- Minimising cost of ownership
- Addressing CAT-iq applications
- Supporting market trends
Speaker(s):
- Brian Robertson, General Manager, Cordless & IP Terminals, NXP Semiconductors
Assessing the Impact of IP on DECT Next Generation & Semiconductor Perspective
15:40
- Evolution of home communications
- Examining broadband VoIP connectivity products
- Wireless home - current state
- Wireless home - future state
- Reviewing the key features of a broadband cordless IP phone
Speaker(s):
- Victor Koretsky, VP Sales and Marketing, DSP Group (Israel)
Coffee and Refreshments
16:10
DECT VoIP Products: A Revenue Generator for Telcos
16:30
- Examining the wideband audio revolution
- Utilising an innovative platform for services
- How to deliver high end services easily to the consumer
- Assessing a new market place for DECT end terminals associated with broadband gateways
Speaker(s):
- Sebastien de la Bastie, Advanced Product Director, Thomson (France)
Overcoming Challenges For Dect In An Emerging Market
Case Study from Romania: Residential VoIP Over a Fixed-Wireless Network Using DECT
17:00
- Strategies to overcome existing infrastructure constraints in Romania using a SIP-based VoIP application platform on DECT phones
- Setting a new communication benchmark for Romania
- Enabling customers to use next generation call functionality cost effectively
- How to use the IP-based DECT wireless local loop network to reach the entire telecoms market in Romania
Speaker(s):
- Pompiliu Tripa, President & CEO, Atlas Telecom Eastern Europe (Romania)
Dect Versus Alternative Technologies
DECT, WLAN or Both?
17:30
PANEL DISCUSSION
- Comparisons to WLAN and WiMAX & pros and cons
- Is DECT a threat to WLAN?
- Can DECT and WLAN coexist?
- Assessing how DECT fits into the ecosystem of ultra-wideband technology & Is UWB a disruptive technology?
- Is there real competition between the mobile market and DECT?
Speaker(s):
- Erik Stridbµk, SVP R&D, Kirk Telecom (Denmark)
- Tim Whittaker, System Architect, Wireless Business Unit, Cambridge Consultants (UK)
- Victor Koretsky, VP Sales and Marketing, DSP Group (Israel)
Chairman's Closing Remarks
18:10
Drinks Reception
18:15
Day Two Wednesday 31 January 2007
Registration and Coffee
08:40
Chairman's Introduction
09:00
- Chair: Dr. Walter Tuttlebee, Managing Editor and Founder, DECTweb
Dect And The Us Market
Providing Interference-Free Communication
Optimising DECT 6.0 in the North American Market & Accelerating Market Acceptance
09:05
- Benefits of an unused frequency line for voice quality
- How DECT technology can be easily integrated into WLAN and Wi-Fi systems
- Reviewing the key technical challenges and how to overcome them
- Market Forecast: Assessing how DECT will evolve US telephony
Speaker(s):
- Richard Krupka, President, UTAM, Inc; Chairman, DECT North American Working Group and Director Global Business Development, Cordless Devices, Siemens (USA)
US Case Study: Moving Beyond Voice - Utilising the Potential of DECT 6.0
09:35
- How to ensure that DECT 6.0 will meet expectations
- Examining the potential for new services specific to the US market
- Strategies to avoid interference with legacy products
Speaker(s):
- Dennis Elgaard, Sales Manager, RTX Telecom (Denmark)
Impact of DECT for the Retail Channel and Consumer Markets in the US
10:05
- Examining new feature sets for the next generation of hardware
- Benefiting from the economies of scale associated with using a global standard
- Reviewing the diversity of DECT products available and comparisons with mobile phones
- Ensuring clear quality and interference free communication
Speaker(s):
- Bruce Hahn, CEO, American Telecom (USA)
Coffee and Refreshments
10:35
What can DECT Offer the US Market that Existing Technologies Cannot?
11:00
PANEL DISCUSSION
- What is the potential for DECT in the US?
- Strategies to ensure solid security standards
- How to create better customer satisfaction and to reduce churn
- To what extend will DECT improve voice quality?
Speaker(s):
- Dennis Elgaard, Sales Manager, RTX Telecom (Denmark)
- Richard Krupka, President, UTAM, Inc; Chairman, DECT North American Working Group and Director Global Business Development, Cordless Devices, Siemens (USA)
- Tim Whittaker, System Architect, Wireless Business Unit, Cambridge Consultants (UK)
- Adam Somer, President of Communication Services, American Telecom (USA)
Residential Applications - Operators' Case Studies
DECT and IP - An Operator's View
11:40
OPERATOR
- Where we are now
- What our customers are telling us
- DECT versus wireless LAN, is DECT the right route?
- Thoughts for the future
Speaker(s):
- Adrian Pote, General Manager, Broadband Devices, BT (UK)
DECT and the Home Gateway Initiative: Examining the Potential for New Feature Sets
12:10
- Overview of the Home Gateways Initiative's (HGI) approach to DECT
- Issues and solutions for the coexistence of DECT devices in the broadband home
- Defining the fixed mobile convergence vision and communication services
- Strategies to reduce costs of home gateways to customers
Speaker(s):
- Paolo Pastorino, Chief Technology Officer & Chief Business Officer, Home Gateway Initiative (HGI)
Networking Lunch
12:40
DECT and the Home Gateway Initiative: Examining the Potential for New Feature Sets
13:50
OPERATOR
- Results from the ePerSpace project - Development of integrated, personalised communication and content services in the home
- How to effectively manage service convergence
- Creating a digital home environment: Analysing the role of middleware, HAN connectivity, device management
- Strategies for successful content management
- Network management: Ensuring end2end QoS management
- Could DECT be a candidate for home networking?
Speaker(s):
- Pierre-Yves Danet, Head of Services for the Home R&D, France Telecom, (France)
The Vanishing Borders of the Networked Home
14:20
OPERATOR
- impact of new technologies in the home environment: How the 'always-on' paradigm is changing the user experience and actions that need to be taken
- Integrating, optimising and ensuring ease of use for functions
on new devices, including DECT phones
- Strategies to build new appliances (e.g. Web 2.0 and social networks) within the home networking environment
- Maximising QoS for the end user: How to simplify the overall complexity of the network (zero configuration and automatic systems)
- Ensuring the 'always connected' paradigm reaches the home
- Importance of seamless and usable terminals in and outside the home
- Deploying 2.0 web services that are accessible inside and outside and how they can be integrated with other services
- How effective security, interfaces that are easy to use and seamless
communication could result in more users
- Does DECT have a role?
Speaker(s):
- Roberto Minerva, Manager, Research & Trends, Telecom Italia Lab (Italy)
Case Study: HD Livephone by Orange
14:50
- Analysis of livebox ecosystem
- Examining Orange FT’s wideband offer using DECT
- Evolution of wideband offer: Creating a wideband market
- Where we see the DECT market go in term of functions/services
- What the standards need to do
Speaker(s):
- Philippe Calvet, Fixed and Home Networking Standards Manager, Orange (France)
Beyond Messaging - Utilising DECT for Home Control
15:20
PANEL DISCUSSION
- Expectations of DECT for the networked home
- Is DECT a viable solution?
- What are the alternatives and how DECT could be utilised for the home
Speaker(s):
- Paolo Pastorino, Chief Technology Officer & Chief Business Officer, Home Gateway Initiative (HGI)
- Pierre-Yves Danet, Head of Services for the Home R&D, France Telecom, (France)
- Adrian Pote, General Manager, Broadband Devices, BT (UK)
Coffee and Refreshments
15:55
The Potential Of Dect For The Enterprise Market
A Vertical DECT Application for the Enterprise Market
16:15
- Deploying an unusual application, that is an excellent fit with DECT
- Strategies to deliver high-quality audio
- How to manage a high density of on-line users
- Potential of both DECT 6.0 and Euro-DECT
Speaker(s):
- Tim Whittaker, System Architect, Wireless Business Unit, Cambridge Consultants (UK)
Overcoming Handset Challenges for DECT in the Enterprise Market
16:45
- Assessing the potential to increase ARPU
- Analysing the technical issues for DECT enterprise handsets
- Colour display; screen size
- Competing with GSM/ other dual mode phones for businesses
- How do the challenges for the consumer market differ and what can be learnt?
- Has DECT improved the work-life balance?
Speaker(s):
- Erik Stridbuk, SVP R&D, Kirk Telecom (Denmark)
What is the Future Potential of DECT?
17:15
- Reviewing successful strategies & what works and what does not?
- What is the potential for the consumer and enterprise markets?
- Can manufacturers interwork to provide a better user experience?
- Is there room for third parties to provide new services for DECT phones?
- Assessing the value of services that could be optimised using DECT: Video; advertising; traffic/ weather updates; etc
Speaker(s):
- Dr.-Ing. Michael Neuhouser, Director Program Management Digital Cordless (COM CNV DCL), Business Group Communication Solutions, Infineon Technologies (Germany)
- Oliver Maiwald, Senior Product Application Engineer, SiTel (The Netherlands)
- David Marshall, VP Business Products, Plantronics (UK)
- Brian Robertson, General Manager, Cordless & IP Terminals, NXP Semiconductors
Close of Conference
17:50
