03.11.2009

Pre-Conference Workshop:

Building the business case for profitable FTTx deployments – understanding the real drivers of profitability, what works and what doesn’t
(Workshop language is English)

This workshop will be focussed on the detailed business drivers of an FTTx implementation.   How can you make money and how do you avoid losing – because mistakes in FTTx are very costly. 

The workshop will include high levels of interaction and help people learn where they should be paying attention in developing realistic plans for FTTx businesses.  It will also reference the role of other technologies such as DSL, WiMAX etc when you are developing an FTTx business plan. 

No two deployments are identical. Local conditions, regulation, penetration, costs for digging, geography etc will all impact the business case and so the workshop will cover key drivers of profitability and also share the key aspects of building a realistic business model. 

It will include key aspects of business modelling combined with real world examples of costs, issues, best practices and potential traps for the unwary.

04.11.2009

09h00 | 09h30>>
Reception & Welcome coffee

09h30 | 09h35>>
Welcome Message & Opening of the FTTH Forum 2009
Hassan M. Claussen, Managing Director, HanseCom Media & Communication

09h35 | 10h05>>
Key Note Address
Beatrice Covassi, Deputy head of the Unit responsible for the Lisbon strategy and i2010, European Commission

10h05 | 10h35>>
Key Note Address
Karel Helsen, President, FTTH Council Europe

10h35 | 11h05>>
Technology vs. Business Model when building municipal fibre based networks
Åke Andersson, Senior Expert Broadband Networks, Ericsson

11h05 | 11h30>>
Coffee-Break

11h30 | 12h00>>
Update of the FTTH worldwide Panorama at June 2009 and an insight on the needs for NGPON
Roland Montagne, Head of Broadband Practice, Idate

12h00 | 12h30>>
Deploying the future today
Rui Louro, Director de Operações, CBE

12h30 | 13h00>>
New generation networks and the emergency for new kind of infrastructures in inhabitation buildings
Modesto Cerqueira de Morais, Company Advisor for market and technology on New Generation Access Network and optical technologies in general, IEP Portugal

13h00 | 14h30>>
Lunch

Panel Session: Fiber in the Municipalities

14h30 | 14h50>>
Opening-up the Countryside
Adrian Wooster, Broadband architect, strategist and futurologist, Community Broadband Network

14h50 | 15h10>>
Presentation title to be confirmed
Kees Rovers, CEO, Close the Gap

15h10 | 15h30>>
After one year WDM PON, experiences and plans
Ger Bakker, Founder & CTO, UNET

15h30 | 15h45>>
Coffee-Break

15h45 | 16h45>> Panel Session: Fiber in the Municipalities : The Amsterdam Project

Moderator: Frans Anton Vermast, City of Amsterdam

Frans-Anton Vermast, Public Advisor & European affairs at Development Corporation, City of Amsterdam

Dirk van der Woude, Program Manager Broadband (FttH) & Broadband Services Development, City of Amsterdam

Jan Davids, Director Wholesale and Business Development, Reggefiber
"FttH in cooperation with Municipalities in the Netherlands"

16h45 | 17h00>>
Coffee-Break

17h00 | 18h00>> Panel Session: New Cabling Infrastructures and Technologies

Moderator: to be confirmed

Paolo Dal Bono, Manager – Strategy department, Telecom Italia
"Telecom Italia domestic NGN2 plan & first deployment experiences with new cabling technologies"

Edgar Aker, Draka
"Innovative fiber and cable technology in your MDU Network = saving costs!"

Marc Duchesne, Sustainable Territories Builder, Fibergeneration, www.fibergeneration.com
"How a simple strand of fiber saved 600 jobs in a 3,500 habitants town"

Uffe Mogensen, CEO, GM-Plast
"NEW promising technology: micro-trenching"