IDATE will present an updated Global FTTx Picture.

What are the most dynamic zones in the world in terms of subscribers and Homes Passed and for which different architectures such as be FTTH/B, FTTN, FTTLA and FTTx+LAN?

Top 10 FTTx operators Ranking.

The FTTH situation in Eastern Europe and Turkey will be presented in detail as IDATE is observing FTTH and FTTx rollouts in 39 countries in Western & Eastern Europe.

We will conclude with Drivers and Challenges for FTTH in Eastern Europe and Turkey.

During his keynote, Murat Erkan, General Manager of Turkcell Superonline, will be speaking about how Turkcell Superonline positioned among leaders in FTTX and took a major role in transforming the internet experience in Turkey with Fiber İnternet. He recently said; “Turkcell Superonline’s ultrafast internet service provides the ultimate internet experience via speed of light. We are proud to realize this investment, placing Turkey among the top countries in the world to offer this service. We believe Turkcell Superonline's investment in fiber brings Turkey one step closer to achieving its 2023 National targets”

• Why fiber deployment is more important than ever?
• Utilizing FTTH as a unified access platform
• Lessons learned from the fiber deployment in UAE
• Technology evolution and future direction

The global 100G era is coming, with Internet traffic fast approaching TeraBit level. 2012 marks the beginning of large-scale commercial deployment of 100G, and our solutions accelerate the development of the high-end 100G industry. We will help carriers build sustainable and efficient networks, combat the bandwidth challenges brought by cloud application proliferation, and reduce network O&M costs." said Gai Gang, President of Huawei's Carrier IP Product Line. We are glad that we will receive first hand information from Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider.

The business success of service providers also rely on affordable broadband infrastructure, the one to enable high speed broadband connections in network operator’s access network and the one to bring sustainable investments and reliable revenue from services offered.
Regardless of FTTx topology, income cash flow is a function of operator’s ability to boost used infrastructure to perform best services that fit current AND future demand of operator’s customer.
The presentation addresses means how to secure future revenues from services sold (also from OTT service providers) by proper investment into more intelligent FTTx infrastructure today.

Unlike many cities who spend years planning how to finance, build and utilize a FTTH network, Kansas City, KS and Kansas City, MO won the Google lottery and launched a new kind of public-private partnership, bringing a next generation fiber network to homes across the metro area with minimal financial investment on the part of the cities. Learn how the communities have responded to this opportunity, how Google has gone about launching their product and what lies ahead. Areas of particular interest include the unique brand of cooperation between two cities across state line and the spotlight that the arrival of gigabit speeds have shined on the digital divide.

During the lunch break some tables will be hosted by some of our distinguished speakers. Use this hour to discuss your individual projects and meet your peers.

• The map of Russian Telco Market
• Technical and financial reasons of  FTTH
• Who pays
• The way to attract and to keep customers

Despite the financial crisis, there is a huge pool of capital looking for infrastructure investment projects.  Access fibre projects, if structured correctly, could be highly attractive for these long-term funds. Even without a common approach to investment, FTTB is growing rapidly in the region and generally requires patient capital in a sector weaned on rapid payback in mobile.  Mobile is now ex-growth in many countries so is there an appetite for fibre finance in the conventional approach and how could new approaches tap the so far unused interest from infrastructure finance.

Moderator: Stefan Stanislawski, Ventura Team

Panelists:
 

• Onder Senol, CFO, Turkcell Superonline
• Wolf-Dietrich Grussmann, Head of Unit Regulatory Coordination and Business, European Commissions Communications Networks
• Oytun Altasli, Director - Senior Equity Analyst, Standard Unlu Equity Research
• Yunus Celiber, TurkNet

The broadband targets of the Digital Agenda for Europe are part of the overall strategy for growth and jobs: access to high speed broadband (30 Megabits per second or more) for all Europeans by 2020, with at least 50% of European households having high speed subscriptions above 100 Megabits per second. The costs of NGA deployment are high, out of which up to 80% is estimated as being linked to civil engineering. Studies also suggest that up to 30% cost reduction could be achieved by the re-use of existing ducts, including those of alternative infrastructure owned by other utilities such as energy, railways, sewerage. Before this background the Commission is launching an EU initiative to reduce the costs for rolling out high-speed internet. Issues covered by the presentation are:

• Better use of existing infrastructure
• Better coordination of public works and in-house equipping
• Streamlining administrative procedures
• Member states' best practice
• Why an EU initiative?

• governance - political life cycle, leadersship
• Investments

-tangible

-non-tangible

• examples of cost cuts for governments when deploying FttH-networks
• adding value when combining connectivity and electricity

• Başakşehir Today and Future
• Başakşehir Projects around Smart City Life
• The Municipality promoting Entreprenuership and Innovation - Başakşehir Living-Lab Project
• Infrastructure Standards and projects for High Speed Internet and Smart Buildings

Content is killing operators with increasing bandwidth required for over the top players and pirated content.  But the Internet created the mechanism for content to be illegally shared - damaging media and content companies.  Both sides of this business model are killing the other.  

This panel will look at the different ways in which operators and content providers can work together to develop new business models and monetise content.  It will be a realistic and pragmatic view at what can and does work and how revenue can be generated in the future.

Moderator: Richard Jones, Ventura Team

Panelists:

• Muneer Zuhdi, Senior Director, Technology Strategie, Etisalat
• Claudius Boller, Business Development Director, Universal Music
• Another panelist to be confirmed

- Brief Review of the day

- Lottery of an iPod Nano