Workshop Objectives

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Workshop Objectives

• Peter Wery
• Chairman ITU-T Study Group 15
• Nortel Networks

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Why, Who, What, How

• Network Access, still considered the bottleneck
  to affordable broadband transport
• Subscriber Network Access
• ? kbits/s to Mbit/s
• Core Transport Network
• ? multi Gbit/s
• Network Access, a candidate for convergence
• Services
• Service providers
• Technologies

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Why, Who, What, How (contd)

• Organized within framework of ITU-T New
  Initiatives, and in cooperation with
  representatives from ITU-R, Committee T1E1.4,
  ETSI TM6, DSL Forum, FSAN, IEEE, MEF, OIF
• Broad spectrum of participating organizations
  (the All Star)
• Executives from Operators, Industry and Research
  as Keynote Speakers
• Tutorials, Session Coordinators, Presenters from
• other ITU Study Groups
• other Standards Development Organizations
• Forums, Consortia (contd)

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Why, Who, What, How (contd)

• Broad spectrum of topics
• Different technologies
• copper, fiber, wireless, power lines
• Wide range of issues
• requirements, evolution of technologies and
  standards, realizations, regulatory, etc.
• Panel discussion on co-operation between SDOs,
  Forums and Consortia
• Exhibiton and poster area
• Vendors will showcase their products
• Operators and vendors will demonstrate B-PON
  interoperability

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Why, Who, What, How (contd)

• Awareness
• Increase awareness of network access related
  studies, projects, standards, products, services
  in ITU-T
• Increase awareness of network access related work
  in other organizations
• Co-operation
• Take advantage of each others achievements
• Improve co-operation and delineation of work
  programs
• Avoid duplication of effort (contd)

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Why, Who, What, How (contd)

• Reassessment
• Scope of standardization activities
• Expected benefits (economical, regulatory)
• Push the frontiers of network access
• Identify new market needs/trends/technologies,
  priorities
• Identify new areas for standardization
• Follow-up
• Establish and follow-up on specific action items
• Enhance related work programs and timelines
  (contd)

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Why, Who, What, How (contd)

• Process
• Key note addresses (3)
• Tutorial Sessions (4)
• Technical sessions on specific topics (7)
• Each Session Coordinator summarizes results (1-3
  slides)
• Reassessment
• New market needs and priorities
• New items for standardization
• Needs for cooperation
• Proposed action items (contd)

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Why, Who, What, How (contd)

• Process (contd)
• Closing Session ? Improving Cooperation
• Panel discussion
• Review current methods for cooperation
• Proposals for improvements
• More submissions than timeslots
• All submissions on post-workshop Web Site and CD
• Session summaries on post WS Web Site and CD
• Thank you