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The era of smart devices |
| Author: |
Dr. Mohammed Yaseen |
| Title: |
Chairman |
| Organisation: |
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) |
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Dr. Mohammed Yaseen is the Chairman of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). During Dr Yaseen’s career spanning almost 22 years, he worked with digital and voice communications, optical fibre transmission systems, fibre access networks and broadband access. He has contributed in commissioning, operation and maintenance of large international telecom networks, including SMW3 (Segment 2), Southern Cross (Australia - USA), I2I (India - Singapore) and provided consultancy on product development, network/product cost analysis and deployment of access networks. Dr Yaseen has more than 30 international and national publications on telecom technologies especially broadband, ICT growth, strategies and design of telecom networks.
Dr. Mohammed Yaseen earned his PhD from the University of Essex, United Kingdom with specialization in Telecommunication Systems. |
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| The rapid growth of smart devices - in both numbers and functionality - is more than a technological and marketing phenomenon. These ever smaller, more complex and functional devices are changing economic and social scenarios throughout the world. Smartphones provide ‘anywhere’ communications, access to information and entertainment along with being, indispensible business tools. Their advantages are obvious, but the multiple functions they provide and their use of a variety of separately regulated platforms has greatly complicated the regulator’s task. |
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| Topic: |
Doing more with less for a connected world |
| Author: |
Ricky Corker |
| Title: |
Head of APAC |
| Organisation: |
Nokia Siemens Networks |
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182KB |
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Ricky Corker is the Head of Nokia Siemens Networks’ Asia Pacific region; he previously served as Head of Sales, APAC, at Nokia Siemens Networks. Before that, he headed the Asia North sub region, leading teams in Thailand, Vietnam, South Korea, Cambodia, Bangladesh and Laos. Mr Corker brings with him 20 years of sales, marketing and leadership experience including as Head of Hutchison Global Customer Business, Area Vice President APAC for Nokia Networks, Commercial and Sales director roles for the Global Customer Teams of Vodafone and British Telecom and Head of Sales for Vodafone Asia Pacific region.
Ricky Corker graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering from The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Australia. |
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| By 2015, five billion people will be connected to the world’s networks using a wide variety of devices - mostly much smaller - on an equally wide variety of platforms. Most of this growth will come from emerging markets where operators will have affordably to address the lack of ICT infrastructure in an environmentally sustainable way. Smaller, energy-efficient PCs, mobile handsets and the like will help meet these challenges as will smaller and smarter communications networks, including compact GSM access points. |
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3 |
| Topic: |
The art of reduction |
| Author: |
Robert Fox |
| Title: |
Chief Branding Officer, Wireless Product Line |
| Organisation: |
Huawei Technologies |
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182KB |
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Robert Fox is the Chief Branding Officer for Huawei’s wireless product line; he is a strategic communications professional with over 30 years’ experience in the marketing and advertising industry on three continents. Mr Fox won several awards for creative design, writing and broadcast commercial direction in the UK. Mr Fox introduced Xerox technology and equipment to Russia, directed campaigns for clients in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal. In New York, Mr Fox helped launch the first American offices of GGK GmbH. He advised Oki Telecom in the first years of the US mobile phone market. He helped the Wall Street Journal, and established corporate awareness and business-to-business programmes for Dow Jones Inc., Reader’s Digest International, Westinghouse, and General Electric. Other clients have included Seagram’s, Kimberly-Clark, The Asian Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Polygram, Warner’s, CBS Music and more. Mr Fox is also a published food and travel magazine writer.
Robert Fox is British born and Oxford educated. |
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| Voice, data, information and entertainment are now accessible from increasingly smaller handsets. Handset design, combined with advanced chip technology and innovative wireless network solutions, squeeze more functions into increasingly compact packages with substantially improved performance. Converging networks and platforms and accelerated broadband adoption have increased the need for interoperability and solutions that use less space and energy while reducing costs. Single RAN (Radio Access Network) solutions can integrate wireless voice, broadband and more into one network to meet many of these needs. |
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Article no.: |
4 |
| Topic: |
LTE and the software defined radio |
| Author: |
Xiaodong Zhu |
| Title: |
CTO, Western Europe Marketing Platform |
| Organisation: |
ZTE |
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Xiaodong Zhu is the CTO of ZTE’s Western Europe Marketing Platform. Mr Zhu began his career at ZTE’s Shanghai R&D centre. Mr Zhu left ZTE to work for Conexant as the General Manager of Conexant Wireless Communication (Shanghai) division, which later became Skyworks Wireless Communication. Mr Zhu also served Broadcom (Shanghai) as a General Manager prior to returning to ZTE in his current position.
Xiaodong Zhu earned his masters in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University. |
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| As wireless networks evolve, operators will have to integrate several technologies - legacy with advanced - into a single network. Operators must also choose their new networks whilst trying to maintain compatibility with future standards not yet available in the market. This is a particular challenge in developed markets, where mobile operators are faced with radio infrastructure lifecycles of a few years, making it difficult to achieve return on investment. Software defined radio offers a way to minimise risks and costs. |
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Article no.: |
5 |
| Topic: |
Growing pains in a shrinking world |
| Author: |
Tony Scarfo |
| Title: |
Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Sales Channels and Partners |
| Organisation: |
ECI Telecom |
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Tony Scarfo is the Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Sales Channels and Partners for ECI Telecom; he has more than 25 years of experience in the access, optical and data telecommunications industries. Prior to ECI, Mr Scarfo served as Vice President of Global Alliances and Partnerships at Juniper Networks. Mr Scarfo joined Juniper through its acquisition of Unisphere Networks, where he was
Vice President of Marketing. He also spent a significant part of his career at Lucent Technologies as Vice President.
Tony Scarfo holds an MBA from Seton Hall University and a BSc in computer science from Manhattan College, New York. |
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| With today’s shrinking technology we video-conference, take photos, film, video, access the Internet, read, enjoy music and videos, do business, play games and even make calls, all on a single handheld device. Network storage and cloud computing shrinks the role of handhelds and other computing devices, but generate enormous amounts of traffic and stress existing networks. Optical fibre can carry tens of gigabits per second and do it in a smaller, more energy efficient footprint than ever before. |
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Article no.: |
6 |
| Topic: |
Telecom companies in a smaller, flatter, faster world |
| Author: |
John Tolton |
| Title: |
Vice President, Asia-Pacific Region |
| Organisation: |
Arbinet Corporation |
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179KB |
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John Tolton is Vice President for the Asia-Pacific Region for Arbinet Corporation, a provider of international voice and IP solutions to telecommunications carriers and service providers. Prior to joining Arbinet, Mr Tolton served as Vice President, Asia-Pacific for iBasis and as the Chief Operating Officer at Nextel Philippines. Mr Tolton previously established one of the first joint ventures in the Indonesian mobile telecommunications industry to form PT Mobile Selular Indonesia.
John Tolton holds a graduate degree in Asia Pacific Management from the McRae Institute for Management from Capilano College in Vancouver and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Victoria College, the University of Toronto. |
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| Technological developments have led to deregulation, economic liberalization and integration of a range of industries across the globe. Information and communication technologies and pervasive media are shrinking the world, letting people in remote villages experience far off places and communicate with their family and friends. Distance learning develops their skills for outsourcing, off-shoring and remote jobs. The world’s technological transformation puts pressure on the very businesses that are facilitating the change and creating today’s smaller, flatter and faster world. |
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Article no.: |
7 |
| Topic: |
Satellites connecting a world in motion |
| Author: |
Micha Lawrence |
| Title: |
Founder and CEO |
| Organisation: |
Starling Advanced Communications |
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| Micha Lawrence is the Founder and CEO of Starling Advanced Communications; he has spent more than 17 years in the avionics industry. Prior to founding Starling, Mr Lawrence served at Elbit Systems, a global military electronics and communications Technology Company and a founding investor in Starling. At Elbit, Mr Lawrence held a variety of senior management positions in various avionics programs. Micha Lawrence served previously in command positions in the Israeli Air Force. |
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| Smartphone use is growing not only for voice calls, but for emailing, file downloads, music and video access, and work - much like with computers, but on the move. However there are gaps in network coverage in remote regions and when people are on the move. Satellites reach everywhere, but traditional antennas are large, heavy and, generally speaking, directional. New flat antenna technology reduces antenna size and weight so they can be readily installed on cars, trains and planes. |
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Article no.: |
8 |
| Topic: |
Shrinking devices, extending services |
| Author: |
Dr Daniel Mavrakis |
| Title: |
President and CEO |
| Organisation: |
MCTEL |
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Dr Daniel Mavrakis (MSc, PhD, and MD) is MCTEL’s President and CEO. Dr Mavrakis has contributed as a part-time international expert for major international standardisation groups, namely ITU (International Telecommunication Union) and ETSI (European Telecommunication Standards Institute), and participated to the definition of several international telecommunication standards. Dr Mavrakis also participated in the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) standardisation and was the author of RFCs in the standard track (e.g. RFC 2122).
Dr Daniel Mavrakis is the author of numerous papers on computer science in computer reviews and of several whitepapers concerning mobile networks (Mobile Device Management and OTA, SMS Value Added Services, etc.) and is contributing to the GSM Association SMS Hubbing group taskforce. |
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| In many regions mobile penetration is approaching saturation. Consequently, mobile markets are highly competitive, prices are dropping, and voice revenues are squeezed forcing operators to focus on value-added services to boost revenues. Despite demand for mobile services, few use them - few people can deal with the complexities of configuring their mobile devices to access these services and this causes major VAS revenue shortfalls. Mobile operators must thus be able to manage and configure their customer’s mobile devices remotely. |
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Article no.: |
9 |
| Topic: |
Rich mobile experiences for the mass market |
| Author: |
Gordon Tsang |
| Title: |
SVP Sales & General Manager Asia |
| Organisation: |
Myriad |
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Gordon Tsang is General Manager and Senior Vice-President of Sales in Asia of Myriad Group AG.
Prior to joining Myriad Group AG, Mr Tsang was Vice-President and General Manager for the worldwide client software business at Openwave, a provider of software applications for mobile and broadband devices. His previous experience includes Asia Pacific director at Magic4 and Asia Sales Director for Zi Corporation responsible for its text input solutions.
Gordon Tsang holds an engineering degree from Leeds Metropolitan University in Electrical and Electronic engineering. |
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| Smartphones dominate the headlines, but the vast majority of mobile phone users own far more modest devices, especially in Asia’s fastest growing markets. For many in China, Indonesia and India, the mobile phone is their only link to Internet services. Many consider the Western world or Japan to be leaders in mobile communications, but the rest of Asia is really leading the way, with mass-market services - especially mobile social networking and graphical data services for ultra-low cost phones. |
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Article no.: |
10 |
| Topic: |
State of the ‘Telco Nation’ |
| Author: |
Greg Russell |
| Title: |
Senior Vice President |
| Organisation: |
Telstra International, Asia |
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185KB |
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| Greg Russell is the Senior Vice President of Telstra International, Asia. Prior to joining Telstra International, Mr Russell was General Manager of Sales for BT Global Services in Southeast Asia. Earlier, at WorldCom International, he worked in Hong Kong, Singapore, Netherlands and London, and was awarded Presidents Club membership for high achievers. |
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| Technological convergence, market liberalisation and free web-based services such as file sharing, instant messaging, email and social networks and VoIP push the exponential growth of traffic, put downward pressure on prices and commoditise services. This makes it difficult for service providers to make the capital investments needed to deal with dynamic markets and changes in consumer perceptions. A new managed services model - called whole-of-business - joins providers who might otherwise be competitors to meet end-customer needs within a sustainable partnering framework. |
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Article no.: |
11 |
| Topic: |
Convergence, costs and customers |
| Author: |
Parmeet Ahuja |
| Title: |
President and Country General Manager |
| Organisation: |
Agilent Technologies, India |
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183KB |
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Parmeet Ahuja is the President and Country General Manager, Agilent Technologies, India; he has over 15 years of experience in various leadership roles at HP and Agilent. Previously, Mr Ahuja was the Controller for Agilent’s Global Infrastructure Organization at corporate headquarters. Mr Ahuja began his career with Novell and has since worked for a number of technology companies.
Parmeet Ahuja graduated from Delhi University with a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, and earned an MBA from San Jose State University, California. |
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| Carriers must continually strive to offer customer ‘more for less’ - deliver more and better services at a lower price. Nevertheless, cost cutting through efficiency and building market share through better, more innovative, services - not easy to do simultaneously - will both be needed to make this work. Network convergence - building a single infrastructure to deliver all voice, video and data services regardless of access method - and getting the technology and service delivery right from the start are essential. |
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Article no.: |
12 |
| Topic: |
User-centric data analysis and network optimisation |
| Author: |
Subhendu Mohanty |
| Title: |
Country Head, Home & Networks Mobility |
| Organisation: |
Motorola India |
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267KB |
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Subhendu Mohanty is the Country Head and Senior Director of Motorola India’s Home and Networks Mobility Business Unit; he is a member of Motorola’s India Country Council. Mr Mohanty has also served as Motorola’s Director of Operations for India CDMA,
as Project Director of the Reliance Telecom, Pacific Bangladesh Telecom, MTNL CDMA and TATA accounts as well as Services Director.
Prior to joining Motorola India, Mr Mohanty worked as the Sr. Program Manager at Motorola USA responsible for the world’s first CDMA deployment. Prior to this, Mr Mohanty was the Engineering Manager at Motorola Codex in their ATM Switch Development in Boston, USA. He also served earlier as a Principal Engineer with Aeronautical Radio, Annapolis, USA. Mr Mohanty received several awards from Motorola including the Leadership Essential Award from Motorola’s CEO.
Subhendu Mohanty earned his MBA from the George Washington University and his Masters in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Texas. He has a Bachelors degree in Metallurigical Engineering, NIT, Rourkela, Orissa. |
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| In India, the ARPU (average revenue per user) is among the lowest in the world and operators must tightly control their capital and operating expenses while increasing connections and quality of service. Competition for subscribers is also intense, so it absolutely vital to use leading-edge network and user-centric optimization techniques to get the best performance from existing network resources. Network Optimisation Services, based on actual subscriber usage data, can improve performance and reduce expenses sufficiently to provide a competitive edge. |
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Article no.: |
13 |
| Topic: |
Mobilising India - a people on the move |
| Author: |
R Chandrasekaran |
| Title: |
President and Managing Director, Global Delivery |
| Organisation: |
Cognizant |
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185KB |
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R Chandrasekaran (Chandra) is the President and Managing Director of Global Delivery at Cognizant; he has over 25 years of experience
in the global information technology industry. His experience spans key functions such as corporate strategy, customer relationship management, business development, and operations management. Prior to joining Cognizant, worked with Tata Consultancy Services, and was responsible for setting up and managing its operations in the West Coast of the US. He also worked in the UK and Europe in delivery and business development roles. In 2008, he received the ‘Distinguished Alumni Award’ from the National Institute of Technology (formerly the Regional Engineering College) in Trichy, India.
Mr Chandrasekaran has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Regional Engineering College in Trichy and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India. |
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| Innovation that profitably brings low cost service to India’s population - including in rural areas - has driven growth of India’s mobile telephony markets at rates unseen anywhere else in the world. India currently adds ten to 15 million new subscribers each month. The government’s willingness to innovate - number portability, MVNO licensing, and so on. - has also been an important growth driver. Innovative business models, including joint ventures controlled by major agricultural cooperatives, are also bringing service to rural areas. |
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14 |
| Topic: |
Preparing for surging mobile broadband demand |
| Author: |
Pramoda Kumar Rai |
| Title: |
India Country Manager |
| Organisation: |
Allot Communications |
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193KB |
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Pramoda Kumar Rai, Allot Communications’ India Country Manager, has over 15 years of sales experience with telecom and large enterprises.
Prior to Allot he worked with Radware, successfully introducing their solutions into India. Pramoda has also worked extensively with different companies providing network and gateway security solutions for telecoms and large enterprises in India.
Pramoda Kumar Rai holds a B.Sc. (Honours) in Science from Bhagalpur University. |
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| India is experiencing tremendous growth in the number of mobile subscribers, of which there are now an estimated 470 million. Yet, there are less than 40 million fixed and mobile broadband connections demonstrating that broadband connectivity is lagging behind. Mobile operators are focusing on expanding network capacity and creating new services to keep pace with the volume of new subscribers and demand for new applications. Operators must leverage network intelligence and bandwidth management tools in order to maximize these efforts. |
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Article no.: |
15 |
| Topic: |
Shattering authentication myths |
| Author: |
Dr Shekhar Kirani |
| Title: |
Country Manager |
| Organisation: |
VeriSign India |
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181KB |
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Dr Shekhar Kirani is the Country Manager of VeriSign India; he is responsible for overseeing VeriSign’s activities in India. has worked in the high tech sector for more than 15 years, building and managing global teams for engineering, product management, innovation and production system operations. Prior to joining VeriSign Dr Kirani held management positions at Lightsurf Technologies, which was later acquired by VeriSign. He also worked for Starfish Technologies, acquired by Motorola as well as for Qwest, Texas Instruments and Wipro Technologies.
Shekhar Kirani holds a PhD in Computer Science from University of Minnesota and Masters in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science. |
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| More people go online each day to buy goods and services - it is easier to find a wider range of whatever is needed. Nevertheless, identity theft and online fraud are on the rise and the concerns of both businesses and consumers are slowing growth. There are systems, such as two-factor authentication (2FA), which uses onetime passwords (OTPs) generated by a physical device to provide a high level of security. Unfortunately, a series of outdated myths impedes 2FA adoption. |
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Article no.: |
16 |
| Topic: |
Mobile entertainment - a global perspective |
| Author: |
Rohith Bhat |
| Title: |
Managing Director & CEO |
| Organisation: |
Robosoft Technologies |
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230KB |
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Rohith Bhat is a Founder, and the Managing Director and CEO of Robosoft Technologies, a software company that develops products for the Mac OS, Windows, iPhone, Android and Web platforms. Mr Bhat has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry; he began his career as a software engineer for Recosoft Corporation in Osaka, Japan and later held the same position in Larsen & Toubro, Mumbai. He was named the ‘Outstanding Young Entrepreneur of the Year’ at the Mangalore Conclave 2007 for building a dynamic and growing business in a non-IT zone.
Rohith Bhat holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Mangalore University. |
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| The mobile phone plays an increasingly large role in our lives. We are accustomed to anywhere, anytime voice and messaging. Business users have long used mobile phones in the field to keep in touch with their offices, to access company systems and check their email. Today, though, one of the biggest growth areas is mobile entertainment. Music is the best selling form of mobile entertainment and gaming is close behind. Mobile TV is growing, but still has a way to go. |
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