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EMEA 2012 (18)
Theme: Video For all Seasons - Mobile Video, Web Video and TV Broadcasting
Video traffic is reportedly the cause of the unprecedented growth of packet traffic. This is not just mobile IPTV, but also services exchanging user-generated content and social networks sharing video clips. Video technologies are changing and rival Video delivery networks may run the same service, may be even share the infrastructure. When it comes to Video, everything is fluid – what streaming methods, what delivery network, where stored and cashed, what protocols, what compression, what security… As Video content grows more attractive and more widespread, these fluid issues call for solutions.
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Theme: Over-the-top and at the bottom - the video ‘state-of-the-start’
Video is the biggest and fastest growing consumer of broadband capacity. It has been around so long that it is strange to see it reborn in a new guise and at the start again. The published projections for video bandwidth consumption must keep telecom network executives up at night. “Internet video surpasses P2P”, video traffic of all types will, “account for close to 90 percent of consumer traffic by 2012”, “video growth is in its initial stages”, are just a few of the predictions - many are still more frightening. At first glance, one would expect most carriers to be delighted, nevertheless unresolved net neutrality issues, the uncertainty about usage-based billing schemes, and the migration of users from cable TV to over-the-top (OTT) viewing has pay-TV providers reviewing their business models.
In regions where pay-TV is an entrenched, developed, market the issues are quite a bit different than those faced in emerging regions where subscriber TV is often either limited or non-existent. While over-the-top video and content - programming that rides the Internet and bypasses the established delivery networks - is taking some business away from the cablecos, cable is far from beaten for a wide variety of reasons. On the bottom of the market, in emerging regions, though, the economics of OTT - it’s free -seems likely to guarantee a good following and to push the market for broadband access.
The transformation of video is more than just a question of entertainment. It will re-shape networks and the economics of the entire ICT sector in both developed and emerging economies.
EMEA 2010 (15)
Theme: The broadband connection - redefining connectivity
Broadband access, wired and wireless alike, is the future of telecommunications. Universal service is no longer just a question of voice, but of broadband, which can handle both voice and data (the Internet) with equal aplomb. The services both individuals and businesses want and need, in even the remotest reaches of our planet, are all broadband-based. Consumer appetite for broadband communications, driven in large part by social networking and the image sharing that goes with it, is the driving force for user and infrastructure equipment innovation. Broadband is also the enabler for an enormous range of new services that are redefining everything from government services to social structures. The theme for this issue of Connect-World will be The broadband connection - redefining connectivity.
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Theme: The broadband connection - which one, to where?
Broadband is no longer the future of communications; it is the present. Even in developing regions, broadband is more than a goal, it is the standard to be achieved. There are many flavours of broadband, both wired and wireless and each has its applications. In some regions, for some applications, fibre is an obvious choice, but in others it is impossible. Wireless, too, has regions and applications for which it is the obvious answer and others where it makes no sense. Some applications - mobile money, for example - will have a wide ranging impact upon commerce, the financial sector and the economy as a whole. Many other applications will change lives throughout the region. The EMEA region - geographically, economically and socially - is extremely varied and complex and so are the needs of its markets. This issue of Connect-World EMEA will explore not only the variety of technologies needed to meet the needs of the region, but more importantly, where the growing use of broadband is leading and how it is changing the future of the region and its people.
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Theme: Convergence and data – pushing the limits of the networkand
The growth of data transmission, driven by a host of bandwidth intensive applications and video content, as well as the tendency to funnel more through fewer, converged, networks are, together, largely fuelling the growth of both fixed and wireless broadband networks. Next generation mobile networks also generate many times the traffic - and generally need more base stations - than today’s 2G networks. Although the access networks can handle the traffic, the traffic backhauled to the core network calls for more, substantially upgraded, links to cope with the river of data generated by next generation networks.
How can we best manage the glut of data in a converged environment? What are the implications for the economy and for everyone involved in the data/Internet ecosystem - the policy makers, regulators, service providers, equipment manufacturers, marketers, e-businesses, security system providers, content and applications developers among others?
EMEA 2007 (18)
Theme: Access technology trends
BPON (broadband passive optical network), FTTx (fibre to the x?), PLC (power line communications), Wireless, 3G WiFi, WiMAX, Satellite, other.
Access was once a question of stringing copper - or a string between two paper cups. Wireless access has, in a few years, outpaced wired access so that mobile phones now outnumber all the traditional fixed phones in the world. Fibre brings TV, broadband and inexpensive voice, and even power lines are being used by utilities, or locally at the office factory floor, or home, to provide broadband access. Much of the change, the revolution in telecom, is the result of better access technologies. Technologies already in the pipeline, and others on the way, promise to change the way we communicate, work and play to an even greater degree than anything we have seen.
This issue will explore the consequences of these new technologies.
EMEA 2006 (18)
Theme: VoIP, Changing the voice/data model
Connect-World EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) explores how technology ties and binds growing relations between the developing and the developed regions of the world. The theme of this issue is EMEA and ICT — positioning for change.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is shaping the way the world is developing. This is nothing new, of course. Historically, every major new technology has shaped, re-shaped and divided the world between those that control and use the technology and those that do not.
The digital divide could have been just one more example of this, but the rapid drop in the technology’s cost, the rapid return on investment, as well as the concerted efforts of governments, institutions and international organisations, turn ICT into the cure for its own ills.
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The EMEA region encompasses a broad range, not just of geographies, but also of societies and needs. The new technologies bring opportunity to all, but the sort of change they will bring to the Middle East and Africa is several orders of magnitude more earth shaking than the change they will bring to Europe. Whereas in most of Europe ICT will bring important, but incremental change, in much of Africa and the Middle East the changes will be nothingless than revolutionary.
Regions long cut-off from the benefits of the latest technologies, from any substantial commerce with the more developed parts of the world, and with little cultural interchange, will now, for better and worse, comeface-to-face with all the changes these developments bring.Governments, international agencies, regional industries, service providers, businesses large and small, and local communities all now need to position themselves to absorb the benefits and minimise the social and business risks.
Connect-World EMEA focuses upon what this technology invasion means to people, communities, businesses, service providers and equipment suppliers in Europe the Middle East and Africa. It points to the need of governments and companies to plan for the change.
Similarly, in Connect-World’s Africa and the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, Europe, India, North America and Latin America issues, each region’s leaders look at the issues that drive the development of their home regions or countries.
Current discussions centre upon the changes wrought in industry and society by the latest generation of information and communications technology - especially Internet protocol digital communications, and how both business and society are changing, need to change, as a result.
EMEA 2005 (16)
Theme: Positioning for change
Connect-World EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) explores how technology ties and binds growing relations between the developing and the developed regions of the world. The theme of this issue is EMEA and ICT — positioning for change.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is shaping the way the world is developing. This is nothing new, of course. Historically, every major new technology has shaped, re-shaped and divided the world between those that control and use the technology and those that do not.
The digital divide could have been just one more example of this, but the rapid drop in the technology’s cost, the rapid return on investment, as well as the concerted efforts of governments, institutions and international organisations, turn ICT into the cure for its own ills.
Subscribe to Magazine
The EMEA region encompasses a broad range, not just of geographies, but also of societies and needs. The new technologies bring opportunity to all, but the sort of change they will bring to the Middle East and Africa is several orders of magnitude more earth shaking than the change they will bring to Europe. Whereas in most of Europe ICT will bring important, but incremental change, in much of Africa and the Middle East the changes will be nothingless than revolutionary.
Regions long cut-off from the benefits of the latest technologies, from any substantial commerce with the more developed parts of the world, and with little cultural interchange, will now, for better and worse, comeface-to-face with all the changes these developments bring.Governments, international agencies, regional industries, service providers, businesses large and small, and local communities all now need to position themselves to absorb the benefits and minimise the social and business risks.
Connect-World EMEA focuses upon what this technology invasion means to people, communities, businesses, service providers and equipment suppliers in Europe the Middle East and Africa. It points to the need of governments and companies to plan for the change.
Similarly, in Connect-World’s Africa and the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, Europe, India, North America and Latin America issues, each region’s leaders look at the issues that drive the development of their home regions or countries.
Current discussions centre upon the changes wrought in industry and society by the latest generation of information and communications technology - especially Internet protocol digital communications, and how both business and society are changing, need to change, as a result.
