Venue: Sydney Harbour Marriott Hotel at Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia
Australia’s rapidly changing communications landscape offers exciting challenges and opportunities to both larger incumbents and smaller more agile service providers. To compete and thrive, service providers must cut OPEX/CAPEX, improve re-usability and, through adoption of standards-based solutions, increase flexibility and efficiency to remain on top.
TM Forum’s Frameworx Spotlight in Sydney offers attendees an introduction to TM Forum Frameworx, its business benefits and new capabilities, as well as practical tools for efficient adoption within a changing and competitive market. Featuring case study presentations from leading regional service providers, this is your chance to hear the latest debates on the hottest topics in the region, including National Broadband Network, cloud, LTE, smart grid and OTT. Only TM Forum’s Frameworx Spotlight provides you with the opportunity to learn about and influence the standards that underpin the future of the communications industry.
Agenda DOWNLOAD THE PRESENTATIONS 9:30 am
Welcome Address
Jon Newbery, CEO, Clarity
10:00 am
Service Provider Case Study: Rolling Out a LTE Network
Anthony Goonan,
Director, Network and Commercial Planning,
Telstra
This presentation examines the roll out of LTE in Australia to date, evaluating the challenges and opportunities facing service providers and its long term potential for managing data growth with the rapid increase in smartphones, tablet penetration, data cards and use of machine-to-machine.
- Examining Telstra’s launch of LTE - hybrid 3G/LTE option- what were the advantages and disadvantages of this approach?
- Minimizing the impact upon business models and IT systems
- Comparing other service providers’ LTE trials
- Energy suppliers migrating to LTE
- How will LTE technology compete with fixed broadband services based on optical fiber and alternative wireless platforms such as WiMAX?
- How will service providers differentiate services on the network and create varied levels of value that customers are willing to pay for?
10:40 am
Morning Refreshments
11:00 am
National Broadband Network (NBN) – Highlighting the Progress of the NBN
Gary McLaren,
CTO,
NBNCo
This presentation examines the progress of Australia’s NBN, determining the impact on the existing broadband market and the role of the high speed broadband in stimulating the growth of the digital economy.
- How will the NGN impact the existing broadband market and create competition and new opportunities for new entrants, ISPs and large well established brands keen to enter the market and launch a fixed broadband offering?
- Outlining the new business models - what are the challenges and how are these being addressed?
- What new products and service innovations will be enabled through the extra bandwidth?
- Developing effective pricing models
- Forecasting who will be the winners and losers:
- Large national players - who have benefit of scale?
- Niche players - who can focus on either a geography or a customer segment?
11:40 am
Vertel Case Study: Successfully Delivering NBN Equivalent Services To Regional Australia For Government, Enterprise And Service Provider Organizations
Andrew Findlay,
Managing Director,
Vertel
This presentation will look at how Vertel is using carrier grade wireless access technology to deliver networks for health, education and emergency services.
- Health – South West Alliance or Rural Health Care (SWARH) – Creating a MEF compliant Carrier Ethernet WAN using hybrid microwave / fibre infrastructure in regional Victoria
- Education – Independent Schools of NSW – Providing MEF compliant Carrier Ethernet point to point services (E-Line) for the carriage of HD Video Conferencing for remote teaching
- Emergency Services – NSW Police Force – Providing MEF compliant Carrier Ethernet multipoint to multipoint services (E-LAN) for backhaul of legacy / digital Land Mobile Radio networks
- Councils – Coffs Harbour Council – Successfully delivering P25 two way radio network and managed services for shared backhaul network that supports SCADA, CCTV, IP Telephony and high speed Internet
12:20 pm
DGiT Case Study – Using Frameworx To Transform A Telecommunications Systems Environment
Greg Tilton,
Chairman & CTO,
DGiT Consultants
This presentation will examine how DGiT has successfully used Frameworx to:
- Maximizing the value and re-usability of software developed for telecommunications carriers
- Creating a consistent professional services practice with a systematic approach to system and process improvement
- Determining how the two were drawn together to execute a system transformation for a significant telecommunications carrier
1:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
Live Connected Case Study
Roshan Mahanama, Founder, Live Connected
This presentation will explore the challenges and opportunities facing a new MVNO in the competitive Australian telecom market.
2:40 pm
Service Provider Case Study: Investing in Cloud Computing to Drive Revenues and Achieve Competitive Advantage
Stuart Smith,
Head of Cloud Operations,
Telstra Operations
Cloud services continue to be a major growth opportunity for service providers. This presentation explores how service providers are leveraging the revenue opportunities of cloud, looking at success strategies, pitfalls to avoid, and how best to maximize investment in enterprise applications.
- Understanding how to exploit cloud to capture market share, stay relevant, grow revenues, and continually provide new and differentiated value to your customers
- Leveraging your network, systems, customer base and brand to embrace the opportunities of cloud computing
- Identifying the critical success factors for service providers to succeed with cloud services
- Gaining a competitive advantage through differentiated cloud services which provide unique value to targeted customer segments
3:20 pm
Afternoon Refreshments
3:40 pm Telkom Indonesia Case Study: How Operational Transformation has Reduced the Time and Cost to Rollout Next Generation Broadband
Mel Cantarella ,
Regional Program Director, Indonesia,
Clarity - Outlining the drivers for Telkom to undertake a transformation program to streamline and consolidate their operational management processes support their NGN initiatives
- Identifying and overcoming the challenges of deploying next generation network to support innovative new services using a convergent IP backbone
- Exploiting unified OSS, which consolidates existing networks onto one platform, to integrate new NGN topology, including DSLAM, MSAN, WiMAX and GPON inventory, onto the same platform
- Quantifying the benefits of a flexible and unified operational support system using the TM Forum Frameworx principles
- Quantifying the overall benefits of transformation, in terms of:
- Reduction in network deployment time
- Reduction in resources needed and costs
- Improvement in QoS
4:20 pm End of the Spotlight - Chair's Closing Remarks, Drinks Reception & Clarity Prize Draw