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Track 4: European Hotzones & Digital Cities |
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TRACK 4:
European Hotzones, Digital Cities
and
Municipal Broadband
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Chaired by Yankee Group |
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3:30pm |
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Berge
Ayvazian
Conference
Co-Chair
Chief Strategy Officer
Yankee Group |
Roberta Wiggins
Research Fellow, Wireless/Mobile
Technologies Decision Service
Yankee Group |
Among the most exciting
wireless markets of 2005 was the rapidly
evolving municipal metrozone sector, with many
city authorities looking to blanket large areas
with wireless systems to support efficient
operations, public safety, traffic management
and low cost internet access. Early metrozones
were heavily focused on Wi-Fi mesh but there is
increasing interest in WiMAX, or WiMAX/Wi-Fi
hybrids, for these deployments. The development
of mobile broadband in European cities is
unfolding differently than in the US. This
session examines the role WiMAX can play in
municipal networks and the business case behind
them. This track includes an overview of the
European market for Municipal Broadband and
Digital City projects, and three panel
discussions with the leading proponents and
suppliers to these projects throughout Europe.
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4:30pm |
European HotZones and Digital Cities
Moderator: Berge Ayvazian, Chief
Strategy Officer, Yankee Group
Panelists:
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Vincent
Grivet, Co-Managing Director, Maxtel
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Gordon
Willoughby, Managing Director, Cityspace
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Francois Le ,
VP of Business Development and Product
Management, Tropos Networks
This panel focuses on the
development of major European Hotzones or
“Digital Cities” that are starting to develop in
France, UK and Spain.
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TRACK 4:
European Hotzones, Digital Cities
and
Municipal Broadband
Wednesday, May 24, 2006 |
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11:00am |
Panel:
Wireless Broadband Opportunities in
Eastern Europe
Moderator:
Roberta Wiggins, Research Fellow, Yankee
Group
Panelists:
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Sinisa Bakaric, CTO, MICRO-LINK, Croatia
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Yury
Ginosyan, CEO, CEDICOM JSC
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Yuriy Chuikov, CEO of
Alternet.com.ua
This panel focuses
on the use of WiFi and WiMAX to extend
broadband Internet and other
communications services to cities,
towns, and villages in the developing
countries of Eastern Europe. The
panelists represent operators who are
deploying WiMAX in Croatia, Macedonia,
Armenia and Ukraine, Bosnia,
Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and
Slovenia. |
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2:30pm |
Municipal Broadband Projects and
Public Sector Applications in CENTRAL & Western
Europe
Moderator:
Roberta Wiggins, Research Fellow, Yankee
Group
Panelists:
- Jaakko
Kuosmanen, Managing Director, ICT Turku
Ltd
- Rafi Haladjian,
CEO/Founder Ozone
Paris
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Markus
Bömelburg, VP, Sales Europe, BelAir Networks
- Peter Ziegelwanger, CTO, WiMAX
Telecom
Just as Wi-Fi has been enthusiastically
embraced by public sector bodies in many
countries, so WiMAX is now being viewed
as a strong platform for many important
government applications and services,
from emergency response, public safety,
crime prevention, traffic management and
intelligent transportation systems and
e-government. This session uses case
studies to analyze the key trends in
public sector uptake of 802.16 and how
this will change the way that services
are provided to citizens. |
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3:30pm |
WIMAX Regulatory Environment
Ernst
Eidenberger, Director Business
Development, Broadband Wireless Access
Business Unit, Mobile Radio Division,
Alcatel
This session is on the
regulatory aspects for WiMAX. It will cover the
following key topics:
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The importance of
broadband for a country’s economic
development
- Regulatory
basics for the successful market
penetration of WiMAX
- Which
bandwidth is appropriate for a WiMAX
operator
- Co-existence
of FDD and TDD networks
- Overview of
European WiMAX regulations
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4:30pm |
PANEL: WIMAX IN RUSSIA
Moderator:
Berge
Ayvazian, Chief Strategy Officer, Yankee
Group
Panelists:
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Lee Sparkman, President, Enforta
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Victor Istratov, CTO, IPTEL/STELT
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Alexander Tseytlin, CTO, Synterra
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Alexei Prohorov, Sotcom
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Prof. Sergey Portnoy, Alvarion
Berge Ayvazian
moderates this panel comprising
executives from Russian network
operators who are now involved in
deploying WiMAX. |
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