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Even in the near future, operators will need to deliver higher capacities, new services and higher Quality of Service to the customer, while improving efficiency and lowering cost internally. For most operators, this revolution must be achieved by an evolution in their radio, aggregation and core networks.
Mobile operators have already started to deploy heterogeneous network structures combining different generations of wireless technologies, often embedded in an environment of macro-, micro- and even femto-cells. Furthermore, LTE-Advanced features, new centralised RAN and smart network architectures are currently being developed and evaluated.
As a result, many of the elements needed to deliver a flexible, intelligent network already exist or will appear in the near future. The main challenge is to do it right - to bring the pieces of the puzzle together in a way that supports an operator’s financial, technical and business needs throughout the evolutionary process. This session highlights how industry leaders are working towards this and what steps should be taken.
Moderator: Luis Jorge Romero, Director General, ETSI
Speakers Include:
Marcus Weldon, CTO, Alcatel-Lucent
Bill Huang, GM, China Mobile Research Centre
Thierry Maupile, Head of Operations, Strategy & Business Development, Cisco
Dr. Peter Meissner, CEO, NGMN
Sandro Dionisi, Head of Telecom Italia Labs & Chairman, NGMN
Michael Wennesheimer, Senior Manager Network & Service Quality, Vodafone
Xiaodong Zhu, CTO Western Europe, ZTE
