Pre-Conference Workshop Day, Monday 8th March 2010

Provisional workshop topics:

Understanding synchronisation

Carrier Ethernet in the backhaul

Advances in microwave backhaul technologies

Backhaul business modelling – measuring and forecasting when to upgrade your backhaul

Understanding IP/MPLS

Conference Day One, Tuesday 9th March 2010

• Investment protection - future proofing the mobile backhaul network
• How do you know if your backhaul is LTE-ready? Preparing for the arrival of 4G
• Mobile backhaul lessons learnt from LTE trials
• New packet backhaul solutions to provide fast, flexible migration to 3G and 4G services
• How to migrate to all-IP backhaul
• How to enable new revenue streams and reduce OpEx by delivering IP/MPLS to the cell site
• Addressing the synchronisation challenges emerging from packet based backhaul
• Creating ‘application awareness’ to optimise backhaul networks for content
• An operator’s experience in backhauling for UMTS/HSPA
• Strategies and solutions for reducing backhaul related OpEx

Conference Day Two, Wednesday 10th March 2010

• Deploying Carrier Ethernet in the backhaul – challenges and solutions
• Selecting the appropriate transport media for your backhauling environment
• Ethernet over copper solutions to leverage your existing assets
• How to migrate cellular base station backhaul to fibre
• Deploying fibre to the cell site - turning fibre backhaul from a cost centre into a revenue
• Generator
• Leveraging next generation microwave radio systems when fibre is not an option
• Microwave backhaul solutions to optimise the customer experience of 3G multimedia services
• What’s the end game? End user focussed challenges and opportunities
• Examining regional policy and regulation driving mobile backhaul upgrades
• What NGN development means for your backhaul – a case study