2012 Agenda

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Conference Agenda - Day 1 – March 26th, 2012

9:00 Opening Remarks - Small Cell Forum Chair

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9:10 Official welcome from the Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs

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9:25 HOST OPERATORS: Official Welcome and market overview from Chunghwa Telecom and Taiwan Mobile

Mr. Mu Piao Shih, CTO & SVP, Chunghwa Telecom



Mr. Steve HS Wang, Acting CTO, Taiwan Mobile

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9:40 Building on femtocell success: the future is small

Simon Saunders, Chairman, Small Cell Forum

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10:10 HOST OPERATOR: How to intelligently offload mobile traffic

Tom Koh, VP of CTO Office, Taiwan Mobile

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10:25 Coffee Break

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10:45 Delivering tomorrow’s femtocell today

Manish Singh, CTO, Radisys

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11:05 The future of small cells – China Unicom’s perspective

• Analysis of the requirements and scenarios for small cell deployment
• How to evolve from femtocell deployment to small cell
• Small cell prospects in LTE era

Xiaojia Liu, Deputy General Manager of Technology, China Unicom

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11.30 How intelligent small cells are transforming mobile networks and extending the cloud closer to mobile users

• Driving down the cost and multiplying the capacity of mobile networks
• Adding comms-tuned computing power at the edge of the network
• Enabling new network and cloud application opportunities for operators

Steve Shipley, General Manager- APAC, Ubiquisys

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11:50 Positioning femtocells as more than a plain coverage solution: technical considerations

• How to position femtocells as more than a pure vanilla coverage solution and create extra value for consumer when deploying
• Technical challenges associating Value Added Service/Apps with femtos
• Main technical considerations

Lam Ken Wei, Principal Engineer, Maxis Berhad Malaysia

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12:15 Topic and speaker to be confirmed

NEC

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12:35 Networking Lunch kindly sponsored by:

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1:45 Deploying small cells at China Telecom

• Why we need heterogeneous networks
• Overview of China Telecom’s heterogeneous network
• What China Telecom has accomplished so far

Jiangang Chen, Director - Mobile Network Development Division, China Telecom

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2:10 Meeting the demands of regional operators through converged femtocell services  

• 3G femto deployment experience and overcoming common technical issues
• Harmonisation of new small cells with the pre-existing macro-cell layer
• Mitigating QoS challenges in voice service through the development of software functions

Jae-Woong Chung, CTO, Contela

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2:35 Setting the direction for small cell regulation in Thailand

Jesada Sivaraks, Secretary to the Vice-Chairman (Telecoms sector), The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission of Thailand

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2:55 Looking ahead: femtocell development for an LTE environment

Speaker to be confirmed

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3:20 PANEL: Operator strategies in mitigating the technical challenges encountered in small cell deployments

• Review of successful case studies in femto- and picocell deployment
• Building a network apt for multiple technologies and settings
• Harmonisation and synchronisation strategies for different cells within a network

Moderator: Simon Saunders, Chairman, Small Cell Forum



Confirmed Panellists include:
Ms. Chih-Lin I, Chief Scientists Wireless Networks, China Mobile
Caiqin Zhu – Director, Wireless Network Technology Research Division – China Telecom
    

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3.55 Coffee Break

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4:20 Market Outlook: Femtocells, Small Cells & WiFi    

• Market forecast: femtocell market
• Segment forecast: consumer, enterprise, public femto
• Market interaction with small cells and WiFi
• Highlights from recent operator surveys

Richard Webb, Directing Analyst, Microwave & Small Cells, Infonetics Research

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4:40 Small cells as an extension of the network

Yoshihito Shimazaki, Deputy Division Head, Softbank Corporation

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5:05 Meeting the challenges of a mobile broadband age

• Update on the mobile market in Taiwan
• Development of mobile broadband in Chunghwa Telecom
• Opportunities and challenges ahead

Mu-Piao Shih, CTO & SVP, Chunghwa Telecom

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5:30 Speed Networking Session:
Original Design Manufacturer Partner Marketplace

We have selected the top 6 Original Design Manufacturers from Taiwan and the Asia Pacific region with the capacity and expertise to economically produce small cells in the volumes YOU need. This structured networking session will provide you with a snapshot of their capabilities, and a personal introduction to the leaders of these ODMs, who could dramatically enhance the economics of your business case for small cells!

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6.00pm Small Cells Asia Drinks Reception & Gala Dinner

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 **50% Operator Discount ** 20% Small Cell Forum Member Discount**


Conference Agenda - Day 2 – March 27th, 2012

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9:00 China Mobile’s march towards green communications   

• The implication of small cells in an operator’s green credentials

Ms. Chih-Lin I, Chief Scientist, Wireless Networks, China Mobile

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9:25 TD-SCDMA femtocell deployment experience

Mr. Ziliang Wu, CEO, Suzhou FemTel Communications

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9:50 The answer is small cells - what's the question?

• Handling complexity in multi-layer, multi-standard HetNets
• IRAT mobility
• Managing the bottlenecks (data offload)
• Inter-layer IOT
• The fully flexible small cell architecture

Dr. Nick Johnson, CTO, ip.access

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10:10 Trialling Femtocells in 850MHz – True Mobile Thailand case study

• Deployment strategies and solutions for key femtocell deployment challenges
• In-building coverage and providing services to remote areas as the main drivers for deployment
• Overcoming and mitigating handover and interference issues in Normal UTRAN Node B

Pongsakorn Vattanasirivibul, Access Network Engineering, Network Integration & Solution Delivery/Technical, True Move Co., Ltd.

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10:35 Coffee Break

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11:05 U Mobile’s progress towards small cell and femtocell commercial deployments

• Femtocell field trial and pilot tests – process and evaluation metrics
• Learnings and conclusions from the pilot
• Next steps towards commercial and market launch in Malaysia

Bill Chang, Chief Corporate Planning Officer, U Mobile Malaysia

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11:30 Solving the backhaul bottleneck

• Regulatory and legal challenges to providing stable backhaul
• Backhaul solutions – from fibre to wireless
• How to overcome the unique challenges of backhaul for small cells

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11:50 Topic and Speaker to be confirmed

NTT Docomo

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12:15 Networking Lunch

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1:15 Can advanced signal processing in Femto Access Point help increase system throughput?

Jungtao Liu, CEO, Ablaze Wireless

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1:35 Small cell deployment over broadband satellite: A solution for rural expansion, USO and disaster management 

-    Address the Telco’s concerns on HTS technology for Smallcell
-    Business opportunity for satellite small cell solutions
-    Deployment case studies in Japan, Thailand, China and India

Taksin Uppalakom, Director of Marketing, Thaicom

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2:00 Update on small cell deployment – 2012

Xin Jiang, Research and Development Officer, China Mobile

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2.25 Growing the developer ecosystem for femtocells

• Latest developments from the Femto Forum in definite APIs and specifications
• Use studies enabled by the Femto Services APIs
• Taking the next step: plans to roll out the APIs to the broader developer community

Andy Germano, Vice Chair, Small Cell Forum

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2:25 2012: Update on small cell deployment

Xin Jiang, Research and Development Officer, China Mobile

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2:45 Coffee Break

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3:15 Telkom Indonesia’s experience in femto development

• 3G market status and technical considerations
• Trial results and conclusions
• Looking ahead: femtocells for LTE and next generation networks

Arief Hamdani Gunawan, Senior Officer, Telkom Indonesia

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3:40 Carrier Grade -Test and integration challenges for small cells

• Different stacks, different partners
• Testing is key- Integration, network element and E2E
• RNC or femto gateway-quality aspects
• OAM flexibility

Dirk Zetzsche, Director of Sales, Nash Technologies

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4:00 Interference mitigation for small cells

• Handling interference, site pollution and handover challenges
• Ensuring QoS
• Dealing with interference in a densely populated area

Xiao Han, China Information Technology Design & Consulting Institute Co. Ltd., China Unicom

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4:25 PANEL: Small cells as part of an integrated operator’s network portfolio

• Where does the network intelligence lie in traffic distribution?
• Prioritising data traffic through femtocells, pico, DAS or WiFi
• Optimisation of the network through different technologies

Moderator:
Richard Webb, Directing Analyst, Microwave and Small Cells, Infonetics


Confirmed panellists:
Arief Hamdani Gunawan, Senior Officer, Telkom Indonesia
Tom Koh, VP of CTO Office, Taiwan Mobile
 

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16:45 End of the 4th Annual Small Cells Asia Conference



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