July 18-19, 2001 in Dublin, Ireland
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• Economic, market and technology
trends and predictions
• Infrastructure developments
• Mobility and wireless evolution
• Copper, fiber, satellite, radio futures
• Disruptive technologies, networks & services
• Commercial and social implications
Our ability to produce and
distribute raw bandwidth and services is growing exponentially
along with the
technology options at our disposal. Be it copper, fiber,
radio or satellite, we have a growing set of possibilities
for deployment in the local, national, and international
loop. But these developments are quickly outpacing
the time to deploy them and leading to a crisis of
competition.
With fixed networks, we see a
growing and expensive confusion with old companies
providing IP-based
services
transmitted over ATM. Newer companies are going for
IP over DWDM, a far leaner provision. In the local
loop, ADSL was heralded as the future and is now
seen to be a fundamentally flawed – providing
far too little bandwidth over far too short a distance
in a world that is not asymmetric. At the same time,
billions of dollars have been wasted on 3G licenses
instead of being invested in fiber for the local
loop.
WAP and 3G increasingly look to
be sharing the same
fate as ISDN, and will most likely be taken out
by 2.5G, GPRS and DoCoMo. All the LEO schemes have
either
failed outright or have significantly undershot
their original performance and commercial targets.
In contrast,
GSM dominates the mobile networks of the planet,
SMS has become the principal mode, and parasitic,
or ad-hoc,
networks look set to do real damage in the local
loop of the Third and First Worlds.
So what happens
next? When and where will the shake out be? What
are the implications for individual
nations and companies?
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Mr. Lee Bryan, Chairman & CEO,
Topic-Radio
Mr. Steve Cherry, CEO, Pirate
Communications
Professor Peter Cochrane, Founder & Chief
Technologist, ConceptLabs
Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Head
of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian
Institute of Technology
Mr. Tero Kuittinen, Vice
President, Wireless Telecommunications, Halsey Advisory
and Management
Dr. Bob Metcalfe, Founder,
3Com Corporation and Inventor, Ethernet
Professor Nicholas Negroponte, Director,
Media Laboratory & Professor,
Media Technology, MIT
Dr. Andrew Odlyzko, Head
of the Mathematics & Cryptography
Research Department, AT&T Labs
Dr. Peter Radley, Chairman,
Alcatel UK & Ireland
Dr. Larry Roberts, Founder,
Chairman, & Chief Technology
Officer, Caspian Networks
Ms. Lori Robertson, Lab
Manager, Wireless Applications Research Lab (WARPLab),
Ericsson Research
Mr. Dominic Strowbridge, Director,
Motorola Applications Global Network (MAGNET)
Dr. Chris Wheddon, Chairman
of the Board, QuickSilver Technology, Inc.
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