ETSI INT IMS/EPC Interoperability Standardisation: Motivation, Roadmap & First Results

INT = IMS Network Testing. ETSI INT website here. More details below the presentation:

ETSI INT IMS/EPC INTEROPERABILITY STANDARDISATION

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This was presented by Giulio Maggiore, Telecom Italia, ETSI TC INT Chairman in the 2nd FOKUS FUSECO Forum 2011, Berlin 17-18 Nov. 2011

From the ETSI leaflet (note that this is quite old information but still on the ETSI website here):

IMS interoperability is a key issue for boosting IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) roll-out and more specifically network interconnection between operators. Only through thorough testing in practical scenarios can operators ensure operational excellence in a multi-vendor and multi-provider environment.


IMS comprises a set of specifications designed to enable network operators to implement IP-based networks that can carry services for both fixed and mobile customers simultaneously.


IMS was developed originally in the mobile world (specifically in the specifications created by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project, 3GPP), and was adopted for fixed networks by ETSI’s TISPAN Technical Committee (Telecoms & Internet Converged Services & Protocols for Advanced Networks).


However this promise of advanced communications over the next generation network will only be delivered if those same networks can interconnect.


ETSI’s Technical Committee INT: IMS Network Testing


ETSI is bridging the existing gap between 3GPP IMS Core Network standards and the initial industry IMS implementations through the organization of IMS interoperability events in connection with ETSI’s Centre for Testing & Interoperability (CTI) and Plugtests™ interoperability testing service.


Our Technical Committee for IMS Network Testing (TC INT) is actively establishing close contact with a number of industry fora and organizations dealing with IMS interoperability, including 3GPP, GSMA, MSF (Multi Service Forum), IMS Forum and the ITU-T. TC INT develops IMS test specification according to conformance, network integration and interoperability testing methodologies. Other ongoing work includes development of tests for Supplementary Services based on regulatory requirements and IMS tests with legacy networks (e.g. SIP-I).


ETSI has already held two IMS interoperability events. The first examined interconnection aspects of 3GPP IMS Release 6, including such issues as basic call on the Mw interface. The second event had a wider scope that included the testing of 3GPP IMS Release 7 interworking, roaming, border control, and integration of application servers executing selected Multimedia Telephony supplementary services.


Future ETSI activities and events will go even deeper towards bridging 3GPP IMS standards and industry implementations. These will include the organization of further IMS interoperability events designed to boost the roll-out and take-off of IMS services and operators’ network interconnections.

US Trends and Updates on Mobile Broadband, VoIP and Mobile Service Status

Presentations From the 2nd FOKUS FUSECO Forum 2011, Berlin 17-18 Nov. 2011

Mobile Service Status and Trends in the US

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Mobile Broadband and VoIP in the US: Trends and Updates

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LTE Capacity Analysis

From the 4th LTE North America Conference, 8 - 9 November 2011, Dallas, Texas, USA
Presented by Bill Ingram, Cricket Communications, November 8, 2011

LTE for Mobile Consumer Devices

LTE for Mobile Consumer Devices

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From the 2nd ETSI M2M Workshop, Oct. 2011. All presentations available here.

Related posts:

• 6th ETSI Security Workshop
• 1st ETSI M2M Workshop summary and conclusions

Femtocell Backhaul Options

Any others?

There is also this interesting presentation from Maravedis on Non-Line-of-Sight (NLoS) backhaul, embedded below:

Maravedis@4Gworld, Backhaul summit, NLOS session

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Presentation: Its about people, not devices

Its about people, not devices

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Femtocells for Low Energy Buildings

Exactly three years back I posted an article about 'Femtocells for Radiation Proofed Homes' and when I saw this presentation by Elisa, Finland, It just validated with the research what I had mentioned. With the government push for more low energy infrastructure and at the same time the new technologies using higher frequencies, this problem is going to keep getting worse. Untill ofcourse the coming of 'Wireless Friendly Buildings'.

Elisa's presentation as follows:

Elisa, Finland: View on Small Cells

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Optimising Networks for Video Delivery

Interesting presentation from Alcatel-Lucent

Phillippe Keryer - Alcatel Lucent - BBWF 2011 Keynote Day 2

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Use the slideshare link to download the presentation.

Panel Session on Small Cells (Femtocells) from Cambridge Wireless SIG event

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From the Cambridge Wireless Small Cell Special Interest Group event

“Small Cells: the beginning and where we are now”

15 September 2011

At The IET, Savoy Place, London, WC2R 0BL

Panel Session

Chair: Mike Bowerman, Account Manager, Alcatel Lucent.

Participants (from Left to right):

Professor Will Stewart, IET

Houston Spencer, VP Solutions and Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent

Will Franks, CTO and Founder, Ubiquisys

Chris Cox, Director of Marketing, ip.access

More details about the speakers and the event available at: http://www.cambridgewireless.co.uk/Agenda/SCS1_15.09.11.pdf

Summary from the 'Small Cells' Event in Cambridge Wireless

We recently had our first 'Small Cells' SIG event in Cambridge Wireless entitled 'Small Cells: The beginning and where we are now'. The following presentation is the Introduction to Cambridge wireless and the 'Small Cells' SIG (special interest group).

Introduction to Cambridge Wireless and the 'Small Cells' SIG

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Embedded below are the slides and the videos that were taken by our host for the day, 'The IET'.

The first presentation was by Prof. Will Stewart of The IET entitled 'Small Cells - Why small cells?'.

Slides Available here. Video podcast here.

Next presentation: 'Small Cells - the big brother of femtocells. Why they are needed, and where is the femtocell market that they build on' by Will Franks, Ubiquisys

Slides available here. Video podcast here.

Next Presentation: 'Small Cells - On the origin of Small Cells by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured providers in the struggle for mobile broadband' by Houston Spencer, Alcatel-Lucent

Slides available here. Video podcast here.

Final Presentation: 'Small Cells - Mass scale femtocell deployments' by Chris Cox, IP.Access

Slides available here. Video podcast here.

Overall it was a good event. The main complaint was that people had lots of questions but didnt get to ask them. Hopefully they will ask them in the future events.

mHealth – Mobile Healthcare; consumer, doctors, healthcare providers, hardware and software tech enablers

The following is from a recent Mobile Internet SIG in the SV Forum.

You may want to get the presentations before listening to the video. Presentations available here.

Detailed presentation on Femtocell Security from Black Hat 2011

Femtocells: a Poisonous Needle in the Operator's Hay Stack

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Presentation available to download from here.

Detailed write-up on: Exploiting the Ubiquisys/SFR femtocell webserver here.

My earlier blogpost 'Femto Hacking in UMTS and LTE' here.

How many radios are there in my phone?

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From a presentation by John Haine of Cognovo in the Future of Wireless International Conference 2011.

Summary of 'The Future of Wireless International Conference' #fwic

Here is a summary of the Future of Wireless International conference held in Cambridge on the 27th and 28th of June 2011. The summary is a compilation of my notes with the tweets sent using the #FWIC tag.

DAY 1

Roberto di Pietro, VP Product Marketing and Business Development, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies

• 26 million 3G connections being added every month

• 226% growth is seen in smartphones from 2010 - 2014

• Mobile as a single platform for developers.

• Devices smart enough to know which network to connect to

• Qualcomm arrived on the scene 6 months after everyone but they are the only ones with 4G, 3G and 2G multi-mode chips

• In 2012 they would be releasing the new System Architecture with Single / Dual / Quad cores upto 2.5GHz (Snapdragon next gen)

• Question: Will smartphones die in the future when people move to tablets for everything except for voice/sms and they get simpler phones for that

• Answer: Smartphones will co-exist as companion devices with the tablets and will continue growing for a while.

• In other discussions: QoS will be a big differentiator and offloading would certainly be needed. Femtocells are going to form part of any strategy.

• Network signaling load and need for developers to improve apps design noted in qualcomm keynote here in cambridge

Mr. BongGoon Kwak, Senior Vice President, The head of Mobile Business Fast Incubation Business Department Mobile Business Group in Korea Telecom.

• KT adding 0.5 million users every month.

• Mobile data predicted to grow 26 fold by 2015 (6.2 exabytes/month)

• E = MC^2. Where E = evolution, M = mobile and C = connectivity

• mobile banking users in Korea increased 100% to 18 million due to smartphones

• smartphone ARPU up 32% on feature phone

• KakaoTalk (http://www.kakao.com/talk/en) users have increased which has in turn reduced the SMS ARPU

• NaaS (Network as a Service) is a new trend

Mr. Edward Zhou, CMO of Western European Region, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.

• states they have 5300 people in Europe but only 65% are from local market

• No. 2 telecom solution provider with revenues of $28 billion

• has 110,000+ employees with 150 nationalities worldwide, more than half work in R&D

• By 2020 there will be 5.5B MBB (Mobile Broadband) users as opposed to 1.5B FBB (Fixed Broadband)

• 70% of companies (especially SMEs) will be using cloud based services.

Mr. R. Swaminathan, Senior Executive Vice President, Reliance Communications Ltd.

• Low cost mobile networks and devices helped drive innovation in low cost business models in Rural India

• Customisation is a mecessity for the rural market.

• One offering includes a fixed phone that uses Mobile as a backhual using the Yagi antenna

• 15 operators in rural India. Voice tariff went from 20cents to 1 cent. Entry cost reduced by 95%

• ARPU in rural India is $2.

• Telecom operators have done innovations to keep costs to minimum

• Phone to tablet is best evolution for Indian rural market, using visual images and txt to speech technologies not smartphones

• Good to have some text to voice and vice-versa apps

• Ends with saying that there are 870 million people in rural India and possible market size is $25 billion that can be exploited

Kanwar Chadha, Chief Marketing Officer and Board Member of Cambridge Silicon Radio

• Innovations in location-aware wire-free connected world

• Spoke on view of local business vs global, very entertaining perspective , assume nothing and be careful of interpretation

• Example is the initial GPS cost $3700 but was still successful in Japan because guys wanted to show it off to their dates.

• Maslow's hierarchy of needs dont work for India as its more important to have entertainment (TV) than roof.

• FM very succesful in India but nowhere else.

• Sat Navs will not succeed in India because addresses and maps not very well mapped. Things like coupons, sms will be very successful

Innovation Hothouse: Mr. Christian Leicher, Member of the Executive Board at Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG.

Session on start-ups very interesting

• Augmentra talked of GPS based smartphone apps. Users can share and get paid when someone else download what they share. Their guidebooks, etc are trusted by half the search and rescue mountain teams

• Oxems have a solution for the new plastic pipes that are being deployed. The normal metal detectors cant detect these pipes so they have a RFID based solution.

• Pneumacare has a non-contact medicare solution that can be used to track people with respiratory problems

• MagicSolver.com has a unique app discovery solution that can reach upto 6 millions users in 90 different countries.

• Cambridge temperature concepts has a solution that can increase the chances of fertility without IVF to the same levels after 6 months use.

Interesting points from the breakout sessions:

• Mike Bowerman of Alcatel-Lucent: Soon we will see pricing based on time of day, location, etc. Infrastructure sharing lower costs but it means that coverage from some location can completely vanish.

• John frieslaar of Huawei talks about how many will be connected to networks and the cause of demand

• Stephen temple says industry must spur innovation not gov.agree but will gov let us?

• 75% of UK mobile data consumption is driven by BBC iplayer, YouTube and adult videos says Sam Leinhardt of Penthera

• Ed Candy, 3: Apps evolving from Handset Apps to Widgets to Intelligent Browsers based

• Content is king but context is queen

• O2 in UK started putting data caps and lost 7K customers in London. They were using 7% of network capacity so O2 happy to get rid of them

DAY 2

Stephen Baily, General Manager, BBC R&D

• BBC R&D iPlayer usage on tablets is 3million/mth 2% of total

• Dual screens being explored by BBC with a universal controller API. The proposal has been submitted to W3C.

• Working on Dual-Screen concept where iPad becomes a complimentary device to TV (See http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/40584/bbc-focused-ipad-dual-screen)

• BBC R&D iPlayer usage on tablets is 3million/mth 2% of total

• BBC is looking again at mobile broadcasting based on DVB-t2m standard

• 90% of broadcast os normal schedule than the time shifted one.

Dr. Tapani Ryhänen, Laboratory Director, heading Eurolab (Cambridge and Lausanne) of Nokia Research Centre

• Imagining tomorrow devices, creating technology today

• Morph concept video

• Nokia Research Center in Cambridge working in lots of futuristic technologies like Data driven Apps, Stretchable electronics, Bend to zoom, flexible phone and display

• Another video that I wasnt able to locate on Youtube

Few points from The "Can big wireless deliver on the promise of a big society?" Panel Debate

• Motorola's David Chater-Lea: "Due to spectrum needs we're going to see breakdown of barriers between commercial & private networks"

• Neul/Ofcom's William Webb: "To get a truely wireless society we need more small cells and increased backhaul. Then we need FTTH"

• Otherwise we're going to have situation where wireless will be held back by the wired network

• Public safety: should governments use private networks or commercial networks & give priority to emergency services over customers?

Graham Fisher, Former CEO of Orange Labs R&D, BathCube:

• Net neutrality doesn't work in a world of finite resources

• High end phones expectaions include screens that can work in sunlight, AR, 3D, etc.

• When it comes to retail price plans mobile operators are all in a bargain basement, they need to reintroduce value

Dan Reed, Corporate Vice President, Technology Policy and Strategy and eXtreme Computing Group at Microsoft

• The uber change happening is collision of computing/comms/content. We need to work out how to work together

Ken Blakeslee, Chairman of WebMobility Ventures:

• Digital natives vs digital immigrants

• Is mobile too inward looking?

• We're moving from hardware to software driven marketplace where communities are the new currency

• Users can be bought and bribed, communities can not

Interesting Obervation:

• Cambridge Wireless - run largely by women as an organisation but 95% of attendees at Future of Wireless conf #fwic are male

Poll of #fwic audience returns 50:50 re: whether mobile infrastructure should be common wholesale solution vs competitive between operators

Hopefully you have enjoyed this summary!

Some Pictures from 'The Future of Wireless International Conference' #FWIC

Here are some of the pics from 'The Future of Wireless International Conference' held in Cambridge. Most of the pics are from me using my old BB but some of the pics are crowdsourced from twitter from other attendees.

1. The Marquee where exhibition was held

2. Impressive Small-cells from Picochip

3. Freescale

4. Antenova

5. Qualcomm
Qualcomm was showing their Augmented Reality demo (see this). Finally got to play the game after seeing it on Youtube for such a long time.

6. Steepest Ascent.
I have to agree that WindFi is a really good name.

7. Aeroflex

8. A presentation where Ed-Candy from '3' is speaking

9. Omnisense

10. Arkessa

11. From presentations via Tweets

12. This is the impressive hall of St. John's college in Cambridge (via Nabeel Mardi)

Videos from Ericsson Business Innovation Forum 2011

Most of the videos from the Ericsson Innovation Forum 2011 are available on Youtube. Click on the links to watch the video:

Håkan Eriksson, SVP, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Ericsson in Silicon Valley

Douglas Gilstrap, SVP, Chief Strategist, Ericsson

Vision of the Networked Society and our strategy to get there

Paul Saffo, Managing Director, Foresight at Discern Analytics and Consulting Associate Professor at Stanford University

Creators, turbulence and the continuing digital revolution

Magnus Mandersson, Senior Vice President, Head of Global Services, Ericsson

What will cities and urban life be like in the Networked Society

Erik Kruse, Networked Society Lab, Ericsson

How smart is your city? Networked Society City Index

Lior Netzer, Vice President, Mobile Network Strategy, Akamai

The cloud can make anyone an entrepreneur

Dhiraj Kumar, Mobile Strategist, Facebook

It’s all about people

Wayne Ward, Vice President of Emerging Solutions, Sprint Nextel

Does a cow need to be connected? Connecting things and machine-to-machine

Håkan Eriksson, SVP, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Ericsson in Silicon Valley

The survival of the fittest – the network of the next decade

Michael O’Hara, Chief Marketing Officer, GSMA

Operator 3.0

Chris Russo, Deputy Fire Chief, Hull, Massachusetts and Executive Vice President and founder of Elerts

Eyes on the scene – mobile emergency alert system that turn witnesses into assets for first responders

Philip Marthinsen, Producer and partner at House of Radon

Finding an audience in a digital age - PressPausePlay a film about hope, fear and digital culture

Jan Uddenfeldt, Chief Technology Officer, Sony Ericsson

Openness changes the game

Martin Körling, Head of Services & Software Research, Ericsson

HTML5 & beyond: Future of apps platforms

Arun Bhikshesvaran, Vice President, Strategy & Market Development, Ericsson North America

Learning from the US - rolling out mobile broadband and LTE

Brian Higgins, Executive Director, LTE Ecosystem Development, Verizon Wireless

The driving force behind mobile broadband and LTE uptake in the US

Michael Björn, Head of Research, Ericsson ConsumerLab

Smart devices make people dependent on cloud services

Mario Morales, Program Vice President, Enabling Technologies Group, IDC

Smart technology in Silicon Valley

Brian Wilcove, General Partner, Sofinnova Ventures

Why Silicon Valley and its investment climate fosters innovation

Summary

Complete agenda of the event here.

HTML5 and Devices presentation from Mobilism 2011

Couple of presentations embedded below from Mobilism 2011.

Mobilism is the first conference that focuses exclusively on web design and development for mobile devices. 'Mobilism 2011' took place on 12th and 13th May in Amsterdam.

Devices, designs and enabling behaviours - Mobilism 2011

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After HTML5 Mobilism 2011

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For more details and to view all the presentations from the conference, visit the official Coverage page here.

LTE World Summit 2011 promising to be bigger than ever

The LTE World Summit next month, promises to be a bigger and better event than ever before. Long gone are the days when LTE used to be compared with WiMax and debated about but since then LTE has become an undisputed winner; the standard of choice.

Surprisingly there is a WiMAX & TDD Networks conference running in parallel at the same venue. Malaysia's 'Packet One' Network, which is a WiMax based network, recently decided that it will convert to TD-LTE network, probably by end of 2012. This is a blow for the WiMax standard.

Last year in Dec. Verizon launched LTE and Telia Sonera marked its first anniversary. Surely there would be lots of lessons and advice for new networks. Then there is going to be NTT Docomo, always willing to share its knowledge, technical know how and future research direction.

There are going to be four parallel tracks this time which will allow a lot of diverse topics to be covered in the shortest amount of time but it also means that some of us who would like to attend a lot of different presentations would lose out on some of these interesting presentations. Fortunately there are going to be lots of analysts and critics who are going to hopefully do justice to the conference and the presentations in blogs and tweets.

Along with the standard tracks that involve Business Models, Policy & Strategies, Spectrum, etc. there is also a track on Hetrogeneous Network Management (inc. Femtocells or as they are called now, Small cells).

There are also Breakfast briefing sessions from analysts. I would be presenting one such on the first day so please feel free to join me or any of the other analysts. I would ofcourse be blogging about the event hopefully in the same amount of detail as I always do. There will also be plenty of tweets sso be tuned to this event.

The Innovation Driving Femto-powered Small Cells

Intelligence: the Innovation Driving Femto-powered 
Small Cells

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Slideshow as presented by Richard Staveley from Ubiquisys at Femtocell Americas 2010.

SON in Heterogeneous Networks

Another presentation from the SON 2010 Conference based on yesterdays theme of HetNets.

SON in Heterogeneous Networks from Zahid Ghadialy

Presented by Seungpyo Hong of Institute of Network Technology, SK Telecom.