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OSA/Parlay Workshop CD available now

All presentations from the OSA/Parlay workshop have been recorded and are now available as synchronized audio and powerpoint streams on this CD.
This allows you to watch the presentation as it was presented at the Workshop, including all animations etc., and to hear what the speaker said - nearly as good as being there !!
All presentations are also available in pdf format.

The CD is available for € 100,- incl. VAT and shipping.

To order, simply download the order form, fill it in and fax it back

19 February

8.30h-9.00h

Registration

   

9.00h-9.15h
Uwe Herzog, EURESCOM

Welcome
Uwe Herzog, Project Supervisor, EURESCOM

   

9.15h-9.30h

Introduction
Dr Claudio Carrelli, Director of EURESCOM

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09.30-10.30 Keynote session
Chair: Uwe Herzog, EURESCOM
   
Zygmunt Lozinski, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Status and update on the Parlay Group
Zygmunt Lozinski, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
& Vice-President, The Parlay Group
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Ard-Jan Moerdijk, Strategic Product Manager, Ericsson Status and update of the Joint OSA/Parlay API group
Ard-Jan Moerdijk, Strategic Product Manager, Ericsson
& Chairman of 3GPP OSA Working Group
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10.30h-11.00h Break    

Session 1
11.00-12.30

Business and Service Opportunities using Parlay/OSA
Chair: Anastasius Gavras, EURESCOM
Service Providers see OSA as a new opportunity for business and growth. The opportunities for the network operators may be increased revenue based on increased traffic volume and by selling access to the capabilities offered by the interfaces. This session will discuss in more detail what the business and service opportunities using Parlay/OSA are.

   
Shoichi Hirata, Senior Research Engineer, NTT DoCoMo Availability of Parlay
Shoichi Hirata, Senior Research Engineer, NTT DoCoMo
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  Architecture Issues for Multimedia Content Provision in Mobile Environment
Josip Zoric, Senior Researcher, Telenor and Bernhard Feite, T-Systems Nova Berkom
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Annegret Kübler-Bork, Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Posts, Germany

Regulators Aspects of OSA Provisioning - Standardisation for a liberalised market
Annegret Kübler-Bork, Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Posts, Germany

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12.30h-14.00h

Lunch

   

Session 2
14.00-15.30

OSA Parlay Technologies
Chair: Zygmunt Lozinski, IBM
The challenge of the industry is to take OSA and Parlay from specifications to commercial products. Several vendors have announced products that comply with the standards. This session will give an overview of Parlay/OSA products and the way forward.

   
Oddvar Risnes, Director of Research, Telenor R&D and Project Leader of EURESCOM Project P1110 State of the art of OSA and Parlay
Oddvar Risnes, Director of Research, Telenor R&D and Project Leader of EURESCOM Project P1110
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  Parlay X
Martin Yates, BTexact Technologies
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Manus Savage, Business Development Director, Aepona Application realization using the OSA/Parlay API's
Manus Savage, Business Development Director, Aepona
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15.30h-16.00

Break    
Session 3
16.00-17.30
Service Realisation
Chair: Corrado Moiso, Telecom Italia Lab
Parlay/OSA promises that development of services will become faster and easier, and will enable portability of services across different platforms. This session will examine these issues and will also discuss to what extent OSA/Parlay facilitates the interworking of IT solutions and the telecoms domain.
   
Gary Bruce, JAIN Program Manager, SUN Microsystems JAIN Service Provider APIs - The Java(tm) Tehcnology Realization of Parlay
Gary Bruce, JAIN Program Manager, SUN Microsystems
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Paulo Chainho, Portugal Telecom Inovação
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Zygmunt Lozinski, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM & Vice-President, The Parlay Group Parlay and WEB services
Zygmunt Lozinski, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM & Vice-President, The Parlay Group
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18.00h

Reception

   
20 February

Session 4
09.00-10.30

OSA Parlay Technologies II
Chair: Oddvar Risnes, Telenor
This session will continue the discussion on Parlay/OSA products from session 2. In addition the session will discuss the future expectations of Parlay and OSA.

   
Uwe Klatt, Product Line Manager for Enabling Services, Siemens Open Services APIs: The Siemens Vision
Uwe Klatt, Product Line Manager for Enabling Services, Siemens
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  Let portals take advantage of the OSA/Parlay functionality
- Using high level XML interfaces

Tomas Svensson, Incomit AB
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orrado Moiso, Senior System Integrator, Telecom Italia Lab Enhancing Parlay and OSA: proposals from P1110
Corrado Moiso, Senior System Integrator, Telecom Italia Lab
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10.30h-11.00h

  Break

   

Session 5
11.00-12.30

Parlay and OSA in NGN
Chair: Uwe Klatt, Siemens
The technologies supporting Parlay and OSA may ease the migration to Next Generation Service Platforms, which should lead to reductions in overall platform costs, and reduced development timescales. This session will make proposals on how the OSA/Parlay standard can pave the way for service platforms in Next Generation Networks.

   
Carlo Alberto Licciardi, Project Manager, Telecom Italia Lab Programmability in Next Generation Service Platforms
Carlo Alberto Licciardi, Project Manager, Telecom Italia Lab
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Lucas Klostermann, Strategic Product Manager, Ericsson OSA and Parlay in 3G Mobile Systems
Lucas Klostermann, Strategic Product Manager, Ericsson
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Geir Gylterud, Research Scientist, Telenor R&D The non-functional aspects of OSA and Parlay
Geir Gylterud, Research Scientist, Telenor R&D
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12.30h-13.30h Lunch    

Session 6
13.30-14.45

Panel Session
Chair: Ard-Jan Moerdijk, Ericsson

   

13.30h-14.45h

This session will address the following key questions:
- Can Parlay and OSA support migration from PSTN/ISDN to IP - and how?
- Which technologies complements Parlay and OSA - and which shall be used for what?
- How should EURESCOM influence the future of Parlay and OSA?
- How does Parlay effect regulation - or the other way around?
- When are the products mature for a large deplayment?

Panellists:
Lucas K
lostermann, Strategic Product Manager, Ericsson
Annegret Kübler-Bork, Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Posts, Germany
David Kennedy, Senior Programme Manager, EURESCOM
Zygmunt Lozinski, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM & Vice-President, The Parlay Group
Uwe Klatt, Product Line Manager for Enabling Services, Siemens
Carlo Alberto Licciardi, Project Manager, Telecom Italia Lab
Gary Bruce, JAIN Program Manager, SUN Microsystems
Chelo Abarca, MM Applications Manager, Alcatel & Project Leader of  ETSI SPAN OSA project

   

14.45h-15.00h

Wrap up and closure
David Kennedy, Senior Programme Manager, EURESCOM