Tomorrow’s Residential Infrastructure for Broadband And Narrowband
Tuesday-Thursday 17 - 19 November 1998,
Venue: Bern, Switzerland
Organised by EURESCOM P614
Hosted by Swisscom
Sessions
- Consumer electronics and equipment manufacturer
- Transmission systems
- Control systems
- Smart home
- Telecom partners view
- Human and social, economic and business aspects
- EURESCOM results presentations
Abstract:
P614 EURESCOM Project (Implementation Strategies for Advanced Access Networks) is organising a three days workshop with the aim to get information in the Home Networking area from companies active in the field and to disseminate the Project results.
The first two days of the TRIBAN Workshop will cover all aspects of
Home Networks (residential communication, including broadband, narrowband, and control
communications). It will consider also future solutions. On the third day results from the
P614 and other EURESCOM Projects will be presented.
Program for Tuesday 17th November 1998
| Title | Speaker | |
| 08.30–09.00 | Opening Session | Chairman: Michalis Mavis, EURESCOM |
| Opening of the Workshop and Welcome | Walter Steinlin, Director Corporate Technology, Swisscom | |
| EURESCOM and its role | Claudio Carelli, Dr., EURESCOM Director | |
| Workshop: working method | Eric Demierre, Program Manager, Corporate Technology, Swisscom | |
| Objectives of the Workshop | Michalis Mavis, Project Supervisor, EURESCOM | |
| Session 1 Smart Home |
Chairman: Rudolf Brügger, Swisscom |
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| The smart connected home of the future | Michael Barkway, Business Manager, Wireless Data, Symbionics Ltd. | |
| VESA Home Network | Joel A. DiGirolamo, Chairman VESA, Lexmark International | |
| Networked Homes – Nodes in the Net and Networks themselves | Hans Werner Bitzer, Deutsche Telekom Berkom GmbH |
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| 10:30- 11.00 | Coffee break | |
| 11.00- 13.00 | Session 2: Transmission systems part 1: optics |
Chairman: Jürgen Krauser, Deutsche Telekom AG |
| Multichannel data transmission with optically generated carriers in the 60 GHz Band. | Gerd Grosskopf, Dr. Ing., Heinrich-Hertz-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik Berlin GmbH | |
| Optical Cabling Systems for LAN - The "Bicocca Cablata" Project | Luca Negri, Ing., Pirelli e Sistemi Cavi S.p.A. | |
| Current Status of POF: technology and Market | Kazuki Nakamura, Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd | |
| A comparative study of plastic and multimode silica fibre solutions for home networks | Piero J. Bradley, Dr., CSELT | |
| 13.00 - 14.30 | Lunch break | |
| 14.30- 15.30 | Session 3: Transmission systems part 2: wireless (a) |
Chairman: Frédéric Pythoud, Swisscom |
| Wireless In-house Networking | Rolf Bächtiger & J.Niederer, Siemens Switzerland Ltd | |
| An Infra-Red Based In-home Digital Network | Klaus Peter May, Philips Research Laboratories | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30-18:15 | Session 4 Human, social, economic, and business aspects |
Chairman: Eric Demierre, Swisscom |
| Convergence in the home and its impact on Service Providers | Dave Waring, Bellcore | |
| Costs and Feasibility of the Cabling Italian Homes for Multimedia | Alessandro Striuli & Paolo Franzoi, Telecom Italia SpA | |
| Home Networks: Bridging the Technical Economic Divide | David Bartlett, Scientific Generics | |
| Panel discussion | Dave Waring, Bellcore A. Striuli & P. Franzoi, Telecom Italia SpA David Bartlett, Scientific Generics Michael Barkway, Symbionics Ltd. Eric Demierre, Swisscom |
Program for Wednesday 18th November 1998
| 9.00 – 11.00 | Session
5: Consumer Electronic and Equipment manufacturer |
Chairman: Claude Monney, Swisscom |
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| Home Networking over Phone Cabling | George Minassian, Director of Advanced Development Lab, Advanced Micro Devices | ||
| A Residential Multimedia Access and Distribution System | Nikos B.Pronios, PhD, Section Manager, INTRACOM S.A. | ||
| BerNT - Berkom Network Terminator for the Integration of Heterogeneous Inhouse Networks and Broadband Access Networks | Dirk Elias, Thomas Luckenbach, Berthold Butscher, GMD-FOKUS, and Falk Schulz, DeTeBerkom | ||
| Combination of transmission and LAN equipment for cost effective Internet and Intranet services | Urs Ackermann, Product Manager Line, Ascom Transmission Ltd | ||
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Coffee break | ||
| 11.30 – 13.00 | Session 6 The Telecom partners point of view |
Chairman: Umberto Ferrero, EURESCOM P614 leader, CSELT |
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| FSAN activities in Home Network | Tom Helmes, GTE | ||
| ATM Forum: the Residential BroadBand | David Thorne, BT | ||
| New challenges for residential network infrastructures: EURESCOM approach | Frédéric Pythoud, PhD, Swisscom | ||
| 13.00 - 14.30 | Lunch break | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Session 7 Control systems |
Chairman: Philippe Schroeter, Swisscom |
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| A shared vision becoming a shared reality. | Henk Walraven, Director of Marketing EMEA, ECHELON Europe | ||
| Establishing Convergence in the Home and Building Electronic systems Market | Leonard J.Elkerbout, Marketing Director, EHSA | ||
| EIB - The European Installation Bus | Wouter van den Bos, EIBA | ||
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:30-18:00 | Session 8: Transmission systems part 3: wireless (b) |
Chairman: Erwan Bigan, France Télécom |
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| HIPERLAN 1 for the home multimedia wireless networks | Philippe Rouzet, Network Department Manager, Dassault Elecronique & Eric Vallet, Alcatel | ||
| CABSINET - Cellular Access to Broadband Services and Interactive Television | David Penny, CRL | ||
| HomeRF technology and applications | Michael Barkway, Business Manager - Wireless Data, Symbionics Ltd | ||
Program for Thursday 19th November 1998
Access network evolution: the European perspective
Chairman of the day: Michalis Mavis, EURESCOM
| Time | Title | Speaker |
| 09:00-09:30 | Opening and introduction | Umberto Ferrero, CSELT |
Access network architectures, systems and technologies |
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| 09:30-10:00 | Wiring the world: target and interim solutions | Wsewolod Warzanskyj, Telefónica I+D |
| 10:00-10:30 | Going wireless: broadband architectures and systems | Erwan Bigan, CNET-France Telecom |
| 10:30-11:00 | The role of technology: from the device to the outside plant installation practice | Daniel Lecrosnier, CNET-France Telecom |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee break | |
The user point of view |
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| 11:30-12:00 | What makes Multimedia Services usable and acceptable? | Asbjorn Ousland, Telenor |
| 12:00-12:30 | Local Information Infrastructure to support Community Communications Networks | Egidio Giachin, CSELT |
A different point of view: vision for the future access network |
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| 12:30-13:00 | FTTH as a consumer product | Philippe Schroeter, Swisscom |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch | |
The economics of access network evolution |
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| 14:00-14:30 | Techno-economics of broadband radio access | Valter Benedetto, CSELT |
| 14:30-15:00 | Broadband Upgrade Economics: evolutionary paths and area specific investments | Lucien Budry, Swisscom |
Round table discussion |
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| 15:00-15:30 | Closing of the Workshop and introduction to future EURESCOM access network-related activities | Kevin Fogarty, EURESCOM Deputy Director |
Registration
Registration for the Workshop should be made using the attached form, exclusively in advance to the meeting. There will be no on-site registration. There will be no fee for attending the Workshop. Participation is allowed to EURESCOM Shareholders and invited people from manufacturers and other International Organisations.
To obtain fruitful discussions in an informal atmosphere, attendance will be limited. The closing date for returning registration forms will be Friday 30th October 1998. Attendance will be confirmed by 6 November 1998. Please accept restrictions to the number of participants which may need to be applied.
Hotel reservation
A block-booking has been made for hotel rooms in the vicinity of the workshop venue. Please make the booking by using the hotel reservation form available on the TRIBAN web site: http://www.cselt.stet.it/Cselt/euresc/P614/ca3.htm, preferably before Thursday 1th October 1998.
Attendance
Participation is targeted at network operators and selected system suppliers for Home Network equipment. EURESCOM P614 and other Projects will present their results.
Venue / location
The Workshop will be held on 17th and 18th November 1998 at the Swisscom Headquarters in the Corporate Information & Technology Auditorium, ground floor, at Ostermundigenstrasse 93 in Bern. (bus No. 10, direction „Ostermundigen", „Waldegg"-stop). On the 19th of November 1998, the meeting will be held at Headquarters Conference room 0-9, Viktoriastrasse 21 (bus No. 10, direction „Ostermundigen", „Schönburg"-stop)
Questions
Any questions concerning the technical organisation should be directed to:
Frederic Pythoud, Tel: +41 31 342 51 77, Fax: -64 24, e-mail: frederic.pythoud@swisscom.com
Questions concerning registration to:
Mrs Ilda Paixao, EURESCOM GmbH, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnensweg 35, D-69118 Heidelberg/Germany
Tel:+49 6221 989-130 Fax: -209, , e-mail: paixao@eurescom.de
Questions concerning hotel reservations to:
Katharina Lyoth-Stöcker, Swisscom Ltd, General Secretariat Conference Organisation,
Tel: + 41 31 342 43 65, Fax + 41 31 342 70 96, e-mail:
katharina.lyoth-stoecker@swisscom.com
Further information
For more detailed information please refer to the TRIBAN web site:
http://www.vptt.ch/triban
http://www.cselt.stet.it/Cselt/euresc/P614/ca3.htm
http://www.eurescom.de/public/seminars/public-seminars.htm