Tuesday 22 November 2011

• 08.30
  Registration, breakfast and coffee
• 09.30
  KEYNOTE PANEL: MOVING TO THE CLOUD - INNOVATIONS IN CLOUD COMPUTING AND THE CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF CLOUD SERVICES
  • Developing your cloud offering: what services are currently being rolled out?
         - solutions for enterprise/corporate sectors
  • Market progressions with the cloud in the past year: impact of Apple’s iCloud
  • Ensuring adequate bandwidth requirements: how are bandwidth needs accelerating the backbone?
  • Common security/confidentiality issues surrounding content on the cloud
         - ensuring high reliability, real time data transfers
         - what does this mean for metro markets and long haul?
  • Role of data centres: preparing for the onslaught of cloud
  • Is cloud computing a product for mid-sized carriers?
  • Extending the global reach of the cloud: challenges of delivering the cloud over scalable services
• 10.30
  Morning coffee break
• 11.30
  PART A: THE FUTURE OF THE CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK: MARKET PROGRESSION AND BUSINESS GROWTH
  • A closer look at carriers building their own content delivery networks
  • Do you build, do you buy or do you partner?
  • Carrier success stories – challenges and opportunities
  • Are CDNs a threat to the carrier model?
  • CDN federation: steps towards a standardised platform to integrate different CDN networks
  • Monetising CDN traffic and leveraging CDN technologies to reduce costs
• 12.15
  PART B: STRATEGIES TO MONETISE DATA AND CAPITALISE ON THE BOOMING CONTENT MARKET
  • The growth of social media and video consumption – challenges of supporting these services
  • Content provider perspective: where is the market headed with media services of the future?
  • How can carriers monetise content and what are the challenges in doing this?
         - opportunities to regain revenues lost with over-the-top services
  • Is there a need to build more data centres?
  • Opportunities to deliver enterprise services – financial / gaming / entertainment
  • EU’s Digital Agenda for Europe – is this a realistic target for 2020?
  • The business case for investment in content/data services
  • The future of digital media and the subsequent impact on the carrier
         - understanding how the end-user drives the market forward
• 13.00
  Networking lunch
• 14.30-17.30
  EXTENDED AFTERNOON NETWORKING SESSION
  Utilise the extended afternoon networking session to visit the exhibition room, network with other attendees and hold meetings. Conferences sessions resume again in the morning.
• 17.30
  Drinks reception 
  Capacity Magazine’s Wholesale Awards 2011
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