Sydney, June 8, 2006 (ABN Newswire) - Paul Budde Communications announce a strategic roundtable and seminar on the "Fibre to the Home" (FttH) network and communications roll out in Australia to be held on Wednesday 21 June 2006.
Over 20 new housing estates in Australia are now cabled with fibre. Over 35 regional cities have a fibre ring. There will be a strong focus at the Summit on what is happening internationally with guest speakers representing FttH implementations in Japan and North America. Japan has 5 million FttH users; Korea, the Netherlands and the USA are also well and truly underway.
Presentations:
Jonathan Spring, Managing Director, CEOS - Tasmanian Collaborative Optical Leading Testbed tasCOLT is a fibre-to-the-premises deployment in Tasmania, Australia with a consortium including the Tasmanian Government, Aurora, CEOS, the TECC, Hitachi, Intel, Corning and numerous other organisations. tasCOLT will develop a competitive communications market in Tasmania and will deliver voice, video and data services to businesses, homes, healthcare facilities and education institutions.
Special Guests
CEOS has arranged form some very interesting visitors from Hitachi Communications Technologies (HCOM) Japan to be present at the Roundtable in the afternoon. They also include a representative from Hitachi Ltd's global FTTH sales team. HCOM have supplied more than 1.5 million subscriber lines of PON equipment in Japan and they are the largest global supplier of FTTH equipment globally.
Special guests are:
- Dipak Kumar:
- Akiro Yamauchi:
- Kentaro Ito:
Colin Goodwin - FTTX Market Development Ericsson (VP FTTH Council Asia-Pac) - Overview of FttX activities around the world with a more detailed focus on the Asia Pacific region.
There has been dramatic growth in the number and range of FttH activties around the world over the 12 months. Major carrier builds in the USA are finally rolling out, and in Europe major open access community builds are underway or announced in Amsterdam, Vienna, Barcelona and Paris, while in Japan FttH is now growing faster than DSL. This presentation will provide a very comprehensive global update on FttH, while reflecting on the technologies, business models, and regulatory situations in various countries. The presenter - Colin Goodwin - is Ericsson''s Global Market Development Manager for FttX, and Vice-President of the FttH Council Asia-Pac. He regularly engages with FttX operators, regulators and technologists around the world, and is an authority on the FttX market worldwide.
Geof Heydon Innovations Director Alcatel - Developments in North America
Geof will present a quick summary of FTTx deployments in the US and focus more on the services being delivered over higher speed broadband leveraging these FTTx technologies and the impact of residential gateways on multi-service delivery of these services over a single IP network. Delivering converged triple play linking fixed and mobile services together in new and interesting ways is now on the agenda for some full service providers and he'll also talk about this and demonstrate some of these emerging services.
AGENDA
0930 - 1000 Arrival, networking and coffee
1000 - 1015 Welcome, introduction of delegates
1015 - 1115 Telstra's FttN plans and what this
means for Australia
Paul Budde.
1115 - 1145 Morning coffee
1145 - 1215 Developments in Asia Pacific
Colin Goodwin - FTTX Market Development
Ericsson (VP FTTH Council Asia-Pac)
1215 - 1245 Developments in North America
Geof Heydon Innovations Director Alcatel
1245 - 1345 Light lunch
1345 - 1415 Tasmania's FttH roll-out from Tascolt, Hobart
Jonathan Spring, Managing Director, CEOS
1415 - 1445 FttH developments in new housing estates
Bruce Duyshart, Head of Projects,
ICT Asia Pacific, Lend Lease
1445 - 1500 Afternoon coffee
1500 - 1630 Roundtable discussion with delegates
1630 Close
When: Wednesday 21 June 2006
Venue: The Observatory Hotel, 89-113 Kent Street, Sydney
Booking: Online registration:
http://www.budde.com.au/conferences/public-workshops-seminars.html
Or: Call or email Christine Lewis to make your booking
About Hitachi Communication Technologies, Ltd.
(1) Business Development and design, and manufacture of information and communication systems-related products and related sales and service in Japan and worldwide
(2) Headquarters Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan
(3) Representative Eiji Aoki, President and CEO
(4) Established October 2002
(5) No. of employees 1,539 (as of March 2004)
(6) Net sales 111.2 billion yen (year ended March 2004)
(7) Relationship to Hitachi, Ltd. Hitachi Communication Technologies, Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd.
