Strategic "Fibre to the Home" (FttH) Seminar; Paul Budde Communications

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.



About Alcatel

Alcatel provides communications solutions to telecommunication carriers, Internet service providers and enterprises for delivery of voice, data and video applications to their customers or employees. Alcatel brings its leading position in fixed and mobile broadband networks, applications and services, to help its partners and customers build a user-centric broadband world. With sales of EURO 13.1 billion and 58,000 employees in 2005, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries.

 

About Ericsson

Ericsson is the driving force behind the Networked Society - a world leader in communications technology and services. Our long-term relationships with every major telecom operator in the world allow people, business and society to fulfill their potential and create a more sustainable future.

Our services, software and infrastructure - especially in mobility, broadband and the cloud - are enabling the telecom industry and other sectors to do better business, increase efficiency, improve the user experience and capture new opportunities.

With approximately 115,000 professionals and customers in 180 countries, we combine global scale with technology and services leadership. We support networks that connect more than 2.5 billion subscribers. Forty percent of the world's mobile traffic is carried over Ericsson networks. And our investments in research and development ensure that our solutions - and our customers - stay in front.

Founded in 1876, Ericsson has its headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. Net sales in 2015 were SEK 246.9 billion (USD 29.4 billion). Ericsson is listed on NASDAQ OMX stock exchange in Stockholm and the NASDAQ in New York.

    

About Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501 / NYSE:HIT), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company, with approximately 326,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2003 (ended March 31, 2004) consolidated sales totaled 8,632.4 billion yen ($81.4 billion). The company offers a wide range of systems, products and services in market sectors, including information systems, electronic devices, power and industrial systems, consumer products, materials and financial services. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's Web site at http://www.hitachi.com.

 

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