ABI Research is organizing an industry event held at the W Hotel in Hong Kong on Thursday, April 15, 2010 – Friday, April 16, 2010.
The market intelligence company expects the first LTE networks to go live in 2010, driven largely by the popularity of new devices and form factors.
This two-day event at the W Hotel in Hong Kong will address a range of business and technology factors surrounding the continuing deployments of this next generation of mobile communications. It will consider the critical issues surrounding overall deployment strategies, initial rollout and coverage, core network evolution and radio network evolution, and backhaul requirements. The coexistence of LTE and WiMAX will also be explored.
Event Topics:
Keynote Topics
• Keynote One: WiMAX
• Keynote Two: LTE
Overall Deployment Strategies
• Embracing new network architectures
• The role of Femtocells
Initial rollout and coverage
• Protecting network security
• New security practices and products
• How best to support distributed self installed networks
Core Network Evolution
• Network traffic management
• IP Transformation
• SAE and IMS
Backhaul Requirements
• Traffic profiling and management
• All IP Networks
Radio Network Evolution
• Best practice for integrating new features such as MIMO, Relay and beamforming
• New basestation form factors
• New antenna technologies
Tracks
• Academic / Technical
• Business / Marketing
