Strategic Challenges of Converged Services
During the telecom boom, the Promised Land of converged services seemed “just around the corner. But actually building the future turned out to be a lot harder than most thought. Now, with the rise of IP as the service platform of choice, broadband nearly “everywhere,” and with vastly more powerful application development and management tools in hand, the promises of the past are fast becoming reality. The entire industry has moved “beyond telecom” to genuinely converged media solutions, blurring traditional segmentation between telecom, media and IT, and heralding the emergence of a new competitive landscape unlike anything that has come before. How are leading service providers managing the shift to IP and the new service environment?
Chair:
KEN ZITA, PTC’07 Conference Chair, Vice President of Pacific Telecommunications Council Board of Governers and Managing Partner, Network Dynamics Associates, LLC, USA
Panelists:
PAUL EXCELL, Chief of Operations - Group Technology Office, BT, UK
LUIS E. FIALLO, Managing Director, Marketing and Corporate Development, China Telecom USA, USA
CHRISTIAN MICHAUD, Senior VP, Marketing and Business Development, VSNL International, Canada
Interconnection in a Converged World
Abstract
TOM MAZZONE, Vice President -
Industry Relations, Telcordia Technologies, Inc., USA
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