Conference Name: FUTURE PACKET TRANSPORT NETWORKS CONFERENCE
Date : 9 – 10 September 2020
Panel Discussion :
Day One – 9th September
PARTICULARS
Welcome Note by Informa Markets India
Panel Session – From 4G to 5G – Challenges and opportunities
5G-enabled technologies are expected to be transformative in the telco and other industries by unlocking various disruptive new innovations. There are fundamental challenges which need to be resolved to capture the huge opportunity of unlocking the digital economy. Any delays in solving the infrastructure issues will lead to only patchy implementations and hence unable to take advantage of opportunities being offered to various sectors. This 60 mins panel discussion will explore below key points:
- Govt initiatives and spectrum regulations to rollout 5G in India
- Role of 4G in network architectures to provide the basis for the jump to 5G
- Why do we need 5G
- Exploring the roadblocks and economics that businesses may encounter and how to embrace the challenge
- Spectrum requirement and technology needed
Moderator: Kaustubha Parkhi – Principal Analyst, Insight Research
Panel Members
- Vikram Tiwathia, Deputy Director General, COAI
- Nikhil Shah, India Director, Broadband Forum
- Satish Jamadagni, VP – Network Planning Engineering and Head of Standards, Reliance Jio
NETWORKING SESSION
Packet Transport Evolution For 5G
- 5G requirements for packet transport – Latency, BW, Openness etc.
- Ciena Packet Transport for 5G- FH, MH and BH, Slicing support
- Automating The Packet Transport- Orchestrate, Optimize and Assure
Nihar Panda – Head Business Development and Solutions Architecture, IP and Network Automation, Ciena India
Panel Session – SDN and NFV enabled next generation packet transport networks
NFV & SDN is the future of network & critical for transformation of Telco & enterprise network for equipping professionals to offer business benefits such as improved network availability, better security, scalability and cost efficiency. This 60 mins panel discussion will explore below key points:
- Progress made in NFV and SDN? Success stories in India?
- How SDN & NFV helped company’s efforts to keep pace with rising Internet traffic
- Zero touch network and service management for Maximum Service Agility
- Applications for architectural network
- Approaches for development and deployment network and infrastructure
Moderator: Dipayan Ghosh – Executive Director-Management Consulting, KPMG
Panel Members
- Nikhil Shah, India Director, Broadband Forum
- KN Prem Kumar, Head of Technical Delivery Management, BT
- Neeraj Pandey – VP – Network Engineering and Delivery, Vodafone
- Rajnish Garg – VP – Transport Planning, Vodafone
- Nihar Panda – Head Business Development and Solutions Architecture, IP and Network Automation, Ciena India