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Day One: 2 September 2009, Wednesday
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8am | Registrations and morning coffee
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8.40am | Organiser's welcome remarks
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8.45am | Chairman’s opening remarks
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| | Mr Alan Mauldin, Research Director, Submarine Networks, Telegeography Research
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| Evaluating the global financial downturn and its impact on the submarine cable industry |
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9am | Opening keynote panel: Identifying the opportunities and challenges present in the face of the global financial downturn and how it can benefit/impact your business.
- What is the impact of the downturn on current cable builds and capacity demand issues?
- How will the current downturn affect the ability to finance new long haul cables and existing projects?
- When will the current boom end and will its downturn be accelerated by the global financial downturn?
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| | Mr Igor Kelshev, Senior Vice President, International Marketing & Sales, Company TTK Ms Fiona Beck, President & Chief Executive Officer, Southern Cross Cables Limited Moderator: Mr Alan Mauldin, Research Director, Submarine Networks, Telegeography Research
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| Determining recent capacity demand across the world |
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9.45am | Identifying strategies for successfully enhancing capacity demand – upgrading of existing infrastructure vs. new fiber
- Successfully managing the service mix as media-rich content consumes an increasing percentage of the rising demand for network bandwidth
- Strategies for balancing customers demand for higher speeds of broadband at lower cost and a need for higher profit margins – is building new systems or upgrading the best solutions?
- Can carriers/cable owners share network infrastructure and work together to enhance capacity and bring costs down?
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| | Mr Tarique Haque, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, Bangla Trac Communications
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10.15am | Reviewing the impact of new technologies and new demand drivers and how they impact capacity demand across the world
- Evaluating the impact of web 2.0 applications on business models, network infrastructure and platforms e.g. cloud computing
- Reviewing new technologies such as high definition television and content drivers such as illegal video and file sharing impact on capacity demand drivers
- Strategies that can be utilized to enhance capacity in high traffic regions.
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| | Mr William So, Group Vice Chairman China Unicom and President China Unicom European Operations, Hong Kong Operations, China Unicom
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10.45am | SPEED networking
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11.05am | Morning refreshments
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11.30am | Chairman welcome remarks
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11.45am | Building a bridge between East & West
- How demand for new infrastructure is being changed by globalization
- Med basin as the cross roads of the East – West connectivity and Sicily as its primary hub
- Bringing the worldwide web closer: Palermo, the most recent addition to the Big internet Pillars
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| | Mr Nicola Tordela, Senior Vice President, Global IP & Data Sales, Telecom Italia Sparkle
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| Successfully managing network traffic, outage & re-routing issues |
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12.15pm | Case study panel - Mediterranean region: Two network outages in 2008, What’s happening over there?
- Identifying key strategies to improve network resiliency in the Mediterranean Sea.
- Network and traffic re-routing: can carriers work together to enhance redundancy and lower costs of re-routing in the event of outage?
- Determining network diversity routing options that will enhance traffic flow in congested areas
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| | Moderator: Mr Nicola Tordela, Senior Vice President, Global IP & Data Sales, Telecom Italia Sparkle
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1pm | Networking lunch
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| New business models that enhances profitability |
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2pm | Evaluating the opportunities in Oil and Gas applications of Submarine cable
- Identifying the drivers and opportunities in oil and gas applications for the submarine cable industry
- Where are the regions where such applications are gaining popularity and what opportunities they present to the local cable owners/operators
- Case study examples
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| | Dr Inge Vintermyr, Technical Manager, Telecom, Building & Telecoms Cables Division, Nexans
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2.30pm | Panel discussion: The right technology for each market and customer: Making an intelligent choice between submarine cable, terrestrial cable and satellite
- Technologies will co-exist and the choice of a particular one is dictated by the customers' needs
- Terrestrial cables seem to be carrying an increasing share of international capacity. Is this true?
- How can cable owners/operators best serve the smaller markets in the world?
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| | Mr Dan Hughes, Sales & Marketing Director, Apollo Submarine Cable System Mr Rajesh Kumar, Joint Deputy Director General (CMTS), Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) Mr Alan Liu, General Manager, International Networks, Hutchison Global Communications Mr Rick Dodd, Global Vice President of Product Marketing, Infinera Mr Simon Cooper, Senior Director, Global Submarine Cable Strategy & Projects, Tata Communications Mr Allan Griffin, Vice President, Carrier & Service Provider ASEAN Markets, Telstra International
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3.15pm | Afternoon refreshments
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3.45pm | How can system operators add value on competitive routes?
- In a competitive environment is submarine capacity reduced to a commodity?
- Why operators and purchasers benefit through working together to both add and recognise value?
- How through understanding system differentiators a sustainable submarine environment can develop even in fiercely competitive environments?
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| | Mr Dan Hughes, Sales & Marketing Director, Apollo Submarine Cable System
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| Discussing the evolution of the regulatory framework and its impact on cost effective bandwidth for the consumers |
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4.15pm | Successfully providing network owners enormous flexibility in configuring their networks with a seamless migration to 100G
- Photonic cross connects provide rapid remote wavelength reconfiguration
- Transparency if no OED conversions gives the data rate flexibility
- Deployment demonstrates return on investment if less than 1 year
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4.45pm | Cable permitting, piracy and programs - Current challenges, meeting cable route survey milestones in the Indian ocean, Gulf of Aden & Red Sea
- Presenting experiences of managing and securing operational permits for the concurrent survey of multiple systems in the Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, Guld of Aden and Red Sea
- Discussing the impact on project programs of vastly differing permitting lead times, the omposition of permitting rules that contravene UNCLOS articles
- The added confusion and mitigation measures associated with piracy off the Somali coast and Gulf of Aden
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| | Mr Graham Evans, Director, International Business Development, EGS Survey Group
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5.15pm | Special one-on-one dialogue session with the regulators
- Encouraging open access networks
- Moving towards cost effective bandwidth for consumers
- How can cable permitting and licensing be further expedited?
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| | Mr Danny Lau, Assistant Director, Regulatory Affairs, Office of The Telecommunications Authority
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5.45pm | Close of conference day one
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6pm | Chairman closing remarks
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6.10pm | The SubNets Ohana Luau
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Day Two: 3 September 2009, Thursday
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8.30am | Registrations and coffee
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8.45am | Chairman opening address
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| | Mr Ed McCormack, Non Executive Director, Global Crossing(UK) Limited and RouteTrader, Managing Director, MC Corporate Services, Global Crossing
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| Future opportunities and challenges |
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9am | Opening keynote address: The global network is now built…end of story?
- 2010: A truly global network!
- 10 Years without any cable construction
- Long term impact
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| | Mr Jean Devos, (Founder, Sub-Optic), Consultant, Submarcom Consulting
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9.30am | Field test report: Photonic integrated circuit-based SLTE upgrade to double capacity of existing undersea system
- Network operators are looking for the most economical ways to increase the capacity of their existing undersea assets
- Results of a recent field test in which the bandwidth density of a 4,000km undersea network was doubled by replacing the original SLTE with a photonic-integrated circuit-based SLTE system
- PIC-based SLTE solution offers subsea bandwidth services for 2.5F waves to 100GbE, doubling carrying capacity.
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| | Mr Rick Dodd, Global Vice President of Product Marketing, Infinera
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| Special focus on the cable projects in the Middle East, Africa and Caribbean |
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10am | Highlighting the submarine cable connectivity in the Middle East, Africa and Caribbean
- Middle East - why the sudden surge of cable projects?
- Africa - Where is the industry heading?
- Caribbean - Old route, new interest?
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Middle East segment: The Middle East region has seen a surge in the number of submarine cable projects being commissioned to be built in recent years due to an increased demand for connectivity from the Middle East to Asia and Europe, as well as a growth in broadband penetration coupled with the production and distribution of local content. In this segment, we explore submarine cable projects in the Middle-East in detail.
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11am | Successfully utilizing submarine cables to fulfill recent capcity demand in the Middle East
- Identifying capacity demand drivers in the Middle East and current submarine cable routes and landing points
- Challenges with the current routes
- Enchancing network resilency and route diversity in the event of outage
- Forming partnership with other opertaors to share network for cost efficiencies and traffic diversion in the event of a network outage
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| | Mr Andrew Grenville, Executive Vice President International and Wholesale, International & Wholesale, du
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Africa segment: International trade and the exchange of ideas are essential to a country's success. Therefore the cost of international bandwidth poses a significant barrier to the ability of African countries to participate in world trade and to increase their capacity and skills. Without cheaper international bandwidth Africa runs the danger of being left behind in the global race. Africa has also amongst the highest bandwidth costs in the world and a pressing need for greater connectivity. This segment explores one of the earliest African submarine cable project backed by the World Bank and government initiatives.
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11.30am | EASSy
The Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy) is a landmark fiber-optic cable project that will connect 21 African countries to each other and the rest of the world with high-quality internet. This project case study will share the lessons learnt form conceptualization to real project implementation and experiences working with World Bank.
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Caribbean segment: In recent years, there has been renewed interest for submarine capacity within the Caribbean and a lack of capacity specifically designed to handle intra-regional traffic. The extent that capacity upgrades are occurring on the major submarine fiber optic trunk routes, new branches are being added to existing systems, and new construction projects are being discussed. In this segment, we explore one of the newest short haul cable project in the Caribbean.
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12pm | Seahorse -1
Seahorse-1, which will be the first high-speed broadband service linking the United States and Puerto Rico without hops, it is a 4850 km ring comprised of 4 fiber pairs between Miami, Florida, Cacique, Dominican Republic, Isla Verde, Puerto Rico. Seahorse-1 is also the first submarine cable system to utilize a renewable energy power plant. |
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12.30pm | Calypso 1 and 2
Telkom Caribe is reponsible for the design, construction, deployment and operation of Calypso 1 and 2 cable system, a $250 million submarine cable system which is expected to solve the bandwidth constraints faced by the Eastern Caribbean & Guiana's Region |
| | Mr Mike Singh, Chairman, Carribbean Digital Divide Initiative, Chairman, Telekom Caribe, Carribbean Digital Divide Initiative
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1pm | Networking lunch
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| Cable projects around the world |
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2pm | Sydney to Hawaii
A new 9,000 kilometre submarine cable that will dramatically increase internet capacity between Australia and the United States and can be scaled up to 1.28 Terabits* per second capacity between the two countries. At full capacity of 1.28 Terabits per second, the cable is capable of carrying 160,000 concurrent high definition television channels. |
| | Mr Allan Griffin, Vice President, Carrier & Service Provider ASEAN Markets, Telstra International
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2.30pm | Trans-Pacific Express (TPE)
TPE is a 18,000 km cable system linking United States with Mainland China, Taiwan and South Korea with a 7 wave mesh design that allows alternate paths for rerouting traffic to another path in the event of a cable cut or network disruption. |
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3pm | Reliance HAWK cable system
HAWK is a multi terabit, next generation DWDM submarine cable connecting India to Cyprus. The project is expected to be completed by 2009 and will have a significant impact on the Cyprus telecommunications sector and the Cyprus economy as well, given that it will help Cyprus to establish itself as a country for new emerging services facilitated by the increased international capacity, alternative routing and lower prices. |
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3.30pm | Afternoon refreshments
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4pm | Intra Asia (IA) Submarine Cable
Connecting Vietnam, HK, Singapore, Japan and Philippines with a design capacity of up to 3.84 Tbps, IA cable is expected to meet the increasing demand of SE Asia in recent years, IA is expected to meet the increasing demand of SE Asia in recent years. With the addition of IA to HGC's well-established international network. HGC is able to provide connectivity solution, namely HutchConnect, for its customers to extend their reaches and services to HK and beyond. |
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| Cable installation and maintenance |
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4.30pm | PPC-1
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5pm | Panel discussion: Evaluating new opportunities in marine maintenance agreements and the potential cost savings for the carriers/cable owners
- Many marine maintenance agreements (SEAIOCMA, Yokohama, South Pacific) will come up for renewal in 2012.
- Does this present an opportunity to adapt the model to serve cable owners at lower cost?
- Does the current model of charging owners on a per km basis still the most equitable way to serve carriers?
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| | Mr Thomas Soerensen, Regional Director, North Asia and South Pacific, Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks Mr Patrick George, Vice President - Marketing & Product Management, Belgacom International Carriers Services
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5.30pm | Close of conference
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6pm | Chairman closing remarks
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