4G World

Hear from start-ups and developers about new and exciting technology and application innovations for the entire ecosystem – from operators and enterprises through to content providers and consumers.

Chair:

• Brian Partridge, Vice President, Yankee Group

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NTT Docomo’s LTE network will be live before the end of 2010.  Docomo’s mobile-only asset status and available 2.4Ghz LTE spectrum suggest certain technology and architecture decisions.  This session will present a high level view of the Docomo LTE network and its rollout, including some of the key technology decisions aimed at ensuring a reliable mobile broadband experience for Japanese subscribers. This session will explore Docomo’s decision to base its deployment on smaller cell sites versus large-scale macro cells, and illustrate the need to secure all communications.

Moderator:

• Jennifer Pigg, Vice President, Yankee Group

Panelists:

• Vikash Varma, President & CEO, Stoke

The mobile Internet, the Internet of things, connected lives and connected enterprises – this session explores emerging and innovative technologies that are being employed to extend the “network” edge, intelligence and context to the “point of function.”  Hear from those who are creating suck enabling approaches and devices.

Featuring Keynote Systems

Congestion on the mobile backhaul is a major threat to the economic health of carriers; PARC’s open source CCN software protocol can shift the backhaul solution cost curve from hardware, to software, by providing fine grain caching at the LTE edge, as part of the network architecture, rather than at the more expensive application layer.

Speaker:

• Jim Thornton, PARC

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