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6946 Policy Control Brochure LR
6946 Policy Control Brochure LR
Charlotte Edbom,
Linda Grimaldi,
Director Product Management
PLUS, PRE CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Principal Consulting Architect
Mobile Broadband
BT, UK
Telia Sonera, Sweden
Monday 4th April
Alexander Harmand,
Business Intelligence Analytics & Network
Richard Fletcher,
Head of Service Platforms Chief Operating Officer Policy Control: Monetising Real Time Services
Telefonica, Spain Plusnet, UK Led by: Sandvine
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HT, GDS (Broadband Traffic Management 2010)
Outlining the role of Network Policy Control in enabling real time charging
• Exploiting Network Policy Control to take real time action on available network data
• Integrating Online Charging, Policy Management (PCRF) and Policy Enforcement
(PCEF) capabilities
OPERATOR
• Determining the impact of PCRF on the network in terms of impact on
Shira Levine, Directing Analyst, Next Gen OSS and Policy, Infonetics Research, existing network components
USA • Integration of PCRF and PCEF to enable flexible management of resources
and QoS
9:00 Determining the impact transition to LTE will have on existing • Implications of multi-access policy management, including WiFi and fixed
policy, PCRF implementations broadband
• Understanding the limits of 3GPP standards in integrating PCRF with the
OPERATOR
• Examining how operators are currently using policy to help with 3G- 4G
migration service layer: DPI, content optimisation, video
• Ensuring integration of existing policy implementations with LTE Linda Grimaldi, Principal Consulting Architect, BT, USA
- Scaling the existing PCRF as part of LTE
• Outlining how PCRF is to be built into standards for LTE 12:55 Lunch
• Outlining the role of policy within the LTE network in the long term
Dr. Kim Kyllesbech Larsen, SVP Technology Service & International Network 14:15 Analysing the challenges, best practices and known risks of
Economics, T-Mobile applying a PCRF solution to GSM operator
• Outlining the benefits of data consolidation for operators looking to offer
complex data and service tariffs
09:30 Case Study: Examining how European operators are setting up
• Determining the possible scalability limitations of simply aggregating the
new policies to meet new roaming pricing regulations for different customer profile databases
broadband and prevent bill shock • Cost justifying the investment in a single customer data for long term
OPERATOR
• Outlining the necessity for European operators to deploy policy PCRF scalability and innovation bundling
products to meet EU requirements • Factoring a single customer data system into the longer term IMS migration
• Enabling seamless roaming and multimedia transfers across devices and Jay Klein, CTO, Allot Communications
networks using advanced mobility and intelligent data handling techniques
• Ensuring real time policy controls to introduce an automatic cut-off 14:45 Examining the benefits of deploying policy control to enhance real
mechanism when roaming charges reach ¤50
• Upgrading policy products to manage bill shock and offer other policy
time charging
• Making the business case for more dynamic and contextual real time
enabled services
pricing models that take into account who the subscriber is, what kind of
Maria Mehrens, Head of Roaming and International Services,
content he is accessing, when he is requesting this content and under
Telefonica O2, Germany
which conditions he is requesting it
• Developing real time online charging platforms for customers
10:00 Case study: Examining Saudi Telecom’s Implementation of Policy • Enabling real time charging for prepaid customers
Control for QoS and the challenges of achieving real time service • Enabling real time subscriber usage information on device
differentiation based on content Mike Manzo, CMO, Openet
OPERATOR
• Examining Saudi Telecom’s plans for real time service differentiation and
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the challenges in achieving this in terms of: 15:45 Panel Session: To what extent can operators exploit policy control
- Development of effective customer segmentations and campaigns and traffic management to minimise network congestion? Should
- Implementation of solutions for accessing and managing real time data
operators wait for regulators or act now?
Walid Thabet, Director Data Services, Mobily, Saudi Arabia
• Comparing ‘Open internet for all’ versus blocking peer2 peer services and
prioritising certain traffic
10:30 Morning coffee • If the user is in control of the policy implementation ( user control) does
OPERATOR
• Long term scalability 16:45 Outlining the drivers for policy control and forecasting the extent
• Determining the importance of the PCRF in the deployment
and type of policy deployment by international operators
• Understanding different vendors’ areas of expertise and the influence that
• Examining the extent of fair use policy implementation to combat network
may have on solutions:
congestion:
- Integration with DPI traffic management functions
- Managing flat rate mobile broadband
- Integration with billing and charging functions
- Control of over the top applications
- Pure play policy management; service agnostic PCRF
• Forecasting the implementation of policy to enable tiered services for
Walid Thabet, Director Data Services, Mobily, Saudi Arabia
latency sensitive traffic such as, VoIP and video
Linda Grimaldi, Principal Consulting Architect, BT, USA • Forecasting deployment of different policy control product types: stand alone
products versus those integrated with charging and traffic management
11:55 Enabling managed User Experience: Effectively integrating policy • Examining the potential for monetising services with policy by offering
control with back office billing and OSS functions customer personalisation and control
• Outlining the challenge of the assimilating disparate data sources; • Quantifying the potential for innovative marketing, loyalty and promotional
customer database, different access networks and devices and the billing strategies of integrating policy with real time charging and business
platform; indicating the solution of transforming towards a user centric intelligence platforms
information architecture Peter Mottishaw, Industry Analyst, Analysys Mason, UK
• Making the business case for an interface between the different data
sources and vendor equipment 17:15 Close of day one
- Connecting any element from the OSS or BSS domains, irrespective of the Join us at the drinks reception and network
vendor to a proprietary abstraction layer or interface for policy control; with your peers in a relaxed environment
discussing findings from some interoperability reference cases
OPERATOR
Policy Control Enabled Value Added Services • Determining whether policy control engines would need to be specifically
designed for LBS to manage the different data sources involved
9:30 Case study: Exploiting policy control and DPI to enable parental • Current standardization status (SDOs recommendations, interfaces,
content control policies existing gaps and network evolution)
• Outlining the drivers for parental control policies: regulation, paid for VAS • Architecture vision (current and target architectures, network elements,
OPERATOR
• Addressing the ethical question of content control possible applications and limitations in each phase etc.)
• Determining the advantages of enabling prepaid parental control Alberto Boaventura, Technology Consultant, Oi/Telemar, Brazil
David Meredith, Head of Applications, Talk Talk Technology,
15:10 Afternoon tea
Talk Talk Group, UK
10:00 Building key components for network intelligence on data access 15:40 Panel session: Examining the drivers for moving from unlimited
and to expose capabilities to service layers data services to tiered service pricing models and beyond
• Implementing key components and interfaces for online charging and • Setting optimum service models that take into account:
policy control - time of day to manage peak traffic time
- application type, implementing QoS for video streaming and P2P traffic
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• Exposing policy control capabilities to service layer and third parties • Determining whether to set limits for data levels used or for speed of the
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11:30 Making the business case for educating the consumer on policy 16:20 Examining the revenue potential of enabling a targeted mobile
and making customer control a key point of differentiation advertising business model
• Outlining the operation of a mobile based media service driven through an
OPERATOR
13:30 Monetising real time and video services through Network Policy
Control and business intelligence analytics
• Outlining the role of network policy control in real time charging
• Strategies for accessing and analysing network usage data for subscriber
segmentation
• Tools to present actionable usage data to both the service provider and the
subscriber
• Outlining suite of applications for business intelligence analytics
Don Bowman, Co-founder & CTO, Sandvine
“25% of operators already have a PCRF system and 41% plan to deploy one
within 12 months.” Heavy Reading’s Next Generation Policy Management Operator Survey, July 2010
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