KEY WORDS

FTTB | FTTH | FTTX | Future Fiber Optic | Metropolitan Infrastructure & Networks
Smart City | Standardisation

STRUCTURE

AUTHORITIES & OPERATORS

CABLES & CONNECTICS

EQUIPMENTS

FIBER OPTIC PROJECTS

EDUCATION, R&D

CONCEPT

AFOR (ROMANIAN FIBER OPTIC ASSOCIATION) & ICT CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL INVITE THE ICT PROFESSIONALS, PUBLIC AUTHORITIES & ACADEMICS TO THE 2nd ANNUAL REGIONAL CONFERENCE, EXPO & WORKSHOPS FOCUSED ON THE CRITICAL TOPICS OF FIBER OPTICS AND BROADBAND DEPLOYMENT TODAY.

ROMANIA is a worldwide paradox with its greatest Internet speeds in the world and a poor Internet penetration, but yet how can we cable the next half of Romania and its disadvantaged areas?

  • How can we impose the compulsoriness of the open architectures defined in the EU Digital Agenda?
  • How can we connect public institutions, increase use in public, support SMEs in training?
  • How can we amplify the accessibility of services, content and applications development?
  • How can we develop and implement Smart Cities in Romania?
  • How can we standardize the buildings access that could increase the competition?
  • How can we have a mandatory telecom service implemented in the new buildings as all utilities services?
  • How can we support the new type of fiber optic networks owners in Romania (like energy distributors, petrol producers, Railway Authority, Real-Estate companies etc) for the benefits of Customers as all utilities services?

EU DIGITAL AGENDA has several key objectives, one of them being to provide all European Union citizens with basic broadband coverage and more ambitious to provide broadband speeds of at least 30 megabits per second for all by 2020. Romania’s broadband plan focuses on building up a national broadband network as a first step towards achieving the targets set by the Digital Agenda for Europe. Romania’s existing national broadband plan is based on the European Commission’s Digital Agenda for Europe (DAE). It aims at achieving 100 % broadband coverage over 30 Mbps by 2020 and specifically sets the target that 50 % of households being provided with subscriptions over 100 Mbps.

NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN AND POLICY

Romania’s Broadband Plan is devised and implemented entirely by the Ministry of Communications and Information Society (Ministerul pentru Societatea Informaţională), the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (Autoritatea Naţională pentru Administrare şi Reglementare în Comunicaţii) is responsible for regulatory measures. The National Centre România Digitală (Digital Romania), a public institution under the Ministry of Information Society is to implement and operate Nationwide Electronic Point of Single Contact, aiming thereby streamlining government, creating an integrated market services and simplifying procedures applicable to service providers in order to achieve an interoperable platform to national and European level.

INTERACTIVE DEBATE

Topics related to Ministry of Communications and for Information Society & Ministry of National Education and Scientific Research:
The specialists leave the country and the local market register a lack of specialized personnel

  • How do we build vocational schools (transformation of the former TTP high schools) into trade schools, specialized in optic fiber?
  • The need for a common and uniform curriculum in universities for the optical fiber telecommunications discipline
  • The need for an academic framework (masters, doctorates, specializations) for optical fiber R&D.
  • Romania lacks research on optical fiber and updated optical fiber academic courses.
  • Romania needs fiber optic specialists in Romania for the next 5 years. How do we create the required infrastructure for this big need? We need specialized trainers, updated teachers and support for knowledge upgrade of employees.
  • Standards boosts business ... but in Romania we have a shortage of standards in optical fiber for telecom projects. The existing standards aren’t known or used only by few specialists and companies
  • What is the optimal price that can ensure quality of fiber optic works? The sites organization need to be included into the fiber optic projects.
  • Construction prices have decreased significantly lately, which led to the extinction of an impressive number of Romanian companies. What do we do to stop this bleeding?
  • The need for calibration laboratory in Romania for equipments such as OTDRs and splicers
  • How can we increase the number of specialists in Network Design for FTTH networks in Romania?
  • Romania has a lot of fiber optic networks, but how they will evolve in the future in order to accommodate the bigger need for bandwidth, services and apps?
  • Which technologies will enlighten the fiber optic apart FTTB and GPON in Romania?

Topics related to Ministry of European Funds:
Technical Consulting for the implementation of the broadband projects in Romania (eg. RONET, Digital Agenda, NGN)

  • How to attract European funds for training fiber optic specialists in Romania (high schools, vocational schools, colleges, specialisation trainings in industry)
  • European funds for Broadband projects in Romania (eg: RONET, Constanta, Iasi, Targoviste, etc) - what can be improved

Topics related to Ministry of Regional Development & Public Administration:
Active player in issuing work permits for telecom and aesthetic works; issuing professional certification for telecommunications works.

  • How to address the lack of skills in the professional telecommunications certification and lack of specific bibliography. How do we encourage and stimulate the telecom specialists in Romania? How long the electricians should handle the telecom works in Romania?
  • How to support telecom networks developments in any type of buildings in existing construction framework as internet open access is worldwide required?

KEY TOPICS OF THE BROADBAND ECOSYSTEM

* Virtualisation * Network Intelligence * Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) * Network Efficiency & Speed Access Evolution * Mobile & Fixed Broadband * Mobile Backhaul & Fronthaul * Connected Car * Smart Home
* Internet of Things *

AGENDA

2 March 2016 | Radisson Blu Hotel, Bucharest, Romania | 2nd Edition

13.15 - 15.30

CABLES & CONNECTICS SESSION

  • 1. HOW TO OPTIMIZE & MONETIZE YOUR NETWORK VIA TELCO SOFTWARE
  • 2. THE LATEST INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR THE BEST FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS
  • 3. A LAND OF NEW SERVICES & REVENUES OPPORTUNITIES
  • 4. NO MORE OUTDOOR CABLES INSIDE BUILDINGS!

Speakers

  • Cristina DEAC, Country Manager R&M
  • Nikos TSANTANIS, Senior Product Marketing Manager Intracom Telecom
    Powering Smart Cities with Virtualized Wi-Fi
  • Hans-Werner WILK, Director Central & Eastern Europe EMTELLE
    Ideas of cost saving for passive FttH network infrastructure
  • Cătălin CHIVU, AFOR Member, Telecom Engineer Swisscom
    Standardization on optical fibres and fibre access networks
  • Bogdan BARBU,Area Sales Manager Prysmian
    Fibre Rich Links Needed in Congested Routes!


EQUIPMENTS SESSION

  • 1. THE FUTURE OF SPLICER AND OTDR
  • 2. LATEST INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS
  • 3. CUSTOMERS ARE GREEDY FOR NEW SERVICES AND QUALITY WORKS
  • 4. THE LATEST EQUIPMENTS REQUEST SPECIALISTS

Speakers

  • Nick COLE, EMEA Marketing & Application Specialist, Test and Inspection Division, AFL
    The Future of Splicer and OTDR
  • Dala SANDHER, Sales Manager SUMITOMO
    Fusion Splicer Data Management in the Field
  • Jorge CANO, President NTest
    Monitoring Fibre Optic Networks
  • Juraj URMINSKY, Business Development Manager CEE Anritsu
    New challenges in mobile fronthaul testing
  • Ethan LEE, Technical Sales Executive INNO Instrument
    Advanced splicer
  • Branislav BARTA, Solutions Consultant VIAVI
    New generation of selective PON powermeters
  • Vratislav BLAZEK, Regional Sales Manager Eastern Europe, Russia & CIS, EXFO
    Securing optical network physical layer with Fiber Monitoring and Management
  • Konstantin LARIONOV, Business Development Manager EMEA, Furukawa Electric Europe
    Achieving precise and efficient fiber splices in FTTH installations

Companies

Romkatel (Anritsu, Inno), Celesta (Sumitomo, Yokogawa, NTest), Telecom Instruments (Viavi), Teledatanet (Exfo), Teleprecision - MTS (Emtelle, AFL, Fujikura)

INVITED COMPANIES

INSTITUTIONS:

MCSI, MDRAP, MENCS, MFE, ANCOM, Competition Council, City Halls from Bucharest, Timisoara, Cluj, Constanta

ASSOCIATIONS:

ACeR, AFOR, ANIS, ANISP, AOMR, AOTR, ARIES, FTTH Council Europe, ISOC, AOR, ADSI


ACADEMICS & UNIVERSITIES

TELECOM & INTERNET OPERATORS:

Allnet Telecom, Combridge, Direct One, Dotro Telecom, Euroweb, Google, GTS Telecom, ICI, iComm, Idilis, Ines Group, Media Sat, NextGen, Nxdata, Orange, Prime Telecom, RCS&RDS, Rolink, SNR, STS, Telekom, UPC, Vodafone, Posta Romana

INFRASTRUCTURE/SOLUTIONS/EQUIPMENTS PROVIDERS

3M, AFL, Alcatel-Lucent, Yokogawa, Anritsu, Celesta Comexim, Cisco, CSR, Diamond Fiber, Dura-Line, EMTELE, Ericsson, ESRO Energy, Esri, EXFO, Expo, , Fitel/Furukawa, Fujikura, Hitachi, Huawei, HP, IBM, Intrarom, Kapsch, Microsoft, Mira Telecom, Nestor Cables, Nexans, NSN, NTest, Omnilogic, Oracle, Protelco, Prysmian, R&M, Radcom, Romkatel, S&T, Samsung, SAP, Star Storage, Sumitomo, TCR-telecom, Telecom Instruments, Teledatanet, Teleprecision, Teletrans, Thales, Total Fiber, UTI, Viavi, ZTE

MOBILE DEVICES PROVIDERS:

Allview, Evolio, HTC, Huawei, Lenovo, LG, Nokia, Samsung, Sony, ZTE

PARTNERS

SPEAKERS

INSTITUTIONS

Horaţiu Silviu ANGHELESCU

Secretary of State

MCSI

Cătălin MARINESCU

President

ANCOM

Diana VOICU

Justice and MCSI Ministries

Former Secretary of State

Edgar AKER

President

FTTH Council

Valentin MIRCEA

Romanian Government

Head of the control body of the PM

Sorin BOGDAN

AFOR

President

Laurențiu STELEA

Secretary of State

Ministry of European Funds

Ion VACIU

President

ICT Council

COMPANIES

Nick COLE

EMEA Marketing & Application Specialist

AFL

Juraj URMINSKY

Business Development Manager

Anritsu

Hans-Werner WILK

Director Central & Eastern Europe

EMTELLE

Vratislav BLAZEK

Regional Sales Manager Eastern Europe, Russia & CIS

EXFO

Tomohiro KONUMA

Specialty Applications and Business Dev. Engineer Fusion Splicer Division

Fujikura

Konstantin LARIONOV

Business Development Man. EMEA

Furukawa Electric Europe

Ethan LEE

Technical Sales Executive

INNO Instrument

Nikos TSANTANIS

Senior Product Marketing Manager

Intracom Telecom

Jorge CANO

President

NTest

Bogdan BARBU

Area Sales Manager

Prysmian

Dorin COMAN

Technical Sale Support

Prysmian

Cristina DEAC

Country Manager

R&M

Cătălin Chivu

AFOR Member

Swisscom

Dala SANDHER

Sales Manager

SUMITOMO

Vlad MOGOȘ

Manager Network Integrated Monetization

TELEKOM ROMANIA

Branislav BARTA

Solutions Consultant

VIAVI

Cornel BĂRBUŢ

Vicepresident

AFOR

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