What multiples is the telco sector being valued at today vs. the wider stock market?

What do investors think will happen to operator revenues and CAPEX as demand for data traffic increases?

How will data traffic affect the dividend? Projecting costs and revenues associated with evolving business models

Forecasting increases in different types of data traffic

Examining the impact of Smart-phones and Tablets on data usage

Evaluating mobile CDN as part of the Deutsche Telekom strategy to meet increasing data demands

Examining the options for content optimisation:just in time downloading, IP data squeezing

Determining applications and/or types of data are most suitable for manipulation to reduce congestion?

Considering mobile CDN as a strategy for managing mobile data

Integrating mobile delivery services into the CDN to support
- device detection - image rendering
- video transcoding
- Bit rate adaption

Addressing the specific mobile challenges of high latency, packet loss and variation in download capacity

Examining the drivers for and challenges of effectively supporting mobile commerce

Understanding the benefits of supporting iphone live streaming services

Delivering live on demand delivery to iPhone, Blackberry, Android and other handsets

Delivering to Tablet PCs including iPad, Xoom and Galaxy Tab

Achieving device detection and content manipulation

What is the value of a CDN to broadcasters?

How can a CDN help broadcasters reach new viewers through connected TV?

Outlining the QoS requirements

Content management – what are the requirements and whose responsibility is it?

What are the required security models for content?

How effective are new streaming technologies in delivering consistent OTT video?

Converging broadband and broadcast TV:Is Internet video the future for all television?

Do customers require increased QoS of video services and who should cover the cost?

Analysing current challenges faced by content providers while interfacing with a CDN

Overview of business considerations

How content providers feed the CDN and how they get reports

How standards could solve those issues

Lessons learnt from 50 years delivering services to the media industry

Delivering value in the online media market

Understanding the digital media supply chain and the skills needed to manage, publish and monetize content prior to its delivery

Leveraging managed services to accelerate market entry and acquire valuable expertise in real-time

What are interconnection capabilities, approaches and operational procedures for a CDN federation? What are the scenarios for accounting/reporting, request routing and content distribution for both bi-lateral and CDN-exchange based interconnection?

This session will review business model opportunities and technical approaches, highlighting the deployment testing results of a CDN federation pilot that involved five service providers

A CDN federation is defined as a multi-footprint CDN capability, built and utilized from resources that are owned and operated by autonomous federation members. Service Providers can gain market share, enjoy significant network cost savings and grow revenues from new services by utilizing autonomous CDNs (CDN federations).

Challenges and opportunities for operator CDN

Unification OTT cache and CDN

Outlining the potential risks of CDN partnerships and developing strategies to ensure long term success

Business drivers for operators to partner with existing CDN vendors

Evolution of partnership to ensure long term success

Outlining BT Wholesale's Content and TV Connect services, designed to enable content providers and ISPs to deliver on-demand and linear video

Outlining the QoS benefits of multiple cache locations and support for IP multicast

Describing the value proposition to CSPs

Examining the business model which enables payment for the ISPs

Options for unmanaged OTT content

Monetizing service provider content beyond IPTV

The opportunities and challenges for telcos entering the CDN market

Defining the drivers for a successful CDN strategy

Developing a successful partnership

How do the different CDN models differ for an operator?

Leveraging a managed service to ensure a service focus not a product focus

Understanding how a managed service relates to net neutrality

Outlining Polish Telekom's CDN deployment

Examining the challenges of ensuring interconnection with the wider Orange Group

Determining the implications for wider interconnection strategies

Outlining current revenue share models

Examining the changing commercial terms and future business models

Forecasting revenue growth over the next 5 years taking into account growth in traffic and competition

Examining the impact of the growing tendency of content providers to employing multiple CDN providers for different services

Examining the opportunity of offering VAS to broadcasters and studios

Assessing different architecture approaches to caching

Understanding how differing legacy network architectures and differing market requirements affect choice of approach

Evaluating technology and partnership options in the network

Assessing the different options for successful service delivery: improved encoding quality; adaptive streaming; cache distribution; unicast delivery

Using distributed delivery as a cost effective alternative to backbone / aggregation network expansion

Deploying technologies to enable instant scaling of live events / flash crowds

Enhancing quality of experience for all screens

Building in time-shift TV services for all screens

Supporting the Microsoft, Flash and Apple adaptive streaming

Optimizing HTTP delivery and cache technologies

TV Anywhere; Ubiquitous Video Distribution to Desktop, Mobile & Connected devices.

The rationale for an Operator CDN

Solution arcitecture

Results, benefits and next steps

Understanding the issues that really matter to customers

Unique solutions which create market differentiation

Does it enable carriers to win content customers they wouldn’t have otherwise?

Are there potential network savings opportunities due to transparent caching?

Does it cannabilize IPT revenues?

If not entering the CDN fray do Carriers risk being marginalized?

Examining the proposal for an open global CDN clearing platform that would redistribute revenues from CDN services to the ISPs that receive the traffic

Examining how rapid growth of Telco CDN deployments have prompted operators to investigate how they might cooperate to expand the scale, reach and capability of their services through the interconnection of CDN platforms

Outlining various CDN interconnect and content brokering models ranging from bilateral peering agreements to global CDN federations

Outlining different use-cases associated with these models and examining the associated technical and operational requirements necessary for successful implementation

Analysing the need for standards for CDN federation

Understanding and meeting the technology requirements to enable interconnection in terms of: Routing, authorization, reporting, settlement

Progress updates from the different groups working on standards:
- ETSI Media Content Distribution (MCD) division CDN Interconnection working group
- Alliance of Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS)
- ETSI's TISPAN work on defining standards for CDNs' internal workings
- Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) work on defining standards for CDNs' internal workings
- (IETF) Alto (Application-Layer Traffic Optimization) and Decade (Decoupled Application Data Enroute) projects

Making the case for the IETF to create a working group dedicated to CDN Interconnection

Enabling growth in online video and the distribution of premium content (e.g. video games, software)

Supporting Windows Azure customers

Continued investment and growth

The evolution of Internet video services

Trouble brewing beneath the surface

Today's video delivery approaches

Introducing Qwilt

Examining differing operator drivers for CDN deployment

Evaluating the business case for deploying a CDN that is extensible

Determining the impact on RoI of enabling reuse of caching capacity

The Internet is increasingly used as a media distribution network, despite its original design as a communications network

Attempts to augment infrastructure to handle an exponentially increasing flood of audio, video, and print media drive high costs and result in missed opportunities and marginalization

Relatively simple, incremental improvements to routers would allow carriers to easily evolve their infrastructure for optimally efficient distribution while reducing both capital and operating expenses

Learn how to apply the ideas of content-centric networking at the heart of the world’s “Future Internet” research efforts to solve problems today

Examining the implications of QoS services in the context of the net neutrality debate

Outlining regulators position of offering QoS services

Examining the potential media backlash and negative publicity

The complementary relationship between CDN and Cloud computing

How we can leverage the new generation of virtualized network functions for integrating CDN and Cloud

Learn how one company is pursuing a complementary approach to combing cloud and CDN functionality to provide low latency, on-demand Platform-as-a-Service capabilities for mobile publishers, advertisers, retailers and location-based businesses that require both their session-based application logic as well as their content to be moved closer to visitors' browsers.

Outlining a cloud TV platform delivering interactive video and social media content from the cloud as a single, adaptable MPEG stream to a consumer electronics (CE) device or set-top box

Outlining management of the CE device or set-top box via standard remote controls to the cloud

Examining the differences between cloud TV and web TV