Consumers are looking for means to having access to all their digital content from all of their devices in a seamless manner. Today there are different specific solutions for individual devices, but there is a market opportunity for a homogenous solution.

Telecom operators with fixed and/or mobile networks can use their assets to provide trustworthy multi-access connections for multiple services. By offering consumers and business users simplicity and service convenience, operators have great opportunities to reach a mass market with services based on these capabilities.

This session addresses how to deliver personal services over different accesses (i.e., radio, copper, fiber, cable) and being able to access the complete home or corporate network.

Krister Boman Product Manager, Product Development Unit Packet Core Ericsson

Mr. Boman has been with Ericsson for 11 years and has held the positions of line manager, project manager, and product manager. He has been a standardization delegate in 3GPP for six years in SA2 (architecture) and SA3 (security), working on technologies such as flow-based charging, security aspects of GSM and WCDMA, IMS, and MBMS. Mr. Boman has also been involved in product development targeting broadband (i.e., DSL, FTTx, WiMAX, WLANs) applications based on DLNA/UPnP technologies.

Markus Boberg New Business Telenor Sweden AB

Mr. Boberg has worked with product development and marketing issues for the past eight years and has held positions such as vice president of corporate communications and product manager. For the past year, he has been working in the new business department at Telenor Sweden AB, focusing on finding new revenues in the consumer and business sectors.

Paolo Pastorino Chief Technology Officer and Chief Business Officer Home Gateway Initiative

Mr. Pastorino is on leave from Telecom Italia to cover the challenging role of chief technology officer and chief business officer of the Home Gateway Initiative. For his current activity, he relies on his experience ranging from the design of optoelectronic devices to the design of broadband access network architectures and advanced residential/SOHO broadband networking and service solutions. He managed several national and international projects in the broadband home networking domain and is the author of papers about the broadband home and a speaker at several international conferences.