Femtocells & Home Networking

Moderator
	Roberta Wiggins Research Fellow, Yankee Group
Panelists
	Charlie Martin Wireless Chief Technology Officer, Huawei Technologies (U.S.A.)		Hans Tan Director of Product Marketing, ZyXEL Communications, Inc.
	Neeraj Sinha Director of Strategy and Business Development, Home & Networks Mobility, Motorola, Inc.

WiMAX networks provide a unique opportunity to provide reinvent home networking around the integration of mobile and broadband services in and around the subscriber’s home. WiMAX femtocells can provide IP broadband connectivity and backhaul to the home, simplify provisioning, and further reducing the expense of deploying and operating a wireless network infrastructure. Recent discussions reveal that WiMAX femtocells can be even more strategic when deployed by cable broadband providers investing in the Clearwire network. This session explores the role of femtocells in a homogenous end-to-end WiMAX network architecture network infrastructure that can leverage uniform management, security, QoS, provisioning, and billing.

Interoperable Services Across Frequencies, Protocols, Countries, Operators, and Devices

Moderator
	Berge Ayvazian Chief Strategy Officer, Yankee Group
Panelists
	Carlton O'Neal Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Proximetry

As wireless and mobile broadband networks are deployed around the world, subscribers are likely to expect interoperable services across countries, operators and devices. The use of WiMAX Forum certified equipment will assure some level of interoperability, and work has begun to support global roaming services as the marketplace demands. Other vendors have developed specialized software solutions to ensure interoperable services across multiple frequency bands and protocols. This session will review the best practices and solutions that can address the need for global roaming and service interoperability.

The Increased Need for Backhaul in Mobile Broadband Networks

Moderator
	Berge Ayvazian Chief Strategy Officer, Yankee Group
Panelists
	Dilip Kilip Pillaipakkamnatt Director PLM New Business Unit – Juniper Networks		Dr. Alan Solheim VP Product Management, DragonWave Inc.
	Joachim Hallwachs VP Marketing, DesignArt		Scott Sweetland VP Sales and Corporate VP&CVP, Ceragon Networks, Inc.

Backhaul is the lifeblood of WiMAX and other mobile broadband networks, as performance and congestion can be directly related to the capacity of backhaul links. Operators are utilizing a wide range of technologies to backhaul traffic from WiMAX base stations, including optical fiber, carrier Ethernet, microwave and other wireless service solutions. This session explores the increased need for backhaul in mobile broadband networks from the perspective of network operators and suppliers.