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Abstract
Traditional telecommunications service providers are in a situation where they have to tackle competitors in different markets and from different size. Companies like Vonage defined and established the continuous growing broadband voice over IP arena. Skype successfully revamped Internet telephony and reaches for the global mass utilizing the well established P2P idea (over 30 million downloads).
DSL-based broadband access is facing an increasing number of alternative access solutions like 802.11, 802.16, 1xEV-DO, UMTS and of course fiber and cable. Prices for pure broadband access are falling quickly, requiring service providers to retain customer traction through differentiation by creating content partnerships and service bundles a la Triple Play, Quadruple Play, etc.
Those services contain voice, high speed Internet, video, TV, Games, etc. and create new requirements for the existing DSL infrastructure. Especially with broadband TV telecommunications providers have to at least match the quality, usability, prices and channel portfolio of established providers. Enablers to deliver rich multimedia over the existing or modified telecommunications environment range from lower equipment costs for digital storage in the network and at the users premises to higher-bandwidth versions of DSL (i.e. ADSL2/ADSL2+ and VDSL2) as well as new content compression techniques.
In this talk I will give an overview about current challenges in the DSL-based broadband access market covering areas such as key market players, technology drivers, service offerings, infrastructure options and standards activities.
Biography
Lars Bodenheimer is Director at Detecon, Inc. the US-based innovation and telecom engineering arm of Detecon International GmbH, headquartered in Germany. He is responsible for innovation research projects covering fields such as broadband access, core and content distribution networks as well as emerging voice and data communication services. Before joining Detecon Inc., Lars worked as Senior Technology Consultant and Project Manager at T-Systems' R&D division in the USA and in Germany. Leveraging his broad experience in different types of network technologies, services, applications and markets, he was most recently consulting the Deutsche Telekom Group about technology advancements and emerging business models and their applicability to the German/European market. Lars holds a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering with focus in Telecommunications Engineering from the Deutsche Telekom University of Applied Sciences in Dieburg, Germany.