Market Forces Changing the Business and Technology of The Network

Do You Have June 5-7 on Your Schedule Yet?

The TIA 2012: Inside the Network event is shaping up to be an excellent opportunity for participants to connect with customers and colleagues, be inspired by leaders in the industry and support your industry association.

This is your industry event, and it’s also TIA’s first Annual Membership Meeting, combined with the Opening AT&T Reception and a VIP Dinner. Here are highlights:

• A STAR Keynote Lineup focused on the future of The Network includes Randall Stephenson, Chairman & CEO of AT&T; Tony Melone, CTO of Verizon; Robert Vrij, EVP, President of Americas Region, Alcatel-Lucent; Charlie Vogt, President & CEO of GENBAND and others.
• An Educational Conference designed to prepare you for transformation in the business and architecture of the one Converged Network. At TIA 2012 you will explore:

1. The Market Forces Changing the Business of The Network: Adaptable, Flexible, Innovative. The next era of investment will require new thinking on what the business of network connectivity really means. TIA 2012 is designed for network operators and their technology suppliers to explore the shift from a model of connectivity to a model shaped around innovation – providing the tools, the intelligence and the flexibility to enable a new generation of technology companies to develop new services at a fast pace to carry the volume of traffic.

• Optimizing, capturing business and securing The Cloud
• Understanding, leveraging and capturing value from real-time applications
• Managing the onslaught of video traffic
• Leveraging assets and infrastructure for new applications
• Participating in the mobile broadband revolution with backhaul, offload and new infrastructure services

2. Technology – A Transformational Network Architecture. The era of network infrastructure is not in the past. It is entering a new era that requires a new concept of what it means to fulfill on the promise of network connectivity. At TIA 2012 you will explore:

• How will infrastructure and technology suppliers, and network operators, meet the demands for ubiquitous mobility?
• Managing the explosion in demand for multiscreen video?
• Adapting connectivity and data center strategy for the migration from locally stored to cloud connectivity
• New thinking in energy use and energy-efficient network infrastructure and components
• Strategies for the growth in optical networking, both transport and access, to the 100G benchmark

The Annual TIA Membership Meeting, being held Tuesday, June 5 from 3:30-5:00 pm, features:

• State of the Industry. Not since the mid-90s when the Federal Government launched the Telecom Act, has our industry seen more changes to the technology we provide and the business models of our customers. From device connectivity, Machine-to-Machine, Cloud Services and more, the Broadband and ICT Communities are on the verge of yet another sea change in the way business is conducted. This session highlights the major findings from TIA’s annual ICT Market Review and Forecast, and offers a vision of the changes in business and services that are headed our way over the next one to three years.
• Customer Roundtable: Carriers Discuss Global Supply Chain Trends. In today’s broadband ICT climate, communications carriers, service providers and network operators face pressure to maintain profitability and constrain capital expenditures while retaining market share.  Adding network capacity as in the past is becoming increasingly challenging. TIA members manufacture and support the technology, architecture and components of the 21st century global broadband network, and now, more than ever, it is important to learn from the analysts and experts what the trends in purchasing, segmentation, supply and support are from the leading integrated carriers in the world.

Listen to a distinguished Roundtable Panel of Network Operators as they discuss current and future trends in communications supply chain practices. Led by an industry expert from a leading analyst firm, you will hear as these business technology executives weigh in on the current state of innovation, Research & Development, consolidation, outsourced services and support, and more. Understand where the opportunities lie ahead, and where the challenges are as the world’s integrated communications carriers grapple with not only the explosion of data, the expectations of the untethered consumer and the requirement to have information on-demand, anytime, anywhere, but also unavoidable and unanticipated events such as tsunamis, earthquakes, global terrorist threats, trade embargoes, wars and other dire circumstances.

Demonstrations and Exhibits are launched with the AT&T Opening Reception being held Tuesday, June 5 from 5:00 – 6:30 pm. Over the following two days, you’ll have an opportunity to visit the Exhibit Floor packed with technology demonstrations include The Connected Home Pavilion, hosted by Parks Associates, an M2M Pavilion, an Optical Networking Pavilion, and a Video Communications Pavilion, as well as Knowledge Bars that give you small group access to industry experts. Complimentary lunch is served both days.

TIA Standards Committees will be holding meetings at the event – you may attend as a guest!

The Supporting Cast is a Who’s Who of the Industry, including Host Sponsor Alcatel-Lucent; Platinum Sponsors GENBAND and Panasonic; Gold Sponsor Walker and Associates; Silver Sponsor ILS Technology; and additional Education Sponsors Cisco; Connected Nation; Connected Texas; DAS Forum; Ericsson; Femto Forum; GreenTouch; Infinera; Juniper; McAfee; Parks Associates; QuEST Forum; Sumitomo Electric Lightwave; and Telecom Crash Course. TIA also welcomes BICSI, FTTH, Metroplex Technology Business Council (MTBC), QuEST Forum and WiFi Alliance

Industry media sponsors focused on TIA 2012 include B/OSS, CED, ChannelVision, Communications Daily, Fierce, GigaOM, GlobalVision, GreenTelecomLive, InsideNetworks, Light Reading, Lightwave, OSP Magazine, Satellite Week, Telecom Review NA, Telecom TV, The State Telephone Regulation Report, V2M, VideoNet and Washington Internet Daily.

Find out how you can become involved! Registration opens February 15. Members receive a deep discount! To exhibit or sponsor, contact exhibits@tiaonline.org.