Wednesday, March 7, 2012
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Bandwidth Demand Forecasting

Event type: Panel

Room number: 409 A&B

Organizer: Ed Harstead; Alcatel-Lucent, USA


Description:

It is critical for operators and equipment vendors to understand current and future broadband bandwidth demand, because there are significant risks associated with both underestimating and overestimating it. Obviously, if an access network is deployed that does not scale to meet near-to-mid-term demands, it will have been a poor investment. On the other hand, over-paying for unneeded capacity, or deferring deployment in the mistaken belief that only future technologies can meet these demands, also has negative business consequences. In addition, it is important to distinguish between services requiring sustained bandwidth (e.g. streaming video) and requiring burst bandwidth (e.g. file transfers). Finally, bandwidth asymmetry is another important aspect to be considered in the access network. This panel, with representatives from both operators and vendors, will consider these aspects and present data-based bandwidth demand forecasts.

Speakers: Jill Boyce, Director of Algorithms, Vidyo, USA (View Presentation)

Stephen Liu, Director, Service Provider Marketing, Cisco, USA (View Presentation)

Pete Magill, Executive Director, AT&T Labs, USA

Terry Shaw, Director, Network Systems, CableLabs, USA (View Presentation)