IEC Communications Fourms at NXTcomm08
The Changing Communications Environment
The IEC sessions at NXTcomm08 contribute to an education-driven conference in which industry professionals will gather to examine the opportunities and challenges raised by the emergence of next-generation information and communication technologies (ICT) services and applications — including both the mobile and fixed IP-based network architectures and technologies that will enable them.

Who Attends
  • Service providers
  • Wireless and wireline carriers
  • Network operators
  • Enterprise end users
  • Content providers
  • Equipment and software vendors
  • Industry analysts

Featured Sessions
The sessions analyze the business and technology requirements of making convergent, IP communications a reality in today's world on a carrier scale. They examine not only technical challenges, but also content, services, and business considerations that will drive revenue in a new world of competition.

  • The Next Step in the Packet Transport Evolution: The Virtualization of the Optical Layer toward Unified Packet Network Architectures
  • Key Business Case Considerations for WiMAX Deployments
  • Enabling Mass Deployment of Triple Play
  • The Next Generation Mobile Internet – Network Convergence of Internet and Mobile Communications Networks
  • An SDP for the Telco 2.0 World
  • The Global Mobile WiMAX Revolution
  • Are You My Televisionary?
  • Converged TV: Delivering Rich TV and Video Experiences on a Converged Platform
  • Network Transformation to IP Core
  • TIA and USTelecom, the two organizations that owned and produced SUPERCOMM for 18 years, have joined forces again to produce NXTcomm, which replaces SUPERCOMM as the one event delivering the entire ecosystem of network-enabled voice, video, and data.
  • Network Transformation: Broadband Access Networks – Ultra-Broadband Delivery for the 100 Mb Home
  • Open Networks: Accelerating Innovation or Potential Threat?
  • A Comparison of PON Architectures
  • Industrial Revolution 2.0 – Are Service Factories Based on Service Delivery for the 2.0 Era Set to Become the New Production Lines?
  • Of Order and Entropy: Controlling the IP Content Explosion
  • Seizing the On-Demand Video Opportunity: Delivering High Quality at Low Cost
  • Peering – The Protocol for Success
  • IPTV – Operator Case Studies