
Date: Tuesday March 18th 2010
Time: 1pm New York EDT/ 10am San Francisco PDT

Using Real-time Charging to Drive Innovation and Loyalty
Date: March 16th 2010, 3pm GMT

Today’s increasingly mobile workforce is creating new challenges for enterprise IT organizations that support them: how to provide mobile workers with access to business-critical applications and sensitive corporate data, how to choose among emerging options for mobile computing and connectivity, and how to provision and support this diverse population of users and devices.

All across the world service providers are accelerating the speed and pace of their business transformation programs. Such transformations are extremely complex and imply a direct involvement at the Board and C-level (CEO, CFO, CIO, CTO, COO, CMO). Facing this complexity, the most critical risk for service providers is inertia.

Service providers are moving from a network-centric to service-centric environment to meet consumer and enterprise demand for innovative multimedia applications and services.

Policy Management is an emerging area with great promise in meeting operators’ requirements for dynamic, intelligent, and granular control of subscribers, services and networks.

This autumn the EU Data Roaming regulation is top of mind for many operators, with a looming 2010 deadline for roll-out.

The webinar focuses on a range of real world implementations, supported by a comparison of the business case for rightsourcing versus financial initiatives such as outsourcing and network sharing, using a financial models and interviews developed for Actix by Oliver Wyman and IDC.

Is control plane technology ready for IP & Ethernet?
Hear how Ciena are opening up new options for operators with their upcoming portfolio of control plane based products including the CN 4200 and the CoreDirector Family and Ethernet and OTN functionality.

Satisfying the developing world’s demand for value added services
In emerging markets without pervasive fixed telecommunication infrastructures, mobile phones keep populations connected and current with the rest of the world. Mobile web browsing is becoming the cornerstone of mobile content.