This document discusses transforming Europe's digital infrastructure through ubiquitous broadband and mobile access, compelling content and applications, and always-on connectivity. It notes that smartphones, widescreen devices, and video are driving significant growth in mobile data traffic. New fiber and wireless investments are needed to support this data explosion. Local authorities in France have played a key role in broadband coverage through public-private partnership models. The document calls for new investment models in Europe to achieve digital agenda targets and improve networks roll-out.
The London Assembly Economy Committee visited Tech City to hear the biggest challenges the sector faces. Led by Tech London Advocates, the Committee visited several organisations, including Unruly, Makers Academy, Centre for London, Technology Will Save Us and Optimity.
The Committee uncovered a number of issues which require urgent attention from the current Mayor, and his successor, if London is to maintain growth in its digital economy.
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Conference of Mr. Georges Mokhbat at 14th Diada de les Telecomunicacions de Catalunya
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Teraco’s footprint of vendor neutral data centres allows you to deploy infrastructure efficiently and easily. Our growing ecosystems give you direct access to potential clients and business partners in IT services, cloud services, content providers and the enterprise.
The London Assembly Economy Committee visited Tech City to hear the biggest challenges the sector faces. Led by Tech London Advocates, the Committee visited several organisations, including Unruly, Makers Academy, Centre for London, Technology Will Save Us and Optimity.
The Committee uncovered a number of issues which require urgent attention from the current Mayor, and his successor, if London is to maintain growth in its digital economy.
The new role of Governments in deregulated telecom markets. Who is responsibl...Agustin Argelich Casals
Conference of Mr. Georges Mokhbat at 14th Diada de les Telecomunicacions de Catalunya
The new role of Governments in deregulated telecom markets. Who is responsible for “Digital Highways”
Teraco’s footprint of vendor neutral data centres allows you to deploy infrastructure efficiently and easily. Our growing ecosystems give you direct access to potential clients and business partners in IT services, cloud services, content providers and the enterprise.
Passive infrastructure of FTTH networks: an overviewLuc De Heyn
Presentation of the FTTH Council webinar on September 2014. A general introduction to FTTH passive infrastructure and a view on the latest trends.
Speaker: Raf Meersman, CEO of Comsof
More info on planning & design of FTTH infrastructure: http://www.fiberplanit.com
Gabrielle Gauthey of Alcatel-Lucent reviews and compares regulatory initiatives and experiences concerned with broadband deployments around the world and particularly between the US and Europe and predicts outcomes
BROADBAND NETWORKS AND PUBLIC SECTOR INVOLVEMENT FROM THE ACTOR'S POINT OF VI...IDATE DigiWorld
Olivier Duroyon, Director, Public Affairs, Alcatel-Lucent
Olivier Duroyon is working in the Public Affairs headquarter team of Alcatel-Lucent, where he focuses on Wireline and Wireless regulatory aspects and policies – like Net Neutrality, Spectrum, Wireline access and CyberSecurity.He also brings his experience on government-driven projects around the world.
Prior to Alcatel-Lucent he was investment manager at the Caisse des depots, a public financial institution, bringing support to the digital projects of French local authorities.
At the beginning of his career, Olivier Duroyon has spent ten years in R&D, Product Line Management and Marketing for several Telecom equipment vendors in the field of Internetworking and optical networking.
This report is a reminder that telecom operators are the pillars of the digital economy. It also stresses that France and Europe are at risk of a "digital slip" despite recent initiatives. It calls for public authorities to restore a balance in digital-related policies, by benchmarking against best practices from around the world.
Actility and Solvera Lynx webinar: LoRaWAN for smart citiesActility
SUMMARY
Actility is hosting a joint webinar with our partner Solvera Lynx to provide an overview of smart city solutions including energy management, smart parking, smart lighting and waste management. Real-life projects will then be used to demonstrate the possibilities and achievements to date.
IN THIS WEBINAR YOU WILL LEARN:
about smart city key applications for LoRaWAN
about key trends
how LoRaWAN enables energy monitoring, efficiency and flexibility
how to create cost savings for your facilities
about environmental and carbon emissions monitoring
what the best technologies and systems are for your facilities
how LoRaWAN can improve your projects
about relevant use cases
Presentation by Catherine Flouvat – CSR Orange AMEA
Session: ICT Infrastructure Provision and Agricultural Development
on 6 Nov 2013
ICT4Ag, Kigali, Rwanda
A presentation about the cities of the future and their challenges. It also presents the latest (2014) results of the Networked Society City Index by Ericsson and drill in the results for Athens, Greece. The presentation was held at the Smart Cities event organized by Europe Direct City of Athens on December 15, 2014.
Presentación de Miquel Oliver en el taller "El rol del estado en la promición de la banda ancha" DIRSI en Lima (Perú) el 19 de mayo de 2011.
Miquel Oliver's presentation a the DIRSI Workshop "The role of the state in the promotion of the broadband". Lima (Peru) May 19th 2011.
Paul Kenefick, Vice President at Alcatel-Lucent in the US, says that all available analysis projects massive growth in broadband services, particularly in mobile broadband, but that users will continually be seeking more as third party content and applications also booms. The communications industry is moving fundamentally from a service provider-centric model to a user-centric model. The US needs coherent broadband policymaking that will drive sustainable private sector activity but analyses need to look beyond simple penetration levels into other factors. International comparisons are also relevant.
Benoit Felton is a Senior Analyst with Yankee Group Europe. He spoke on Session 6: Networks Here and There at the Freedom to Connect 2009 conference.
If you'd like more info about the conference, see
http://freedom-to-connect.net/
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
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UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
3. NETWORK: AN ESSENTIAL BRIDGE BETWEEN
YOUR HAND-DEVICES AND THE CLOUD
COMPUTING
GAMING
STREAMING
STORING
COMMUNICATING
ULTRA-BROADBAND
• FTTH, FTTx
• LTE, Macro Cells, Small Cells
CLOUD -IP NETWORKING
• IP Routing and IP Transport
• IP Platforms: IP Video, SDN, IMS, Cloud,
Customer Care, Payment and Charging,
Policy and Network Intelligence
ULTRA-BROADBAND
High
Scalability
High
Reliability
High
Simplicity
MPLS
QoS, QoE
Resiliency
Equipment
stability
Management
Automation
Eth OAM
Demarcation
Synchronization
High BW
Dense
platforms
Management
Suite
Fast
Troubleshooting
Security
IPv6
6. TELECOM NETWORK STRUCTURE
A LAYERED MODEL
Each layer has very a different financial profile and needs to
be addressed adequately
Services, Content & Apps
(residential, public & business)
Active Network
(network equipments,
business & operation support)
Passive Infrastructure
(trenches, ducts, fibre)
End-user
>200 B€
Investment
needed Payback
Few m-3 y
5-7 y
10-15 y
20%
80%
7. ROI
Risk
Infrastructu
re
roll out
Lack of investment
in NGA networks
NO FIT BETWEEN INVESTMENT PROFILES AND
INFRASTRUCTURE OPPORTUNITIES
Infrastructure
Funds
Telecom
Operators
Insufficient ROI:
• Cherry picking
• Digital Gap
• Wait and see
High risk :
•No focus on Telecom
• Wait and see
Solution calls for: CAPEX reduction to increase ROI, long-
term commercial agreements to lower risk
8. very low
Indication of sectorial funds focus
over the next two years
0 1 2 3 4 5
10.Infrastructure
services
1.Energy
2.Roads
3.Rail/Metro
4.Ports
5.Airports
6.Water
7.Waste
8.PPP/PFI
9.Telecoms
TELECOM INDUSTRY DOES NOT SEEM TO FULLY MEET
THE REQUIREMENTS OF INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDS
Source: Contribution, Deloitte 2010, Arthur D. Little
Conditions for infrastructure funds
to invest
Investors seeking exposure to a periodic,
stable and guaranteed cash flows
Need for a regulated market with contained
competition and strong barriers to entry
Necessity to make investments fit with
infrastructure funds’ risk profile:
Advocate for separation of passive
layer vs. active and retail to lower risk
on the passive layer part
Guarantee of a single fibre network in
case of operating cable operators
Participation of the incumbent in the
Netco preferred
very high
17. European Policy
• CEF now mainly focused on digital services — since
downsizing from 9 to 1 B€
• TSM had incentives to infrastructure sharing, nothing on
funding but now focused roaming and NN
What would be beneficial for both investors and operators?
- To be focused on reduction of market risk rather than subsidy
- To increase liquidity by enabling project finance, and attract long term
private equity and banks
- To finance the construction phase separately from the operation
phase
EUROPE DOES NOT PROMOTE ANY INVESTMENT MODEL
18. • New access networks roll-out is not an evolution but more the building
of a new essential infrastructure for the 40 years to come. On 70% of the
EU territory, a single infrastructure is viable.
• Need for more fibre, as deep as economically viable, which has all the
characteristics of an essential infrastructure
• Move away from the dogma of infrastructure competition, embrace the
era of virtual/NG bitstream wholesale
• Secure the investment through a long term “regulatory” contract
guaranteeing return on investment and openness
• The achievement of the ‘EC digital agenda targets’ requires new
investment models
• Intervention from long term investors would be a key enabler to
improve current networks roll-out dynamics
• National approach but regional implementation is often preferable
CONCLUSION
Alcatel-Lucent is refocusing to become an All-IP Networking and Ultra-broadband specialist.Alcatel-Lucent has the ability to build highly scalable all-IP platforms that provide multiple service to multiple users at the same time, without compromise performance or functionality. This recognized capability together with a continuous stream of innovation in routing, optical transport and platforms gives Alcatel-Lucent the legitimacy to address the Cloud IP networking market.Our differentiating assets in all-IP and the Cloud IP networking are our IP routing, NuageNetworks, IP optical transport (WDM) and selected IP platforms, such as Advanced Communications, Customer Experience Management and Cloudband - Alcatel-Lucent virtualized software platform. In particular, the integration of IP routing and optical transport will provide high value to customers because we will simultaneously drive the lowest cost per bit, and accelerate the processing and transport of data. In addition, we are moving into the data center space, which is facing major disruptions with the change in the Software Defined Networking architecture. We have already started serving enterprise customers with our Nuage Networks™ SDN solution. This puts us in a leading position in non-telco SDN/Data center transformation.Finally, this cross-domain experience in datacenters allows us to expand with our telco customers as they invest in their data centers. Our CloudBand™ virtualization platform, in addition to Nuage, will help the operators achieve more flexible and cost-efficient network services. Ultra-broadband (including LTE, Fiber and VDSL) is important to provide the bandwidth for rapid and reliable access to the cloud.We see a strong acceleration of the LTE adoption by operators. The first large scale deployment of Small Cells networks are being launched. LTE is now clearly established as the evolution of all 3G networks. It uniquely delivers high traffic growth at lower energy and financial costs than 2G/3G or mixed (Single RAN) approaches. Consequently, operators are capping their 2G/3G investment. We are at the forefront of this strategic shift with the leading edge Service Providers expanding fast in LTE overlay and we transition our wireless portfolio towards LTE and Small Cells. Fixed Access growth is picking up. Our strategy is to bring Fiber-To-The-Most-Economical-Point (also named FTTx). Some operators are choosing a fiber to extend the life of their copper plant such as Fiber-To-The-Node or Building or Distribution Point, while others in Asia Pacific and North America are leading the FTTHome market for the next years. New countries are also investing in FTTH for the long term. Therefore Alcatel-Lucent will continue to expand and leverage its leadership positions in both FTTN/FTTB/FTTDP (with VDSL2 & vectoring) and FTTH.
So which future for our industry? The cloud IP networking will boost investments in critical areas such as high performance IP routing, transport and associated software platforms as well as for Very High Speed Broadband (FTTx, LTE) will grow ~15% market growth, to be compared to ~4-5% GDP growth from ‘13 to ‘14 Service Providers, being Telcos, Cable or web-scale companies, will need further differentiating — they succeeded the Broadband introduction, with service-aware IP networks, they are scaling Mobile Broadband with all-IP everywhere in all formats, they will be the infrastructure of reference for the Cloud Services by bringing together IT and IP in a new Cloud-IP integrated design. This does not stop at Services Providers but will expand to large enterprises and verticals investing in carrier-grade networks (reliable, resilient) to support their IT and network needs. This does not stop at IP routing but encompasses the full transformation of optical transport, network software platforms and related vendor services. And finally, business models and value chain in the industry will be affected. In particular, in the vendor community, it will critical to assert which DNA and focus will be most critical: be a successful IP player? Leverage a Wireless footprint? Come with an broad IT know-how, but limited network insight? Or be the cheapest whatever?
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