The document summarizes a workshop on LTE that was held on May 30, 2011 in Bangalore, India. It provides an overview of the event including major exhibitors and conference schedule. The schedule details keynote speakers and technical presentations on topics like the evolution of 3GPP network architecture, LTE industry perspectives, the LTE physical layer, and LTE radio access network architecture. Major operators and telecom vendors participating are also listed. The workshop aimed to discuss preparing networks for LTE and its technical aspects.

1. Workshop on LTE, May 30 2011, Vivanta, Bangalore
Workshop on LTE
Event Overview
 Event Name: Workshop on LTE
 Date/Location: 30 May 2011
Vivanta, Bangalore, India
 Major Exhibitors:
(Operators) BSNL, MTNL, Reliance, Bharti Airtel, Aircel,
(Major Telecom Vendors) Samsung, Ericsson, Huawei,
Alvarion, Motorola, Nokia Siemens Networks and Sunfest
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2. 09.30 – 11.00
“Preparing the way for LTE”
Workshop on LTE, May 30 2011, Vivanta, Bangalore
Chief Guest:
Guest of Honour:
Shri Chandra Prakash, Member – Technology, DOT, Ministry of
Communications & IT
Shri P Raghavan ITS, Chief General Manager, Karnataka, Bharat
Sanchar Nigam Ltd.
Special Address:
Mr. Adrian Scrase, Head of 3GPP Mobile Competence Centre
Keynote address:
Mr. Rajan S Mathews, Director General, COAI
Distinguish Speakers:
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, MTS India, Bharti Airtel Limited,
Aircel Limited
11:30 – 13:00
Technical Presentations
Topic
Evolution of the 3GPP Network Architecture (the Evolved Packet Core)
Speaker
Mr. Sungho Choi, Samsung - 3GPP SA Vice-Chairman
Topic
LTE Moving Forward - Industry Perspective
Mr. Nikhil Shrivastava
Director Networks Excellence, MTS India
Mr. T. R. Dua Vice Chair GISFI
Speaker
Global ICT Standardization Forum for India
Dr. Kiran Kuchi CEWiT India
Mr. Sridhar Vadlamudi, GM-3G & 4G, Wireless Solutions, Ericsson India
Pvt. Ltd.
Topic
Speaker
Topic
LTE Radio Physical Layer
Mr. Sadayuki Abeta, NTT DOCOMO - 3GPP RAN1 former ViceChairman
LTE Radio Layer 2, RRC and Radio Access Network Architecture
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India Telecom 2010 – Broadband for All, the 5th International exhibition and
conference organized by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) in
association with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and
Industry(FICCI). The event is inaugurated by Minister for Communications Kapil
Sibal at the FICCI auditorium.
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Conference Program Schedule
Day 1(9th December 2010, Friday)
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Session I :
Broadband as Vehicle for Social and Economic Development
Chair: Shri R. Chandrashekhar, Secretary (T), Department of
Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications & Information
Technology,Government of India.
Panelists
• Role of Broadband in socio-economic development - Mr. Urs
Pennanen, Region Head – India, Nokia Siemens Networks Pvt. Ltd
• Broadband wireless access for rural & remote India - Mr. P Balaji,
Vice President Communications, Corporate Affairs & Business
Development, Ericsson India Pvt. Ltd.
• Enriching lives of customers through Broadband - Mr K Srinivas
President - Telemedia Business, Bharti Airtel
• Broadband – The Road to Investment & Innovation - Dr. Viswanath
Poosala, Head of Bell Labs India, Alcatel-Lucent
• Driving Inclusive Growth through the broadband - Examples from other
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Emerging Markets- Mr. Sigve Brekke, Executive Vice President &Head of the
Telenor Asia operations & Managing Director, Uninor India
• Wide broadband network: Way to bridge digital divide - Mr. Declan
Byrne, Marketing Director, WiMAX Forum
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Highlights:
 TRAI is targeting a broadband subscriber base of 75 million by 2012 and
160 million by 2014.
 Expecting the launch of 3G services in the next two months and the
subsequent broadband wireless access (BWA) roll out.
 Areas where Broadband can make a major difference include bridging the
digital divide, enabling commerce, e-education, e-health and egovernance.
 Wireless technologies are the only viable option to provide rural
broadband.
 The great challenge in providing internet access to the masses. There are
4.6 million internet users in rural areas and about 84% of rural India is not
aware of the internet opportunity. Wi-MAX has come a long way with
subscriber base of 15 million across nearly 600 networks. The technology
is suitable for providing broadband in rural areas.
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Session II :
Strategies for boosting broadband penetrations in india.
Chair : Shri Chandra Prakash, Member (Technology), Department of
Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications & Information
Technology,Government of India
Panelists
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• 3G & BWA- enabling broadband - Mr. Jaikishan Rajaraman, Senior
Director, Asia-Pacific, GSMA
• Wireless broadband-an operator outlook - Mr. Vsevolod Rozanov
CEO & President, Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd.
• Compute, Connectivity & Content : Three Essentials for Broadband
penetration in India - Mr. Vivek Vasishtha, Director-Technical Policy
and Standards, Corporate Affairs, Intel South Asia
• Broadband: Enabling New Opportunities - Sir Terry Matthews,
Chairman, Wesley Clover, Canada
• Enabling mobile broadband for future communications - Dr. C.S Rao,
President, Strategy & Corporate Affairs, Reliance Communications
• GPON: Future proof solution for rural broadband - Mr. Vipin Tyagi,
Director, Center for Development of Telematics (C-DOT)
Highlights:
 In India, wireless broadband is the most viable and scalable option to
increase broadband penetration as the capex per subscriber for wireless
stands at only $125 and over $2000 for cable and DSL.
 Several structural issues have kept India from meeting its internet
ambitions. These include the fairly limited PC penetration; lack of
vernacular(local/regional/native language) content, fixed line and cable
infrastructure and until recently, the lack of spectrum for rollout of
broadband wireless services.
Day 2 (10th December 2010, Friday)
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Session III :
Accelerating Growth Through Next Generation VAS
Chair: Dr. Vijayalakshmy K. Gupta, Member (Finance), Department of
Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology,
Government of India.
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Panelists
• DECT technology for real value add on wire line - Mr. Erich
Kamperschroer, Chairman, DECT Forum
• New Frontiers in Mobile Entertainment - Mr. Neeraj Roy, MD &
CEO, Hungama Mobile
• Killer Applications in VAS for India - Mr. Kumar Ramanathan ,Chief
Marketing Officer, Vodafone Essar Ltd.
• Solutions for NGN Growth - Dr. Hung Song, Vice President, Global
Marketing Group, Telecommunication Systems Division, Samsung
Electronics Company Ltd.
Highlights:
 According to Hungama Mobile there will be 325 million Internet users in
India by 2015.
 Indian Market will be driven by data revenue service’s – content and
applications
 Issues like Physical connectivity and Technological unfamiliarity needs to
be addressed
 Key applications in VAS in Indian is going to be Healthcare and Education
 VAS market is projected to reach a size of $100Billion by 2013
 Wire line Telephony like DECT can address overcrowding of wire line
space
 The evolved WiMAX networks with rich ecosystem will help India to
achieve broadband targets by DoT.
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Session IV :
Indian Telecom Sector : Future Roadmap & New Opportunities
Chair: Shri S. C. Misra, Member (Services), Department of
Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications and Information
Technology, Government of India
Panelists
• A Radically New Next Generation Telecom Network for the Video
Internet and Smartphone Era - Mr. John Gerald Dunne, Founder &
Chief Technology Officer, Intune Networks Ltd
• Best practices in Infrastructure Management - Mr. Sharat Chandra,
President & Chief Operating Officer - Strategy & New Technologies,
GTL Limited
• Opportunity & Challenges in Infrastructure Management - Mr.
Umang Das, Viom Networks Limited
• Green Telecom - Mr. Tim Wells, Vice President Business Development
Global, SPX Communication Technology
• Strategies for sustainable growth through broadband penetration Mr. A Sethuraman, Executive Director, Huawei Telecommunications (I)
Co. Pvt. Ltd.
• Creating IPR through supporting R&D to enable indigenous
manufacturing - Mr. N.K. Srivastava, Sr.DDG, Telecom Engineering
Center.
Highlights:
 TRAI broadband plan of target 100million broadband connections by 2015
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 Issues like Environmental Challenges need to be look at in more detail. It
can be curbed easily in India because it is still in the planning stage.
RAN in Wireless account for 75% of OPEX while 25 to 30% spent of
Energy. 65 to 70% energy is lost in transmission, PA and conversion (AC
to DC)
 Regulation has a role to play in Infrastructure Management
 There is huge business case for tower sharing given the fact that financial and
competitive pressure felt by operators in India
 TEC tells DoT and TRAI to act on local R&D efforts to rely less on foreign made
equipments
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Session V :
Regulatory & Policy Framework
Chair: Dr. J S Sarma, Chairman, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
Panelists
• Regulatory environment for growth and innovation - Ms. Jacquelynn
L. Ruff, Vice President, International Public Policy and Regulatory
Affairs, Verizon Communications Inc
• Regulation of next Generation access network - Shri Gopal Das,
CMD,BSNL
• Emerging issues in broadband regulation - Mr. Sean Collins, Global
Chair, Communications & Media, KPMG
Highlights:
 Government intervention is needed in defining policy for NGN networks
where convergence of 2G, 3G, GPON and DSL is made through IMS.
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TRAI is working on a consultation paper on NGN and it is likely to be
completed by June,2011.
 GDP growth is directly proportional to broadband growth, Regulatory
intervention is needed on Wireline infrastructure, Cost of CPE and QoS.
SISO Views and Conclusions on Workshop on LTE
1) Samsung stall event is not reported by tele.net press which reported all the other
important events. The speech made by Dr.Hung Song was also not present. We
feel that we should publicize the event of showcasing 802.16m and the
throughput we achieved which is many fold compare to what Ericsson showcased
to RIL.
2) We haven’t observed RIL visiting Samsung Stall. We should have invited all
potential or interested parties personally to the event.
3) We observed from the talks of operators that they made up their mind for TD-LTE
solutions. In this case we need to focus aggressively on TD-LTE solution to
operators. It can even be done with demo systems which are 70 to 80% closer to
commercial ones. We also observed that the Ericsson systems were not working
for all three days of the event. It means that they still don’t have fully complaint
TD-LTE solution but they are going ahead for trial with RIL.
4) Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) displayed TD-LTE networks along with Samsung
TD-LTE dongles. It is proved that Samsung is the only commercial vendor available
now with TD-LTE device (though we also heard that ST-Ericsson and Qualcomm
are working on one). Samsung can capitalize the fact that Samsung can be the
complete E2E solution vendor to Indian operators.
5) Green Solutions: Samsung contribution for green solution is not displayed, while
every other vendor/supplier have projected their contribution towards green
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solution. Show-casing green solution is very much required for energy deficient
country like India.
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