Workshop videos

Four presentations from the November workshop

Ethernet ALA November Workshop - Presentation 1/4

Alan Nunn
Director, Technology Innovation, BT Group CTO - Generic Ethernet Access

- Overview of BT's UK thinking around Next Generation Access
- BT's thinking around the need for a new 'active' wholesale product within future NGA value chains
- Generic Ethernet Access as the likely front runner for NGA in the UK
- How deep control for 'Downstream Service Provider community will be achieved
- How such an access product would be used to create wholesale and end-user services in future FTTP networks
- Technical, Commercial and regulatory issues that the UK industry must resolve to provide a commercial environment for NGA

Ethernet ALA November Workshop - Presentation 2/4

Gavin Young
Chief Architect, Cable and Wireless Access - Wholesale Ethernet Access Requirements

- Ethernet in the C&W Network
- Buy vs Build: Unbundled vs Bitstream access in NGA
- GPON / Ethernet Access Wholesale Product Requirements
- Aggregation & Interconnect
- Customer experience & equipment
- QoS
- Multicast
- Standards

Ethernet ALA November Workshop - Presentation 3/4

Kevin Baughan
Virgin Media - Lessons from the world of Cable

- Virgin Media and DOCSIS
- Ashford trial - update
- The key technical requirements for ALA
- Enabling national product offerings

Ethernet ALA November Workshop - Presentation 4/4

Dr Matt Squire
MEF Director and CTO, Hatteras - Promoting Competition: Where Standards Fit

- Standards and Competition
- Some MEF Basics
- Where's the Problem?
- It All Comes Down to Economics