Since the creation of the NGN Focus Group in 2004, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is in the process, through its newly established study groups at its World Telecommunications Standardization Assembly (WTSA’08) held in South Africa in October 2008, of developing standardisation of next generation networks to address the above and other equally important issues in the context of convergence.

About the Event

In association with the ITU, the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) is organising a forum on “Next Generation Networks Standardisation” in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 7 - 10 April 2009. The event is hosted by the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka.  It will bring together ITU experts, officials from government and regulatory agencies, and industry leaders actively involved in the approval, monitoring, manufacturing, planning or deployment of next generation communications equipment and services. As such, this gathering is designed to offer a unique platform to:

• Explain the latest developments on NGNs architecture, service requirements, network capabilities, and migration
• Understand the ongoing changes in ITU-T working methods on NGN and beyond, as well as its new mandate on IPv6
• Appreciate security issues, including cyber security
• Review the new ITU agenda on telecommunications standards, including on global greenhouse gas emissions, traffic accounting principles, and QoS
• Learn from existing ongoing NGN and fixed-mobile integration case studies from various operators from Asia-Pacific and beyond
• Discuss policy, regulatory and developmental issues related to NGNs
• Report on the main results of the ITU-T WTSA-08, including resolutions related to developing countries, conformity and interoperability issues and bridging the standardisation gap
  …and much more

Speakers will include members of ITU-T Study Groups 11, 13 & 15, technical experts from regulatory agencies, operations managers from operators, and technical managers from industry manufacturers, including:

• Mr Malcolm Johnson, Director, Telecommunication Standardisation Bureau, ITU
• Mr Priyantha Kariyapperuma, Director General, Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka
• Dr Hans Wijayasuriya, Chief Operating Officer, TM, Malaysia
• Mr Kuldeep Goyal, Chairman and Managing Director, BSNL
• Mr N. K. Goyal, Chairman, Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturers Association, India
• Mr Yogesh Kochar, Head E-government Business Unit, TATA Teleservices
• Mr Bharat Bhatia, President TEMA and Regional Director, SAARC and South East Asia, Motorola GCA, India
• Mr Anil Prakash, Secretary General, ITU-APT Foundation of India
• Mr Marco Carugi, Senior Advisor, Nortel, Carrier Networks
• Mr Michael Murphy, Head of Technology for the Asia-Pacific region of Nokia Siemens Networks