RFOC 2016

ROMANIAN FIBER OPTIC CONFERENCE 2016

AFOR (ROMANIAN FIBER OPTIC ASSOCIATION) & ICT CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL INVITE THE ICT PROFESSIONALS, PUBLIC AUTHORITIES & ACADEMICS TO THE 2nd ANNUAL REGIONAL CONFERENCE, EXPO & WORKSHOPS FOCUSED ON THE CRITICAL TOPICS OF FIBER OPTICS AND BROADBAND DEPLOYMENT TODAY.

ROMANIA is a worldwide paradox with its greatest Internet speeds in the world and a poor Internet penetration, but yet how can we cable the next half of Romania and its disadvantaged areas?

How can we impose the compulsoriness of the open architectures defined in the EU Digital Agenda?
How can we connect public institutions, increase use in public, support SMEs in training?
How can we amplify the accessibility of services, content and applications development?
How can we develop and implement Smart Cities in Romania?
How can we standardize the buildings access that could increase the competition?
How can we have a mandatory telecom service implemented in the new buildings as all utilities services?
How can we support the new type of fiber optic networks owners in Romania (like energy distributors, petrol producers, Railway Authority, Real-Estate companies etc) for the benefits of Customers as all utilities services?

EU DIGITAL AGENDA has several key objectives, one of them being to provide all European Union citizens with basic broadband coverage and more ambitious to provide broadband speeds of at least 30 megabits per second for all by 2020. Romania’s broadband plan focuses on building up a national broadband network as a first step towards achieving the targets set by the Digital Agenda for Europe. Romania’s existing national broadband plan is based on the European Commission’s Digital Agenda for Europe (DAE). It aims at achieving 100 % broadband coverage over 30 Mbps by 2020 and specifically sets the target that 50 % of households being provided with subscriptions over 100 Mbps.

NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN AND POLICY

Romania’s Broadband Plan is devised and implemented entirely by the Ministry of Communications and Information Society (Ministerul pentru Societatea Informaţională), the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (Autoritatea Naţională pentru Administrare şi Reglementare în Comunicaţii) is responsible for regulatory measures. The National Centre România Digitală (Digital Romania), a public institution under the Ministry of Information Society is to implement and operate Nationwide Electronic Point of Single Contact, aiming thereby streamlining government, creating an integrated market services and simplifying procedures applicable to service providers in order to achieve an interoperable platform to national and European level.

INTERACTIVE DEBATE

Topics related to Ministry of Communications and for Information Society & Ministry of National Education and Scientific Research:
The specialists leave the country and the local market register a lack of specialized personnel

How do we build vocational schools (transformation of the former TTP high schools) into trade schools, specialized in optic fiber?
The need for a common and uniform curriculum in universities for the optical fiber telecommunications discipline
The need for an academic framework (masters, doctorates, specializations) for optical fiber R&D.
Romania lacks research on optical fiber and updated optical fiber academic courses.
Romania needs fiber optic specialists in Romania for the next 5 years. How do we create the required infrastructure for this big need? We need specialized trainers, updated teachers and support for knowledge upgrade of employees.
Standards boosts business ... but in Romania we have a shortage of standards in optical fiber for telecom projects. The existing standards aren’t known or used only by few specialists and companies
What is the optimal price that can ensure quality of fiber optic works? The sites organization need to be included into the fiber optic projects.
Construction prices have decreased significantly lately, which led to the extinction of an impressive number of Romanian companies. What do we do to stop this bleeding?
The need for calibration laboratory in Romania for equipments such as OTDRs and splicers
How can we increase the number of specialists in Network Design for FTTH networks in Romania?
Romania has a lot of fiber optic networks, but how they will evolve in the future in order to accommodate the bigger need for bandwidth, services and apps?
Which technologies will enlighten the fiber optic apart FTTB and GPON in Romania?

Topics related to Ministry of European Funds:
Technical Consulting for the implementation of the broadband projects in Romania (eg. RONET, Digital Agenda, NGN)

How to attract European funds for training fiber optic specialists in Romania (high schools, vocational schools, colleges, specialisation trainings in industry)
European funds for Broadband projects in Romania (eg: RONET, Constanta, Iasi, Targoviste, etc) - what can be improved

Topics related to Ministry of Regional Development & Public Administration:
Active player in issuing work permits for telecom and aesthetic works; issuing professional certification for telecommunications works.

How to address the lack of skills in the professional telecommunications certification and lack of specific bibliography.
How do we encourage and stimulate the telecom specialists in Romania? How long the electricians should handle the telecom works in Romania?
How to support telecom networks developments in any type of buildings in existing construction framework as internet open access is worldwide required?

KEY TOPICS OF THE BROADBAND ECOSYSTEM

* Virtualisation * Network Intelligence * Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) * Network Efficiency & Speed Access Evolution * Mobile & Fixed Broadband * Mobile Backhaul & Fronthaul * Connected Car * Smart Home
* Internet of Things *

AGENDA

09.30 - 10.00 Registration & Welcome coffee

10.00 - 12.30 AUTHORITIES & OPERATORS SESSION

1. BROADBAND: NATIONAL, EUROPEAN & GLOBAL STRATEGIES - PLANS & FACTS
2. HOW CLOSE ARE WE TO THE DIGITAL AGENDA'S OBJECTIVES?
3. HOW CAN BROADBAND FUNDS & PROJECTS BOOST OUR ECONOMY?

Speakers

Horaţiu Silviu Anghelescu, Secretary of State, MCSI
Adrian CURAJ, Education & Scientific Research, Minister
Aura RĂDUCU, European Funds, Minister
Cătălin MARINESCU, ANCOM, President
Diana VOICU, Justice and MCSI Ministries, Former Secretary of State
Edgar AKER, FTTH Council Europe, President
Valentin MIRCEA, Romanian Government, Head of the control body of the PM
Sorin BOGDAN, AFOR, President
Official, Orange Romania
Official, Vodafone Romania
Official, Telekom Romania
Official, RCS & RDS
Official,UPC

Institutions

AFOR, MCSI (Ministry of Communications), MENCS (Ministry of Education), MFE (Ministry for EU Funds), MDRAP (Ministry of Development), ANCOM (National Regulatory Body for Telecom), Competition Council, FTTH Europe Council, City Halls of Bucharest, Timisoara, Cluj, Constanta, Rm Valcea, AOR (Association of Romanian Cities)

Companies

Orange, Vodafone, Telekom, RCS&RDS, UPC, Euroweb, GTS Telecom, INES, ENEL, Teletrans, CFR Telecomunicatii etc.

12.30 - 13.15 BUSINESS LUNCH & NETWORKING

13.15 - 15.30 CABLES & CONNECTICS SESSION

1. HOW TO OPTIMIZE & MONETIZE YOUR NETWORK VIA TELCO SOFTWARE
2. THE LATEST INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR THE BEST FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS
3. A LAND OF NEW SERVICES & REVENUES OPPORTUNITIES
4. NO MORE OUTDOOR CABLES INSIDE BUILDINGS!

Speakers

Cristina DEAC, Country Manager R&M
Nikos TSANTANIS, Senior Product Marketing Manager Intracom Telecom
Powering Smart Cities with Virtualized Wi-Fi
Hans-Werner WILK, Director Central & Eastern Europe EMTELLE
Ideas of cost saving for passive FttH network infrastructure
Cătălin CHIVU, AFOR Member, Telecom Engineer Swisscom
Standardization on optical fibres and fibre access networks
Bogdan BARBU,Area Sales Manager Prysmian
Fibre Rich Links Needed in Congested Routes!

EQUIPMENTS SESSION

1. THE FUTURE OF SPLICER AND OTDR
2. LATEST INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS
3. CUSTOMERS ARE GREEDY FOR NEW SERVICES AND QUALITY WORKS
4. THE LATEST EQUIPMENTS REQUEST SPECIALISTS

Speakers

Nick COLE, EMEA Marketing & Application Specialist, Test and Inspection Division, AFL
The Future of Splicer and OTDR
Dala SANDHER, Sales Manager SUMITOMO
Fusion Splicer Data Management in the Field
Jorge CANO, President NTest
Monitoring Fibre Optic Networks
Juraj URMINSKY, Business Development Manager CEE Anritsu
New challenges in mobile fronthaul testing
Ethan LEE, Technical Sales Executive INNO Instrument
Advanced splicer
Branislav BARTA, Solutions Consultant VIAVI
New generation of selective PON powermeters
Vratislav BLAZEK, Regional Sales Manager Eastern Europe, Russia & CIS, EXFO
Securing optical network physical layer with Fiber Monitoring and Management
Konstantin LARIONOV, Business Development Manager EMEA, Furukawa Electric Europe
Achieving precise and efficient fiber splices in FTTH installations

Companies

Romkatel (Anritsu, Inno), Celesta (Sumitomo, Yokogawa, NTest), Telecom Instruments (Viavi), Teledatanet (Exfo), Teleprecision - MTS (Emtelle, AFL, Fujikura)

15.30 - 15.45 COFFEE BREAK & NETWORKING

15.45 - 16.45 EDUCATION, R&D SESSION

1. THE EDUCATION FOR FIBER OPTIC SPECIALISTS NEEDS VISION
2. ROMANIA HAS SO MUCH FIBER OPTIC BUT NO RESEARCH ON FIBER OPTICS
3. COMPANIES ARE CLAIMING ABOUT POOR TELECOM EDUCATION IN UNIVERSITIES. HOW CAN THE CURRICULA FOR TELECOM UNIVERSITIES BE IMPROVED?

Speakers

Tomohiro KONUMA, Specialty Applications and Business Development Engineer Fusion Splicer Division-Fujikura
The introduction of advanced optical fiber splicing technology
Vratislav BLAZEK, Regional Sales Manager Eastern Europe, Russia & CIS, EXFO
Measurement in Coherent Networks
Dorin COMAN, Sale Technical Support Prysmian
Improving efficiency in FTTx
Cornel BĂRBUŢ, Vicepresident AFOR

Companies

Ericsson, Huawei, Plumetaz, Fremco, Intergraph, Smallworld, ESRI, Kapsch, TCR Telecom Projects, Electrogrup, Sens Interactiv

INVITED COMPANIES

INSTITUTIONS:

MCSI, MDRAP, MENCS, MFE, ANCOM, Competition Council, City Halls from Bucharest, Timisoara, Cluj, Constanta

ASSOCIATIONS:

ACeR, AFOR, ANIS, ANISP, AOMR, AOTR, ARIES, FTTH Council Europe, ISOC, AOR, ADSI

TELECOM & INTERNET OPERATORS:

Allnet Telecom, Combridge, Direct One, Dotro Telecom, Euroweb, Google, GTS Telecom, ICI, iComm, Idilis, Ines Group, Media Sat, NextGen, Nxdata, Orange, Prime Telecom, RCS&RDS, Rolink, SNR, STS, Telekom, UPC, Vodafone, Posta Romana

INFRASTRUCTURE/SOLUTIONS/EQUIPMENTS PROVIDERS

3M, AFL, Alcatel-Lucent, Yokogawa, Anritsu, Celesta Comexim, Cisco, CSR, Diamond Fiber, Dura-Line, EMTELE, Ericsson, ESRO Energy, Esri, EXFO, Expo, , Fitel/Furukawa, Fujikura, Hitachi, Huawei, HP, IBM, Intrarom, Kapsch, Microsoft, Mira Telecom, Nestor Cables, Nexans, NSN, NTest, Omnilogic, Oracle, Protelco, Prysmian, R&M, Radcom, Romkatel, S&T, Samsung, SAP, Star Storage, Sumitomo, TCR-telecom, Telecom Instruments, Teledatanet, Teleprecision, Teletrans, Thales, Total Fiber, UTI, Viavi, ZTE

MOBILE DEVICES PROVIDERS:

Allview, Evolio, HTC, Huawei, Lenovo, LG, Nokia, Samsung, Sony, ZTE

Partners