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Femtocells: Solving the Integration Challenge?

Wednesday, June 18 • 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM • Room S113

Femtocells, small, low-cost cellular base stations optimized for use in the home and small businesses, are an exciting new market. Mobile operators are looking at femtocells as a means to introduce new revenue generating services, making it possible for mobile carriers to remain competitive with mobile VoIP and VoIP landlines, by allowing carriers to deliver FMC services to customers.

This presentation will

• Explore the new market with a focus on how femtocell and Wi-Fi technology can co-exist, rather than compete, to deliver a comprehensive digital home experience.
• Describe how femtocells will enhance the delivery of telecoms services in the home: the new possibilities arising from the integration of femtocells with home gateways and set-top boxes.
• Delve into  the technical challenges of femtocells before assessing the business potential for operators to enhance market share and customer retention through enhanced triple play and quad play services.
• Address the femtocell integration challenge and the benefits, disadvantages and market drivers behind different femtocell architectures.
• Discuss the benefits to the end-user and to the operator, business case analysis and experiences learned from the world’s first CDMA femtocell deployment.

Moderator

Dan O'Shea, Editor in Chief, FierceMarkets

Dan O'Shea has been a professional journalist for almost 20 years, primarily as an editor and writer covering the telecommunications industry from technology, business and strategy perspectives. Before joining FierceMarkets in July 2007, he was editor in chief of Telephony magazine. During his time there, he won multiple awards for his reporting and writing and guided the efforts of broader editorial staffs. He has frequently hosted online audio and video interviews, podcasts and webinars, and has moderated panel sessions at industry trade shows and conferences. He began his career working for semi-weekly newspapers in the Chicago area, covering business, politics, crime, education and sports, and still resides in Chicago. 

Speakers

Tom Jasny, Vice President of Wireless & Broadband Network Systems, Samsung Telecommunications America
Sheriff Popoola, Senior Manager, Product Line Management, Motorola
Manish Singh, Vice President, Product Line Management, Continuous Computing
Natasha Tamaskar, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing, NextPoint Networks

 

Tom Jasny joined Samsung Telecommunications in April 2005 with 20 years of technology experience, much of which has been focused specifically within the wireless infrastructure business. Most recently, Tom has led the Mobile WiMAX efforts resulting in Samsung’s selection as primary supplier for Sprint’s 4G network and the upgrade of Samsung’s CDMA markets to EVDO.

Tom came to Samsung from VocalData, a provider of hosted Internet protocol (IP) telephony applications that enable the delivery of advanced telecom services and applications to business and residential customers. Prior to VocalData, he held key leadership at Nortel and Siemens Wireless Terminals.

Tom has an MBA from Vanderbilt University and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from The University of North Carolina.  He is a member of the Board of Directors of WCA and is a former Board Member of the Heard Museum and the Boys and Girls Clubs.

 

Sheriff Popoola is Senior Manager, Product Line Management with product responsibility for Motorola’s Femtocell CPE offering; covering UMTS, GSM, xDSL and Cable technologies. Mr. Popoola has been with Motorola for 12 years. His experience includes Networks in Public Safety, the Japan CDMA group, Advanced Radio Technology group, iDEN Dispatch and Packet Data services group, and the Aspira Network Products group, in functional areas spanning Systems Engineering, RF Development Engineering, Digital Hardware Development Engineering (where he received a patent in CDMA), and Product Line Management.Prior to joining Motorola Mr. Popoola worked for Cellutech Communications as the Cellular Service Manager running the Chicago-North facility. Mr. Popoola has a BSEEE degree from Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria, an MSEECS degree from University of Illinois, and an MBA degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

 

Manish Singh is vice president, product line management. Previously he served as Continuous Computing's vice president of field engineering and vice president of engineering. Singh is an experienced engineering leader who brings 14 years of experience in telecommunications product design and development. Prior to Continuous Computing, Singh held various engineering management and architect positions at Intel Corporation, Trillium Digital Systems, and C-DOT (Center for Development of Telematics). Singh holds the patent as a sole inventor of “Configurable Cache” memory system (patent number: 7133997). Apart from broad telecom domain knowledge, Singh brings specialized expertise in the wireless and VoIP telecom technology areas. In 1998, he successfully led the development of 2G MSC at C-DOT and since has led various VoIP and 3G/IMS wireless product development. Singh received a B.S. degree in electronics and telecommunication from Shri GSInstitute of Technology & Science, Indore and a M.S. degree in computer science from India Institute of Science, Bangalore.

 

Natasha Tamaskar, vice president of product management and marketing for NextPoint Networks, is responsible for working across R&D and product management to define product and technical strategy and requirements, and product architecture/direction for NextPoint’s solutions.  Natasha brings twenty years of experience in the telecommunications industry to NextPoint with particular expertise in building security and communications products.
 
Prior to NextPoint, Natasha served as director of IMS Development for Reef Point.  In this role, she built and launched Reef Point’s IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) product portfolio.  She was instrumental in defining Reef Point’s IMS product strategy, project planning, and overall product delivery. 

Prior to Reef Point, Natasha was the R&D lead for Nortel’s Enterprise Secure Edge Router program.  Earlier, she held several technical leadership positions with Mei Technology, which was acquired by MATCOM in 1999.

Natasha holds a Ph.D. in Computational Physics from the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University; an M.S. degree in Physics from the University of South Florida; and a B.S. degree in Physics from the University of Delhi, India.