50th Anniversary of CCITT / ITU-T
Tomorrow's Broadband
Infrastructure Technologies
Thorsten Heins
Member of the Board, Siemens Communications,
Chief Technology Officer
Is there a future for traditional telephony?
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Need to shift to new services –
new services embedding voice as standard feature
Home control &
communication
Video
communication
Home
control
Healthcare
services
Home
security
Revenue
New services
Declining voice revenues
Time
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New services require evolution to more powerful,
flexible and cost efficient infrastructure
Stefanie: What do you think
about this movie...?
Video communication
Messaging (SMS, MMS)
TV over Internet
Audio/video on demand,
Personal video recorder
Office & storage
Render & Rip
Home control
Gaming
Home security
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Because new services require
much greater bandwidth
Content
Quality
Interactivity
100Mbps
2010
HDTV
50 Mbps
2006
Ban
th
d
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dw
2 Mbps
2003
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Future bandwidth requirements of a typical home
Applications
Downstream
requirement
Upstream
requirement
HDTV (3 channel streams per home at 15 Mbps
each)
or
45 Mbps
Standard TV (3 channel streams per home at 4.5
Mbps each)
3 x 4.5 = 13.5
1 Mbps
Online gaming
2 Mbps
2 Mbps
VoIP (3 per home)
0.3 Mbps
0.3 Mbps
Data
10 Mbps
10 Mbps
Video communication
4.5 Mbps
4.5 Mbps
TOTAL
61.8 Mbps
17.8 Mbps
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Finding the right approach to building the
broadband infrastructure of the future
Our objective
To support our fixed, mobile, and hybrid network
operator customers with products and solutions that
are the most cost-efficient (OPEX, CAPEX) and that
generate greatest revenues and profit margins
Our approach
ONE service-agnostic
converged network infrastructure
(transport, control, service delivery)
DIVERSE access solutions
(copper, fiber, radio…)
MULTIPLE applications enabling
(Enabling and introduction:
flexible, efficient, event driven)
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Right now, several service dedicated systems
are in place
Mobile
network
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Fixed
network
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Data
network
Cable TV
network
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In the future, infrastructures will transition from
vertical, single-purpose networks...
Mobile
network
Fixed
network
Data
network
Cable TV
network
Applications and
application enablers
Applications and
application enablers
Applications and
application enablers
Applications and
application enablers
Control
Control
Control
Control
Switching and routing
Switching and routing
Switching and routing
Switching and routing
Transport
Transport
Transport
Transport
Access
Access
Access
Access
Clients and devices
Clients and devices
Clients and devices
Clients and devices
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...to horizontal, multi-purpose networks
for every type of access, device and service...
Mobile
network
Applications and
application enablers
Control
Switching and routing
Transport
Fixed
network
Data
network
Cable TV
network
Applications and
Applications and
Applications and
application enablers
Applications
and application
application enablers
application enablers
enablers
Control
Control Control
Switching
and routing and
Switching
and routing
Switching
routing
Transport Transport Transport
Control
Switching and routing
Transport
Access
Access
Access
Access
Clients and devices
Clients and devices
Clients and devices
Clients and devices
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...to horizontal, multi-purpose networks
for every type of access, device and service...
Mobile
network
Applications and
application enablers
Control
Switching and routing
Transport
Fixed
Data
network
network
Service Delivery
Framework
Applications
and
Applications and
Applications
and
application
application enablers
application enablers
enablers
Control
Control Control
Switching
and routing and
Switching
and routing
Switching
routing
Transport Transport Transport
Cable TV
network
Applications and
application enablers
Control
Switching and routing
Transport
Access
Access
Access
Access
Clients and devices
Clients and devices
Clients and devices
Clients and devices
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50th Anniversary of CCITT / ITU-T
Tomorrow's Broadband
Infrastructure Technologies
Thorsten Heins
Member of the Board, Siemens Communications,
Chief Technology Officer
