Each of these individuals brings professional competence to the committee and is committed to raising the awareness of the Forum throughout the industry in the coming 12 months.

In recent weeks, I have been in touch with many of the Primary Representatives from the member companies within the BSF. It is clear to me that increasing the BSF's visibility is our greatest challenge in 2007. On that front, a number of initiatives are planned (or already started), including:

The Marketing Committee holds monthly calls to discuss strategic issues, but most of our activities are handled "off line". New members are always welcome, so please contact me if you are interested.

Of course, not wanting to get actively involved in the committee does not preclude you from having opinions and great ideas. I welcome your thoughts on the BSF and your feelings on our profile. I am currently based in Antwerp, Belgium and can be reached at greg.owens@alcatel-lucent.be

I'm looking forward to the BSF's best year yet. All the best,

Greg Owens
Chair, BSF Marketing Committee
Market Development Manager, Alcatel-Lucent

BSF Congregates in Canada's Capital City
The BSF Q2 meeting will be held in Ottawa on June 6-7. The meeting, which is being hosted by Nortel, will be held at Nortel's Executive Briefing Center (EBC) and is open to BSF members and non-members alike. The focus of this meeting is "Advanced Applications" and the two-day event will include presentations and interactive discussions on:

In addition, there will be a presentation from the TeleManagement Forum (TMF) on Telecoms Media Convergence.

For a detailed agenda please visit BSF Q2 Information. To register for the meeting, please complete the BSF Q2 Registration Form For more information about this meeting or other upcoming meetings please visit www.broadbandservicesforum.org or call Nicola Wissler at +1-510-492-4025.

In addition, Greg Owens of Alcatel-Lucent was elected Chair of the BSF Marketing Committee. The BSF would like to thank Jerry Passione of Juniper Networks, an outgoing member of the Board, for his valuable contributions and ongoing commitment to the organization. During the past three years, Jerry's support and leadership have contributed significantly to the success of the BSF.

TMF and BSF Form Strategic Alliance
On March 12, the BSF announced a formal partnership with the TeleManagement Forum (TM Forum), which will see us sharing relevant documents between the two organizations in the areas of telecom-web convergence issues. The TM Forum is a consortium of 570 members in 63 countries that provides leadership, strategic guidance and practical solutions to improve the management and operation of information and communications services.

In March, Helmut Leopold represented the BSF at the TM Forum's Telecom-Internet Media Convergence event in London, and participated in a session entitled "Synergistic Media Content Management." Mr. Leopold also participated in a private televised session addressing media convergence, organized by the TeleManagement Forum. For more information on the TM Forum, visit www.tmforum.org.

In May, Thomson, a world-leading manufacturer of customer premises equipment for telco, cable and satellite providers, joined the BSF. Thomson has specific interest in the realms of home networking and digital video technologies. For more information go to: Thomson

Mariner Partners, a professional IT services company, drawing on a broad range of expertise and collective experience in the information technology and telecommunications industry also joined the BSF in May. They have a particular interests in improving performance through analysis of business opportunities and development of "leap forward" strategies, plans and executions. For more information go to: Mariner Partners

Amdocs also joined the BSF in May. The Amdocs Digital Commerce Division enables the buying and selling of digital goods and services over any network. Thier interest is in assiting customers in managing the entire digital commerce value chain. For more information go to: Amdocs

Thomson, Mariner Partners, and Amdocs will make great additions to the BSF community and we are excited to find out more about them at the Q2 meeting in Ottawa.

NAB 2007
On April 15, Helmut Leopold (BSF Chairman and Director of Platform and Technology Management at Telekom Austria), participated as a Keynote Speaker at a Master Class entitled "Advanced Video Services in Next Generation Video Ecosystems" as part of NAB 2007 (which was held in Las Vegas). The MPEG Industry Forum-sponsored session included:

OVUM Research Project
A white paper entitled "Unmet Consumer Desires and the Service Provider Opportunity" summarizing key highlights of a joint research project completed with Ovum-RHK will be available later this month. The survey was conducted with North American service providers and consumers in November 2006, with a focus on home networking.

Moderator: Matthew Marnik, Juniper Networks
Panelists:

Telcos deploying IPTV services to consumers do so to grow and protect bundled revenue share and have greater control over the consumer's information and entertainment environment so new and innovative services can be rolled out over time. The greatest attention has been given to designing and deploying IPTV networks from the head end to the subscriber edge. Yet, the home network environment is where content will ultimately be distributed and will determine the user's quality of experience and evaluation of the IPTV service. Telcos are beginning to look at the implications of the home network and the CE devices that exist on it for their plans to serve the digital home of the future.
This session will examine IPTV provider rationales for playing in the home network, the dynamic ecosystem in the home network, and user expectations for the role of the home network in information and entertainment delivery.

Theme: Broadband Technology and Value Added Services: Issues and Challenges
Thursday, June 28, 2007
London, UK

Panelists:
Helmut Leopold, Telekom Austria
Ajay Pande, Alcatel-Lucent
Stephan Petheram, Microsoft

Broadband World Forum Asia
June 5-8, 2007
Beijing, China
Broadband World Forum Asia is the leading pan-Asian telecommunications event, bringing together global leaders to discuss the latest in broadband content, entertainment, applications, access strategies, and service management. This exciting conference and exhibition, host sponsored by China Netcom, includes four days of keynote addresses, plenary panels, workshops, and session programming plus a two-day technology exhibition featuring the latest broadband technologies and solutions on display. For additional information about Broadband World Forum Asia including a full schedule of events, visit the event web site at Broadband World Forum Asia

Mobile TV World Forum
June 11- 12, 2007
Olympia, London
The Mobile TV World Forum will seek the answers to questions concerning issues of, content genre, format and presentation for the very small screen, and the likely growth of made-for-mobile content for live and non-live programming. Other discussion themes will include: the role of interactivity as a revenue driver for mobile phone operators; interactive business models, including whether content owners can expect revenues from click-throughs; whether mobile TV is a potential saviour for the traditional advertising industry (given that mobile phones are highly personal and, for many people, always with them); and how advertising revenues will be shared. For more information visit: Mobile TV Forum

Broadband Connect Summit
June 28, 2007
London, UK
Technosummits is a key technology events resource providing an interactive roundtable format discussion platform. Bringing together thought leaders from the technology sector and key decision makers from Enterprises to address, discuss, and explore critical technology and business issues with a view of finding solutions to move the industry forward.
The Broadband Connect Summit will concentrate on broadband services, of which broadband entertainment will be a major focus. This summit brings all these diverse and yet interwied themes together; it is where key decision makers and industry's leaders of today-and tomorrow- come together to explore where wired, wireless, chips, systems, software, carrier networks, standards and regulation are going.
For more information please go to: Broadband Connect Summit

TV Evolution Summit
June 25-27, 2007
Madrid, Spain
Now in its second year, the TV Evolution Summit has established itself as the flagship event for industry leaders from broadcast, telecom, cable and satellite operators, content providers, network infrastructure, middleware, platform and component providers. Building on the success of the first Summit, Informa Telecoms & Media is proud to announce the comprehensively updated event for 2007. For more information visit: TV Evolution Summit

Digital Home
July 2-4, 2007
Berlin, Germany
Telecommunication, internet, media, entertainment and home automation industries are growing together and enabling innovative applications and services for the Digital Home. Besides technical challenges regarding the home gateway and transmission protocols, it is essential to decide who to partner with to deliver on-demand entertainment around home networks and to enable the consumers to access content anywhere any time. Hear 18 cutting-edge case studies from industry pioneers and gain valuable insight into the latest Digital Home innovations to succeed in this growth market. For more information visit: Digital Home

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