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Developing the Technology and Market for Bandwidth on Demand

The past several years have seen advances in transport and data technologies on the technology side and the development of sophisticated market mechanisms on the business side. In addition, customer needs have become much more sophisticated, changing more frequently with the adoption of new applications, VoIP, and the proliferation of video downloads. Given all these changes and advances, we have assembled a panel of experts from the carrier community, equipment vendors and academia to discuss bandwidth on demand. Specifically, with all these advances, we still don’t see a large BoD market emerging, though seemingly we have the demand and the technology. The panel will address key questions such as: • Why is the BoD market still in its infancy? • Do we really have the demand and the technology? • Does the control plane enable the BoD market? What are the other key enablers for BoD? • Are we facing problems such as regulation? • What are the concerns of the carriers? • What are the problems that we still face? • Do we foresee an ultimately successful bandwidth on demand market? The format of the panel will be as follows: • Each panelist will present their thoughts to frame the panel (8 minutes each) • The moderator will lead a Q&A session (15 minutes) • Finally, there will be a Q&A with all attendees (15 minutes)