Round out your experience at APOC 2008 by taking part in the variety of special events offered. You will have the opportunity to attend all plenary sessions, traditional Chinese programs, a banquet, industry forum, AOE/APOC Joint Symposium, and other cutting-edge technical programs. There are many opportunities for networking and leisure in Hangzhou.
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APOC Industry Forum
Tuesday, October 28
Co-sponsored by: Nokia Siemens Networks (China) and
FiberHome Group (China)
Telecom carriers, systems and component vendors, and representatives of government ministries from China and around the world will participate in this important forum. All talks and discussions will be given in English.
APOC 2008 Industry Forum Presentations:
- Xiongyan Tang, CNC Labs.
- Stan Lumish, Lumish Technology Consulting, LLC
- Xulei Sang, Alcatel Lucent
- Michael Minneman, dBM Optics, Inc.
- Herve Fevrier's, Xtera Communications
- Ted Chang, StrataLight Communications
- Bardia Pezeshki, Santur Corp.
- Patrick Leisching, Nokia Siemens Networks
- Matt Walker, OVUM RHK
Chair: Jinyi Pan, Nokia Siemens Networks (China)
Cochairs: Qian Mao, Fiberhome Group (China) and Herwig Zech, Nokia Siemens Networks (Germany)
Impression West Lake Show and the Leifeng Pagoda
Tuesday, October 28
8 to 9:15 pm
Don't miss this exciting show. The evening features a large-scale night performance held on the lakefront, near Quyuan Garden and Yanggong Causewaylet. Directed by the arguably best-ever Chinese moviemaker, Yimou Zhang. There are hundreds of dancers performing in a sequence of episodes.
Both the Impression West Lake Show and the Leifeng Pagoda (Thunder Pagoda) are related to an ancient local Chinese story of White Snake.
Fee is $30 per person, payable as part of your registration. Shuttles depart from the Convention Center and conference hotels at 7:30pm. More details will be provided onsite.
APOC Banquet
Wednesday, October 29
6:30 to 9 pm
The official APOC banquet will be held on Wednesday at 6:30pm at the Huazhongcheng Ou Xiang Ju Restaurant (inside the scenic spot of the Leifeng Pagoda). Please plan to join your colleagues for this wonderful event, which will include traditional Chinese entertainment for your enjoyment. Fee is $50 per person, payable as part of your registration. Shuttle buses will be arranged for transportation from the Convention Center.
AOE/APOC Joint Symposium on Broadband Access
Friday, 31 October, 2008
Transportation will be provided for APOC attendees to travel to Shanghai for this joint symposium
Co-chairs:
Dr. Jianli Wang, Vice President, Fiberhome, China
Mr. Shoichi Hanatani, President, Asia-Pacific FTTH Council; Hitachi Ltd., Japan
FTTH has been well accepted as a future-proof access solution. In the past few years, great progress has been made in FTTH technologies and deployment. This symposium aims to share those progresses and the lessons we have learned. We will investigate the issues and problems we have in FTTH services and applications, technologies, product development, deployments, network operation and maintenance, regulations, etc. The symposium will invite FTTH experts from service providers, government, equipment vendors, fiber and cable providers, and universities.
Click here to view complete AOE Program
The preliminary list of invited speakers includes:
Greg Caltabiano, Teknovus, USA
Lynn Hutcheson, Ovum RHK, USA
Byoung Whi Kim, ETRI, Korea
Guangcheng Li, Fiberhome, China
David Piehler, Alphion, USA
Naoto Yoshimoto, NTT Access Network Service Labs, Japan
Chengliang Zhang, China Telecom Res. Inst., China
Topics include:
• FTTH market status, analysis and forecast
• FTTH strategies
• FTTH services and application scenarios
• FTTH deployment experiences and lessons
• FTTH fault diagnosis and maintenance
• Progress in PON standards
• FTTH networking technologies (10GEPON, GPON, WDM-PON, integrated OLT and Layer 3 switch, integrated home gateway and ONU, OCWDM-PON, etc)
• Low-cost FTTH devices and components, indoor fiber and cable
