IPTV Deployment Masterclass – Practical Lessons from the Field

Tuesday, 24th March 2009

9.00 Registration & Coffee


9.30 Morning Session: Session I The overall project

  • Project planning
  • Business modelling
  • Overall architecture
  • Preparing the customer facing personnel (Sales & support)
  • Quality management & monitoring

Session II Content implementation issues

  • Content protection CAS/DRM
  • Content management
  • Matching VoD Catalog and architecture
  • Implementing over-the-top services

12.30 Lunch

Afternoon session: Session III Technical infrastructure

  • IS integration and billing
  • Unbundling & Network issues
  • Head-end, Video compression & Live TV

Session IV The boxes & the middleware

  • Hybrid STBs: a pleonasm by 2010?
  • IPTV STB middleware, future-gazing.
  • STB procurement & management
  • Other CPE & home networking

    5.30 Close


    Your Workshop Leader
    Benjamin Schwarz has 20 years of international experience in consulting and in Telco & Media organisations as well as in start-ups. Benjamin spent 8 years with Orange, whom he joined in 2001. He managed technology development for Orange Labs and ran international music download then TVoDSL deployments internationally. Under his stewardship, IPTV services were launched in Spain, Poland, Mauritius and Senegal. Ben also spent time working on the UK IPTV market. His last focus at Orange was on Quality Management within Quadruple play environments. Previously he spent 10 years with Logica-CMG and in 2000 Benjamin was CTO of Net4Music, a digital sheet music Internet start-up. Benjamin has a BA from King’s College London in Computer science and completed an executive MBA within INSEAD. In September 2008 Benjamin joined Farncombe Technology and works out of their Paris office.

    About Farncombe Technology
    Farncombe Technology is part of the Farncombe Consulting Group, the parent company of a number of specialised professional service firms operating in the broad digital video technology, telecoms and digital media sectors. Initially specialising in pay-TV and digital TV, Farncombe Technology has since grown into a globallyrecognized television technology consultancy, having serviced a 100-strong international client roster that includes broadcasters, operators, telcos, equipment suppliers and a variety of government and regulatory bodies. The Farncombe Consultancy Group now encompasses Farncombe Technology, Farncombe Strategy, Farncombe France (a Paris-based unit), and WeAreAka. Recent engagements include supervising the operational aspects of Tiscali’s IPTV rollout in the UK. The Farncombe Consulting Group’s current focus is on the increased opportunities made available by a converging market which extends from cable, satellite and terrestrial delivery to telco-managed IPTV, video-over-Internet and mobile TV offerings