October 14, 2005

Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut

Berlin, Germany

Associated with VDE-ITG Conference

Breitbandversorgung in Deutschland – wie schaffen wir den Anschluss ?

(Broadband provision in Germany – how to catch up ?)

October 12 – 13, 2005 at same location, see http://www.vde.com/VDE/Fachgesellschaften/ITG/Veranstaltungen

In the framework of the European R&D-project Multi Service Access Everywhere – MUSE, the workshop aims at informative education of students and professionals short on experience in this field

http://www.ist-muse.org/

Programme (download here)

09.00 – 10.00  Registration

10.00 – 10.40  Welcome & overview on optical access networks

            Klaus-Dieter Langer, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications,

            Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Berlin, Germany

10.40 – 11.20  MUSE – Techno-economics

            Thomas Monath, T-Systems, Berlin, Germany

11.20 – 11.50  Coffee break

11.50 – 12.30  Single-fibre bidirectional transmission

            Matthias Seimetz, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications,

            Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Berlin, Germany

12.30 – 13.10  PONs using reflective optical network units

            Cristina Arellano, Universitat Politιcnica Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

13.10 – 14.40  Lunch

14.40 – 15.20  WDM in optical access networks

            Joachim Vathke, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications,

            Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Berlin, Germany

15.20 – 16.00  Optical extension of xDSL

            Jason Lepley, University of Essex, UK

Each contribution includes 10 minutes for discussion.

Some current implementations are exhibited and presented during the breaks. 

To register please download the form here

Location

Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut

Einsteinufer 37

10587 Berlin

Germany

Registration

Please complete the attached form and send back until  September 09, 2005  by Fax, mail, or e-mail. Since the number of participants is limited to 120, early registration is recommended. 

Attendance fees

Students (legitimated by Student ID card), and members of MUSE (*)  15 €

Standard participants    195 €

Refreshments and handouts (PDF files) are included.

* Contribution to refreshments 

Payment

Please use either bank transfer to

Recipient:                     FhG Heinrich-Hertz-Institut

Account:                       049 00 11

Bank code (BLZ):        100 700 00 (Deutsche Bank Berlin)

IBAN:                          DE 08 1007 0000 0049 0011 00

BIC:                             DEUTDEBB

Reference:                    122-9000 95 + Company + Name

or pay cash at the reception desk.

Travel Information

http://www.hhi.fraunhofer.de/german/gf_extra/contacts.html

Accommodation

http://www.berlin.de/home/.html/index.html