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ITU/BDT Activities Related to

Teletraffic Engineering

Krastu Mirski

Deputy to the Director

Chief, Field Operations

Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT)

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

ITU&ITC Developing Countries Workshop

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The first international intergovernmentalorganization (1865);

UN specialized agency in telecommunications(1947); 189 Member States

Open for all entities, dealing withtelecommunications; more than 650 SectorMembers;

Main purposes: to promote the use oftelecommunications worldwide and the extensionof the benefits of the new technologies to allworlds inhabitants.

What is the ITU?

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ITU Structure

GeneralSecretariat

RadiocommunicationBureau (BR)

ITU-R

TelecommunicationStandardization

Bureau (TSB)

ITU-T

TelecommunicationDevelopment

Bureau (BDT)

ITU-D

Council

Plenipotentiary Conferences

ITU Organizational Chart

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ITU-D Structure

WTDC(World Telecommunication Development Conference)

Study Groups

Director

BDT(Telecommunication

Development Bureau)

TDAG

(Telecom.

Development

Advisory Group)

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ITU - Regional Presence

GENEVA

CAIRO

EUROPE/CIS Unit

BRASILIAADDIS ABABA

BANGKOK

Jakarta

Dakar

Harare

Yaound

Bridgetown

Santiago

Tegucigalpa

Moscow

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3

rd

WORLD TELECOMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENTCONFERENCE (WTDC-02)

Istanbul, Turkey, 18-27 March 2002

Chairman: Mr Fatih M. Yurdal, President of

Telecommunications Authority, Republic of Turkey

152 Member States; more than 1100 delegates;

More than 200 contributions from the membership;

38 Resolutions and 5 Recommendations adopted.

WTDC-02

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Istanbul Action Plan (ISAP)

Four sections:

Cooperation among the members, including WTDCs, RTDCs,

Study Groups and the TDAG;

Six Istanbul Action Plan programmes; Two cross-cuttingactivities: statistics and information on ICTs, and partnerships

and promotion; Special initiatives: private sector, gender, youth,

indigenous peoples;

Regional initiatives; Resolutions and Recommendations.

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ISAP Programmes

1. Regulatory Reform

2. Technologies and Telecommunication/ICT

Network Development

3. E-Strategies and Applications

4. Economics and Finance including Cost and

Tariff

5. Human Capacity Building

6. Special Programme for the Least Developed

Countries (LDCs)

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Strategy of BDT

Special attention to the requirements of the

least developed and the developing countries

Work with governments to assist them in

establishing appropriate policies and

regulatory structures

Partnership with the private sector, global,

regional, national organizations and

development agencies to meet the

requirements of the countries

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Creating Common Goals

ORGANIZATIONS(ITC)

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ITU-D and ITC cooperation

ITU/ITC Workshops during ITC

Congresses since ITC 13 inCopenhagen

Regional ITU/ITC Seminars, e.g

Bamako, Mali in 1998 and

Damascus, Syria in 1999

Agreement of cooperation

between ITU-D and ITC signed

on 24 January 2001

Co-operation Agreement

Between:

The International Teletraffic Congress (ITC), with its Commission 3(Developing Countries and ITU matters), a Sector Member of BDT, and

The Telecommunication Development Bureau, BDT, of the ITU,

Established in order to:

identify areas where ITC can support the BDT (ITU) in its mission to

promote and offer technical assistance to developing countries i n the field of telecommunications andto promote and reinforce learning and knowledge of the teletraffic engineering (TTE) fields, being also

the objectives of the ITC;

contribute to the human resource development (HRD) for the developingcountries in the fields of teletraffic engineering (TTE), an activity that is often not well developed, many

times almost non-existing.

Recalling:

the efforts that has been done by the TSB of ITU (then CCITT) inpreparing handbooks in this field, and which work now has been taken over by the BDT (ITU), to

continue develop these handbooks and tools.

The ITC is ready to support the work of BDT (ITU) in the above-mentioned fields as much as possiblewithin the financial means of the ITC:

a) continue organizing regional seminars for the developing countries in TTE;

b) continue organizing (since 1991) workshops within the regular ITC Congresses;

c) support more extended training for individual countries in TTE, when such projects can

be developed with outside financing, e.g. from bilateral and international financing institutions;

d) participate in the work of BDT Study Groups 1 and 2, relevant to the ITC objectives;

e) attend regional and world telecommunication events organized by ITU, actively

contributing in discussions and presenting papers whenever appropriate.

ITC will provide such input to the work for the developing countries without cost of manpower. Usuallycost for travel and DSA shall be covered by ITC for shorter missions, subject to approval by the ITC

Cabinet.

The support from BDT (ITU) that would be important as a collaborative support and partnership in theabove-mentioned activities:

a) participate in the ITC-Committee 3 work in preparing regional seminars/workshops thatare worked out together with the host country of the region suggested, and thereby sponsoring jointlyagreed events (e.g. with indicating in the invitations sent out by host country teleorganization, that BDT

(ITU) is backing the event);

b) although BDT is not expected to contribute directly financially to such

seminars/workshops, the participation at such events by BDT, e.g. at opening ceremonies,presentation of papers, etc., would mean an expense for the BDT;

c) continue with its expertise in the field as lecturer, or otherwise at ITC Congresses held

every two-years, as ITU has used to do since the first ITC Congress was held in 1955.

This Co-operation Agreement is an initial effort to create a closercooperation and collaboration between our two organizations that will be of value for the developingcountries. The future collaboration may develop to include other activities and the two parties will be

free to request and propose ideas of supportive actions for the developing countries that may beagreed upon case by case.

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TTE projects of ITU

PANAFTEL network - master plan of aninternational network in Africa

MEDARABTEL project - traffic

engineering studies, seminars andmeetings

TETRAPRO project - comprehensive

manual on teletraffic engineering

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ITU has been supporting countries for Network Planning

activity by maintaining a Planning Tool mainly used forPSTN: PLANITU

Telecommunication networks architectures arechanging to meet new requirements for a number ofservices/applications (Broadband, IP, Multimedia, mobile,

etc.). Different solutions/network architectures can be taken into

account for a smooth transition from existing networkinfrastructures (PSTN/PLMN) towards Next GenerationNetworks (NGN) as a result of the convergence process

leading to different applications/services sharing networkinfrastructures.

BDT Activities Related to Network Planning

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Considering the different solutions/network architectures that

exist, each Network Planning case has to be analyzed anddealt with by using more than just one planning tool.

It means that maintaining and updating a unique tool is notthe correct strategy to be applied for Network Planning.

The major concerned Telecommunication Companiesnormally use different tools (or different packages integratedon a unique platform) for network Planning. They usuallyrely on the services of software companies who are in aposition to provide quick updates as soon as required.

BDT Activities Related to Network Planning

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New strategy has been endorsed by the last World

Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC02):

- PLANITU, capable of dealing with some new traffic cases,

can be considered a tool to introduce the specialists to the

Network Planning and wont be further updated

- real Network Planning case should be dealt with using

other powerful and modern tools available on the market

Contact with potential Partners have been established

BDT Activities Related to Network Planning

The New Approach of the BDT

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WTDC-02 : ISAP programme 2

1.3 Network planningNew-generation technology is to be introduced in the networks, speeding up the

convergence process, obliging planners to apply different specialized up-to-date

planning tools. Hence the strong need for assistance to the network planner within

this programme. Particular attention will be focused on network planning methods

suitable for developing countries' needs. The current PLANITU tool would continueto be available for use if required, but ITU will enter in partnership agreements with

outside partners, positioned to provide the Union with appropriate planning tools for

any specific network planning request.

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Implementation of Network Planning

Activities

Direct assistance have been provided to the Countries upon

request

ITU-BDT Regional Seminars on Network PlanningStrategy for Evolving Network Architectures

http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/tech/network-infrastructure/index.html

- Warsaw (Poland), 6-10 October 2003

- Bangkok (Thailand), 11 - 15 November 2002

- Nairobi (Kenya), 7-11 October 2002

Manual on Network Planning for Evolving NetworkArchitectures

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Manual on Network Planning

Telecom Network Planning

for Evolving Network Architectures

Reference Manual

Version 01

SOURCE: TELECOMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT BUREAU (BDT)

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EXPECTED OUTPUT RESPONS TIME FRAME IN 2003 Com

men

tsChapte

rsTitle of ch. J J A S O N D

A1 NP tools X X X X X

A2 Case Studies X X X X X

A 3 References X X X X X

Editing (compilation) X X X

Informal meeting

Revision X

Final version X

Work Plan

Version 01 end 2003

Open for contributions

(http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/tech/network-infrastructure/index.html)

ITU Vision on Network Planning

Structure and Content of the Manual

Work Plan

ITU&ITC D l i C i W k h

http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/tech/network-infrastructure/Manual%20Network%20Planning/ITU%20Vision%20NetwPlann_1.pdfhttp://www.itu.int/ITU-D/tech/network-infrastructure/Manual%20Network%20Planning/StructContent.pdfhttp://www.itu.int/ITU-D/tech/network-infrastructure/Manual%20Network%20Planning/Work_plan_NPM.pdfhttp://www.itu.int/ITU-D/tech/network-infrastructure/Manual%20Network%20Planning/Work_plan_NPM.pdfhttp://www.itu.int/ITU-D/tech/network-infrastructure/Manual%20Network%20Planning/StructContent.pdfhttp://www.itu.int/ITU-D/tech/network-infrastructure/Manual%20Network%20Planning/ITU%20Vision%20NetwPlann_1.pdf

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ITU&ITC Developing Countries Workshop

Lets join our efforts for a successfulTelecommunication and ICT Development

Krastu MIRSKIDeputy to the DirectorChief, Field Operations Department

ITU/BDTTel.: +41 22 730 54 25E-mail: mirski@itu.int

THANK YOU!