4GIsrael Highlights

Yesterday I attended IMA's 7th 4G Israel Event (here). This year the event focus was on the extra value LTE is expected to bring to MNOs.

I collected the following highlights:

• Rani Wellingstein, Cisco (Co-Founder, CEO Intucell - see "[Cisco Acquired] Intucell CEO Speaks about SON Opportunity" at 4GIsrael 2013 - here): "Cisco SON activity is based in Israel, with 150 people".
   
• Shira Levine, Directing Analyst, Infonetics Research provided information on innovative LTE (and 3G) business models around the world - many based on policy management solutions. 

• Lauri Oksanent, VP Research and Technology, NSN LTE-Advanced vision:

• Paulo Lamberti, Head of Regional Offering LTE & Heterogeneous Networks, Ericsson on small cells

• Glenn Booth, VP & GM LTE Business Unit, Alcatel-Lucent on the fast success of LTE

• Leonid Burakovsky, Sr. Director, Strategic Solutions, F5 Networks explained why "LTE is less secured than 3G":

• Dean Bubley, Disruptive Analysis, described the voice opportunity in LTE - "Voice is not Telephony":
   
• VoLTE: "Right idea, five years late", 
• WebRTC: "The most exciting thing in web communication in 10 years"

• Dr. Ron Marquardt, Vice President Technology, Sprint introduced Sprint's LTE netwrok - Spark