ITU/BDT Activities Related to Teletraffic Engineering

1. ITU&ITC Developing Countries Workshop ITU/BDT Activities Related to Teletraffic Engineering Krastu Mirski Deputy to the Director Chief, Field Operations Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

2. What is the ITU? • The first international intergovernmental organization (1865); • UN specialized agency in telecommunications (1947); 189 Member States • Open for all entities, dealing with telecommunications; more than 650 Sector Members; • Main purposes: to promote the use of telecommunications worldwide and the extension of the benefits of the new technologies to all world’s inhabitants.

3. ITU Structure ITU Organizational Chart

4. ITU-D Structure WTDC (World Telecommunication Development Conference) Study Groups Director BDT (Telecommunication Development Bureau) TDAG (Telecom. Development Advisory Group)

5. CAIRO BANGKOK Moscow Jakarta EUROPE/CIS Unit GENEVA BRASILIA ADDIS ABABA Dakar Bridgetown Santiago Harare Yaoundé Tegucigalpa ITU - Regional Presence

6. WTDC-02 • 3rd WORLD TELECOMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE (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.

7. 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‑cutting activities: statistics and information on ICTs, and partnerships and promotion; Special initiatives: private sector, gender, youth, indigenous peoples; • Regional initiatives; • Resolutions and Recommendations.

8. ISAP Programmes • Regulatory Reform • Technologies and Telecommunication/ICT Network Development • E-Strategies and Applications • Economics and Finance including Cost and Tariff • Human Capacity Building • Special Programme for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs)

9. 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

10. ITU UN AGENCIES ORGANIZATIONS COUNTRIES PRIVATE SECTOR Creating Common Goals (ITC)

11. ITU-D and ITCcooperation 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 in the field of telecommunications and to 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 developing countries 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) in preparing 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 possible within 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. Usually cost 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 the above-mentioned activities: a)participate in the ITC-Committee 3 work in preparing regional seminars/workshops that are worked out together with the host country of the region suggested, and thereby sponsoring jointly agreed 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 closer cooperation and collaboration between our two organizations that will be of value for the developing countries. 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 be agreed upon case by case. • ITU/ITC Workshopsduring ITC Congresses since ITC 13 in Copenhagen • 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

12. TTE projects of ITU • PANAFTEL network - master plan of an international network in Africa • MEDARABTELproject - traffic engineering studies, seminars and meetings • TETRAPRO project - comprehensive manual on teletraffic engineering

13. BDT Activities Related to Network Planning • ITU has been supporting countries for Network Planning activity by maintaining a Planning Tool mainly used for PSTN: PLANITU • Telecommunication networks architectures are changing to meet new requirements for a number of services/applications (Broadband, IP, Multimedia, mobile, etc.). • Different solutions/network architectures can be taken into account for a smooth transition from existing network infrastructures (PSTN/PLMN) towards Next Generation Networks (NGN) as a result of the convergence process leading to different applications/services sharing network infrastructures.

14. BDT Activities Related to Network Planning • Considering the different solutions/network architectures that exist, each Network Planning case has to be analyzed and dealt with by using more than just one planning tool. • It means that maintaining and updating a unique tool is not the correct strategy to be applied for Network Planning. • The major concerned Telecommunication Companies normally use different tools (or different packages integrated on a unique platform) for network Planning. They usually rely on the services of software companies who are in a position to provide quick updates as soon as required.

15. BDT Activities Related to Network Planning The New Approach of the BDT • 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 won’t 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

16. WTDC-02 : ISAP programme 2 1.3 Network planning “New-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 continue to 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.”

17. Implementation of Network Planning Activities • Direct assistance have been provided to the Countries upon request • ITU-BDT Regional Seminars on Network Planning Strategy 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 Network Architectures

18. EXPECTED OUTPUT RESPONS TIME FRAME IN 2003 Comments Chapters Title 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 Manual on Network Planning • (http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/tech/network-infrastructure/index.html) • ITU Vision on Network Planning • Structure and Content of the Manual • Work Plan Telecom Network Planning for Evolving Network Architectures Reference Manual Version 01 SOURCE: TELECOMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT BUREAU (BDT) __________ Open for contributions Version 01 end 2003 Work Plan 1ITU Co-ordinator (editor) for the manual, e-mail: riccardo.passerini@itu.int Editor for the manual: ignat.stanev@ties.itu.int

19. ITU&ITC Developing Countries Workshop Let’s join our efforts for a successful Telecommunication and ICT Development THANK YOU! Krastu MIRSKIDeputy to the DirectorChief, Field Operations DepartmentITU/BDTTel.: +41 22 730 54 25E-mail: mirski@itu.int