Within the cooperation of Networks and Business with its partners the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ukraine hosted on June 2, 2010, the International Conference “Triple Play, IP-TV and network access – new roads to the subscriber”. Supported by Ukrtelecom, the Ministry of Transport and Communications, National Commission for Communication Regulation, the conference is now in its fifth year. Alcatel-Lucent was its gold sponsor this year, Miratech was presented by Alexey Perekatov, Vice President, Corporate Marketing.

The conference examined issues related to the implementation of broadband and wireless access, technical aspects of the provision of Triple Play and IP-TV services, as well as the experience of their use. Assessing the current trends in the market of Triple Play and IP-TV solutions, speakers noted the positive growth of the segment (keynotes from Molex, ZyXEL, DEPS and ITS).

The peculiarities of demand dynamics in this area driven by the rapidly changing set of technologies used in the Internet were the focus of the keynote held by Vyacheslav Pushin (Alcatel-Lucent). In Mr. Pushin’s opinion, many innovations remain undeveloped or unclaimed for several reasons, the main of which is the advent of such technologies that allow one to address broadband related issues in a radically different manner.

The conference attendees were presented with a new issue of Networks and Business (№ 2 (51), 2010), which informs about recent agreement between Swedbank and Miratech aimed to improve the bank’s IT operations, and the VI-th International Conference “Call Centers & CRM Kyiv 2010”, directly supported by Miratech.

Turning to the results of the conference, which targeted all players of national telecommunications industry, it should be noted that balance of power between system integrators and vendors has shifted in favor of the latter. According to observers, this is due to the instability of the market, which, to date, has not yet been overcome completely.