Ibis Instruments Seminar
11/02/2020 - 12/05/2020
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Welcome to the 21st Ibis Instruments Seminar!

During two days 5th and 6th November you will have the opportunity to learn, network and talk with our distinguished speakers on various topics: 5G, Giga@Home, QoS & QoE, Critical Utility Infrastructure, RF spectrum management & control, General purpose and advanced lab solutions, Avionics & RTS.

See what sessions await you in the 21st Ibis Seminar at the link Agenda.

Sessions Descriptions
05
5G Session
5G Session

Include things that are now only in our imagination like self-driven cars, remote medical procedures, and others. To derivate all these in the future ground must be a high-quality network, so 5G will be the concept of the future of our everyday activities.

On today session you will have the opportunity to see a presentation from:

10:00 - 10:05 WELCOME NOTE  / Marko Tasic, Ibis Instruments

10:05 - 10:35 5G FUTURE SOCIETY / Manuel Mato, Vice President Sales EMEA – Viavi Solutions

10:35 - 11:25 COMMON PROBLEMS SEEN IN 5GNR EARLY DEPLOYMENTS / Genis Sanchez, Viavi Solutions

11:25 - 12:00 EMF CHALLENGES IN 5G / Christophe Capitaine, Wavecontrol

12:00 - 12:35 5G READINESS: ENSURING A SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH / Daniel Ramirez, Teoco

12:35 - 13:10 FIELD VERIFICATION AND OPTIMISATION IN 5GNR / Jari Ryynänen, Keysight Technologies

13:10 - 13:45 PHASE SYNC IN 5G AND THE VIRTUAL PRTC CONCEPT / Philippe Sadot, Microchip

13:45 - 14:00  Questions and closing note 

Room 5G
Start
10:00 AM
End
11:45 PM
Speakers
Marko Tasić
Manuel Mato
Genis Sanchez
Christophe Capitaine
Daniel Ramirez
Jari Ryynänen
Philippe Sadot
06
Session for Critical Utility Infrastructure
Session for Critical Utility Infrastructure

Successful utility companies face many unique challenges in the field. Maintenance to an ageing asset base, demanding customers and regulators, minimal budgets, smart grid technology initiatives, and emergency response confront every utility, day and night. Monitoring systems and test equipment are essential solutions for these users.

On today session you will have the opportunity to see a presentation from:

10h - 10:25h Welcome note and IBIS & UTILITIES PARTNERSHIP AND COOPERATION - TREND AND PORTFOLIO - Uros Uskokovic, Ibis Instruments

10:25h - 11:10h  VIAVI ONMSI/DTSS FIBER MONITORING - Dimitrios Loukas, VIAVI Solutions 

11:10h- 11:45h  DISTRIBUTED ACOUSTIC SENSING - REVOLUTIONARY PHOTONIC SENSING TECHNOLOGY - Dan Dansikin, Fotech 

11:45h - 12:10h ESSENTIAL SYNCHRONISATION IN UTILITIES - USE CASES - Darko Lekić, Ibis Instruments

12:10h-12:30h Questions and closing sessions

Room Critical Utility Infrastructure
Start
10:00 AM
End
11:45 PM
Speakers
Uroš Uskoković
Dimitrios Loukas
Dan Dansikin
Darko Lekić
Session for Giga@Home
Session for Giga@Home

As the world has changed significantly in recent months, there has been a change in the use of the Internet and now, more than ever before, fast and reliable Broadband access is really necessary. Operators face new challenges to safely support existing and connect new customers while minimizing health risks during each field intervention. In the delivery of Broadband service to residential customers, there is a general trend of the constant exponential increase in the required speeds. There is currently a user need for speeds above 1Gbps. New technologies are being developed and access networks are being transformed to meet these requirements. Fibre continues to penetrate deeper and deeper into the access network, but the financial benefits of using the existing infrastructure, as well as the development of new technologies, actualize access through the coaxial network.

On today session you will have the opportunity to see a presentation from:

10h - 10:05h WELCOME NOTE - Marko Tasić, Ibis Instruments 

10:05h - 10:50h TRENDS IN ACCESS OPTICAL NETWORKS - Branislav Barta, Viavi Solutions 

10:50h - 11:40h ENABLING ZERO- TOUCH REMOTE MAINTENANCE PROCESSES IN CATV NETWORK - Yvan Frosio, Viavi Solutions

11:40h - 12:00h Questions and closing note

Room Giga@Home
Start
10:00 AM
End
11:45 PM
Speakers
Marko Tasić
Branislav Barta
Yvan Frosio
Session for RF spectrum management & control
Session for RF spectrum management & control

With the persistent expansion of wireless services worldwide, all services relying on radio waves are competing for a share of the radio-frequency spectrum to support new applications, growing user numbers and exploding traffic. Spectrum Management is the art and science of managing the use of the radio spectrum in order to minimize interference and ensure the radio spectrum is used to its most efficient extent and benefit for the public.

On today session you will have the opportunity to see a presentation from:

10:00 - 10:05 Welcome note - Sanja Lasica, Ibis Instruments

10:05 - 10:35 SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT FUTURE (INTEGRATION WITH SPECTRUM MONITORING, ELICENSING PORTALS, NEW FEATURES) - Fiodor Stankevitch, ATDI

10:35 - 11:25 RADIO MONITORING AND SECURITY - Kevin Davis, TCI

11:25 - 12:00 REAL-TIME DETECTION, ANALYSIS AND LOCALIZATION OF RF SIGNALS - Sanja Lasica, Ibis Instruments

12:00 - 12:20 SPECTRUM AUCTION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION - Christian Koboldt, DotEcon

12:20 - 12:30 Questions and closing sessions - Sanja Lasica, Ibis Instruments

Room RF spectrum management & control
Start
10:00 AM
End
11:45 PM
Speakers
Fiodor Stankevitch
Kevin Davis
Sanja Lasica
Christian Koboldt
Session for General purpose and advanced lab solutions, Avionics & RTS
Session for General purpose and advanced lab solutions, Avionics & RTS

To keep up with changing technology trends it is important to be equipped with state of the art instrumentation that follows the latest innovations. From advanced metrology labs to avionics field tests, a high level of measurement integrity gives you an edge.

On today session you will have the opportunity to see a presentation from:

12:00 - 12:05 Welcome note

12:05 - 12:35 METROLOGY IN THE FIELD OF TIME AND FREQUENCY IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA - ENSURING TRACEABILITY AND FUTURE ACTIVITIES / Snežana Renovica, Directorate of measures and precious metals

12:35 - 13:20 AVIONICS TEST & RADIO TEST SETS PRODUCTS AND APPLICATIONS  / Hamish Stewart, Viavi Solutions

13:20 - 13:40 KEYSIGHT LAB AND INDUSTRY SPECIFIC SOLUTIONS / Massimo Cereda, Keysight Technologies

13:40 - 14:30  UNDERSTANDING 5G NEW RADIO RELEASE 15/16 STANDARDS  / Francesco Spadafora, Keysight Technologies

14:30 - 14:45 Questions and closing sessions

Room General Purpose and Advanced Lab Solutions, Avionics & RTS
Start
12:00 PM
End
11:45 PM
Speakers
Sandra Ilic
Snežana Renovica
Hamish Stewart
Massimo Cereda
Francesco Spadafora
Session for QoS & QoE
Session for QoS & QoE

In modern organizations, IT teams have to maintain a delicate balance between security, connectivity, and productivity needs. Defining stringent policies with multiple groups to meet different internet connectivity needs of teams in the office is rarely a one-time process.

QoS (Quality of Service) refers to all such mechanisms or tools ensuring critical applications requiring real-time data (usually audio or video) get sufficient dedicated bandwidth, with priority over other applications. The primary goal of QoS is to manage packet loss and reduce latency and jitters in the network connection.

Agenda for today session:

12:00 - 12:30 Welcome note and IMPORTANCE OF QUALITY OF SERVICE AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE, Valentina Stevanovic, Ibis Instruments

12:30 - 13:00 PROVE I.T. WITH KEYSIGHT: ENSURING PEAK NETWORK PERFORMANCE AND SERVICE QOEAlexandru Enache, IXIA Keysight 

13:00 - 13:25 BEREC’s NN reference measurement system – How transparent is your broadband connection? Johannes Lusak,  Alladin 

13:25 - 14:00 MOBILE NETWORKS BENCHMARKING SOLUTION AS WAY TO SECURE QOE AND QOS IN 5GJari Schroderus, Keysight Technologies

14:00 - 14:35 ENSURING VIDEO QUALITY FROM CONTENT CREATION TO DELIVERY, Philippe Dieudonne and Andrey Resentchuk, Telestream

14:35 - 14:40 Questions and closing note

Room QoS & QoE
Start
12:00 PM
End
11:45 PM
Speakers
Valentina Stevanovic
Jari Schroderus
Alexandru Enache
Johannes Lusak
Philippe Dieudonne
Andrey Resentchuk
Speakers

Manuel Mato

VICE PRESIDENT SALES EMEA – VIAVI SOLUTIONS

Manuel Mato served in multiple sales executive positions in his career in the communications industry. He currently is the Vice President of Sales for Europe Middle East Africa within Viavi Solutions, leading the regional sales and support organization and subsidiaries. In this role, Manuel succeeded helping major services providers, network equipment manufacturers and enterprises in reliability and quickly develop, deploy and manage next generation communications networks and services. Manuel joined Wandel & Goltermann in 1994 as Sales Manager. He then held various sales executive positions in the communications Test & Measurement industry. He is in his current position since September 2008. Manuel holds a Telecom Engineer’s Degree, an MBA from IAE Paris-Sorbonne and an IEP degree from INSEAD.

Genis Sanchez

Regional Product Manager, RF Test Marketing VIAVI Solutions

Genis Sanchez has more than 20 years’ experience in wireless application engineering and product management, working on test solutions for 2G, 3G, 4G LTE-Advanced and the latest 5G New Radio (5GNR). He has extensive knowledge in technical areas like RF/signal propagation, network optimization, spectrum monitoring, time and frequency domain analysis, active testing, protocol signaling and data analytics.

Christophe Capitaine

Sales Director at Wavecontrol

International Business Development. Good skills to promote and develop high technology solutions in more than 20 countries, among others China, Germany, France, UK, Italy, Israel, The Netherlands, Korea, Malaysia, Serbia, India, etc. The mission consist in finding new local partners and provide sales and technically support, organize international exhibition visit customers in different sectors (Manufacturing Industry, Defence Industry, Laboratory, Government, Universities). Since the beginning of the mission, 7 years ago the turnover has passed from 0 to 1,5 million EUROS per year and the number of people in the company has increased from 6 people to 18 .

Daniel Ramirez

Head of RAN Solutions for Europe TEOCO

Daniel Ramirez is the head of RAN Solutions for Europe at TEOCO. He’s a mobile communications and business development professional who has been regularly meeting decision-makers throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, MENA and APAC over the last 15 years. Daniel is experienced in radio access design, optimization, and geo-location technologies, as well as on the impact of IoT, Smart Cities, Connected cars and 5G technologies on Mobile Networks. He has cross-industry experience in Manufacturing and is bilingual in English & Spanish

Jari Ryynänen

Manager, Technology Verification & Optimisation Nemo Wireless Network Solutions Keysight Technol

20+ years of work experience in the mobile network industry. Currently, a leader of product management and business development units in a wireless solution vendor. Complete end-to-end knowledge of mobile network architecture, planning, testing, optimization, operation, solutions and services. Optimistic, forward-leaning, professional with a remarkable track record. Past management positions: Head of Product Management and Business Development, Anite Singapore PTE. LTD. Head of Product Management and Technical Support, Anite Singapore PTE. LTD. Senior Consultant, Nokia Siemens Networks, Beijing/China Competence Development Manager, Nokia China, Beijing Radio Network Planning Manager, Acting IP/Core Planning Manager, Nokia China, Fuzhou Specialties: Program and Product Management, Business Development, Customer negotiations, Consulting services, Feature development, Wireless network know-how for LTE-A, HSPA+, WCDMA, EDGE, GSM, EVDO, CDMA and WiMax technologies, Network planning and optimization, Network testing.

Philippe Sadot

Regional Sales Manager Microchip, Frequency and Time Systems, EMEA

Philippe has 30 + years of experience in Telecom’s area, spend in various R&D, marketing and sales positions, in systems and semiconductor companies. He has spent 15 years focusing on network timing solutions, chips and servers, and has spent the last 12 years at developing Symmetricom, Microsemi, and now Microchip’s Frequency and Time Systems business in EMEA.

Branislav Barta

Senior Solution Engineer - CEE Technical Support VIAVI Solutions

Branislav Bárta has been active in the telecommunications sector since graduating from the Slovak Technical University with Master's degree in Telecommunication Engineering in 1984. In the early years of his career, he worked at different positions at Slovak Telecom AG untill 1991. During his time at Slovak Telecom AG, Branislav worked also as guest lecturer at Slovak Technical University for 6 years. Since 1991, Branislav has been working at Viavi Solutions Austria GmbH (formerly W&G, WWG, Acterna, JDSU) as senior solution engineer for the last 15 years. He is in charge of technical support of Viavi sales offices and sales partners in CEE and CIS region, with emphasis on fiber optics and access technology.

Yvan Frosio

EMEA Solution Engineer, HFC Test Instruments & Systems VIAVI Solutions

Yvan Frosio is an EMEA Solution Engineer at VIAVI since 1995. He is specialized in HFC Test Instruments & Systems. Located in Bern Switzerland, Yvan successfully supports VIAVI’s customers and channel partners with in-depth technical knowledge on a wide rage of wireline technologies.

Uroš Uskoković

Account Manager for CSP and Utilities, IBIS INSTRUMENTS

Recently celebrated a successful 11-year career in the ICT industry, having had the pleasure of working with global vendors like HP, Fujitsu, VIAVI, Keysight, Fujikura, Microchip, Narda, and most recently Wavecontrol.  During his career, Uros was fortunate to work across the disciplines of digitalization, automation, telecommunication, and the IT Datacenter industry. Had the pleasure to work with most quality staff (ICT engineers) from main CSP and Utility companies in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Macedonia and Slovenia. His goal is to continue with professional improvement in the field of telecommunication technical and practical knowledge of test and measurement systems, by understanding the needs of biggest market enterprises, to create and improve infrastructure TELCO projects with comprehensive solutions.

Dimitrios Loukas

Solutions Consultant EMEA VIAVI Solutions

Dimitris Loukas is a Solution Consultant with VIAVI Solutions since 2011. In this position he is continuously improving brand awareness and customer service by providing pre-sales services for fiber monitoring. Before joining VIAVI he had worked as a Systems Engineer for a Telecom company in Athens. Dimitris is highly skilled in understanding customer needs and pain-points, and demonstrates excellent product and service knowledge.

Dan Dansikin

Industry Sector Manager – Infrastructure Fotech

With over twenty five years’ experience in the fibre optic industry (seventeen dedicated to serving customers in the distributed fibre sensing industry), Dan brings a wealth of in-depth technical knowledge and continues to deliver expert advice to ensure clients receive the best and most cost-effective solutions for solving their business challenges. As an integral member of the Fotech team, Dan is often found going the extra mile for customers. Working closely with clients he ensures each are fully supported at every stage of their journey with Fotech, developing both trusted and lasting partnerships. His energising style never ceases to inspire clients with the great opportunities and possibilities of Fotech’s fibre sensing solutions.

Darko Lekić

Team Leader, IBIS INSTRUMENTS

Engineer with more than 15 years of experience. Experience in sales, technical support and management of technical resources, people and processes. Keeping in touch with the newest and most advanced telecommunication technologies and equipment. Strong experience in Synchronization of Telecommunication networks with more than 15 implemented systems in the Balkans region.

Valentina Stevanovic

Technical Support Engineer, IBIS INSTRUMENTS

Valentina Stevanović, a bachelor of electrical engineering, is a part of the technical team of the Test and Measurement Division at Ibis Instruments. She possesses practical knowledge and understanding of QoS / QoE monitoring, Ethernet, transport systems and synchronization and therefore is responsible for carrying out the projects within these fields. Besides the abovementioned Valentina is also a project manager and she oversees technical support within her team.

Jari Schroderus

Director of product management Keysight Nemo Wireless Network Solutions

Jari Schroderus is a director of product management in Keysight Nemo Wireless Network Solutions. Recently he has specialized for Network Benchmarking solutions. He holds two master’s degrees, in electrical engineering and in economics and business administration. He has over 25 years of experience in different telecom engineering, product management and marketing roles in several international stock listed companies e.g. Nokia, Microsoft, Exfo and Siili Solutions.

Alexandru Enache

Business Development Manager Keysight Technologies (Ixia) Advisor

Alexandru Enache has an experience in the telecom market for more than 15 years. He joined Keysight (Ixia) in 2013 as a System Engineer for East Europe covering Testing, Visibility and Security portfolio. He helped Telecom Operators in the Balkan countries improve the quality of their services and achieve their SLA through continuous testing. Since September 2020 has joined Netsafe Solutions as an advisor on Keysight(Ixia).

Johannes Lusak

Managing Partner / COO Alladin-IT GmbH

Johannes holds a Master degree in business administration as well as in literature from Vienna and Los Angeles. He worked for many years as an international management consultant where he was responsible for international consulting teams and projects. Johannes joined the metalworking industry when he was in his thirties. As head of HR and OD in a family-owned enterprise he had overall responsibility for organisational development, corporate culture and strategic HR. In his role as COO of alladin, he is also the project manager for many Nettest implementations for Telecom Regulators and operators in the CEE & SEE area.

Philippe Dieudonne

Senior Sales Engineer for Video Service Assurance solutions Telestream

Philippe Dieudonne is a Senior Sales Engineer for Video Service Assurance solutions at Telestream, since 2014

Andrey Resentchuk

Field Applications Engineer III Telestream

Andrey Resentchuk - TV and Radio Broadcasting Engineer 1991 - 1993 at Ostankino TV Tower, Moscow. Technical Support Manager in MetroMedia International Group 1993-2003 supporting construction, development and maintenance of 16 MMDS and CATV Joint Ventures in Russia, Romania, Baltics, and other ex-USSR countries. Now: Field Applications/Sales Engineer in Tektronix since 2004 (become Telestream TekVideo Business Unit in 2019) supporting the same areas and Eastern Europe.

Fiodor Stankevitch

Director ATDI Eurasia

Stankevitch Fiodor, ATDI Director for Balkans and CIS. ATDI designs, develops and publishes software focused on radio planning, spectrum management, spectrum monitoring, digital cartography, network design and optimization. Fiodor has 25 years of experience in the broadcast and telecommunications sector at both vendor and operator levels. With ATDI Fiodor managed large-scale projects of spectrum management automation, as well as mobile (2G/3G/4G/TETRA) and digital broadcast network planning and optimization. Prior to joining ATDI in 2004, Fiodor held different positions within France Telecom Mobile International and Orange group in France, UK, Portugal and Jordan, specially in the fields of network planning and optimization, corporate purchasing and CAPEX optimization. Fiodor holds an M.Sc. in Radiocommunications from the Institut National des Telecommunications of Paris, France.

Kevin Davis

Vice President of Product and Channel Management TCI SPX Corporation

Kevin Davis is the Vice President of Product & Channel Management at TCI International, Inc. - a global supplier of turnkey solutions for ITU-Compliant Spectrum Monitoring & Management, and Military Communications Intelligence. Prior to joining TCI, Mr. Davis held leadership positions for commercial, aerospace and defense applications at Harris Corporation, Exelis, ITT, and the Allied Defense Group, for telecommunications; satellite communications; intelligence, surveillance & reconnaissance; electronic warfare, and remote sensing market segments.

Sanja Lasica

Sales Leader, IBIS INSTRUMENTS

Sanja Lasica is a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and since 2016 is a member of Ibis Instruments’ Test and Measurement Division. During this time, she has been working closely with Regulatory Agencies, Science and Defence sector offering together with the experienced technical team high local support for market-proven solutions in RF domain. Keeping up with technology trends she is enthusiastic in making new opportunities to keep long-term partnership with key customers.

Christian Koboldt

Partner at DotEcon Ltd

Christian is an economist with over 25 years of experience in competition and litigation cases, regulatory and public policy design, and market design and business strategy. He has been involved in the design of auction processes for spectrum awards, including the assessment of potential auction formats, the development and drafting of rules, and the software implementation of these processes, combining his expertise in game theory with hands-on programming skills.

Snežana Renovica

Head of the Department of Electrical Quantities, Time and Frequency

Snezana Renovica is Head of Section for Electrical Quantities, Time and Frequency at the Directorate of Measures and Precious Metals (DMDM). She has been involved in time and frequency metrology since 2000. Since 2019. she has the responsibility for the metrology of Electrical Quantities, Time, Frequency and Speed at DMDM, operation of the national time scale UTC(DMDM) and the time dissemination services.

Hamish Stewart

Business Development Manager – Northern Europe, Avionics & Radio Test VIAVI Solutions

With a background in R&D, Manufacturing, Support and Sales, Hamish has over 25 years of experience in the Telecommunications and Test & Measurement industry. As Business Development Manager for the Avionics & Radio Test Product Lines covering the Northern part of the EMEA region, he enables partners and customers to test the radio and avionics systems that keep us safe when it really matters.

Massimo Cereda

Sales Expert Keysight Technologies SRL

Master’s degree in Electronic Engineering in 2010, at Università degli Studi di Pavia. Has about 10 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, in which he joined as an RF designer and later as an Application engineer. Working activities focused mainly on two areas: high-speed digital interface and automotive ICs for powertrain applications. In 2020 joined Keysight as a Sales Engineer in the distribution channel field.

Francesco Spadafora

RF and µW Measurement Expert Keysight Technologies

Francesco Spadafora works at Keysight Technologies as an RF and µW Measurement Expert. He is in the EMEAI Measurement Expert team. His main work area is Aerospace and defense and Telecommunication since 2011. Francesco holds a master’s degree in Telecommunication Engineering and a PhD on Information and Communication Technologies. He is also an author and co-author of several scientific papers.

Marko Tasić

Account Manager Telco, IBIS INSTRUMENTS

Sandra Ilic

Sales Associate, IBIS INSTRUMENTS

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