FITCE 2014 - 53rd FITCE International Congress

Euro Med Telco Conference 2014 is at the same time the 53rd edition of the annual Fitce International Congress and the first open event organized by the Euro Med Telco Forum (EMTF). Fitce is the well known Federation of the Telecommunications Engineers of the European Union while EMTF is a platform founded by the Greek, Italian and Spanish Fitce branches that aims to extend the ICT cultural activities beyond the European boundaries to reach all the Mediterranean area. The Naples choice for this first edition wants to be a clear geographical sign in this direction.
We believe that a strong contribution to the economical and social progress of this wide area may come from the last advances and wide distribution of the latest ICT researches and related applications. For this reason we have chosen a subject for the scientific and technical sessions in line with the most recent developments and market trends.
Beside the technical program we will have round tables regarding interesting topics related to the diffusion of these techniques, like: Do we need a Digital Agenda for the Mediterranean?
We therefore invite all the ICT community in and outside the Euro Mediterranean area to contribute and participate to this new initiative.
Maurizio Mayer
General Chair
The Subject
In these last few years we have seen a growth in the local networks, wifi, bluetooth, sensors’ networks. We have also seen several constituencies setting up their local networks, like in malls, airports. Some of these are actually city wide, set up by Municipalities.
In the coming years we are going to see further deployment of these networks as well as of halo nets created by terminals themselves, like a cell phone creating a local network that can be used by a variety of devices to connect to the big infrastructure and with one another.
This is leading to a revolution at the edges, supporting the connectivity at ambient level and decoupling the end user from the main infrastructure. Actually, we are also seeing double SIM cell phones that can connect to two Operators networks and the advent of the Soft SIM is likely to multiply the access option for a terminal. All of this tells us that we are moving in terms of the end user from a single Network Infrastructure to a Network Fabric.