The second session “M2M Verticals & Standardization: Insights from selected M2M application fields and SDO perspective” featured concrete M2M deployment scenarios and views from different standardization bodies including ETSI TC M2M, oneM2M, ITU-T, and others. The concluding Panel discussed the question “Smart Cities and the Internet of Things: fragmented markets and silo mindset or huge potential for synergies across industries?” Key findings from the workshop and the panel sessions include: For business and service modeling in Smart Cities it is important to drive open platforms, developer communities, provide incentives for users to share data and participate, and combine OTT approaches since operators cannot address all verticals. Participation models are key to success. All operators have their own M2M platform covering mostly connectivity management, customized end-to-end solutions are realized upon demand. The demand side is still very heterogeneous combined with a highly fragmented market/value chain. This requires the operators to be flexible in terms of their M2M offerings. Cross-domain data gathering and cross-industry combination, together with data analytics are seen as possible business for operators in M2M and Smart Cities.

The second day featured a full day conference with 19 presentations from various international network operators and service providers. After the opening by Prof. Dr. Magedanz, Prof. Dr. Henning Schulzrinne delivered a key note on “Protecting the Open Internet: Experience and Future Challenges”, illustrating the upcoming challenges in QoS control and network neutrality. The first session chaired by Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Grallert from Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, TU Berlin, Germany, addressed global mobile and fixed NGN deployment issues as challenges of integrating fixed and mobile IMS and NG IN platforms, managing Diameter as key protocol, promoting network and CRAN virtualization. The presentation were given by all four German mobile network operators and NGMN. The second session focused on operator services over converged broadband networks as VoLTE, RCS/Joyn and Smart City challenges. It was chaired by Prof. Guy Pujolle, from Université LIP6, Paris in France. After the lunch break Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz chaired a panel discussion on “Telco Service Transition Challenges and Opportunities: From Voice-based Services towards Data and Smart City Applications“ with experts from Telefonica, BT, Orange, Eurescom, EIT ICT Labs and Columbia University. Prof. Dr. Klaus David from University of Kassel, Germany has led Session 3 addressing Network Evolution & Convergence for Implementing Smart City Communication Infrastructures. Here the European R&D perspective on converged networks and public private partnerships was presented as well as challenges for smart metering and M2M standardization. The final session was chaired by Prof. Mesut Günes from FU Berlin, Germany and focused on service platform evolution for Smart City services with case studies and plans around the World, including Indonesia, Japan and South Africa. Alongside the workshop the newest testbed toolkits from Fraunhofer FOKUS, namely OpenEPC Release 4, QoS-enabled WebRTC, as well as the new OpenMTC toolkit were practically demonstrated.Details on the program and impressions from the event can be obtained from the FUSECO Forum website. Due to the huge success, the FOKUS FUSECO Forum series will be continued in November 2013 (www.fuseco-forum.org/2013).The second day featured a full day conference with 19 presentations from various international network operators and service providers. After the opening by Prof. Dr. Magedanz, Prof. Dr. Henning Schulzrinne delivered a key note on “Protecting the Open Internet: Experience and Future Challenges”, illustrating the upcoming challenges in QoS control and network neutrality. The first session chaired by Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Grallert from Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, TU Berlin, Germany, addressed global mobile and fixed NGN deployment issues as challenges of integrating fixed and mobile IMS and NG IN platforms, managing Diameter as key protocol, promoting network and CRAN virtualization. The presentation were given by all four German mobile network operators and NGMN. The second session focused on operator services over converged broadband networks as VoLTE, RCS/Joyn and Smart City challenges. It was chaired by Prof. Guy Pujolle, from Université LIP6, Paris in France. After the lunch break Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz chaired a panel discussion on “Telco Service Transition Challenges and Opportunities: From Voice-based Services towards Data and Smart City Applications“ with experts from Telefonica, BT, Orange, Eurescom, EIT ICT Labs and Columbia University. Prof. Dr. Klaus David from University of Kassel, Germany has led Session 3 addressing Network Evolution & Convergence for Implementing Smart City Communication Infrastructures. Here the European R&D perspective on converged networks and public private partnerships was presented as well as challenges for smart metering and M2M standardization. The final session was chaired by Prof. Mesut Günes from FU Berlin, Germany and focused on service platform evolution for Smart City services with case studies and plans around the World, including Indonesia, Japan and South Africa. Alongside the workshop the newest testbed toolkits from Fraunhofer FOKUS, namely OpenEPC Release 4 (www.openepc.net), QoS-enabled WebRTC, as well as the new OpenMTC toolkit were practically demonstrated.Details on the program and impressions from the event can be obtained from the FUSECO Forum website. Due to the huge success, the FOKUS FUSECO Forum series will be continued in November 2013.