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Event- Cebit 2006
Hannover calling
This year’s edition focusses more on SMBs and channels.
The International ICT event, CeBIT 2006 is being held between March 9 and 15,
2006, at Hannover, Germany. This technology showcase will highlight everything
from business software solutions and networks at home to the downloading of
music and Internet telephony.
AMD, debitel, EMC, Intel, LG, Medion and Samsung have booked more display space
this year than at the last event. Germany, the UK and the US will have with
the biggest contingent of exhibitors at CeBIT 2006, but Asia (Taiwan, China,
South Korea and Hong Kong) will again account for a substantial number of exhibitors.
The keynote speaker at the show will be Vodafone’s head Arun Sarin.
The programme
The goal is to highlight everything that the information and communications
sector has to offer for the home and workplace: solutions and services for the
development and optimisation of IT-aided business procedures (in the Business
Processes category), fixed-line telephony, mobile telephony and networking (in
the Communications category), as well as computers and memory storage, digital
entertainment and office solutions (in the Digital Equipment and Systems category).
Installations, technical equipment and complete systems for finance and credit
institutes will be showcased in the Banking & Finance display. Users from
municipal and central government and the public sector will be able to find
suitable solutions at the Public Sector Parc, which is the information and communication
platform for public sector modernisation, while ‘Future Parc’ will
present the latest R&D innovations.
More on offer for SMBs
Small and medium-sized businesses represent an increasingly important visitor
target group for CeBIT. In addition to the portal www.cebit-mittelstand.de,
SMBs can interact at the CeBIT Forum located in Hall 5 (formerly Hall 6). Lectures,
panel discussions and personal meetings will provide decision-makers from small
businesses an unique opportunity to obtain information and free advice from
experts. The adjacent special presentation ‘CeBIT Business Solutions’
complements the Forum with an array of products and solutions geared to the
needs of the small businesses. Significantly, most of the special displays at
CeBIT 2006 will offer special solutions or talks focussed on the needs of smaller
and medium-sized businesses.
For ICT resellers
For specialist dealers in IT, telecommunications, home electronics,
photographic equipment and office technology, ‘Planet Reseller’ (Hall
25) is the focal area where distributors, manufacturers, joint ventures and
associations will showcase channel-specific products, services and solutions
to accredited professional visitors. A programme of lectures and discussions
on topics specifically geared to dealers and the trade will be conducted. At
CeBIT 2005 ‘Planet Reseller’ attracted about 65,000 wholesalers, specialist
dealers and retailers, including over 26 percent from outside Germany. It serves
as an important source of information and new orders.
Global networking
CeBIT provides an overview of each sector and fulfills an educational role.
It facilitates contacts between suppliers, potential clients, politicians and
media representatives. About 60,000 experts located at the exhibition stands,
several hundred speakers at the themed seminars and conferences, and numerous
delegations from every continent, as well as around 10,000 journalists from
across the globe will make CeBIT the biggest gathering in the ICT sector.
254,200 professional attendees from 87 nations visited the ‘Communications’
pavilion at CeBIT 2005. Around 1,400 exhibitors from around the globe presented
their telecommunications products and services to visitors from around the world
on over 100,000 square metres of net display space, providing them with a glimpse
of things to come.
Technologies like UMTS, GPRS, WLAN and VoIP are helping us communicate and transmit
vast amounts of data almost anywhere. That’s why the communications market
continues to enjoy huge growth potential.
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Mobile communications
Mobile data services in the fast lane: The latest-generation
cell phones can receive video clips, news and e-mail from anywhere in
the world, plus read all types of office documents. 2006 will see the
launch of third-generation mobile communication services, with smart phones
that resemble PCs more than anything else. These all-rounders support
GPRS, UMTS and WLAN. The first TV cell phones will also be on display.
Network carriers and providers of voice and data services will be out
in force. Together, they will demonstrate how fixed line, mobile and radio
networks are merging with the Internet into a single communications unit.
Telematics & Navigation
See the future of road traffic: Hall 11 will be for those
interested in the latest developments in navigation, telematics and fleet
management. The line-up will include GPS, wide area radio, navigation
and digital maps, plus related software and services. In all cases the
emphasis will be on the specific benefits offered by these new products
and systems. This is the ideal place to identify tailor-made solutions
for different customer target groups—for example, in the area of
driver assistance, traffic management, mobility information and e-safety.
Fixed line
Fixed line networks rev up engines: Wireless technology
is now making it possible to be available anywhere via a single telephone
number. An additional step towards “fixed line everywhere” is
Voice over IP. New Internet telephones let you call anywhere in the world
for the price of a local call. All you need to hook up the phone is a
simple network cable. There’s more: the next trend could well be
Video over IP, which you can use to hold quality videoconferences over
a broadband network. Telecommunications equipment, measuring systems,
CTI and videoconferencing systems will be on display. The demand for fixed-line
broadband capacity remains unbroken.
Networks
Convergence takes over our daily lives: New network equipment
adapt effortlessly to any transmission standard. The latest developments
such as WLAN technologies with transmission rates of 54Mbps, 10G Ethernet,
WiMAX, MPLS and optical switching in carrier networks are leading to a
situation where existing transmission capacities are adequate for any
practical requirement, whether at the WAN and backbone level or at the
level of mobile access. The distinction between professional and private
applications continues to erode. Voice over IP is also playing a major
role. You can make phone calls in many places via an existing company
network. Power lines are also becoming attractive as fast data transmission
conduits, since you will be able to use them to transmit high-resolution
HDTV images to tomorrow’s TV sets. As networks come to define our
daily lives, it becomes crucial to ensure that all server systems are
secure, and to monitor the network. At CeBIT 2006 you will see tailored
components to ward off attacks on your data.
Global competition is forcing companies to streamline
their business processes in order to cut costs and speed up development
cycles for new products and services. CeBIT is dedicating seven halls
to ‘Business Processes’. Visitors will be treated to the entire
spectrum in a well-focussed series of exhibits reflecting the needs of
today’s businesses in search of optimal digital workflows and solutions
for every link in the value-added chain.
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Detailed information about the entire programme of CeBIT
2006, as well as about the individual keynote displays, can be found online
at www.cebit.de
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