2005 Service Provider Summit

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The Service Provider Summit is a dynamic program with topics and speakers of interest to CTOs, network architects, network designers and technologists within the service provider and carrier sector. This full-day program includes panel discussions, keynote presentations and networking time.

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Schedule: Wednesday, March 9

Keynote Presentation I: FTTP Deployment in Today’s Market
Brian Whitton, Executive Director, Access Technologies, Verizon Communications, USA

The Fiber ToThe Premises (FTTP) architecture is being actively deployed in the Verizon network. FTTP will be available to millions of homes and businesses, providing voice, broadband data, and video services. This talk will cover what is being deployed, the rationale behind that deployment, the experience to date, and a view of the future of this architecture.

Brian Whitton is the Executive Director of Broadband Access Technologies for Verizon Communications. Whitton's past responsibilities include directing Verizon's packet telephony and transport architecture programs. In his current capacity, Whitton is responsible for directing the architecture development efforts for Verizon's Fiber-To-The-Premises (FTTP) and Video Services initiatives. Whitton holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Manhattan College and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Dallas with an emphasis on telecommunications management and policy.

Panel I: Access Networks of the Future
Moderator: Scott Clavenna, Chief Analyst, Heavy Reading, USA

Recent announcements of Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP) deployments by several of the US incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) have helped spur renewed optimism within the optical communication technology and vendor communities. In order to recoup the large investment required for this new passive optical network (PON) infrastructure (several billion dollars announced to this point), the ILECs will have to compete head-to-head on voice, video and data services with the existing hybrid fiber coax (HFC) broadband architecture of the cable multiple service operators and possibly other new non-fiber entrants. This panel features brief presentations describing the relative technical and economic merits of both the FTTH/PON and the HFC architectures. Additional presentations on prospective broadband access architectures such as broadband power line (BPL) and fiber-to-the-curb with radio drops (i.e. “Wi-Fi”) to the home will also be discussed.

Speakers
Broadband over Power Line: The Third Wire Already Exists!
Jim Mollenkopf, Vice President, Architecture and Products, Current Technologies, USA
Jim Mollenkopf serves as the Vice President, Architecture and Products at Current Technologies, a leading developer of broadband over power line systems. In this role he is responsible for systems architecture, network performance and planning, product management, key technology development and regulatory compliance. Prior to joining Current, Mollenkopf worked at Orbital Sciences where he led the communications system design team for the Orbcomm space segment. Before joining Orbital, he served for 11 years with the US government in a variety of technology development positions.

Converged Packet Access for the Business Customer
Steven Jackson, Director Network Architecture and Standards, MCI, USA
Steven Jackson is Director of Network Architecture & Standards within the Network Architecture and Advanced Technology group at MCI. In this capacity, Jackson leads a team of expert engineers responsible for establishing network architectures and design standards, economic analysis of new technologies and architectures, industry standards participation and technology integration into the global network. Previously, Jackson was director of MCI Metro’s Inside Plant Engineering and Construction group and MCI’s LD route construction team. He was responsible for designing and building MCI’s local transport network within the US and constructing and maintaining MCI’s long distant fiber optic systems. Prior to these roles, Jackson was Senior Manager of MCI’s Network Integration and Standards team, where he was responsible for establishing network design guidelines, network performance standards and equipment networking criteria for MCI’s voice, private line data and transport networks. Jackson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. He is a former Excellence in Service Award winner at MCI, which recognized the top 1 percent of employees. Jackson sits on the industry advisory board to the college of engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Fiber to the Premises: A Future Proof Platform
Vincent O’Byrne, Director of Wireline Access Technology, Verizon, USA
Vincent O’Byrne, Ph.D. (Elect. Eng. 88’, MBA Babson ‘01) is the Director of Wireline Technologies at Verizon and has over fifteen years of experience in the communications field covering both wireline and wireless technologies at Verizon. Dr. O’Byrne is responsible for architecture design of the access network for FTTP within Verizon Technology Organization. Dr. O’Byrne has worked on linearizing DFB lasers and external modulators for the transmission of video content.

NTT’s Deployment of FTTH Services
Yasuyuki Okumura, Executive Manager , NTT Access Network Service Systems Labs , Japan
After joining Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (currently NTT) in 1981, Yasuyuki Okumura has been engaged in the research and development of basic ISDN, HDTV transmission system and ATM access system. He is now studying the broadband access network architecture and FTTH systems.

WiMAX Forum Strategy and Overview
Mo Shakouri, Vice President WiMAX Forum, USA; AVP Business Development, Alvarion, USA
Dr. Mohammad S. Shakouri, AVP of Business Development of Alvarion, has 20 years of experience in wireless system, microwave and fiber optic networks. Shakouri previously spent three years at Lucent managing, building and developing network solutions for European and South American broadband wireless markets. Shakouri also spent 14 years in technical and management positions with Hewlett Packard developing microwave and fiber optic communication components and systems. He co-founded the wireless systems division, where he was responsible for engineering team developing low cost residential digital wireless systems for US and Asian markets. Shakouri earned his doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University on Subpicosecond GaAs Wafer Probe Systems. He is WCAi and WiMAX Forum Board member & VP Marketing and IEEE MTT-SVC Chairman.

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Keynote Presentation II: The Evolution of Enterprise Data Requirements
Brian Van Steen, Senior Analyst, RHK, USA

Enterprise data requirements are evolving as the need to support new business practices and the need to conform with government regulations are driving bandwidth requirements. Simpler ways of communicating within companies and with external customers and suppliers are also driving change, especially as business is increasingly conducted on a global basis. As such, enterprises are migrating from traditional private line and Frame Relay circuits to MPLS VPNs, storage area networks and various forms of Ethernet services. As these changes occur, service providers need to ensure their networks and operations have also evolved to meet these new requirements.

Brian Van Steen has over six years of experience as a telecom industry analyst at RHK and PointEast Research. As a Senior Analyst with RHK's optical networking research program, Van Steen focuses on meeting with service providers globally to understand how their businesses are changing and what implications this has on their network and technology requirements. Additionally, Van Steen focuses on the emerging Ethernet industry, including how enterprise data services are evolving. He earned a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Toronto, specializing in accounting and finance, and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Panel II: Optics Enabling Business Applications—Data, Voice and Video
Moderator: Ann Von Lehmen, Telcordia Technologies, USA

This panel will look across the enterprise/government space at what kinds of challenges exist, what applications are emerging and how optical architectures and features need to evolve to meet new market demands. Representatives from a variety of enterprise areas (including banking, retail, multinational corporation and computing) will talk about the kinds of emerging applications and demands they foresee and how the communications industry can better meet their needs. Potential applications may include bandwidth on demand, storage without boundaries, streaming video, highly reliable transport and multiple cost/service options.

Speakers
Goldman Sachs Technology Perspective 
Jim Brinksma, Vice President Network Products & Strategy, Goldman Sachs & Co., USA
Jim Brinksma joined Goldman Sachs & Co. as Vice President of Network Products & Strategy in 2004 and is responsible for the creation, development and execution of the global network technology vision.  He previously held the position of Network Architect at Ciena Corporation and was responsible for driving strategic technology initiatives into key accounts and participating in business development efforts.  Prior to joining Ciena, Jim held senior network engineering and vendor management positions at Enkido Inc., and was responsible for spearheading research & development projects.  Jim also served in the United States Navy and held several technical and managerial positions.   

Universities as Living Laboratories of the Optically Connected Enterprises of the Future
Larry Smarr, Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA
Larry Smarr is Harry E. Gruber professor in the Jacobs School's Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California at San Diego. Smarr is Principal Investigator on the NSF OptIPuter LambdaGrid project and is Co-PI on the NSF LOOKING ocean observatory prototype. As founding director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the National Computational Science Alliance, Smarr has driven major contributions to development of the national high-performance computing infrastructure, the Internet, the Web, the emerging Grid and scientific visualization. His views have been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, Fortune and Business Week. He was a member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee and serves on the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health and the NASA Advisory Council. He serves as chair of NASA's Earth System Science and Applications Advisory Committee and will become the first chair of the newly formed NASA Science Advisory Council.

Richard Watts, Global Infrastructure Director, Shell Trading, USA

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Case Study Presentation: AT&T Ultravailable Network Services
Nicholas Boon, Technical Consultant Access & Bandwidth Product Management, AT&T

AT&T launched Ultravailable Network Services in January 2000 to meet customer demand for business continuity by mirroring data center applications with DWDM technology. World events including 9/11 have resulted in unprecedented demand for AT&T's Ultravailable Network Services. The tremendous success is the result of a cooperative effort between AT&T and Cisco Systems leveraging SONET/DWDM technology with advanced management features developed by AT&T Labs. The value proposition is the combination of the advanced management features, AT&T's national presence and Cisco's products and services meeting customer's storage, IP and TDM bandwidth requirements.

AT&T delivers integration of Cisco's optical product with end-to-end visibility, power level monitoring, SONET Performance reporting, Inventory Management, Provisioning Management, Fault Management (correlation, service impact reporting, root cause analysis), capacity planning available to the Network Operations Center and the customer via AT&T's award winning Business Direct WEB Portal.

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