Wednesday, March 28, 2007
OFC/NFOEC Exhibit Floor Theater
The Service Provider Summit is open to all Conference and Exhibit-only Attendees! Join your colleagues for this dynamic program with topics and speakers of interest to CTOs, network architects, network designers and technologists within the service provider and carrier sector. The program includes panel discussions, keynote presentations, exhibit time, and networking time.
The program will be located on the exhibit floor, so attendees can easily attend the sessions and tour the exhibit hall. Audience members are encouraged to participate in the question and answer segments that follow the presentations.
Schedule-At-A-Glance
Keynote Presentation
Business Models and Services with Managed Broadband Access
Speaker: Sanghoon Lee, Senior Executive Vice President, Korea Telecom, Korea
Abstract: Dr. Lee will briefly introduce the transition of value chain flows in the recent ICT trend and mention the situation that Telco should be changed. As the competition grows rapidly, ISPs are difficult to generate additional revenue with traditional access services. They need to find distinctive differentiated services for customers, such as personalized services, contents based services, and converged communication services.
For enabling these differentiated and converged services on personal preference, we should upgrade the network into broadband, QoS guaranteed, and robust secured capability. For this purpose, Dr. Lee will show the current status of the advanced network that KT is deploying now. And, some key points derived from this experience will be taken into account.
Biography: Sanghoon Lee is Senior Executive Vice President of KT, where his organization, Business Group is responsible for KT’s business planning and service launching. Prior to the current appointment, he had served in numerous positions including CTO, COO, and the head of Business Marketing Group. Before he joined to KT, he was with Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) from 1984 to 1991, where his research activities were in ATM Technology and broadband networks. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Seoul National University, Korea, in 1978, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 1982 and 1984 respectively. Dr. Lee has been contributing to setting up the deployment strategy of the national Broadband infrastructure in Korea. Currently, he served as a chairman of Korea Network Research Association. He is a member of National Academy of Engineering in Korea and the fellow of IEEE. |
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Panel I: FTTx: We have Lift Off!
Moderator: Frank Effenberger, Director, FTTx Advance Technology, Huawei Technologies America, USA
In the U.S., fiber to the home networks have been an objective as tantalizing as the moon, and almost as unreachable. There have been numerous technology trials and tentative plans to deploy fiber access, but until recently none of these transitioned into a full mass deployment. But, in the past year or so significant deployments have begun in North America: millions of homes are passed by fiber and hundreds of thousands of active customers are online today. Japan is even further along in the deployment of fiber, with several millions of fiber customers online. Deep fiber with VDSL2 is also very popular, and new markets are opening every day. Thus, it can be argued that we have finally overcome the initial hurdles, and are on the road to fiber access for everybody.
The network operators and their vendor partners have gained a wealth of important lessons through these deployments. These vary from the highly technical aspects of providing video over IP, to the prosaic matters of placing cables inside existing structures. All of these are important if the deployment is to be successful and scalable. At the same time, the services provided are changing and evolving to take advantage of the massive bandwidth available. Bandwidth tiers are increasing rapidly, and more intelligent services such as multimedia voice and video applications are becoming commonplace. To meet this ever-changing market of demands and issues, the technology of FTTx is also changing. The conversion of B-PON systems to E-PON and G-PON systems are well underway or completed, and the next step of WDM PON or 10G PON are beginning to gain traction in the standards committees.
Join us in this exciting session where executives from major service providers will present their views on the opportunities and challenges for FTTx around the world. The individual presentations will be followed by a panel discussion and open Q&A session.
Speakers:
FTTH Evolution in Japan
Motoyuki Ii, General Manager, Plant Planning Dept., Network Business Headquarters, NTT EAST Corp., Japan
Motoyuji Ii, General Manager, Network Business Headquarters, NTT East Corporation is responsible for the development and deployment of the FTTH plant at NTT East. After joining NTT in 1983, Mr. Ii was engaged in the development of outside telecom plants, facility investment planning, international procurement, global IP backbone network planning, and operations. In 2003, Mr. Ii served as a general manager of an NTT holding company and was responsible for NTT group management.
Verizon's Broadband Strategy
Vincent A. O'Byrne, Director of Technology, Verizon, Technology Organization, USA
Vincent O'Byrne received his B.SC. from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, his PhD from the University of North Wales and his MBA from Babson College, USA. He has over 18 years experience in the Wireline and Wireless Telecommunications industry. Mr. O’Byrne is a Director of Technology within Verizon Technology Organization (VTO). His group focuses on the specification, design and integration of new Wireline access technologies within the Verizon Network for the residential and small business markets. This responsibility includes the leadership of wireline access RFPs and the vendor management through to the realization of those technologies as stable platforms in the Network. Primary focus is on BPON and GPON, expansion of FTTP to the Multiple Dwelling Unit and overall Network Stability.
Scaling FTTx Networks for Video, Voice and Data Services
Raj Savoor, General Manager, AT&T Labs, USA
Raj Savoor supports the Network Systems Engineering function for managing and optimizing Layer 1-3 networks and associated Broadband Applications. Mr. Savoor’s group manages the AT&T broadband tool framework that supports service assurance, capacity management, performance management and provisioning optimization for the AT&T DSL, PON, ATM, Ethernet and IP networks.
Next Generation Optical Access Technology Alternatives
Ronald C. Menendez, Telcordia Technologies, USA
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Panel II: Emerging Networks
Moderator: George Clapp, Chief Scientist, Telcordia, USA
There is a widely shared vision of a converged network in which many services are carried by a common IP/MPLS network over very high capacity optical transport networks. There is less consensus, however, about the allocation of functions between IP/MPLS and the optical network. For example, many carriers are deploying intelligent optical networks that can establish new circuit services rapidly and autonomously. Other carriers are deploying IP-centric networks in which routers perform more functions and the optical network provides simple transport services.
Join a panel of experts from carriers around the globe to explore the rationales for the different network architectures and compare their relative advantages and disadvantages. The individual presentations will be followed by a panel discussion and open Q&A session.
Speakers:
Internet2 Hybrid Networking and the HOPI Project
Rick Summerhill, Director, Network Research, Architecture and Technologies, Internet2, USA
As Director of Network Research, Architecture, and Technologies, Rick Summerhill has responsibility for the Abilene Observatory, the HOPI Project, and other projects related to network research and the development of next generation network architectures. Prior to joining Internet2 in December of 2002, Rick served as the executive director of the Great Plains Network, an Internet2 GigaPop centered at Kansas City, Missouri. He has been associated with network engineering at the campus, regional and national levels for the last twenty years. Prior to network engineering, he served on the research faculty in Mathematics at Kansas State University. Rick attended Monmouth College where he received a B.A. in Mathematics and Physics and The University of Iowa where he received a M.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematics.
Practical Aspects of Bandwidth on Demand in Optical Networks
Robert Doverspike, Director of Transport Network Evolution Research, AT&T Labs Res., USA
Robert Doverspike received his undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Doverspike started with Bell Labs in 1979 and, upon divestiture of the Bell System, went to Bellcore (now Telcordia). In 1997 he went to AT&T Labs (Research) and is now Director of the Transport Network Evolution Research Department. Dr. Doverspike has made extensive contributions to the field of optimization in multi-layered transmission and switching networks and pioneered the concept of packet transport in metro and long distance networks. His work also includes advanced transport and IP network architectures, network restoration methods for optical cross-connects (for which he has numerous patents), and methods for IP over optical-layer integration. He has published broadly in journals on Telecommunications, Optical Networking, Mathematical Programming, IEEE CommSoc, Operations Research, Applied Probability, and Network Management. He is member of the Mathematical Programming Society, Optical Society of America (OSA), a Senior Member of IEEE Communications Society, and an INFORMS Fellow. He serves as associate editor of the Journals of Heuristics and Operations Research and has held key leadership positions of multiple international telecommunications societies and conferences, most prominently the INFORMS Technical Section on Telecommunications.
Optics in the Context of Network Convergence
Andreas Gladisch, Head, Network Architecture Dept., Deutsch Telecom, Germany
Andreas Gladisch received the Dipl.Ing. Degree in Theoretical Electrotechnics from the Technical University of Ilmenau, and the PhD in Optical Communication from Humboldt University Berlin. He joined the Research Institute of Deutsche Telekom in 1991 where he was involved in projects on WDM networks, for example European Research Projects, like ACTS-Meton, ACTS-Demon, ACTS-Moon. He was involved in projects dealing with the short term development of Deutsche Telekom transport network especially the migration of SDH and WDM, including the development and assessment of different network scenarios. He has been responsible for a projects covering the mid term strategy of the transport network and the harmonisation of the transport networks of Deutsche-Telekom-Group. Currently he is involved in projects dealing with the planning roll-out of NGN-architecture.Dr. Gladisch is member of ITG and IEEE and he has authored or co-authored more than 90 national and international technical conference- or journal-papers.
Integration of IP and DWDM: The Future is the Router
David Ward, Cisco, USA
David Ward is a Cisco Fellow and is the architect of IOS-XR, Cisco's Service Provider operating system and co-architect of the 92 Terabit CRS-1. He is currently designing the next generation platforms for the Service Provider environment. David is known in the industry because of his knowledge and expertise in IP/MPLS routing, high availability, network design, and systems software. He is the WG chair of four IETF Working Groups: IS-IS, HIP, BFD and Softwires. He speaks frequently at the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG), IETF, IEEE and RIPE conferences and collaborates with several university and private research groups, including MIT and Tsinghua University.
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