Abstract: Core network traffic continues to grow unabated at or near Moore’s law, a doubling of traffic every year. Broadband access and services continue to drive telecoms and are a critical part of the economic engine despite the difficult global environment. For service providers there is a delicate balance between driving more cost reduction while planning for cost effective increase in capacity into the future, avoiding frequent network renewal. Mr. Morin will discuss the variances in global operator trends and provide an outlook on the innovations that are necessary for economic scaling of optical networks.
Biography: Nortel's Metro Ethernet Networks business is focused on leveraging the company's leadership in optical and carrier data to drive market share in super-fast Ethernet networks. These next-generation transport networks will be essential for supporting the explosion of network traffic fuelled by new consumer trends and business applications, including bandwidth-hungry applications such as video. Nortel is positioned as one of the top 3 solutions providers globally.
In his role as president, Morin has full accountability for P&L, R&D and product development as well as all aspects of running this business which encompasses Nortel's Optical and Carrier Ethernet portfolios that generate close to $2B in revenues globally.
Prior to assuming this role, Morin held the position of Nortel's vice president and general manager, Optical Networks. In this position, he helped ensure Nortel's continued leadership and business momentum in Optical, which grew by approximately 24 percent in 2005 to US$1.2 billion in revenues. To date, Nortel has deployed optical solutions in more than 1,000 enterprises and service providers in
65 countries.
During his 20 years at Nortel, Morin has held a number of leadership roles in manufacturing, marketing, sales and product management, both in North America and Europe.
Morin also serves as a Governor of the Jeune Chambre de Commerce de Montréal. He holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from Université Laval in Quebec City and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from McGill University in Montréal. |
Abstract: In this talk, Professor Lessig will address the challenges facing the build-out of the next-generation network, one that will let innovation flourish.
Biography: One of America’s most original and influential public intellectuals, Lawrence Lessig is the foremost expert on intellectual property in the age of digital communication. He focuses on the social dimension of creativity: how creative work builds on the past and how society encourages or inhibits that building with laws and technologies. He is the founder of Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society and the authority on “cyberlaw”—the evolving law of the Internet. He has written several books, including Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (April 2004). Lawrence Lessig is a professor of law at Stanford Law School.
A tireless advocate for the “innovation commons,” a free space where culture, ideas and expression can flourish, Lessig chairs the Creative Commons project at Stanford. He argued the landmark case Eldred v. Ashcroft challenging the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act before the United States Supreme Court. His most recent book, Free Culture, is a landmark manifesto about the freedom to create and the urgent need to protect the public domain of ideas, especially on the Internet, from control by big cultural monopolists. In this powerful wake-up call, Lessig shows how short-sighted interests blind to the long-term damage they’re inflicting are poisoning the ecosystem that fosters innovation.
In his two previous books, Code and The Future of Ideas, Lessig concentrates on the destruction of much of the original promise of the Internet. Blending knowledge, insight and eloquence, these books are profoundly important guides to the care and feeding of innovation, intellectual property, free speech and privacy. These books are not just for lawyers, but for anyone concerned with the survival of democratic values in the Information Age.
A seasoned lecturer, Lessig has appeared in forum after forum on the weighty issues that digital communication presents. Lessig was formerly a professor at Harvard Law School, where he earned the first endowed chair at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He currently holds several important board and public commission positions and was named one of Scientific American’s Top 50 Visionaries. Lawrence Lessig is a unique force in the deliberations that will define the character of innovation and discourse in our future. |
Abstract: At 550000 km of installed fiber, BSNL's network is the largest in the world and is growing at a rate of 50% per year. I will review BSNL's plans to provide FTTH throughout India and will also discuss anticipated broadband service offerings.
Biography: Shri Kuldeep Goyal took over as Chairman and Managing Director of BSNL on August 1, 2007. Shri Kuldeep Goyal joined the Indian Telecommunication Service of Govt. of India in 1972. He is an Engineering Graduate from IIT Roorkee.
Just prior to taking over as CMD at BSNL, Shri Goyal worked as Director (Planning and New Services) and was responsible for the planning and execution of strategy for expansion of BSNL's network.
With more than 35 years of service, Shri Goyal has vast experience in telecom sector viz. planning, installation, operation and maintenance of wirelines and wireless services, data services, computerization of various activities in telecom network and provision of value added services.
While working as chief General Manager, Maharashtra Telecom circle, he was in charge of operations, planning and expansion of telecom network of the largest circle of BSNL and contributed to rapid growth of telecom networks in Maharashtra and Goa. During his short tenure of ten months as Executive Director, MTNL Mumbai, he was able to double the connections in the GSM network of MTNL Mumbai and MTNL's market share was enhanced from 8.93% to 15.5%. During his tenure, broadband service was also started in January 2005 and 40,000 subscribers were enrolled during a short period of nine months.
Shri Goyal has worked in Yemen on a foreign project through Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd. He was also a Member of National Working Group of ITU-T Study Group 2 on operational aspect of service, provision and performance of telecom networks and participated in meeting of ITU-T Study Group 2 at Geneva.
Shri Goyal has delivered a number of talks on various topics relating to telecom in various forums like GSM Association, Institute of Engineers, Institute of Electrical and Telecommunications Engineers, CII, Door Darshan and A.I.R. Some of his articles - "Telecommunication Industry at a Glance", "Universal Access - An International Perspective" and "Trade in Telecommunications" have been published in Telecommunications Journal. |