Ahmed Abdelhalim is a director of High End & Service Provider Systems at Foundry Networks. His main responsibilities include the definition of requirements for new high end Foundry products, the evangelization of new technologies and products, as well as assisting service providers in building next generation infrastructures. As part of his role, he is responsible for driving Foundry’s new flagship products like the NetIron XMR Series of Internet routers, NetIron MLX Metro routers, and the BigIron RX high performance switches. He was also responsible for driving Foundry’s prior generation of high end routers and switches: NetIron 40G, and BigIron MG8.
Prior to his work at Foundry, he worked as a consultant with Siemens Ltd. specializing in large scale data networking. His main responsibilities included offering consultancy services on designing and building scalable, high speed infrastructures utilizing key technologies like IP, Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, ATM, Frame Relay, Leased Lines, and ISDN.
Prior to Siemens, he worked as a systems engineer with Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) where he specialized in TCP/IP routing and high end UNIX systems utilizing DEC’s state of the art Symmetric Multi-Processing on Alpha systems. In his role, he took over the responsibility of designing and overseeing the build-out of high performance computing networks, high availability clusters, Internet server clusters, ISP infrastructures, and WAN infrastructures utilizing both standard IP as well as some DEC proprietary technologies.
He received a B.Sc. in Systems Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, in 1993. He brings over 12 years of experience in high end networking and high performance computing. His main interests include large scale networking, service convergence, QoS, Metro Ethernet, WAN, IPv6, and MPLS.
Luis Aguirre-Torres
Luis Aguirre-Torres currently holds the position of Director of Marketing and Customer Solutions for Corrigent Systems. Before joining Corrigent in 2004, and after two years of working with Nortel Networks R&D in the UK on several MPLS-related projects, he worked as Principal Technical Staff Member at AT&T, where he took part on several projects related to packet transport, including the design of an MPLS-based multi-service access transport network. He received his degree in Electronic Engineering at the University of Mexico and attended graduate school at University College London, where he completed an MSc course in Computer Science.
Zubair Ahmad represents the Network Technology & Architecture organization of Orange Business Services. He has been with Orange Business Services (Equant/ Global One initially) since April 1996. During this period Zubair has held various positions in Network Operations and Engineering. Prior to joining Equant/ Global One, Zubair worked for Bell Atlantic from Jan '95 through Mar '96. He holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering and graduated from University of Florida, Gainesville in December 1994. Zubair's professional interests include: MPLS based L3 & L2 VPNs, MPLS Traffic Engineering, CoS, Multicast VPNs and High Availability.
Zafar Ali is a Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, Inc. where he leads
software protocol development for Cisco Systems high speed, carrier-class
routing business unit. Prior to joining Cisco, Zafar worked at Nortel
Networks and Hughes Network Systems.
Zafar Ali is quite active as a member of the MPLS, CCAMP, BFD, PCE, RTG and
other working group within IETF. He has authored a number of IETF drafts. In
addition, Zafar Ali has also authored several Journal papers, conference
publications, book chapters, and patents. Zafar has a broad range of
interests include optical networking, MPLS Traffic Engineering, and
multicast routing.
Zafar Ali received his Ph. D. and MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering
from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He obtained his Bachelor of
Engineering in Electrical Engineering from NED University, Karachi, Pakistan
where he was awarded the University Gold Medal.
David Allan has been active in data telecommunications standards for the past ten years including WG chair roles in the DSL Forum and the IETF. He has been active for over twenty five years as an architect, design engineer and developer of real time systems in diverse areas of technology ranging from process control and avionics to financial transaction processing. His current role at Nortel is focused on MPLS and Ethernet standards.
Loa Andersson is co-chair of the IETF MPLS-WG and L2VPN working groups. He is
the Principal Networking Architect at the Swedish Research Institute, Acreo AB and is
currently leading architectural, requirement and test activity for MultiService Metro
Networks in the Nordic region. He has provided leadership in architectural development
and product specification at several networking companies and is also co-author of
key MPLS, L2VPN, L3VPN and GMPLS specifications and is a member of the Internet
Architecture Board (IAB).
Peter Arberg is a Director of Product Management with responsibilities
for Architecture & Standards within Redback Networks.
Prior to joining Redback, Peter Arberg worked as a Network Consultant for
Cisco Systems and have also worked in both government and enterprise
business
implementing IP and MPLS networks.
Dr. Awduche leads the Verizon Business Internet Engineering organization
based in Ashburn (VA). In this role, he manages a team of engineering
specialists responsible for network engineering of Verizon's public IP
network, which is one of the largest IP networks in the world (previously
known as UUNET). Prior to the acquisition of MCI by Verizon, Dr. Awduche led
the Internet Engineering organization for MCI. He is notable for championing
the development and standardization of MPLS traffic engineering technology
and pioneering the concept of Multiprotocol Lambda Switching which is now
called Generalized MPLS (GMPLS). In December 2005, EETimes listed Dr.
Awduche as one of 29 innovators that have had a significant impact on a
broad range of industry sectors. Dr. Awduche's academic background includes
the M.S. degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, and the Ph.D. degree in Information Technology from George Mason University. In addition, he has an MBA degree from George Mason University.
Rajesh Balay is a Principal Engineer at Redback Networks, currently engaged
in a wide
spectrum of R&D activities in the IP Routing and MPLS technology.
Prior to joining Redback, Dr. Balay had contributed to developing routing &
switching
products at CoSine Communications, Ericsson IP Infrastructure and IBM,
focusing
primarily in IP routing, MPLS services and ATM technology. He has been
awarded patents
in these technologies and has also contributed to the IETF standards. Dr.
Balay received
a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from BITS Pilani, India and a Ph.D.
in Computer Science
from NC State University, Raleigh.
Thomas Beckhaus works at Deutsche Telekom in the residential business unit T-Com. He has started his career in 1996 as a system engineer with various ATM equipment and was deeply involved into the installation of the ATM infrastructure of Deutsche Telekom in late 90s. Thomas moved to IP/MPLS in 1999 and took over a leading role in the upgrading of the companies national and international IP network to MPLS in the timeframe from 1999 to 2001.
He also has a technology coordinating position between the national and international business units and subsidiaries of Deutsche Telekom.
Since 2004, Thomas is responsible for the technology architecture of the Triple Play enabled IP/MPLS network of Deutsche Telekom, T-Com. In addition, he is the project leader of the IPv6 implementation project within T-Com.
Mark Blumhardt joined Alcatel in 2003 and is based in Maryland. He is
currently a member of the IP division product management team and focuses on
a broad range of technologies, including MPLS based VPN services and Triple
Play Service Delivery Architecture. Prior to Alcatel he held positions in
systems engineering and network engineering.
Ron Bonica is an engineer, employed by Juniper Networks' software development group. His specialties are secure network operation and Layer 3 Virtual Private Networking. Prior to joining Juniper Networks, Mr. Bonica was Senior Manager of engineering for MCI's vBNS+ network.The vBNS+ provided secure, Layer 3 VPN service to U.S. governmentcustomers. Mr. Bonica currently serves as co-chairman of the IETF Layer 3 VPN(L3VPN) working group and is a is a past chairman of the IETF Common Control and Measurement Plane (CCAMP) working group.
Heather Boyles is a Director in the Member and Partner Relations department of Internet2. She has senior management responsibilities for Internet2's relationships with infrastructure-related constituencies, including non-US networking initiatives, US federal research networks and US-based advanced regional networks. As part of these responsibilities, Heather serves as Director, International Relations, overseeing the building of the Internet2 International Relations program from its first partnership in 1997 with Canada's CANARIE organization to over 45 partnerships today with high-performance research and education networking organizations from around the world. She has been involved with numerous global networking initiatives and organizations, including the Coordinating Committee on Intercontinental Research Networking (CCIRN), the Internet Society (ISOC), the G7 Global Interoperability of Broadband Networks (GIBN) initiative and others.
Heather holds a Master's Degree in International Affairs: International Economic Policy from the American University in Washington, DC and a Bachelor's Degree in International Studies and German from Indiana.
Deborah Brungard is a Technology Architect at AT&T Labs, Middletown, New Jersey. She has been with AT&T for more than 22 years. During this period, her work has included research and development on SDH products, international network planning, and strategic standards development. She was Chair of T1X1.5 from 2000-2003. She is currently IETF CCAMP WG Cochair. She received her M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering in 1984 from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey.
Peter Busschbach, director of the Lucent Technologies Chief Technology Office, Peter Busschbach analyzes key industry market and technology trends and helps to translate these factors into new products and features. Furthermore, he is responsible for technical standards strategy in the area of IP, MPLS and Ethernet.
Mr. Busschbach joined Lucent in 1986 and has held various positions in software development, systems engineering, and key management roles in product management and solutions sales support. In these roles, he has driven technology developments in the areas of Access technologies, Optical Networking, IP and MPLS network architectures, and cross platform solutions.
Mr. Busschbach holds an M. Sc in Mathematics from the Technical University Eindhoven in the Netherlands.
Geraldine Calvignac has been working on high speed networks for 13 years within
France Telecom R&D division. She has more than 6 years of experience on the
MPLS technology (LDP based MPLS, MPLS Traffic Engineering, VPNs, including
the interaction between the control planes of the IP and transport
networks). Ms. Calvignac is involved in the design and the engineering of
the IP/MPLS networks of France Telecom. She has also standardization
activities, e.g. in the DSL Forum.
David Christophe is the MFA Forum education working group chair. He is currently a solutions manager with Lucent Technologies. David has over twenty years experience in data and optical networking. Prior to his current position, David has held a variety of positions in product management and systems engineering.
Bruce Davie joined Cisco Systems in 1995, and was awarded recognition as a Cisco Fellow in 1998. Bruce leads an architecture group within Cisco's central software organization, with responsibility for the development of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities for IP networks. His group is also responsible for ensuring that Cisco's technical solutions are represented in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). In addition, he is leading a cross-company effort to create a common QoS & MPLS architecture across the Cisco product line.
Prior to joining Cisco, Bruce worked at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) and led a number of networking research projects as director of internetworking research and chief scientist. He has more than 15 years of networking and communications industry experience. Some of his most prominent contributions to the industry include authoring numerous books, RFCs, journal articles, and conference papers on IP networking. He is also an active participant in both the Internet Engineering Task Force and the Internet Research Task Force, and is a senior member of the IEEE. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Edinburgh University and a B.E. from the University of Melbourne.
Bruno Decraene is a network architect at France Telecom R&D. He is working on short term IP routing and BGP/MPLS VPN engineering activities and on mid-term projects. He has been involved in the design of the Transit VPN network (French domestic VPN network). Before joining France Telecom R&D, he was working in France Telecom on Information Systems for network management and network mediation for billing.
Emmanuel Dotaro (Emmanuel.Dotaro@alcatel.fr) received an M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Versailles, France in 1996. After three years spent in Institut National des Télécommunications Performance Evaluation lab while holding a teaching position at the University of Versailles, he joined the Alcatel Research and Innovation lab. at Marcoussis, France in 1999. He is now deputy of the Packet Transport Infrastructure project leader, leading the control and management plane activities. His current research interests are network architecture and design, performance and dimensioning with a specific focus on protocol suites such as MPLS/GMPLS, PCE, LxVPN.
Luyuan Fang received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Flinders University of South Australia in 1991. She is presently a Senior Technical Specialist in the Network design and engineering organization at AT&T Labs. Prior to joining AT&T, she worked for Telstra, Nortel, and Racal Datacom. She has extensive experience in carrier IP/MPLS network design and engineering. As a primary contributor in the design and deployment of MPLS VPN in the AT&T IP backbone, Dr. Fang has gained a unique first-hand perspective of the practical challenges involved in BGP/MPLS VPN deployment using MPLS network. Dr. Fang is currently co-authoring several Internet Drafts and RFCs in the MPLS, L2 and L3 VPN, IDR, and Traffic Engineering Working Groups in IETF, and is a frequent invited speaker at major international conferences on MPLS technology and VPN deployment. She has also given several tutorials on MPLS and VPN technologies, and has published more than 60 technical papers.
Adrian Farrel is co-chair of the IETF’s Common Control and Measurement Plane (CCAMP) Working Group, which is responsible for the development of the GMPLS family of protocols. He also chairs the Path Computation Element (PCE) Working Group, which is applying remote path computation techniques to MPLS and GMPLS networks, and the Layer One VPN (L1VPN) Working Group, which is developing mechanisms to manage connectivity over optical networks using GMPLS. He was a founding board member of the MPLS Forum, he is a regular attendee at ITU-T meetings that discuss the optical control plane, and he regularly serves on the technical committees for MPLS and GMPL conferences.
Building on his 20 years’ experience designing and developing communications software, Adrian runs a successful consultancy company, Old Dog Consulting, providing advice on implementation, deployment, and standardization of Internet Protocol-based solutions, especially in the arena of MPLS and GMPLS.
As well as frequently speaking at conferences, giving tutorials on MPLS and GMPLS, and authoring several white papers on GMPLS, Adrian is the author of The Internet and Its Protocols: A Comparative Approach (Morgan-Kaufmann, 2004) which explains many of the IP-based protocols including those that make up MPLS and GMPLS, and GMPLS: Architecture and Applications (Morgan-Kaufmann, 2005).
Don Fedyk is a Senior Technical Advisor for Nortel Networks' Standards Group specializing in IP and Optical Control Plane Routing. He has been with Nortel Networks many years, initially developing routing systems on several Nortel packet switched data platforms. Don is an authority on Routing System design for both connectionless and path oriented routing. Don is a co-author of several GMPLS drafts and an active follower of several the IETF Working groups including CCAMP, MPLS, Traffic engineering, Routing Area WG, PWE3, PPVPN. Don received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo Ontario, Canada.
Dr. Peter M. Fonash was formally assigned as the Deputy Manager and Director of the National Communications System (NCS) on April 21, 2005, after serving 9 months as the Acting Deputy Manager.From 1998 until July 2004, Dr. Fonash served as the Chief of the NCS Technology and Programs Division, managing priority services technology development, network modeling and analysis, specialized telecommunications research and development, and priority services standards.
Working for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (OASD C3I) from 1994 to 1996, Dr. Fonash was responsible for policy and program oversight of the Defense Information Infrastructure (DII), and served as Chairman, Office of the Secretary of Defense Information Technology (IT) Architecture Council. He was a member of the High Performance Computing Modernization Program Advisory Panel and the Information Technology Working Group of the Commission of Roles and Missions of the Armed Forces.
Dr. Fonash has a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and a Master of Science from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Business Administration from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Information Technology from George Mason University, School of Information Technology and Engineering.
David A. Garbin is a Senior Fellow in Mitretek Systems’ Center for Information and Telecommunications Technologies. He has over 30 years experience in the telecommunications and networking field, focusing on the design and economic analysis of large networks, both for carriers and their customers. His current duties include research into providing quality-of-service in convergent IP networks and advising Government agencies in the acquisition and implementation of Voice over IP. E-mail: david.garbin@mitretek.org
Mr. J. Patrick Gary is presently the Network Projects Leader in the Networks and Security Group of the Computational & Information Sciences and Technology Office at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Mr. Gary has served at the NASA GSFC for over 35 years in various positions of increasing responsibility. Most previously he was a senior member of the technical staff of GSFC's Earth and Space Data Computing Division and prior to that he was Head of GSFC's Computer Network and Security Branch.
He holds a BA in Mathematics from The Catholic University of America (1968), a MS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland (1974), and a Masters in Engineering Administration from George Washington University (1981). Mr. Gary's on-going research enables high performance computer networking for one of NASA's largest supercomputer facilities. He conducts computer network research involving the deployment and evaluation of multi-gigabit terrestrial, satellite and other advanced communications technologies such as ATM, multiwavelength optical switches and WDM, SONET, switched multi-Gigabit Ethernet, TCP/IP and higher layer protocols, and Wireless (both RF and FSO) in local, metropolitan, and wide area networks.
Dr. Richard Gitlin serves as Hammerhead Systems’ CTO and is responsible for the vision, architecture, and technology direction, of the company’s products. Prior to joining Hammerhead Rich was at Bell Labs and Lucent for 32-years performing and leading pioneering research and development in digital communications, broadband networking, and wireless systems. Rich was CTO of Lucent’s Data Networking Business Unit and Senior VP for Communications and Networking Research at Bell Labs. After retiring from Lucent, he was VP of Technology and CTO of NEC Labs America. He was also a visiting professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University.
Rich has conducted and led research and development that has resulted in many innovative products, including: the industry-leading ATLANTA ATM Chipset, the world’s first 20 gigabit/sec ATM switch, wire-speed and quality of service-aware IP switches, multicode CDMA (IS-95B), and the record-setting BLAST broadband wireless system based on advanced spatial domain (smart antenna/MIMO) processing. He also led the team that pioneered V.32/V.34 voice-band modems, and in 1986 he was co-inventor of DSL. His DSL work was instrumental in launching Globespan, an early DSL chip vendor.
Rich received a Bachelor’s degree with honors in Electrical Engineering from The City College of New York, and Masters and Doctor of Engineering Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University.
Ron Haberman joined Alcatel in 2005 and is based in Mountain View
California. Prior to Alcatel he held positions in software development and
network engineering. Ron is part of Alcatel's IP Division where he serves as
a product line manager for the 7x50 product line focusing on Alcatel's
Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture features.
Giles Heron is responsible for Data Networks Architecture for Tellabs EMEA. His current focus is on deploying MPLS-based networks for mobile carriers. He was previously network architect for PacketExchange, a startup carrier offering Ethernet services over a pan-European MPLS backbone – and the first provider to have deployed draft-martini Ethernet Private Lines. Prior to co-founding PacketExchange Giles was a member of the global network architecture team at Level(3) communications.
Giles is active in the IETF and is a co-author of various Internet drafts and RFCs.
Tim Hubbard has over 25 years experience in the networking industry. Tim has worked in several sectors including banking, public utility, manufacturing and defense, where he was responsible for the engineering, implementation and strategy of advanced voice and packet data networks.
Tim is currently the Principle Consultant for BT’s 21CN Solutions, where he leads the team responsible for identifying and defining technologies and solutions that will enable the delivery of next generation services, including Ethernet, MPLS, VoIP and advanced IP networking.
Tim has extensive public speaking experience and is regularly invited to contribute and speak to industry leading events.
Tim holds a BSC and MSC in Electrical Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration.
Mr. Yukio Ito is Director of IP Network Department, NTT Communications
Corporation's Network Business Division. He is responsible for
construction and deployment of ISP networks and VLAN networks at NTT
Communications. He is managing the development and engineering of Layer 2
MPLS and Ethernet technologies, in addition to managing deployment and
operation of Layer 2 MPLS networks.
Lee Jalali is presently involved in all aspects of data network design and services for Sprint's government customers. Prior to joining Sprint in 1999 Lee worked for WilTel as a Senior Scientist and he was a HDTV researcher at Bell Labs/Telecordia. Lee received his PhD from the University of Texas in 1980.
Arnold Jansen joined Alcatel in 1989 and is based on Ottawa, Canada. During
his career he held various positions in engineering, research, sales and
product management. He is currently part of Alcatel's IP Division where he
holds the position of Senior Solutions Marketing Manager in support of
Alcatel's Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture.
Frederic Jounay has received the Dipl.-Ing. degree for Telecommunication Engineering in 2001. He joined France Telecom R&D this same year in the Access Network Laboratory. From 2001 to 2003, he was responsible for techno-economics studies related to multiple access technologies including xDSL and FTTx for the consumer and business markets. Since 2004, he is now working on optical access architecture with a main focus on IP TV services delivery (multicast features) with also investigations about the introduction of IP/MPLS-based access network. He is involved in IST projects, like MUSE.
Richard Kaczmarek has over 33 years of experience in project management, information and telecommunications technology research and development projects, and information and telecommunications technology consulting. He has assisted clients in technology surveys, strategic plans, information technology management assessments, and the design, analysis, specification, procurement, development and implementation of information systems and telecommunications networks. As a contractor to the National Communications System, his current role is assessing industry trends and technologies for the evolution of Emergency Telecommunications Services.
Sunil Khandekar is the Vice President of Product Management in the Service Router Product Group of Alcatel’s IP Division. Sunil joined Alcatel through the 2003 acquisition of TiMetra Networks, a startup focused on service routers for IP/MPLS networks. Sunil has over 14 years experience in the communications and networking industry and has been an active participant in the IETF having co-authored and contributed to multiple drafts. Sunil has been a regular speaker at technical conferences all over the world on subjects such as Metro Ethernet, VPLS, MPLS and QoS. Sunil has a bachelor’s degree in ME and a Masters degree in CIS.
Rose Klimovich is Vice President responsible for AT&T Business’s strategy, evaluation and investment in new markets and new technologies.Prior to this, Rose was in charge of AT&T’s full portfolio of Global VPN Services CPE-based and network-based VPN services both managed and unmanaged and wireless and wireline for enterprises, service providers and the government.
Rose is a member of the Burton Industry Advisory Board and the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) Internet Board of Directors.
Prior to this, as the General Manager of AT&T’s Managed Internet Access services business, Rose was responsible for directing AT&T’s high speed Internet access business, managed broadband services business and global Internet infrastructure. In this role, Rose was responsible for creating AT&T’s Internet network that supports the entire AT&T family of consumer and business Internet services.
Rose has more than 20 years of experience and achievement in building, scaling and managing Internet and technology-oriented businesses. Her previous leadership experience includes overseeing the advanced service developments for AT&T's Worldnet consumer internet service, developing AT&T's voice/data/video strategy, joint product initiatives with Novell, product line management and marketing of AT&T’s (now Lucent's) ATM and IP products.
Rose has an MBA and a BS in Math/Economics from Carnegie-Mellon University. She has also attended the Harvard Management Development Program for Executives.
Kireeti Kompella is a Juniper Fellow at Juniper Networks. His current interests are all aspects of Multi-Protocol Label Switching, including Traffic Engineering, Generalized MPLS, and MPLS applications such as VPNs. Dr. Kompella is active at the IETF where he is a co-chair of the CCAMP Working Group and the author of several Internet Drafts and RFCs in the areas of CCAMP, IS-IS, L2VPN, MPLS, OSPF and TE. He specializes in Layer 2 VPNs, Metro Ethernet and Virtual Private LAN Service. Previously, he worked in the area of filesystems at Network Appliance and SGI; and earlier in the area of security and cryptography.
Dr. Kompella received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur; and his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Southern California.
Martin Lai is a Product Manager at Agilent Technologies and is currently focused on MPLS/GMPLS protocols and related technologies. He has over 10 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and has worked in product management, pre-sales consulting and software engineering roles. Martin holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Melbourne.
Marc Lasserre, co-author of the VPLS draft, has 20 years of experience in the networking industry and is the author of several IETF drafts related to MPLS VPN standards. Marc is Chief Scientist for Lucent Technologies and is involved with standards definition and network design.
Over the years, he has held technology leadership positions at several high tech companies in Silicon Valley where he has been active in the design of Ethernet switches, ATM switches and IP routers. He has worked on system design, protocol design and implementation for such technologies as Ethernet, IP, MPLS, ATM, Frame Relay and PPP. Marc is a frequent speaker in major Telecommunications and Networking conferences. He holds a BSCS from the University of Bordeaux, France.
J.L. Le Roux is a senior architect in MPLS networks, at France Telecom. He is working on short term MPLS design and deployment activities and on longer term research and development projects, with a particular focus on MPLS Traffic Engineering and Multicast MPLS. He is actively contributing to the IETF, where he has been editing and co-authoring several Internet Drafts and RFCs. His current interests are QoS routing, fast rerouting, inter domain traffic engineering (including PCE), P2MP MPLS and GMPLS Multi Layer Networks. J-L holds an engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, France.
Nicolai Leymann is currently working in his 9th year for Deutsche Telekom in the area of IP Technologies and MPLS-Backbone design. This includes the integration of technologies - eg. IP-Multicast, VPLS etc. - in MPLS networks and VPN scenarios. During this work Mr. Leymann is responsible for several international related to IP Multicast, MPLS, VPLS, Multipoint-Services, Backbone-Design and VPNs.
Major focus is currently the design and integration of IP-Multicast into the new high speed network of Deutsche Telekom for Triple Play services (called "T-Home"), offering speeds up to 50 MBit/s.
He is also involved in the standarization process for Multicast services in MPLS, GMPLS and VPN environments (mainly within the IETF) and is looking into new backbone technologies as well as optical transport technologies.
Nicolai Leymann studied computer science at the Technical University Berlin and used to work there in several projects which were related to ATM networks, multimedia conferencing and network management.
Rich Loveland is responsible for North American marketing activities for
Alcatel's Access Networks Division, focusing on existing and next
generation access services and products for FTTx including Fiber-to-the
Home and Fiber-to-the-Node products. These products include the Alcatel
7330 ISAM FTTN family and the 7340/7342 FTTU platforms. He has more than
25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry with Alcatel,
Ciena, Ipitek, Pliant Systems Inc., Nortel Networks and GTE (now
Verizon) working in the areas of Marketing, Product Management, Business
Development, Customer Engineering and CO Engineering. In his current
role he provides marketing analysis and guidance as well as creates and
communicates Alcatel's positioning for the FTTx products to external
audiences.
Andrew G. Malis holds the position of Chief Technologist at Tellabs, which provides end-to-end service delivery and transport solutions for carriers. He has been active in wide-area data networking and telecommunications for over 30 years, beginning with the ARPANET, the foundation of today's Internet. He has also held senior engineering positions at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman; Ascom Nexion; Cascade Communications; Ascend Communications; Lucent Technologies; and Vivace Networks, which was purchased by Tellabs. His current responsibilities include Tellabs’ product architecture, future product planning, standards participation coordination, and customer consultation.
He is also President and Chairman of the Board of the MFA (MPLS, Frame Relay and ATM) Forum, served as the MPLS Forum’s founding Technical Committee Chair, has chaired a number of working groups in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the ATM Forum, and is a veteran participant and award recipient in other standards bodies and industry consortia. He has written, edited, and otherwise contributed to many standards documents in these organizations, including 21 IETF RFCs. He also serves on the technical advisory boards of several privately held high-tech companies, and has chaired and spoken at numerous industry conferences. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Brown University, and his Master of Science degree, also in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, at Harvard University.
Michael Marcellin leads the product management and marketing team responsible for the development, management and marketing of Verizon Business’s industry-leading portfolio of IP and Ethernet Networking services, including its flagship MPLS-based offering Private IP, Secure Gateway Services, and a broad continuum of Ethernet offerings.
As director of this line of business, Marcellin provides oversight and vision to a team of experts responsible for managing and marketing the most comprehensive suite of data services on the market. Marcellin’s group has been instrumental in bringing new innovative services and capabilities to market by driving more intelligence into Verizon Business’s network and delivering more flexibility to our customers.
Previously, Marcellin was director of product pricing for the company, responsible for determining the pricing strategy for the entire business product line including voice, data, and IP services. Marcellin delivered innovative pricing packages and bundles and was instrumental in developing customer retention and growth strategies.
Prior to these roles, Marcellin was director of the company’s eCRM marketing division, where he was responsible for leading the marketing strategy and development of the customer-facing Web portal, the Verizon Business Customer Center. Pivotal in its development and launch, Marcellin and his team delivered value-added applications to customers and the company’s sales and service support teams. These applications enabled both teams to manage their products and services, monitor their networks, view and pay their invoices, order services, and interact with customer service, all via a secure Web portal.
Christophe Masiero currently leads the IP Product Management team responsible for the international network services at Orange Business Services. With a team of product managers, he is in charge of the MPLS-based IP VPN, Internet Direct and the DSL-based Small Office Solutions as well as CPE management and Reporting & SLA features. His responsibilities include over $1B of P&L, definition of the marketing, pricing and product development strategies, full life-cycle product management and cost optimization. In his capacity, Masiero interacts with large enterprise customers, frequently talks to journalists about the portfolio evolution and often speaks at various industry events.
Prior to moving to the product organization in 2000, Masiero was a Sr. Research Consultant in the formerly known Equant’s Strategic Technology Planning group. In this role, Masiero provided strategic recommendations to Equant senior management for the introduction of IP technologies, such as MPLS, Class of Services and IPSec.
Prior to joining Equant in 1999, Masiero held a series of sales support positions for Alcatel in both the US and France. In these roles, he participated in sales efforts, delivering turnkey network solutions to international carriers.
Masiero was a French Air Force reserve officer and holds a French Master’s degree in Computer Sciences and Electrical Engineering from ESIGETEL, France. He earned an MBA from Kennesaw State University, GA, university in which he currently serves as a member of the advisory board of the Coles College of business executive programs.
Dr. Dave McDysan is a Principal Member of Technical Staff (PMTS) in the Packet Network Architecture (PNA) group in the Verizon Technology Organization (VTO). He is responsible for architectural aspects related to Verizon's IP and Data services, including Internet access, IP VPNs, Ethernet and packet data services, Quality of Service, Voice over IP, Internet standards, and network economic and performance modeling. He works to investigate new and emerging technologies, define architectural approaches for these technologies, interact with other organizations to address important business aspects, and model the economic and performance advantages of new and refined architectures.
Dave has held a variety of positions in his 25 years of bridged service with the company. Most recently, he worked with a team to define a network evolution strategy that merged the former Verizon and MCI IP and data architecture plans. Prior to the acquisition by Verizon, he led a team in MCI that defined the converged backbone, multiservice edge, and converged packet access control protocol architecture. He also pioneered the decoupling of control and switching for VoIP, led all activities involved with the MCI trial and commercial ATM networks, developed architecture and designs for MCI’s frame relay and digital cross connect control networks and contributed to the intelligent network architecture for advanced voice services. Prior to the acquisition by MCI, he worked on Demand Assignment and TDMA in Satellite Business Systems.
Dr. McDysan has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech and his Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering and Doctorate of Science degree from George Washington University. He has been an instructor for IP and Data Communications at George Washington University. He has been active and held a variety of leadership positions in the ATM Forum, Multi-Service Switching Forum and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards groups. He has published five technical books on ATM, IP Quality of Service and IP VPNs.
Dr. Renaud Moignard is in charge of an R&D team in FTR&D whose activities
deal with MPLS and Multicast for IP core networks. His team is involved in
engineering studies, equipment validation, as well as standardization and
innovation in those two domains. Prior to this position, he was Architect
for next generation networks, working especially on IP and VoIP functional
architectures. Before joining FTR&D, he held different positions in new
entrant operators in France, mainly as wireless engineer for mobile networks
as well as for wireless fixed local loop. Dr. Renaud Moignard also studied
optical switching equipments during his PhD thesis (1996) and has a French
engineering degree from the école Nationale Supérieure des
Télécommunications de Bretagne (92).
Monique Morrow is currently Distinguished Consulting Engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc. She has over 20 years experience in IP internetworking that includes design, implementation of complex customer projects and service development for service providers. Monique has been involved in developing managed Network Services like Remote Access and LAN Switching in a Service Provider environment. Monique has worked for both enterprise and service provider companies in the United States and in Europe.
Monique has presented in various conferences on the topic of MPLS.
Additionally, Monique is co-author of the book Designing IP-Based Services: Solutions for Vendors and Service Providers. Monique is co-author of the book, MPLS VPN Security and co-author of the book, MPLS for Decision Makers.
Monique is currently working on a book one that presents enterprise drivers and concerns for IP-based service delivery.
Monique is active in both the IETF and ITU-T SG 13 with a focus on OAM. She has a M.S in Telecommunications Management and an MBA. Additionally, Monique is also Vice-Chair of IPsphere Forum.
Thomas D. Nadeau works at Cisco Systems where he is a Principle Engineer responsible for the architecture of operations and management and network management MPLS-related components at Cisco.
Tom is an active participant in the IETF, ITU-T, and IEEE. He is co-author of many IETF MIBs, protocol and architecture documents in the L2/L3VPN, TE, PWE3, GMPLS and MPLS areas. He is co-author of over 20 IETF RFCs.
Tom received his BSCS from The University of New Hampshire, and a M.Sc. from The University of Massachusetts in Lowell, where he has been an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science since 2000. Tom currently teaches courses on the topic of data communications. He is also on the technical committees of several prominent networking conferences where he provides technical guidance on their content. He has been on the technical advisory boards of a number of companies including Westridge Networks. He is the technical editor of Enabling VPN Aware Networks with MPLS (Prentice-Hall Publishers, 2001), and author of MPLS Network Management: MIBs, Tools, and Techniques (Morgan-Kaufman, 2002). Tom is currently working on a second text covering the topic of MPLS Operations and Management, which is expected in late 2006.
MPLS Network Management: MIBs, Tools, and Techniques (Morgan-Kaufman, 2002).
Greg Nehib is a distinguished product planner at Fujitsu Network Communications, with a focus on packet transport network architectures and systems. He has worked in the telecommunications industry for over 14 years in progressively expanding roles in the areas of product line management, product planning, and sales engineering. Prior to joining Fujitsu, Greg was a senior manager of network engineering at Alcatel, a senior system engineer at Monterey Networks (now Cisco Systems), and a senior product manager at Cisco Systems. Greg received a bachelor of science degree in engineering technology, with a specialty in telecommunications, from Texas A&M University.
Benjamin Niven-Jenkins is currently working for BT as a Network Architect. He graduated with a B.Sc (Hons.) in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the University of Birmingham, England. He is currently involved researching and standardizing next generation network technologies and architectures and is responsible for defining the multicast architecture to be used in BT's 21st Century Network project.
Kenichi Ogaki received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in system engineering from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in 1997 and 1999, respectively. In 1999, he joined KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc., Saitama, Japan. He is a research engineer of integrated core network control and management laboratory. He is engaging in research on optical networking.
Eiji Oki is a Senior Research Engineer with NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories. He is working on researching and developing high-speed optical IP backbone networks including standardization in IETF. He received B.E. and M.E. degrees in Instrumentation Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Keio University, Japan, in 1991, 1993, and 1999, respectively. In 1993, he joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation's (NTT's) Communication Switching Laboratories, Tokyo Japan. From 2000 to 2001, he was a Visiting Scholar at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York.
Tomohiro Otani received the B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1992, 1994, 2002, and Professional Engineering degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University, USA, in 1998, respectively. In 1994, he joined Submarine Cable Systems Dept. of KDDI Corporation. He is a senior manager of integrated core network control and management group in KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc. He is also a manager of optical network department of KDDI corporation. He also hold a position as a research fellow in NICT JGN II Tsukuba Research Center. His research interests have been intelligent optical networks. He is a member of the IEICE.
Hideki OTSUKI received B.E and M.E degrees from Musashi Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He then joined the National Institute of Informations and Communications. He received Doctor Degree of Electrical Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 2002.
His major field of study is network architecture. He was involved in Intelligent Network since 1993. He developed Intelligent Network Service Simulator for B-ISDN, and a testbed with ATM switches. He has joined ATM satellite communication experiments. His current research interestsis GMPLS protocols.
Dimitri Papadimitriou joined in 2000 the Alcatel CTO as Expert Research Engineer the Network Architecture team of the Central Research Center (CRC) where he was in charge of the packet/optical networking architecture. In 2004, he joined the Packet-Transport Infrastructure (PTI) team of the Research and Innovation (R&I) of the Alcatel Corporate CTO department. He is now part of the Network Strategy Group (NSG) of the Alcatel Corporate CTO, as Network Strategy Manager where he is in charge of the carrier grade packet networks architecture, technology and strategy. His current areas of investigation are focused on carrier grade IP and Ethernet networks including routing protocols, traffic engineering and QoS mechanisms.
He authored various technical papers on routing and recovery techniques for sub-IP networks. He is also actively involved in the standardization activities of the IETF Routing Area where he edits and co-authors numerous working group documents on Generalized/Multi-Protocol Label Switching (G/MPLS) control planes and related protocol aspects. Dimitri Papadimitriou is a Distinguished Member of the Alcatel Technical Academy (ALTA).
Dr. Jay Perrett has spent over 20 years developing advanced machine learning solutions and artificial intelligence in academia and industry. Jay is responsible for the intellectual property vested in Aria Networks’ iVNT computation engine – DANI.
Dr. Perrett brings considerable experience developing and bringing products to market as he was a founder and head of R&D at Darwinian Neural Networks Industries and the CEO of Applied Insilico. He has held research, development and leadership roles at Lucent Technologies and two US based start-ups. As Director for Strategic Sales for EMEA for Redback Networks Dr Perrett drove market acceptance of a new paradigm in multi-functional data transport and as Director for Bell Labs Field Research activities in United Kingdom, and Manager of Software Development for AT&T/Lucent, he was responsible for the commercialization of multi-discipline research and development.
Richard Rabbat is a senior project manager at Fujitsu Labs of America.
His main responsibilities include research in optical transport networks. He
has authored research publications and has several patents pending in the
area of optical transport, network protection, and network economics.
Richard is an active participant at the IETF where he leads Fujitsu's
standardization activities. His interests include network economics, GMPLS
control plane and PON technologies.
Prior to Fujitsu, Richard worked as an intern at Qualcomm and Tellabs.
Richard received his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 1998 and 2001 respectively. He also holds a Masters of
Engineering and Bachelor of Engineering
in Computer and Communications Engineering from the American University of
Beirut, Lebanon.
Pasula is currently working at Redback Networks in the product
management
organization. Before joining Redback, Pasula worked at Torrent Networks,
CoSine Communications and ProCurve Networking Business Unit,
Hewlett-Packard. Most recently at ProCurve, Pasula was focusing on
technologies related to high-end Ethernet switching and following
appropriate IETF and IEEE standards. Pasula has a B-Tech from IIT-Madras
and
an M.S from North Carolina State University.
Dr. Yakov Rekhter joined Juniper Networks in Dec 2000, where he is a Juniper Fellow. Prior to joining Juniper, Yakov worked at Cisco Systems, where he was a Cisco Fellow.
Yakov Rekhter was one of the leading architects and a major software developer of the NSFNET Backbone Phase II. He co-designed the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). He was also one of the lead designers of Tag Switching, BGP/MPLS based VPNs (aka 2547 VPNs), and MPLS Traffic Engineering. Among his most recent activities is the work on Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS), Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS), and multicast in BGP/MPLS VPNs and VPLS.
He is the author or co-author of over 50 IETF RFCs, and numerous papers and articles on TCP/IP and the Internet. His books include: "MPLS: Technology and Applications" (Morgan Kauffman, 2000) and "Switching in IP Networks: IP Switching, Tag Switching and Related Technologies" (Morgan Kauffman, 1998).
Azhar Sayeed has more than 17 years of experience in the networking and communications industry that includes design and installation of complex networks involving multiple technologies and vendors. Currently, working as a Director of Product Management, in NSSTG, Cisco Systems, Mr. Sayeed is responsible for product management and rollout of IP Routing, Quality of Service (QoS), Broadband and Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) features in Cisco IOS® software. Cisco IOS® software is the network system software that powers the majority of Cisco's hardware platforms.
Azhar is the co-author of an upcoming book “MPLS and Next-Generation Networks: Foundations for NGN and Enterprise Virtualization” with Monique Morrow.
Ronald P. Sherwin serves as the Technical Director for Center for Network Services at the Defense Information Systems Agency. He served a principal member/author of the DISA IP Convergence study team, determining the Agency’s way-ahead for converged IP services (VOIP, NCES, Coalition, Security, QoS/CoS).
Mr. Sherwin has a B.S in Electrical Engineering from the City University of New York, and a Masters in Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech. He also graduated from the Resident Course at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. Mr. Sherwin has taught at George Washington University and American University, and has published numerous professional papers.
Kohei Shiomoto is a Senior Research Engineer, Supervisor, Group Leader at NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan. He joined the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Tokyo, Japan in April 1989, where he was engaged in research and development of ATM traffic control and ATM switching system architecture design.
From August 1996 to September 1997, he was engaged in research on high-speed networking as a Visiting Scholar at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA. From September 1997 to June 2001, he was directing architecture design for high-speed IP/MPLS label switch router research project at NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan. From July 2001 to March 2004, he was engaged in the research fields of photonic IP router design, routing algorithm, and GMPLS routing and signaling standardization at NTT Network Innovation Laboratories. Since April 2004, he has been engaged in the research fields of photonic IP router design, routing algorithm, and GMPLS routing and signaling standardization at NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories. He is active in standardization of GMPLS in the IETF.
He received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D degrees in information and computer sciences from Osaka University, Osaka in 1987 1989, and 1998, respectively.
Ning So received his MS in Telecommunications Engineering and Management and his BS in Industrial Engineering and Management from Oklahoma State University. He joined WorldCom’s Data Traffic Engineering team in 1996. His team has participated in the design and management of the company’s numerous IP/MPLS, Ethernet/Pseudowire, ATM, and Frame Relay networks. Mr. So currently serves as the lead engineer of the Data Traffic Engineering group at Verizon Business, responsible for the private data networks of the company.
Hidet Sugiyama is a Senior Technical Manager, APAC Technical Operations at Juniper Networks
and is currently focused on next generation IP Optical network technology related MPLS/GMPLS products.
He has over 18th years experience in Telecommunication industry as a Network consultant engineer
in data communications.
George Swallow is the Co-Chair of the IETF's Working Group on Multiprotocol over Label Switching. He is a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems where he is a member of the architecture team for Label Switching. He defined Cisco's architecture for applying MPLS to the problem of traffic engineering and fast reroute. Recently he has been involved in point to multi-point traffic engineering and in developing protocols for monitoring and diagnosing MPLS networks and MPLS based network applications.
Prior to Cisco, George was employed by BBN. There he was involved in the design, deployment, and analysis of over 50 operational networks, including the Arpanet. This work involved extensive statistical measurement and analysis to investigate both network and protocol behavior. He was also involved in the design of packet and ATM switches. While at BBN, he held a number of positions ranging from Senior Network Analyst to Director of Network Engineering.
He has been participating in the design and standardization of Internet & ATM standards since 1991.
George holds a MS in Mathematics from Northeastern University and a BA in Mathematics from the University of Virginia.
Dr. Payam Torab is a system architect at Lambda OpticalSystems, a US company focusing on all-optical switching solutions. He is responsible for product architecture and specifications, network planning, and GMPLS control plane architecture in support of waveband and wavelength switching.
He has a Masters and a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Before joining Lambda OpticalSystems, he was with Movaz Networks (now ADVA Optical Networking), developing routing and path computation algorithms for all-optical networks. Prior to that he was with Nortel Networks.
Steve Trowbridge is a Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies where he has been employed since 1977 in a variety of positions related to product development, systems engineering, technical marketing support, and standards. He is currently vice-chairman of ITU-T Study Group 15, chairman of Working Party 3/15 (OTN Structure), chairman of Working Party 3/TSAG (Electronic Working Methods and Publication Policy), and chairman of the ATIS OPTXS-OHI (Optical Transport and Syncronization Committee-Optical Hierarchal Interfaces) sub-committee.
He received his B.S.(Electrical Engineering), M.S. and Ph.D.(Computer Science) from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1976, 1977, and 1979 respectively.
JP Vasseur is a Cisco Distinguished Engineer where he works on IP/MPLS architecture specifications, focusing on IP, Traffic Engineering, network recovery and Sensor networks. Before joining Cisco, he worked for several service providers in large multiprotocol environments. He is an active member of the IETF, co-chair of the IETF PCE (Path Computation Element) Working Group and coauthor of several IETF RFCs. JP is a regular speaker at various international conferences and is involved in various research projects in the area of IP and MPLS. He has also filed several patents in the area of IP and MPLS and is the coauthor of “Network Recovery” (Morgan Kaufmann, July 2004) and “Definitive MPLS Network Designs” (Cisco Press, March 2005).
Lance Visser is the head of the MPLS/IP software group at Fujitsu Network Communications in Richardson, TX. During 2000-2005, he was the software architect for Chiaro Networks where he was involved in leading the company's terabit router from initial requirements through successful customer deployments. At Chiaro, he was responsible for several innovations in the area of highly available routing software and TCP/IP. From 1997-2000, he was a senior engineer at Alcatel involved in IP/MPLS system architecture design. From 1990-1997, he was a senior engineer at Convex Computer working in the areas of high speed TCP/IP data transfers and distributed operating systems.
Lei Wang is chief IP network architect in Telenor. Her primary responsibility is overall network design and implementation, in particular routing/switching and Quality of Service. Her recent interests are multiservice network QoS design, P2MP LSP and MPLS fast rerouting. She participates international fora and is co-author of several IETF drafts. She is the member of Technical Committee of this conference.
Seisho Yasukawa was a Technical Leader at NTT Network Service System Laboratories, where he was responsible for IP/MPLS network design for NTT's Next Generation Network and he is now engaged in R&D planning including NTT's NGN activities. Most recently Seisho has been focused on designing and developing rfc2547bis based IP Multicast VPN protocol and its service solutions for NTT's business units. Seisho Yasukawa received B.E. and M.S. from University of Tokyo in 1993 and 1995. He is active in IETF standardization and one of co-authors of P2MP solution/requirement and new MVPN draft.
Danellie Young leads the product management and marketing team responsible
for the development, management and marketing of Verizon Business's flagship
MPLS-based offering, Private IP and its vBNS+ services tailored to the needs
of the federal government. As director of this line of business, Young provides
oversight and vision to a team of experts responsible for managing and
marketing Verizon Business's fastest growing product to ensure a lead
position in the MPLS marketplace. Young's group has been instrumental in
bringing new innovative services and strategic enhancements to market by
driving more intelligence into Verizon Business's network and delivering
more flexibility to our customers.
Young began her career with MCI in 1996 and has served in a variety of
product management roles for such products and solutions as Secure Gateways,
ATM and SMDS. Prior to her tenure with MCI, she served in sales and product
marketing roles at Memorex Telex and IBM.
Young received her Bachelor of
Arts degree in Economics at Texas A&M University and her Masters in Business
Administration in Marketing from Texas Christian University.
