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. He was also responsible for promoting and evangelizing new technologies and network design approaches.

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.

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Rahul Aggarwal is a Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks. He contributes to the architecture, and development of MPLS TE, VPNs, Multicast and IP routing. His recent contributions include co-designing P2MP MPLS TE and innovations in the areas of MPLS OAM and multicast in BGP/MPLS VPNs and VPLS.

He is the author or co-author of several IETF Internet drafts and RFCs in the areas of MPLS, IP Routing, VPNs and VPLS.

Prior to joining Juniper Networks he was at Redback Networks where he was the principal architect of MPLS, TE, VPNs and packet classification on the SE800 platform. Prior to that he was at Fore Systems. He received his B.S. from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and M.S. from University of Minnesota.

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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.

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Zafar Ali is a Senior Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, Inc. where he leads software protocol development in Cisco System’s service provider routing group. Most recently Zafar has been focused on designing and developing label switch multicast protocols and solutions. Prior to joining Cisco, Zafar worked at Nortel Networks and Hughes Network Systems. Overall he has over 15 years of industry experience.

Zafar Ali is quite active as a member of the MPLS, CCAMP, BFD, IDR, RTG and other working group within IETF. He has authored a number of RFCs and IETF drafts. In addition, Zafar Ali has also authored several Journal papers, conference publications, white papers, patents, and book chapters.

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.

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David Allan, Consultant Architect, CTO Office, Nortel David Allan is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Nortel. He has been active in data telecommunications standards for the past twelve 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 carrier infrastructure based on Carrier Ethernet. Mr. Allan has a B.Eng (1978) from Carleton University in Ottawa.

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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).

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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.

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Peter Atanasovski is a Technical Consultant with the Data Networks Operation at Agilent Technologies. He provides consulting on Layer 2-7 network test methodologies and develops customized customer solutions for Agilent's N2X product portfolio.

Peter joined Hewlett-Packard (now Agilent Technologies) in 1996 and worked on developing test products for ATM, POS, IPv4/IPv6 and MPLS technologies. His various roles have included manufacturing and R&D test development, embedded and application software development, and software release management.

Peter holds Bachelor's degrees in Electrical Engineering (Honours) and Science (Mathematics) from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

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Dr. Awduche is a Verizon Fellow, where he leads the Verizon Business global Internet Network Engineering organization based in Ashburn (VA). Prior to the acquisition of MCI by Verizon, Dr. Awduche managed 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 has served as a Guest Editor for ‘Proceedings of the IEEE’ (September 2002), Guest editor for ‘IEEE Communications Magazine’ (December 2006 and October 2007), and Guest Editor for ‘IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications’ (October 2004). 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 (concentration in Finance and Entrepreneurship) from George Mason University.

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Florin Balus is a Product Line Manager at Alcatel-Lucent IP Division, responsible for MSE Solutions on 7x50 product line. He has 15 years of relevant experience in data networks, working on various projects in both Service Provider and Vendor environments. Florin is also active in IETF L2VPN and PWE3 Working Groups, being the author of IETF drafts on the subject of L2 Services over MPLS.

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As CEO, Mr. Bareket is focused on strategic direction, navigating the company to deliver mission critical solutions that simplify the complex lifecycle management of enabling-equipment and next-generation network-services.

Under Mr. Bareket’s leadership, Netformx has experienced strong growth in all aspects of the business. Rapidly the company has become recognized as the de-facto market leader in its space, providing sophisticated tools for successfully automating the opportunity-to-order process of routing, switching, security and converged solutions. This success was recently acknowledged when Netformx was named a Silicon Valley FAST50 Award Winner by the San Jose Business Journal.

As leaders in innovation, the Netformx team applies their industry knowledge and technology savvy to create solutions for the opportunity-to-provision space focusing on data-driven rules-based collaboration and workflow environments that ensure accurate and timely implementations of IP-VPN, MPLS, Managed and Hosted Services.

Mr. Bareket joined Netformx in 2000 to re-direct business development, and later maintained responsibility for sales, marketing and operations, before being appointed CEO in the summer of 2005. Prior to Netformx, he held various positions at Mercury Interactive Corporation (now HP) including President of Mercury Interactive Japan K.K. and General Manager for Japan and Korea.

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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.

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Nabil Bitar holds BS, MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Dr. Bitar is currently a principal member of technical staff at Verizon in the Packet Network Architecture department. He leads the network architecture for metro packet services, including Ethernet Services, Metro packet transport, video packet transport (video on demand, IPTV), IPVPN, VoIP routing, and IP and Ethernet services over FTTP. He is also a principle member of a team working on IP-MPLS backbone convergence.

Prior to joining Verizon in 2004, Dr. Bitar worked at Ascend/Lucent as a system architect for ATM and IP-MPLS services (forwarding, traffic management, signaling and routing). Prior to Ascend/Lucent, he worked at GTE Laboratories for 5 years on wireless AIN, ADSL architecture, IP Intserv and Diffserv, MPLS, VoIP and traffic management. He is is a regular contributor to the IETF and MFA forum where is leading the MPLS-InterCarrier Interconnect Technical specification . He authored or co-authored several technical papers and holds several patents.

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Matthew Bocci is Director of Technology and Standards with Alcatel-Lucent's IP Division. He is a regular contributor to the IETF, where he co-chairs the PWE3 and ANCP working group, and IP/MPLS Forum where he chairs the Applications working group. He is co-author of a number of publications and IETF drafts and RFCs on MPLS-based converged networks. He holds a PhD in network modeling from Queen Mary & Westfield College, London.

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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.

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Esmael Dinan is a Principal 4G Capacity Engineer in Sprint Nextel 4G Divisions. A key specialist on WiMAX Technology, he is responsible for providing capacity solutions for planning a nationwide mobile WiMAX network. In his role, he provides technology solutions and mechanisms to design and operate air interface and backhaul capacity of an all-IP WiMAX wireless network. Previously, Dr. Dinan led the effort to support customers with plans for WiMAX equipment interoperability and conformance testing in Bechtel Communications. He performed numerous key wireless technology assignments and played a key role in many aspects of the business unit’s research activities, as well as on the ATT wireless engineering projects. Dr Dinan conducted research and development on access methods and performance modeling of 3G and 4G wireless communications and high-speed optical networks. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, and is a registered Professional Engineer in Maryland. He has authored more than 30 conference papers and journal articles and has two patents on novel signaling mechanisms developed for 3G cellular networks.

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Dr. Stuart Elby is the Vice President of Network Architecture responsible for setting Verizon’s network architecture vision encompassing broadband access, optical transport, fast packet and Ethernet switching, IP/MPLS routing, and emerging voice over IP and video technologies. Stuart is also responsible for defining service specific architectures to support product line marketing, specifying network element requirements and leading collaborative R&D activities with universities and industry partners. He has previously held several positions in Verizon including network platform testing, and technical support of product development and sales.

Prior to joining the phone company in 1993, Dr. Elby was a Research Associate at the National Science Foundation’s Center for Telecommunications Research at Columbia University. There he was responsible for leading research in optoelectronic devices, all-optical network architectures and developing early WDM / ATM platforms. He was co-director of a multi-university research program on all-optical packet switching and collaborated with Teachers’ College in the development and deployment of a multi-media educational network for primary and secondary schools.

In 1985, Dr. Elby was the Manager of Technology in a laser surgery start-up where he was responsible for FDA clinical trails, opthalmic and endoscopic laser surgery product development, and brought the first ever disposal plastic fiber-optic delivery system to market. In 1982, he was a Staff Engineer at StorageTek, where he contributed to the development of the first commercial optical disk system.

Dr. Elby received a BS degree in Optical Engineering from the University of Rochester, NY, in 1982 and received a MSEE, M.Phil, and Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1989, 1992, and 1994, respectively. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and three children.

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John Evans is a Distinguished Consulting Engineer within Cisco's Development Organisation, where he works on the definition of network architectures for Service Providers. His technology focus spans IP routing and core IP / MPLS technologies, traffic engineering / management, QOS and support for video services in core IP / MPLS networks. He authored "Deploying IP and MPLS QOS for Multiservice Networks" and has filed a number of patents in his focus technology areas. John has been actively involved in the development, deployment and evolution of Service Provider IP / MPLS architectures for a more than ten years, is recognized within Cisco and the industry as a leader and innovator in IP / MPLS networking, quality of service and policy control and is frequently a speaker on these subjects at industry fora.

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Luyuan Fang has over 17 years of experience in the telecom industries. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Flinders University of South Australia in 1991. Since 2000, she has worked extensively in IP/MPLS architectural design, engineering, and service deployment. Luyuan joined Cisco in 2006 as a Product Manager with the responsibilities in the Service Provider Wireline segment, currently focusing on Carrier Ethernet technologies and solutions. Prior to joining Cisco, Luyuan worked as a lead network architect for AT&T in IP/MPLS VPN and IPv6 design and deployment. Prior to joining AT&T in 1998, she worked for Racal Datacom, Nortel, and Telstra Research labs. Luyuan is an active contributor in IETF. She has co-authored 7 RFCs and several active Internet Drafts in the MPLS, L2/L3 VPN, and TE Working Groups. She served as a Science/Technical Committee member and as a frequent speaker for several prominent MPLS and Carrier Ethernet Conferences worldwide. She has over 70 technical publications, including IEEE Communications Magazine articles on LDP, MPLS Inter-provider, and Carrier Ethernet Evolution; other journal or conference papers; book inclusions; invited speeches; and technical tutorials.

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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).

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Don Fedyk (dwfedyk@nortel.com) is a Senior Technical Advisor at Nortel. Don is an authority on Routing System design for both connectionless and path oriented routing. Don is a contributor to several GMPLS drafts and an active follower of several the IETF Working groups including CCAMP, MPLS, Routing Area WG. Recently Don has been focused on application of GMPLS and Link State protocol to Provider Ethernet in the IEEE. Don received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo Ontario, Canada.

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Kazuhiro Fujihara is a Senior Network Engineer at NTT Communications Network Division, responsible for the L2/MPLS services. He has development experience in IP-VPN, MPLS and GMPLS networks, working on various projects in NTT lab and NTT Communications. He has interest in operation of MPLS-TE over GMPLS interworking(RFC5146).

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Santanu Ganguly currently works as a Network Engineer for Swisscom AG in Switzerland. He is involved in MPLS based service offerings and related operations and implementation issues. Among other subjects, his current interests include technical and service definition aspects of general MPLS TE, bandwidth on demand, GMPLS, Wavelength Routing in Optical Networks, MPLS over Satellite and integration of Quantum Information in Networking Technology. He has 9 years of experience in IP related technology inclusive of participation in designing, testing and implementing of network services and has worked in both Enterprise and Service Provider environments in Europe and Asia. He is a member of several groups of OSA ( Optical Society Of America) and BCS ( British Computer Society) and tries to participate in related ongoing research projects.

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Ori Gerstel is a senior technical leader in the Core Routing Unit at Cisco, responsible for the architecture of IP over DWDM. Prior to that Ori was in charge of Cisco’s Optical Advanced Technology team, and is the key inventor behind advanced capabilities of Cisco’s DWDM product. Before joining Cisco in 2002, he was a Senior Systems Architect for Nortel Networks’ MEMS based photonic crossconnect product. Until 2000, Ori was the Systems and Software Architect for the Optical Networking Group at Tellabs, where he architected the first commercial mesh DWDM system (TITAN 7100). Prior to that, he performed early optical networking research at IBM Research.

Ori authored over 50 papers in international conferences and journals and over 20 patents on optical networks. He served on conference committees, such as OFC and INFOCOM and has been the technical co-chair of Broadnets and IPoP. He also serves as an editor for several international journals such as JSAC and has been teaching short courses at OFC. Ori holds a Ph.D. degree from the Technion, Israel and is an IEEE Fellow.

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Howard Green has been in the telecommunications industry since 1980, and has worked in several countries (UK, Germany, US) as a network strategist, software architect and technologist. He has worked in real time and distributed computing, VoIP, optical transport and management. He is currently at Ericsson Research in Stockholm, Sweden, where he is responsible for strategy and future programs for the Broadband and transport research group. His current work interests centre on transport control planes and network virtualization.

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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.

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Frederic Jounay is an IP/MPLS network architect at Orange Labs. He joined France Telecom R&D in 2001 in the Access Network Laboratory. Following an initial period working on optical access architecture, his major focus since 2004 is the architecture studies related to the introduction of IP/MPLS in the access network. He is also involved in multicast network design. His current activities are the mobile backhauling architecture evolution. He is actively contributing to the IETF in the PWE3 and L2VPN working groups.

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Wesley Kaplow is the Chief Technology Officer for Qwest Government Services. He is responsible for technology and product leadership, proposal development, sales engineering, and technical strategic direction. As the primary interface for Government Services to the other product development, engineering, and operations organizations within Qwest, he played a significant consultative role in the development of requirements and technical approach for Qwest's MPLS services network.

Prior to joining Qwest as one of the founders of Government Services in January 1998, Wes was a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff for Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies.

A long supporter of the Research and Education Community, Wes has led Qwest's support of the SCinet at SC2000 through SC08, and is currently on the Architecture and Operations council for Internet2.

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Shin-Ichi Kato is currently a senior product and project manager in Innovative IP Architecture Center at NTT Communications. He was involved in technology development of MPLS and GMPLS networks from 2002 to 2007. He received Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Keio University, Japan.

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Mazen has been a Principal Architect at Cox Communications for the last 8 years. The Cox IP network infrastructure has grown tremendously during this period and Mazen had the foresight and influence to design the most scalable and resilient network possible. Mazen is always seeking to optimize the network to meet real business needs.

The packet network architecture that Mazen has designed has allowed Cox to deliver a multi-service architecture for delivering high-speed Internet, business service VPNs, VoIP, Video over IP, and Call Center VoIP.

Mazen has more than 15 years of experience in the communication fields and has a masters and bachelor degree in electrical engineering from the University of South Florida. Mazen also has numerous certifications from Juniper, Cisco Systems, Sum Microsystems, and HP.

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Sanjay Khanna is a senior product marketing manager in Foundry Networks Service Provider Systems business unit. In his role, Sanjay is responsible for product strategy of the Foundry Networks XMR/MLX series of IP/MPLS Routers. Sanjay has over 14 years of experience in the design and development of next-generation IP, MPLS, Ethernet and ATM switches and routers, and has worked with multiple service providers in designing next generation MPLS, IP, Ethernet, wireless backhaul and triple-play networks. He has held numerous leadership positions in product management and engineering at Tellabs, Vivace Networks, Mariposa Technology and Newbridge. Sanjay holds B.E and M.E degrees in electrical engineering from Concordia University in Montreal, and a MBA from University of California at Berkeley.

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Shashi Kiran currently leads the Access Routing team for the Network Systems group at Cisco. He is a Network Infrastructure specialist driving the strategic marketing direction of the Integrated Services Router portfolio. His current focus is on Cisco’s solution initiative for branch architecture and to evolve the network as a platform for advanced technologies and emerging applications. Kiran has 14 years of experience in designing, architecting and building networks for hosted businesses, service providers and enterprise networks. Previously he worked as a Senior Product Line Manager with Nortel for 6 years focusing on the areas of VPNs, Security services and Metro Ethernet products. Prior to that he was a leading the service definition and marketing efforts for Euclid, a venture funded startup.

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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 the author of several Internet Drafts and RFCs in the areas of CCAMP, IS-IS, L2VPN, MPLS, OSPF and TE, and a past co-chair of the CCAMP Working Group. 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.

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Roman Krzanowski has been working in telecommunication industry for past 15 years. The focus of his work has been on advanced simulation of wireless system, QoS and network performance, SLAs, PWE architectures and layer 2.5 technologies and recently, Wireless Ethernet Backhauling technologies and solutions. He has several publications in the area of information processing, hold the US Patent for network performance monitoring, submitted 10+ patents on network performance, QoS, and monitoring technologies, co-authored and contributed to drafts in IETF WGs, MPLS forum, MEF forum, and industry white papers on QoS. He hold Ph.D degree from the University of London.

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Nicolai Leymann is working in his 10th year for Deutsche Telekom as a senior research professional and senior architect for IP based networks. Nicolai is leading the IP-Multicast group of the Technical Competence Center of T-Group (T-Group consists of Deutsche Telekom and other European Telcos like Slovak Telecom).

His major focus is the network and service architecture of “T-Entertain” – the Triple Play service of Deutsche Telekom – as well as the architecture of the upcoming Next Generation Network of Deutsche Telekom. His work includes the integration of technologies - eg. IP-Multicast, VPLS etc. - in MPLS networks and VPN scenarios. Mr. Leymann is responsible for several international projects related to network architectures (covering technologies like IP Multicast, MPLS, VPLS, Multipoint-Services, Backbone- and aggregation network design, VPNs, IPTV).

He is also involved in the standardisation process for Multicast services in MPLS and VPN environments and is looking into new backbone technologies and the evolution of MPLS. He is working on the coordination of standardization activities related to IPTV within Deutsche Telekom and is member of the ITU-T and the OpenIPTV Forum.

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. He also worked for the Hewlett Packard Research Labs in Bristol, UK on network simulation and management aspects.

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Julian Lucek is a Distinguished Systems Engineer at Juniper Networks, where he has been working with many service providers on the design and evolution of their networks. Before joining Juniper Networks in 1999, he worked at BT for several years, at first in the Photonics Research Department and later in the data transport and routing area. During this time he gained a PhD in ultrahigh-speed data transmission and processing from Cambridge University. He is the holder of several patents in the area of communications technology. He has a Master's degree in Physics from Cambridge University and holds Juniper Networks Certified Internet Expert (JNCIE) certification number 21. He is co-author of the book "MPLS-Enabled Applications: Emerging Developments and New Technologies", by Ina Minei and Julian Lucek. The second edition of this book was published in April 2008.

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Andrew G. Malis holds the position of Director, Packet Network Architecture at Verizon Communications. 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; Vivace Networks; and Tellabs. His current responsibilities include Verizon's packet network architecture and evolution, standards participation, and vendor and customer consultation.

He is also a member of the Internet Engineering Task Force’s (IETF’s) Internet Architecture Board (IAB), President and Chairman of the Board of the IP/MPLS Forum, served as the MPLS Forum’s founding Technical Committee Chair, is on the board of the IPsphere Forum, has chaired a number of working groups in the 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 29 IETF RFCs. He has also served 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.

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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.

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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.

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Maria Napierala is a Technology Architect at AT&T Laboratories, since 1994. Her current interests are in areas of large scale IP/MPLS backbone routing, MPLS traffic engineering, multicast, and MPLS applications such as VPNs. Prior to joining AT&T worked as a senior software engineer in Network Routing Systems group at IBM. Maria is an author and a contributor of several IETF drafts and has presented at several international MPLS conferences. Before joining telecommunications industry she carried extensive research in automated theorem proving and constructive logic. She presented papers at several international symposia on Mathematical Logic.

Maria received a M.S. degree in Computer Science from Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Oregon Graduate Institute, Oregon (1992).

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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.

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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.

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Dr. Satoru Okamoto is currently an Associate Professor of Keio University, Japan since 2006. Prior to joining Keio University, he worked at NTT. There, he engaged in research on ATM cross-connect system architectures, photonic switching systems, optical path network architectures, and developed GMPLS-controlled HIKARI router (Photonic MPLS router) systems.

He led several GMPLS-related interoperability trials in Japan, such as the Photonic Internet Lab (PIL), the OIF world wide interoperability demo, and the Kei-han-na Interoperability Working Group. He is a vice co-chair of the Interoperability Working Group of Kei-han-na Info-communication Open Laboratory. He is now promoting several research projects in the photonic network area.

Dr. Okamoto received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from Hokkaido University, Japan in 1986, 1988 and 1994 respectively. He is an IEICE fellow and an IEEE Senior Member.

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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.

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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.

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Guy Pujolle is currently a Professor at the University Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Orange/France Telecom. Dr. Pujolle is the French representative at the Technical Committee on Networking at IFIP. He is an editor for International Journal of Network Management, WINET, Telecommunication Systems and Editor in Chief of Annals of Telecommunications.

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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 60 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).

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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.

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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.

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Vividh Siddha brings over 16 years of software engineering experience in networking systems and software products. Vividh joined IP Infusion in 2001 as a Principal Engineer and was involved in the architecture and development of ZebOS®. Since June 2006 he has been working as a Director of Engineering successfully delivering Metro Ethernet and High Availability solutions for ZebOS.

Prior to IP Infusion, Vividh acquired a range of experiences developing solutions in routing and wireless technologies. At Coree Networks, Vividh worked as part of the architecture team designing a highly scalable core router. Vividh has worked at Lucent Technologies and Bell Labs Innovations working on the design and development of 3G wireless and multimedia systems. Vividh started his career at Siemens AG working on the design of GSM network infrastructure equipment.

Vividh graduated with a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Pune, India. He is a member of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies and the ACM.

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Will Somers has a 40 year history in telecommunications, but a fresh outlook based on recent experience with rich media Internet protocols and solutions. He has served two “tours” with IBM, with a career spanning support for training of the first astronauts to support for implementation of Internet based solutions for large carriers and content providers. Will continues to believe we are in the “early innings” in terms of the transformation in media and its effect on life and communications.

Will’s presentation, entitled “the presentation entitled "MPLS in an IPTV based World" will be part of the session "Content Delivery Networks.” It relates the underlying protocols and technical effects of new techniques for mass communication, both in broadband and narrowband. Looking at what may come, it postulates alternatives, and gauges outcomes given various choices for content providers, network operators and consumers.

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Ryuta SUGIYAMA received B.E. degree in Polymer Chemistry Engineering and M.S. degree in Mathmatics from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 2003, 2005, respectively. In 2005, he joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation's (NTT's) Network Service Systems Laboratories, Tokyo Japan. He is now engaged in researching and developing backbone networks. He is a member of the IEICE.

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Kensuke Shindome is a Network Engineer at NTT Communications Development Division, working on video transport networks. He has development experience in MPLS/GMPLS networks, and has interest in multicast technologies in MPLS network.

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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.

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Kazuo Takagi received his B.E and M.E degrees in electrical engineering from Keio University, in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He joined NEC Corporation in 1991, and is a Principal Researcher at System Platforms Research laboratories, NEC Corporation, Japan. Since joining NEC, he has researched and developed optical ATM switches, all optical access systems, and ATM access systems, and WEDM ring systems. He worked in the Network Product Research Department in C&C Research Labs., NEC Laboratories America, from 2002 to 2003. His current interest is the design of next-generation packet transport. He is a member of the IEICE of Japan.

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Tomonori Takeda is with NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, where his work is focused on IP optical network architecture and related protocols. He has been involved in standardization activities, and co-chairs the Layer 1 Virtual Private Network (L1VPN) working group in the IETF.

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Anwar Walid is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent. He received the B.S. degree from Polytechnic University, New York, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University. He developed theory and algorithms for resource management and QoS support for several Lucent products. He holds patents on congestion control, scheduling and routing in IP/MPLS networks. He gave tutorials on IP/MPLS traffic engineering in IEEE INFOCOM and INFORMS conferences. He received Best Paper Award from ACM Sigmetrics on multi-media traffic analysis. He contributed to the IETF MPLS and Traffic Engineering Working Groups. He served on NSF award panels and on executive and technical program committees of IEEE, SPIE and MPLS conferences. Dr. Walid is a senior member of the IEEE and an elected member of Tau Beta Pi (National Engineering Honor Society) and IFIP Working Group 7.3.

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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.

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David Ward is a Cisco Fellow and is the architect of IOS-XR, Cisco’s Service Provider operating system and co-architect of the 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 Routing Area Director at the IETF and chair of four Working Groups: IS-IS, HIP, BFD and Softwires. Also, he is leading the work on defining a transport profile for MPLS at the ITU-T. 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 Stanford, MIT, Cambridge and Tsinghua University.

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In 2004, I received a bachelor's degree from Keio University and I joined NTT Communications. I have investigated the adaptability of MPLS/TMPLS to the network which aggregate access services for leased-line service. I have done transmission experiment on L2-MPLS of the broadband picture application. Now I am mainly investigating the next-generation infrastructure which used MPLS and GMPLS.

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Naoaki Yamanaka graduated from Keio University, Japan where he received B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering in 1981, 1983 and 1991, respectively.

In 1983 he joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation's (NTT's) Communication Switching Laboratories, Tokyo Japan, where he was engaged in research and development of a high-speed switching system and high-speed switching technologies for Broadband ISDN services. Since 1994, he has been active in the development of ATM base backbone network and system including Tb/s electrical/optical backbone switching as NTT's Distinguished Technical Member. He moved to Keio University, Department of Information and Computer Science in 2004. He is now researching future optical IP network, and optical MPLS router system. He is currently a Professor in Dept. of Information and Computer Science, Keio University, Japan and representative of Photonic Internet Labs and Committee Chair of iPOP2006,7,8. He has published over 122 peer-reviewed journal and transaction articles, written 82 international conference papers, and been awarded 174 patents including 17 international patents.

Dr. Yamanaka received Best of Conference Awards from the 40th, 44th, and 48th IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference in 1990, 1994 and 1998, TELECOM System Technology Prize from the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation in 1994, IEEE CPMT Transactions Part B: Best Transactions Paper Award in 1996 and IEICE Transaction Paper award in 1999. Dr. Yamanaka is Technical Editor of IEEE Communication Magazine, Broadband Network Area Editor of IEEE Communication Surveys, Former Editor of IEICE Transaction, Vice-director of Asia Pacific Board at IEEE Communications Society as well as Board member of IEEE CPMT Society. Dr. Yamanaka is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the IEICE.

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Raymod Zhang is Director of Advanced Engineering, BT Design and a Princinpal Architect of BT's 21CN Neworks. His main interests are in areas of large scale backbone routing, traffic engineering, performance and traffic statistical analysis, information architecture and service modleing, Software Driven Computing, MPLS and Ethernet related technologies. Raymond paticipates in several IETF drafts relating to MPLS, BGP based MPLS VPN, Inter-AS TE and more recently PCE based work. He received his MS degree in Electrical Engineering from City University of New York.

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