Ahmed Abdelhalim is a director of High End & Service Provider Systems at Brocade Communication Systems. 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, IP routing and wireless technologies. His recent contributions include co-designing P2MP MPLS TE, innovations in the areas of MPLS OAM and multicast in BGP/MPLS VPNs and VPLS and mobile backhaul architecture.

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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He holds an Electrical Engineering Diploma from Polytechnic School of Algiers and a MASc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa. He is an active participant of the IETF PWE3, L2 VPN, and MPLS working groups.

Mustapha is a co-author and major contributor of multiple papers, including: RFC 4717 (ATM PW), draft-ietf-pwe3-oam-msg-map (PW OAM), draft-ietf-l2vpn-vpws-iw-oam (PW OAM interworking), draft-ietf-pwe3-dynamic-ms-pw (Multi-Segment PW), and draft-hart-pwe3-segmented-pw-vccv (MS-PW OAM), draft-ietf-pwe3-redundancy-bit-01 (PW redundancy).

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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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Takeshi AKAIKE is an Executve Manager of Broadband Network Systems Project, NTT Network Service Systems Laboratory. He is conducting R&D of future Broadband Networks including Open Network Architecture and IP Optical Network Architecture. He joined NTT Laboratories in 1984. He has been engaged in the development of high-speed packet switching system, ATM switching system, common channel signalling transfer point system, IP multicast system, etc. He is a member of the Communication Society of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan.

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David Amzallag is leading the optimization activities across the 21st Century Network (21CN) of BT. He is also leading the algorithmic development and optimization processes in the design of new platforms and services in Network, Infrastructure, and Architecture in the 21CN. David has more than 15 years of experience in optimization in both academy and industry under several range of technical domains. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Technion, Israel) specializing in theoretical computer science techniques for solving computationally-hard network optimization problems. David published numerous of papers and book chapters, and presented in many academic as well as commercial conferences. He is currently an active contributor to the IETF's PCE working group.

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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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Rajiv Asati has been with Cisco for around 10 yrs. As a technical leader and architect, he has worked with 100s of large Service Providers (around the world) designing, deploying MPLS based networks, specializing in VPN services. Additionally, he has worked with many large enterprise customers, Govt, universities etc. with network designs. He also works very closely with the development engineering to drive forward-looking features.

He is also active at the IETF and CableLabs. He is an innovator with ~35 patents in the area of VPN, MPLS, DOCSIS, Routing Protocols, Security and Video. He frequently speaks at industry conferences such as Networkers, MPLS Congress, APRICOT, CableLabs etc.

Currently, he leads a team in SPSU responsible for NGN Triple Play solution/system, focused on prescribing reference architecture for Cable SPs. He has provided his subject matter expertise in IP routing, Multicasting, MPLS, QoS, Security etc. to almost every big Cable MSO in North America and EMEA.

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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. Daniel Obi Awduche is a Fellow in the Corporate Network Technology Organization at Verizon where he provides architecture and design oversight for Verizon's global Public and Private IP Networks. Prior to his current assignment, he led the global Internet Network Engineering organization for Verizon Business (a subsidiary of Verizon). 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; the Ph.D. degree in Information Technology from George Mason University; and the MBA degree (concentration in Finance and Entrepreneurship) from George Mason University.

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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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Elisa Bellagamba received her MSc degree in Computer Science Engineering in 2006 from Pisa University, Italy. In 2007 she joined Ericsson R&D laboratory in Pisa, working on the implementation of GMPLS for SDH networks. She has been working for Ericsson Research in Stockholm since 2008 where her current topics of interest are broadband networks and packet systems.

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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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Mark Blumhardt is a member of the Alcatel-Lucent IP division product management group. His focus includes IP/MPLS based multieservice edge business services, mobile backhaul and triple-play residential services. Mark has more than 15 years of experience with telecommunications and IP/MPLS networking. He is active with a variety of responsibilities including Isocore Interoperability events, MPLS forum, and product validation events.

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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 Network Architect at Clearwire. 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.

Dr Dinan has authored more than 30 conference papers and journal articles, and pioneered 39 patents over a decade in various areas including wireless communications, optical networks, and Internet. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Maryland, Virgina, and DC and a Registered Patent Agent with the USPTO. Dr Dinan is a Senior IEEE Member and acted as Technical Committee Member and Technical Reviewer of many IEEE journals and conferences including IEEE Transactions for Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing, MPLS Conference, etc. He has been frequently invited to speak at industry conferences, corporate clients and universities.

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Mr. Eliaz joined Netformx in 2007 to provide focused attention on strengthening the company’s business relationships with global telecommunication carriers. This includes expanding existing relationships as well as developing relationships with new carriers. Prior to joining Netformx, Mr. Eliaz served as Consulting Director in the System Integration Division of Amdocs Inc. where he was responsible for the delivery and business development of the Network Mediation product line. He also served as Director of Field Operations at XACCT (acquired by Amdocs) and has held several service management positions in technology companies in the US, Japan and with Indigo (now HP) in Singapore. Mr. Eliaz holds an AA Degree in Electronics and a Bachelors of Science Degree in Computer Science from Mercy College.

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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 one of the two IETF Routing Area Directors where his responsibilities include the MPLS Working Group and the MPLS-TP design team. Previously he was 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 chaired 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 developed 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 MPLS-TP, and he regularly serves on the technical committees for MPLS and GMPLS 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 papers on GMPLS and path computation, Adrian is the author and editor of five books on Internet protocols.

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Hannes Gredler is a Software Development Engineer at Juniper Networks Inc., working in the Routing Protocols group. He has been working on Link-state and MPLS related protocols of the JUNOS network operating system, with an emphasis on resilient network architectures as well as Nonstop routing (NSR). Today he is tasked with, and interested in rearchitecting router software to allow fast, scalable end-to-end service restoration. He has been in the telecom industry for 15 years and holds a masters degree for manufacturing & automatition from the technical university of Graz, Austria.

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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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Henry He, a technical marketing engineer from Ixia, has an extensive background in IP/MPLS networks architecture and the testing aspects of it. As part of the network infrastructure business unit, Henry is responsible for driving test solutions for new data communication technologies in data center, carrier Ethernet and MPLS. Prior to joining Ixia, Henry spent several years at the UNH InterOperability Lab.

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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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Sanjay Khanna is a senior product manager in Brocade Communications IP Products Division. In his role, Sanjay is responsible for product strategy of the Brocade NetIron XMR and NetIron MLX series of high-end Routers. Sanjay has over 16 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 and enterprise customers in designing next generation Metro Ethernet, IP/MPLS Backbone, and Data Centers. He has held numerous leadership positions in product management and engineering at Brocade Communication Systems, 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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Daniel King is an active editor, author and contributor within the IETF's PCE, MPLS and CCAMP working groups and is an editor or author on a number of IETF Internet-Drafts and RFCs related to path computation and network optimization. Daniel is secretary of three IETF working groups, namely PCE, CCAMP and L3VPN. Daniel has wide experience of packet and optical networks, having worked at a variety of vendors, and he was a founder of path computation specialists Aria Networks. He is now a senior consultant with Old Dog Consulting.

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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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Bhupesh Kothari is a network protocols engineer at Juniper Networks where his current focus is on next-generation technologies in VPLS. He has been in the technology industry for 9 years and holds a B.S. and M.S degree in Computer Science.

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Nicolai Leymann is working in his 12th year for Deutsche Telekom as a chief 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) and is also coordinating the "Seamless MPLS" activities.

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 board member of the OpenIPTV Forum.

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Tony Lin is a Systems Engineer actively involved in the design, testing, and deployment of WANDL’s IP/MPLSView product suite. His knowledge of IP/MPLS technologies has enabled him to help customers meet their network design, management, and optimization objectives. Tony holds a B.S. in E.E. and an M.S. in Telecommunications and Networking.

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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), is on the board of the Broadband Forum, until recently was President and Chairman of the Board of the IP/MPLS Forum, served 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 is also ITU-T NGN and IETF IAB liaison. In addition, she is an Advisory Director for the TM Forum and served as Vice-Chair of the IPsphere Forum (IPSF). She has an MS in Telecommunications Management and an MBA and is a member of IEEE and ACM.

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Dr. Shankar Narayanaswamy, Vice President, Network Architecture Dr. Shankar Narayanaswamy joined the Company in May 2007 with over 20 years of experience in designing and implementing new products and services. Prior to joining the Company, Dr. Narayanaswamy held several technical management positions in network engineering and architecture, including the leadership of Covad Communications' network engineering and architecture group. He also served as director of network systems at Sapias, Inc. Dr. Narayanaswamy was founder and CTO of Telemesis, which delivered end-to-end services for wireless remote access and management. Prior to that, he spent five years at Bell Labs, the research arm of Lucent Technologies (now Alcatel-Lucent).

Dr. Narayanaswamy has published numerous papers and holds nine patents. He holds a BSEE, an MSEE, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

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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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Eiji Oki is an Associate Professor of The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo Japan. He received B.E. and M.E. degrees in Instrumentation Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, 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, where he was involved in designing tera-bit switch/router systems. He joined The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo Japan, in July 2008. He has been researching IP and optical network architectures, traffic-control methods, high-speed switching systems, and communications protocols.

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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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Pasula Reddy is responsible for data planning at Fujitsu Network Communications (FNC), focusing on key Layer-2 and Layer-3 technologies across all of FNCs product lines. Prior to joining Fujitsu, he worked in the product management organization at Redback Networks, where he focused on emerging Layer-2 and Layer-3 technologies. Before joining Redback, Pasula worked at the ProCurve Networking Business Unit at Hewlett-Packard, CoSine Communications and Torrent Networks. At ProCurve, he concentrated on technologies related to high-end Ethernet switching and compliance with the appropriate IETF and IEEE standards. Pasula holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in India and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University.

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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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Drew Rexrode is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Verizon Communications, Systems Integration and Testing Laboratory, responsible for the testing and integration of L2 and L3 elements. Drew has over nine years of Telecommunications experience, with eight of those years being in the testing laboratories of Verizon Operations, and eventually the Verizon Core Network Technology organization.

He also serves as a Vice-chair of the IP/MPLS-Core working group of the Broadband Forum, and serves on the Release Plan oversight committee, and as a liaison between the Broadband forum certification efforts and the Board of Directors.

Drew received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from West Virginia University, and recently, his Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Loyola College in Maryland.

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Peter is the network synchronization specialist for the Alcatel-Lucent IP Division.  The IPD portfolio encompasses IP/MPLS routers, Multi-Service WAN switches and Network & Service Management products. Peter is responsible for advising the product groups within IPD on all issues related to clock synchronization.  As part of this mandate, Peter has been actively investigating the emerging technologies for timing distribution over the converged IP/MPLS networks.  In the last two years he has evaluated ACR, 1588, and Synchronous Ethernet over the Alcatel-Lucent Service Router, xDSL, and Microwave transport environments.

Peter joined Alcatel-Lucent through the 2000 acquisition of Newbridge Networks.  Prior to his focus on Synchronization, Peter was a software manager developing H.248 media gateways and ATM signalling and routing features.  He has been an active participant in the ATM and MFA fora and more recently in ITU-T SG15. 

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Shiro Ryu is a Deputy General Manager at Network Technology Division of SoftBank Telecom Corp. He is currently engaged in a development work regarding the coordination between cloud computing and photonic network for the future value-added services. He has also been serving as a part-time lecturer at Waseda University since 2005.

He has been active in the research fields of optical fiber communication systems over 25 years. In R&D Laboratories of Japan Telecom/SoftBank Telecom, he had been leading a research group that was responsible for the research of next generation optical network technology including network architecture, high-speed optical transmission systems, network control technology (generalized multi-protocol label switching: GMPLS), and value-added telecommunication service prototyping. His team succeeded in the first field test of all-optical wavelength path rerouting using GMPLS technology in collaboration with National Institute of Informatics in 2004.

When he was in KDD R&D Laboratories, he had been engaged in the research on coherent optical fiber communication systems as well as optical measurement technology, optical submarine cable systems, optical amplifiers, and wavelength-division multiplexing. His team succeeded in the world first sea trial of coherent optical communication systems in 1988. Based on his background of coherent systems, he published a book entitled “Coherent Lightwave Communication Systems” from Artech House in 1995.

He received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees all in electronic engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan in 1981, 1983, and 1993, respectively. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Member of IEICE Japan.

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KENICHI SAKAMOTO received the B.E., M.E. degrees in electrical engineering from Kyoto University, Kyoto Japan, in 1992 and 1994 respectively. He joined the Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., Kokubunji Tokyo. His reserach interest is in the area of network architecture, optical access networking and network node architecture. Mr. Sakamoto is a member of IEEE and the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers of Japan.

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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. He has been engaged in R&D of high-speed networking including ATM, IP, (G)MPLS, and IP+Optical networking in NTT labs. From August 1996 to September 1997 he was a visiting scholar at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA. Since April 2006, he has been leading the IP Optical Networking Research Group in NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories. 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. He is a Fellow of IEICE, a member of IEEE, and ACM.

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David Sinicrope is currently a Senior Manager leading wireline standards activity at Ericsson's PA IP and Broadband. His current focus is standardization and strategic product management in the areas of IP, MPLS, PWE3 and Carrier Ethernet and their use in current and evolving networks. His career includes 20 years of data and telecommunications experience in standardization, product management, architecture and system design.

David currently serves as a member of the Broadband Forum Board and as a Vice-Chair of the IP/MPLS & Core WG. David served as the Vice Chairman of the IP/MPLS Forum Board, and was also Chair of the Deployment Working Group, a post held since 2002. Prior to PA IP and Broadband (formerly Redback Networks), Mr. Sinicrope was with Ericsson IP Infrastructure Inc. (formerly Torrent Networks) as a systems architect leading MPLS development. Before joining Ericsson, he was with Virata Inc. as a Product Manager and was also a Principal Engineer at Lucent Technologies/Ascend/Cascade Communications where his focus was on ATM and Frame Relay core switching architecture and development. From 1988, he was with IBM Networking Systems where he was responsible for ATM, Frame Relay and ISDN architecture and development for IBM's SNA and routing products.

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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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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-chaired the Layer 1 Virtual Private Network (L1VPN) working group in the IETF.

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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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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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Quintin Zhao is a principal engineer in Data Communications division of Huawei Technology. His main work is focused on IP/MPLS related protocols and architectures. Quintin currently leads the PCE P2MP technology projects within Huawei. His team is also responsible for standardization and product implementation efforts. He joined Huawei Technology in 2006 and before that, he worked in Cisco System from 1999 to 2006 within the MPLS technology group. Prior to Cisco, he worked at Ericsson from 1996 to 1999 focused on VOIP technology. He got his B.S degree from Beijing Institute of Technology and MS degree in Computer Science from Iowa State University.

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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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