Cengiz Alaettinoglu is a senior and founding member of Packet Design’s technical staff since the company’s formation in 2003. Previously he was with the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute, where he worked on the Routing Arbiter project. He was co-chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Routing Policy System Working Group, and has lectured and published widely at industry technical conferences and workshops. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara MS and PhD in Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park.

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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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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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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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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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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 Product Manager with IXIA Communications. He is responsible for the Routing, MPLS and VPN product portfolio of the IxNetwork and IxN2x test solutions.

Peter first joined Hewlett-Packard (then Agilent Technologies, now IXIA) in 1996 and worked on developing test products for ATM, POS, Ethernet, IPv4/IPv6 and MPLS technologies. His various roles have included professional services, 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Bijan Jabbari is the founder of Isocore Corporation.  He helped the industry with the first deployment of MPLS and subsequently its adoption by service providers and large corporations in their networks. He has made substantial contributions to standardization bodies for Internet and Wireless technologies. He has contributed to research on protocols and admission control in packet networks including next generation interne access, backbone, and applications. He has helped the industry in the areas such as call control, routing and signaling, mobility, enhanced services, ATM, MPLS, GMPLS, VPNs and network restoration.

He is the past chairman of the IEEE Communications Society technical committee on Communications Switching and Routing. Dr. Jabbari is a Fellow of IEEE, recipient of the IEEE Millennium Medal, the Washington DC Metropolitan Area Engineer of the Year Award. He received the PhD degree from Stanford University, Stanford, California, in electrical engineering.

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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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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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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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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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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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Akeo Masuda is a research engineer at the Network Service Systems Laboratories in NTT Corporation, Japan. His research interest includes IP-QoS, optical networks, network virtualization, and inter-domain routing. He received the B.S degree from the University of Tokyo, the M. Science and Ph. D degree from Waseda University, Japan.

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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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Ina Minei is Director of Software development, IP/MPLS technologies at Juniper Networks. For the last 10 years, she has worked in the JUNOS routing group, first as a software engineer and then as a technical manager. Her focus has been on next-generation network technologies, in particular MPLS protocols and applications. She co-filed several patents in the area of IP and MPLS, co-authored several RFCs in the MPLS area and published the book "MPLS-enabled applications", now in its third edition. She holds a Master's degree in computer science from the Technion, Israel.

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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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Julien Meuric is an engineer in computing science. After various activities on packet networks, he has worked since 2004 in the Research and Development division of France Telecom, and more specifically on metropolitan and optical core networks. He is mainly focused on control plane integration in transmission networks, such as SDH or WDM, and interactions with packet layers. As a Standardisation Senior Manager he contributes to coordinate the standardisation of transport network technologies and is personally involved in standardisation around GMPLS control protocols in corresponding IETF working groups (CCAMP, L1VPN, MPLS...). Besides technical contributions, he also acts in IETF as co-chairman of the Path Computation Element (PCE) working group.

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Thomas has been working for 6 years as a network architect within France Telecom R&D labs. He is involved in architecture and engineering activities related to IP/MPLS backbones with a focus on IPTV and enterprise services. He contributes in the IETF on multicast-related subjects, editor and co-author of requirements and solution specifications for multicast support in MPLS-based VPNs. Thomas holds an engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Bretagne, France.

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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 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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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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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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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. 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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Mr. Eylon Sorek is serving as AVP Marketing at Orckit-Corrigent since 2008 and is responsible for strategic and product marketing, outbound marketing and marcom. Prior to Orckit-Corrigent, Eylon served as the strategy and portfolio manager of carrier switches business line at Nokia Siemens Networks. Eylon's 10+ years of experience in the telecommunication industry also include product marketing position at Seabridge Networks and hardware engineering position at Cisco Systems. Eylon is holding B.Sc. in communication systems engineering and an MBA-Financing from Ben-Gurion University in Israel.

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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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Masayuki Takase received the B.E. degrees in image engineering from Chiba University, Chiba Japan, in 2000. He joined the Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., Kokubunji Tokyo. His reserach interest is in the area of network architecture and network node architecture. He is a member of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers of Japan.

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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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Boris Zhang is a technology strategy engineer responsible for standard services development for TELUS.He has been engaged in various development of MVPN,IPv6,mobile IP network,security etc. since he joined TELUS in 2008. Previously,he was consulting engineer in Asia Pac with over 10's years network design experiences for most of China largest SPs.Boris Zhang holds M.S. in computer communication.

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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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