Rajiv Asati, a Distinguished Engineer with 11+ yrs of Cisco life, is responsible for driving "NGN" architecture & strategies. He incubated the 1st IP NGN system (CESNA) for Cable SPs and led its world-wide adoption since 2006. He has worked with 100s of large Service Providers, (Fortune500) Enterprises, Govt./Universities etc., around the world, designing, deploying large scale IP and MPLS based triple-play networks. He is a Subject Matter Expert, a key go-to technical resource, and well respected thought-leader across many key IP/NGN technologies (IP/MPLS, Routing, Multicast, L2/L3VPN, IPv6, QoS, Video etc). He has ~40 Patents (issued/pending), CCIE certification, and written 100+ engineering documents/design guides/white-papers. Prior to joining Cisco, Rajiv worked with AT&T to design & deploy Advanced Intelligent Networks (AIN), and Nortel to develop the SS7 & ISDN protocols.

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Rahul Aggarwal is the CEO and Co-Founder of Arktan, an early stage company, pioneering the adoption of real-time Social Web driven conversation on the official Websites of leading brands. Rahul has steered Arktan as it has innovated and deployed technology that enables UMG, NBC, Reuters and other brands to bring real-time Social Web content and conversation to their sites. Rahul's prior experience includes innovating Internet Routing technologies and taking them all the way from inception to deployment in several of the largest Service Providers in the world. In his role as Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks he drove Internet routing, mobile, VPN and data center related technologies and standards across the industry. Prior to Juniper he was with Redback Networks and prior to that at Fore Sytems. He is the author of several Internet drafts and RFCs, holds many patents and is a sought after speaker in conferences. 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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DAVID ALLAN is a Distinguished Engineer at Ericsson, and a former distinguished member of technical staff at Nortel. He has been active in data telecommunications standards for the past 16 years including WG chair and editor roles in the Broadband Forum, ITU-T and IETF. He has been active for over 25 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 Ericsson is focused on carrier infrastructure based on MPLS and Ethernet. He was recently honored as a Distinguished Fellow by the Broadband Forum.

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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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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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Kapil Bakshi works for Cisco Systems Inc and is responsible for leading and driving Data Center and Cloud Computing initiatives in Cisco Public Sector. Kapil has extensive experience in strategizing, architecting, managing and delivering Data Center solutions to US Federal Agencies and Enterprise customers. During his career, he has held several architectural, consulting and managerial positions within the industry. Prior to Cisco, Kapil worked for Sun Microsystems, where he spent a decade working with US Government and Service Provider industry. Prior to SUN, he worked for Hewlett-Packard and several government system integrators in consulting and product development roles. Kapil is native of Washington DC area, and holds both BS in Electrical Engineering and BS in Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park. MS in Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from University of Maryland, College Park. He also holds a U.S. patents for a Data Center Solutions

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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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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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Clarence has played a leadership role in the development of Quality of Service, IP/MPLS Routing Resiliency technology and large-scale IP/MPLS network design. Throughout his work, he maintains a sharp focus on simplicity. Clarence is a regular speaker at leading industry Conferences and Standards Development Organizations like the IETF. Clarence holds over 100 patents and has published several industry technology papers on Routing and Quality of Service. Clarence is also the author of a recent industry publication: “Service Provider deployments of Quality of Service (QoS). Clarence holds a Masters in Management from Solvay Business School at the University of Brussels and graduated with honors with a Masters of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Liege, Belgium.

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Oscar Gonzalez received the MS from U. of Valladolid in 2000 in Telecommunications Engineering. Since 2000 he has been with TID, where he has worked for several years in the development and testing of telephony applications and interactive voice-‐response platforms. In 2005, he joined the Advanced Network Planning department in TID, working on the analysis and performance evaluation of optical networks. He has been active in manifold large scale R&D European IST projects, and CELTIC projects. He has coordinated the BANITS2 Celtic project. He is currently working in the Scalable Multilayer Networks group in Telefónica and is responsible for standardization in Transport Networks in Telefónica I+D.

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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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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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Dr. Lei Liu was born in Liaoning, China, in 1981. He received the B.E. degree and the Ph.D. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing, China, in 2004 and 2009 respectively. Since 2009, he has been with the KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Saitama, Japan. His main research interests include the wavelength switched optical networks, optical burst switching networks, network control and management technique (such as MPLS/GMPLS, PCE, OpenFlow), network architectures and Grid/cloud computing. He has published over 45 peer-reviewed international journal and conference papers in the aforementioned research areas.

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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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Gregory J. Miller is the Director of Enterprise Data Network Planning and Technology at Verizon. His organization is responsible for the architecture and design of networks and services offered to multi-national enterprise customers globally, including Layer-2 and Layer-3 VPNs, and Managed Data, Voice, and Security services. In his 15 years with Verizon, Dr. Miller has held various positions related to IP and data network architecture and engineering. His areas of focus have included IPv6, IP QoS, traffic measurement and modeling, and MPLS technologies. Prior to joining Verizon (then MCI), Dr. Miller was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the MITRE Corporation, where he was engaged in a number of networking projects, including the development of a set of protocol standards for use in space communications. Dr. Miller holds a B.S. degree from Loyola University Maryland, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Delaware, all in Computer Science.

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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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Tom is a VP/Senior Principle Software Architect at CA Technologies where he is responsible for architecture and standards leadership around CA’s network infrastructure management and service assurance products. Prior to joining CA Technologies, Tom was a Distinguished Engineer at Huawei Technologies where he worked on architecture, product strategy and standards pertaining to IP/MPLS/Ethernet Huawei’s IP routing and switching products. In particular, Tom worked on projects involving IP, MPLS, MPLS-TP, Pseudowires, VPN/VPLS, video, Ethernet, cloud and grid computing, as well as content/media. Before Huawei, Tom was a Principle Network Architect at BT and prior to that he worked at Cisco Systems where he was a Technical Leader responsible for the leadership, standardization and architecture of operations and management for MPLS-related components of Cisco IOS ® and IOS-XR ®.

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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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Stefano Previdi is a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems where he contributed to Cisco Fast Routing Convergence technologies (ISIS Fast Convergence, IP-Fast Reroute, BFD) and he's the main contributor to Network Positioning System Technologies in terms of technology definition/architecture, standardization, implementation and deployment. NPS aims to locate and compute distance between IP/MPLS endpoints and applications and services. NPS Technology is compliant to ALTO standardization effort in IETF. Stefano is an active member of IETF/IRTF and more precisely in ALTO, ISIS and Routing Area Working Groups. He's also the co-chair of the Peer-to-Peer Research group (P2PRG) in IRTF. Stefano is author of more than 75 U.S. patents and 14 IETF documents (Drafts and RFCs).

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Rajesh Rajamani is a Senior Marketing Manager at Spirent Communications and has global marketing responsibilities for the Mobile backhaul, Routing and MPLS portfolios. Prior to Spirent, Rajesh has worked in Century Link, Redback Networks and Nortel in Engineering, Product management and Strategy roles. Rajesh obtained a Master’s degree in Business from Duke University and an undergraduate degree from Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai.

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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 70 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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Juan Rodriguez graduated in the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in Telecommunications Engineering. He joined Telefónica I+D (Research & Development) in 2004, being since then involved in data networking related European projects, both IST and CELTIC. He was also a participant in a National Spanish project, dealing with network intelligence mechanisms. Currently, he is working as a Technological Specialist at the “Scalable Multilayer Photonic Networks” group, leading the R&D activities on the evolution of MPLS. Topics of interest include MPLS architectures end-to-end, GMPLS, MPLS-TP or multipoint services.

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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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Dr. Masatoshi Suzuki is currently an Executive Vice President of KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc., and an R&D Fellow of KDDI Corporation. He received his B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from Hokkaido University, Japan, in 1979, 1981 and 1984, respectively. He joined KDD Research Laboratories (currently KDDI R&D Laboratories), Tokyo, Japan in 1984. Since 1984, he has been engaged in research on high-speed optical devices, optical transmission systems and optical networks, including high-speed EA modulators, laser/modulator integrated light sources, the dispersion managed soliton transmission system, which is one of the most cited works in the optical transmission research area, and GMPLS-controlled optical networks. He was also involved in the project on the first EDFA-based transpacific undersea cable system, TPC-5, and the project of the 10Gbit/s WDM undersea cable systems for Japan-US, PC-1,TAT-14, EAC and C2C cable systems. Dr. Suzuki is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of IEICE. He was the Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technologies from 1999 to 2004. He is a recipient of the Best Paper Award of OEC in 1988, Distinguished Paper Award of IEICE in 1996, the Best Paper Award of OECC in 2000, Achievement award from IEICE in 2004, Science and Technology Award from Minister of MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan) in 2006, Minister Award of Advanced Technology from METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan) in 2006, Sakurai Memorial Award from OITDA in 2009.

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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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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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IJsbrand Wijnands is a Technical Leader at Cisco in the IOS-XR ® Multicast development group. IJsbrand has been working on Multicast for the last 12 years, specially focussing on Multicast in MPLS networks. He has been involved in designing and implementing many multicast features related to Multicast VPN's and MPLS in both Cisco IOS ® and IOS-XR. IJsbrand is an active participant in the IETF and (co)-author of many multicast related drafts. He has been one of the key drivers behind the Multipoint LDP protocol extensions and is an editor of the mLDP IETF draft.

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XIAOHU XU graduated from Beijing University of Posts and Telecoms in 2000. He has been working in the telecom industry for more than 10 years and now is a senior staff engineer at IP Technology Research Department of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Prior to joining Huawei, he was the chief engineer at Technical Support Department and the manager at Router OS Test Team of Harbour Networks, Inc, which was acquired by Huawei later. His current research interests include but not limited to: scalable routing and addressing architecture; id/locator split architecture; data center network and data center interconnection architecture.

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

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

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

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

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