Making the 100 Gbps Connection
July 28th, 2 pm ET / 11 am PT
While many service providers are clearly upgrading their core and edge networks with 40 Gbps capabilities, it’s clear they are already making the move to 100 Gbps. Recent news from AT&T, Qwest and Verizon signify such a trend. Verizon has been clearly the most aggressive by upgrading a key European route, which will be followed by upgrade of existing routes in its U.S. market throughout 2010, while AT&T recently conducted a 100 Gbps Ethernet trial in its Southern region.
In this interactive webinar, you'll get to hear how not only the approaches, but how some of the major service providers are either conducting trials or actual deployments of 100 Gbps technology.
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Daniel Moffat, President and CEO, GTA TeleGuam
Dan has over 25 years experience in the telecommunications industry and has pioneered various ventures. He was president of GST Whole Earth Networks before starting New Edge Networks. He had also previously founded a telecom strategy firm, Access Value Services, which was later sold to Cathey, Hutton and Associates, a telecommunications consulting company.
Eve Griliches, Managing Partner, ACG Research
Using extensive experience in product management in the technology industry as her foundation, managing partner Eve Griliches brings to ACG a demonstrated analytical talent bolstered by years of hands-on experience in the telecommunications industry. Her analytical acumen, expertise and experience in the telecom field as well as her strong management skills have made her a highly credible voice in the industry. She is respected worldwide for her market share reporting and forecasting for the networking and telecommunications industries and organizations. With her combination of strategic marketing and analytical experiences, Eve will use her tactical communication expertise as well as her comprehensive understanding of IP technology to focus on the convergence of IP and Optics.
Helen Xenos, Director of Solutions Marketing, Ciena
Helen Xenos is a Director of Solutions Marketing at Ciena, responsible for introducing Ciena optical and Carrier Ethernet solutions to market. In her 17 years in the telecommunications industry working for Nortel, Helen's responsibilities have included Product Line Management for the optical and packet optical portfolio, Customer Program Management, Systems Engineering, and Supply Chain Operations.
Houman Modarres, Director of Product Marketing, IP Division, Alcatel-Lucent
Houman Modarres is Director of Product Marketing within the IP Division of Alcatel-Lucent. Prior to joining Alcatel-Lucent in 2008, Houman led the marketing and product management functions within Hammerhead Systems, a silicon valley start-up focused on multiservice aggregation. Previously, Houman managed the Carrier Softswitch business line at 3Com Corporation. In this capacity, Houman was responsible for the vision and execution of the CommWorks IP Telephony Framework, culminating in early SIP-based VoIP solutions deployed worldwide.
Matt Rossi, Zayo Enterprise Networks
Monisha Merchant, Senior Director of Product Management, Level 3
Monisha Merchant is a senior director for Level 3 Communications, where she is responsible for strategy and product management of Level 3's customer optical network solutions portfolio. She has specific responsibility for Level 3's advanced optical networking products, broadband stimulus grant, rural broadband access, and low latency transport solutions.
Packet Optical Networking Platforms: Sizing up the approaches
Now available on-demand
As the packet optical networking platform concept has emerged, two dominant camps have advocated specific ways they think these devices should be built. Not surprisingly, router vendors (Cisco and Juniper) favor an approach that integrates optical transponders and OTN switching to a core router, while optical-centric vendors (Fujitsu and Cyan Optics) favor a 'packet integration approach' that adds OTN and packet switching to the optical network platform.
In this interactive webinar, you'll get to hear about the approaches, the trends and how carriers are deploying these devices to bridge the TDM to IP world. Presentations will be followed by an open roundtable discussion hosted by Sean Buckley, Senior Editor of Fierce Telecom.
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Jim Jones, Transport Applications Marketing Manager, Optics Products, Alcatel-Lucent
Jim Jones' main focus is global marketing of cross-product optical transport solutions, leading a virtual team on intelligent optical/IP solutions enabled by innovations in control plane and cross-layer automation. He is active in standardization work as the Interoperability Working Group chair and VP of Marketing for the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF). Jim also chaired the OIF Architecture/Signaling Working Group from 2001 to 2004 and the OIF Technical Committee from 2004 to 2007.
Michael Kennedy, Ph.D., Managing Partner and Co-Founder, Network Strategy Partners, LLC
Michael Kennedy, Ph.D., Managing Partner and co-founder of Network Strategy Partners, LLC, helps leading companies create and implement network industry strategies. Recently, he helped incumbent and new entrant service providers apply new access network technologies to improve the profitability of their service offerings. Michael's work for equipment vendors is focused on helping them create compelling business cases in support of their marketing efforts. He also works with end-users to develop network architectures, strategies and designs that meet corporate business goals.
Ian Campbell, Director Product Management & Product Development, Arbinet
Ian Campbell brings nearly 15 years of experience in design, engineering and development of Internet and Data product offerings to Arbinet. Currently Ian manages the company's product management and development of its voice and data solutions. Ian has played a key role at Arbinet in integrating voice on thexchange and its data on thexchange solutions to provide leading VoIP route trading and VoIP peering.
Carrier Roundtable: Packet optical networking platforms
Now Available On-Demand
With vendors offering a diversity approaches for Packet Optical Network Platforms (PONPs), this carrier-only roundtable discussion will focus on how three service providers are applying these devices to fit their next-gen networking needs.
To set the stage, these service providers will provide a short case study on how they are applying PONPs into their networks. These case studies will then be followed by an open roundtable discussion hosted by Sean Buckley, Senior Editor of Fierce Telecom.
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Brady Adams, Chief Technology Officer, 360networks
Brady Adams, Chief Technology Officer, joined 360networks in June of 2009 to lead Network Operations, Engineering, Provisioning and Carrier Services for 360networks. Prior to joining 360networks, Mr. Adams was the Vice President in charge of Engineering and Operations for Grande Communications where he was responsible for designing, building and operating their triple-play network.
Grant Kirkwood, CTO, PacketExchange
As CTO of PacketExchange, Mr. Kirkwood oversees all aspects of the company's technology vision and execution, passionately achieving PacketExchange's high level of excellence and customer commitment. Mr. Kirkwood has 10 years of senior management experience in Internet infrastructure companies for mission-critical online applications. Prior to PacketExchange, Mr. Kirkwood was Founder and CTO of Mzima Networks (recently acquired by PacketExchange), as well as CTO at Netixs, operating its managed services and hosting operation.
Robert Feuerstein, Principal Transport Architect, BT Innovate and Design
Bob Feuerstein lives in Boulder, CO and is currently working as the Principal Architect for Transport Systems for BT. He received his PhD in Electrophysics from Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY in 1990. He then joined the NSF funded Optoelectronic Computing Systems Center at the University of Colorado as an Asst. Res. Prof. There he researched optical computing, optical communications and helped build the world’s first stored program fiber optic computer. He taught classics in optoelectonics and optical communications. He worked in congress for one year after receiving an appointment as the IEEE Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow (1998), working in the office of Senator Alfonse D'Amato. After returning to Boulder, he joined Level 3 Communications as a Senior Architect. |
