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| T25C | Tuesday, June 3 · 2:15 pm - 3:45 pm |
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Innovative Metro Optical Solutions Enhancing Carrier Profitability with New Services Carriers today are challenged to improve profitability via technological and architectural advances in metropolitan optical networking. These advances include transport innovations that enable carriers to significantly improve service velocity, SLA performance, and ROI. These new approaches, which add flexibility and intelligence to legacy networks, include RPR, MPLS, and Ethernet. Using these technologies, carriers can offer expanded data services such as transparent LAN services and VPNs. Service velocity is improved via these new packet architectures, which enable provisioning of end points in minutes regardless of network size and complexity.
Chairperson Alex Naqvi, President and Chief Executive Officer, Luminous Networks, has 18 years of experience in product-line management, marketing, and business development in networking, personal computer, and embedded systems markets. He was formerly vice president and general manager at Chips and Technologies and IDT, and he held senior marketing and management positions at Mylex, Marvell, and Intel. Speakers John Hawkins, Senior Marketing Manager, Optical Ethernet, Nortel Networks, is responsible for the technical marketing of the OPTera Packet Edge System (Nortel's pre-standard implementation of RPR). Brian Noel, Vice President, Luminous Networks, has more than 22 years experience in marketing, sales, and business development with a range of telecommunications carriers and network-equipment providers. Jeffrey Reedy, President and Chief Executive Officer, Overture Networks, has contributed to the networking industry for more than 22 years. Anthony Thakur, Vice President, Time Warner Telecom, is responsible for the strategic direction of Time Warner Telecom's network and the migration on next-generation technologies. Eric Shepcaro, Vice President, Application Integration Networking, AT&T |
