The worldwide movement toward broadband and IP in the network has led to the various ubiquitous services that we see around us today. These services have been implemented through the evolution of technologies that will enable the next generation of advanced telecommunication services, IMS, and FMC. Already, many companies have been advocating various SDP architectures, bringing new aspects to this concept worldwide. Common APIs, such as Parlay and Java, are the representative technologies that heavily contribute to this area, providing easy and speedy convergence of the IT and telecom arenas. This session will examine the unified SDP concept from a technology and solution perspective, as developed by various telecom companies in Japan.

Yutaka Nozawa
General Manager, Architecture Department, IS Division
Vodafone K.K.

Mr. Nozawa has more than 15 years of experience in developing billing, CRM, and IT integration solutions. He has focused on IT technologies engineering as well as business and market demands. Recently, Mr. Nozawa has been working to develop SDP ideas to provide value-added application services using broadband/3G networks. He is currently promoting SDP in Japan.

Mauricio Arango, Technology Solutions Director, Global Telco Industry Sales, Sun Microsystems, was formerly vice president of technology at RSL COM Latin America, an international carrier, where he was responsible for new services and network development. Prior to that, he was a senior scientist at Telcordia Technologies, where he was one of the creators of MGCP and the VoIP call agent architecture.

Chris King, Senior Director, Worldwide Telecommunications Markets, BEA Systems, is responsible for leading BEA's marketing and sales demand activities in the telecommunications industry. He is a frequent speaker on the subject of TMN and next-generation network management technologies. Mr. King currently represents BEA as a core team member on the OSS/Java standards group. He also has been a team leader at the TeleManagement Forum.

Yasushi Yoshikawa, NEC, has more than 20 years of telecommunications industry experience. He is quite familiar with switching systems through his wealth of experience as an engineer, as well as value-added solutions over mobile networks, such as location information systems. Recently, NEC organized a new department, where Mr. Yoshikawa is in charge of mobile business development including business incubation and has been deploying NEC's mobile solutions to Japan and the overseas market as a founding general manager.