Both the need for more cost-effective bandwidth required by video-over-DSL applications and the existing deployments of Metro Ethernet networks are making Ethernet technology more and more popular for DSL aggregation. This technology leapfrog is mainly impacting the central office access nodes, delivering more service-specific and layer 3 intelligence towards a service-aware packet network, and the Metro Ethernet networks (both Ethernet bridging or VPLS/VLL based). This session will describe the latest state-of-the-art functionalities of the different network components, as well as the problems in guaranteeing QoS, resilience, security, service delivery, and compatibility with legacy services.

Christian Gregoire
Senior Vice President
Alcatel Asia-Pacific

Mr. Gregoire was previously the chief technology officer for Alcatel Asia-Pacific, working closely with customers on technology strategy development. He joined Alcatel in 1991 in a special advisory capacity to the Alcatel Alsthom technical director while he was working as a technical advisor with the French Atomic Energy High Commissioner. Mr. Gregoire became a full-time employee of Alcatel the following year, when he was appointed vice president of Alcatel Alsthom Recherche. He moved to Alcatel Asia-Pacific in September 2003.

Daniel Hua, Vice President, IP Division, Alcatel Asia-Pacific, holds overall responsibility for the sales and business development of the company's market-leading IP products and solutions in the region. Mr. Hua joined Alcatel in June 2003 through Alcatel's acquisition of TiMetra, an advanced networking start up in Silicon Valley, where he was vice president for the Asia-Pacific region. A telecom veteran, he has also held senior management positions in telecom and IT companies including Cisco Systems, Newbridge, IBM, and Mitsubishi Corporation.

Xu Jianfeng, China Telecom

George Kimura, Director, Engineering, NTT Service Integration Laboratories, is responsible for the development and the verification of next-generation IP service networks. He joined NTT in 1982, and since then, he has been actively engaged in research and development for network planning and engineering. Recently, Dr. Kimura worked extensively on the development of the next-generation IPv6 service network with QoS for realizing broadband and ubiquitous service networks.