Pre-WiMAX broadband wireless systems have been deployed for fixed, portable, and mobile services for several years. With more WiMAX-compliant systems turning up and the WiMAX ecosystem gaining momentum in 2006, a wide variety of existing and new broadband services is expected to run on WiMAX networks. To optimize the network resource and user experience, service performance over WiMAX needs to carefully planned, monitored, and controlled. This panel session will discuss the performance experiences, issues, solutions, and management of broadband services running on WiMAX networks connected with core networks. The broadband wireless services in a WiMAX network may consist of a mix of traffic with different performance characteristics such as throughput, delay, jitter, and error tolerance from various applications, which include streaming video, video surveillance, VoIP, file sharing, multimedia messaging, fractional T1, backhauling, interactive gaming, music downloading, and Web access.

Grant F. Lenahan Vice President, IMS Service Delivery Solutions Telcordia

Mr. Lenahan is responsible for defining product and market strategies. As part of these responsibilities, he leads the specification of Telcordia's next generation of OSS, service platforms, and technologies that will enable wireless and cable operators to offer content-rich, IP-based converged networks. Mr. Lenahan's experience includes 20 years with Telcordia Technologies, working in such areas as generic requirements, transmission engineering, video services design, economic analysis, and operational analysis of new communications technologies/services.

Tom Forsyth Product Marketing Director, Service Quality Management Suite Telcordia Technologies

Mr. Forsyth joined Telcordia after 10 years in a number of roles at Orange UK, ending up as head of operations strategy. In this role he had responsibility for the operations and maintenance strategy of the Orange UK network. He has spent more than 15 years working on the GSM standardization process, including terms as chairman of the group and writing the mobile type approval specifications, and was the first vice chairman of the GSM MoU Terminals Working Group. Mr. Forsyth has more than 20 years of experience in manufacturing, design, and network operation.

Bong Ho Kim Mobile WiMAX Systems Performance Posdata

Dr. Kim has led and contributed to a wide range of WiMAX technology such as mobile WiMAX systems performance and QoS since 2004, and he is leading the real-world application traffic benchmark team in the WiMAX Application Working Group. He has also actively involved in UMTS and CDMA systems performance and end-to-end application performance over various wireless technologies since 1997.

Dave Maez Director of Product Strategy and Standards Navini Networks

Mr. Maez previously worked at MCI Communications with management roles in emerging technologies and wireless broadband business development. He brings eight years of hands-on wireless broadband experience in the operator and vendor communities. He received his B.S.C.S. from Chapman University.