In the near future, multimedia services will be increasingly requested by residential and corporate users. While in the residential arena the main lever is the evolution of IPTV services toward an interactive and personalized service, in the corporate arena business users will require more flexible and on-demand bandwidth usage and pricing. Both environments require network topologies and architectures with a high degree of QoS, security, availability, and flexible and cost-effective broadband deployment. A future-proof optical transport packet network is the basis for guaranteeing that all end users' and service providers' demands are fulfilled.

The session will discuss how these challenges and requirements will be supported through this future optical, the alternative network architectures and topologies toward an all-IP network, as well as the technological and economical benefits of introducing ASON, ROADM, PXC, T-MPLS/PBT, etc.

Marcos Kimura Director, Market Development for Access Nokia Siemens Networks

Mr. Kimura is the general manager of the engineering department for fixed networks at Nokia Siemens for the Latin American region, with focus on strategic technological areas of next-generation networks, fixed-mobile convergence, broadband access, IP networking and optical transport networks, and applications and solutions such as IPTV solutions. He graduated with a degree in electric engineering at Escola Politécnica with specialization in business management at Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.

Robert Cubbage Product Manager, Optical Group Huawei Technologies (USA)

Mr. Cubbage has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and was a primary contributor to the SONET/SDH standard. He held key leadership position in ANSI T1X1 and has led the telecom industry through participation in the ATM Forum and OIF at the physical layer. At Huawei, Mr. Cubbage's current responsibilities include establishing a new technology that serves as the foundation of the next-generation vision for a fully converged packet network.

Emanuel Nachum Vice President, Marketing ECI Telecom

Mr. Nachum has more than 16 years of telecom experience working closely with major, established, and emerging service providers. He joined ECI Telecom from Tadiran Telecom in 1999 and has been holding various positions with increasing responsibility in R&D, marketing, sales, and market development. Mr. Nachum holds an M.B.A. from Tel Aviv University's Recanati School of Management and a B.S. in electronic engineering from Tel-Aviv University.