SPEAKERS 2015
| Cengiz Alaettinoglu, Packet Design | ||
 Cengiz Alaettinoglu is a founding member of the company's R&D staff and provides technical direction for the product portfolio. His early experimental work, analyzing routing convergence and scalability properties, and correlating network performance issues to routing protocol incidents, lead to the creation of route analytics technology and the Packet Design product suite. He is currently working on real-time SDN analytics and orchestration applications that intelligently satisfy path and bandwidth demands without negatively impacting other services. Prior to Packet Design, Cengiz was with USC's Information Sciences Institute where he worked on the Routing Arbiter project. He was co-chair of the IETF's Routing Policy System Working Group, has been published widely, and is a popular lecturer at industry events worldwide. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, and a MS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland |
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| Loa Anderson, MPLS IETF WG Chairman, Huawei | ||
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| Valéry Augais, Senior Network Architect, Network & Platform Strategy and Architecture, Technology Services Unit, Colt | ||
 Valéry Augais is a senior network architect in Colt’s Strategy and Architecture team. He joined Colt’s engineering department in 1998 as an access and metro technologies specialist. Since 2005 he has been actively involved in the design and roll-out of next-generation Carrier Ethernet networks and services. His current focus is on: the modular integration of the Optical, Ethernet and IP layers with the aim of simplifying the transport and service architectures; the evolution of the access network for a smarter mobile backhaul offering; the applicability and development of FTTx technologies and architectures for Colt. Valéry holds two M.Sc. degrees in Telecommunications and Computing from Telecom ParisTech and UPMC University, France. |
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| Hector Avalos, VP Strategy & Business Development, Versa Networks | ||
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| Curt Beckmann, CTO Europe, Chair of ONF Forwarding abstraction WG, BROCADE | ||
 Mr Beckmann is the founding chair of the ONF's Forwarding Abstractions Working Group (FAWG), which works to make OpenFlow more scalable and interoperable. He also serves as a member of the ONF’s Chipmakers’ Advisory Board (CAB). Related to OpenFlow, Mr Beckmann contributes to the OpenDaylight SDN controller, where he is project leader for the Table Type Patterns project. Since being named Brocade's Chief Technology Architect for EMEA, Mr Beckmann is now based in Paris. |
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| Matthew Bocci, Alcatel-Lucent | ||
 Matthew Bocci is Director of Technology and Standards with the Service Router product management team of Alcatel-Lucent, specialising in MPLS and pseudowire technologies. He is co-chair of the IETF Network Virtualisation Overlays (NVO3) and Access Node Control Protocol(ANCP) working groups, and has been a regular contributer to the IETF for many years. He is a co-author of a number of publications and IETF drafts and RFCs on MPLS-based converged networks, as well as a regular speaker at industry conferences. Previously, Matthew provided advanced technical consulting in traffic management, signaling and network performance with Newbridge Networks. He holds a PhD in ATM network modeling from Queen Mary & Westfield College, London. |
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| Foucault de Bonneval, Cloudwatt | ||
| Nan Chen, MEF | ||
 Nan is known in the telecom/networking industry as the founding President of the MEF. Under his leadership, MEF has become one of the major success stories in the new Internet age. With 200+ members, 35+ Carrier Ethernet standards, 150+ certified companies and 300+ professionals the aggregate membership market capitalization is well over $1.5 trillion. Nan’s profound drive to unite standardization and certification with dynamic, global campaigns and strategic initiatives, helped make Carrier Ethernet one of the fastest growing areas in telecoms, reaching $50B+. In 2012, MEF launched CE 2.0, that delivers the next generation of standardized technologies with unmatched efficiency and cost-savings for exponential data growth in mobile backhaul, cloud computing and Internet applications. Prior to founding CENX, he was VP of Marketing at Strix Systems (acquired by Private Equity); VP of Marketing at Atrica (acquired by Nokia Siemens Networks); and Director of Technology at Bay Networks/SynOptics (acquired by Nortel) |
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| Linda Dumbar, Distinguished Engineer, Huawei | ||
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| Santosh Esale, JUNIPER NETWORKS | ||
 Santosh Esale has been involved in the design and development of MPLS and routing protocols. Currently, he works as a software developer in Juniper’s IP and MPLS routing team, where he has co-filed several patents in the area of MPLS. Prior to that, he worked at Alcatel-Lucent, where he was a MPLS lead designer and developer for 7210 SAS routers. Before that, he implemented routing protocols at Riverstone Networks. Santosh holds a bachelor's degree in Computer science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Warangal. |
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| Dr. Luyuan Fang, Microsoft | ||
 Dr. Luyuan Fang has over 20 years of experience in the networking and computing industries. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Flinders University of South Australia in 1991. Her early computing work includes Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks for combinatorial optimization, pattern recognition. Since 2000, she has worked extensively in IP/MPLS architectural design and engineering, she gained firsthand experience while working as a lead architect in AT&T’s IP MPLS and L3 VPN design and deployment. Luyuan joined Cisco in 2006, she is currently Principle Engineer in Cisco. She has worked on Carrier Ethernet, DC inter-connect, and MPLS-TP for Packet Transport technologies and products, with close customer engagement. Luyuan has been an active contributor in IETF since 2000. She has co-authored/contributed 14 RFCs in the MPLS, L2/L3 VPN, and TE areas. Luyuan has been a frequent speaker for several prominent MPLS and Carrier Ethernet Conferences worldwide for the last 12 years. She has over 100 technical publications, including IEEE articles, conference papers and industrial speeches. |
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| Clarence Filsfils, Cisco FELLOW | ||
 Clarence Filsfils is a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems where he holds key roles in Engineering and Marketing. Clarence has played a leadership role in the development of Quality of Service (QoS), IP/MPLS Routing Resiliency, Large-Scale Routing and IP/Optical Integrated Control-Plane technology at Cisco Systems. Clarence is leading the Segment Routing (SR) project in terms of technology definition, productization, customer engagement and standardization. Clarence is a regular speaker at leading industry Conferences and Standards Development Organizations like the IETF. Clarence holds over 100 patents and has published several industry technology papers on Routing and QoS. Clarence is the author of the “Service Provider deployments of Quality of Service”. Clarence holds a Masters in Management from Solvay Business School and a Masters of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Liege. |
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| Nicolas Fischbach, Director of Strategy, Architecture and Innovation, Colt | ||
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| David Fraser, Intel | ||
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| Ori Gerstel, CTO, Sedona Systems | ||
 Ori Gerstel is the founder and CTO of Sedona Systems – a startup specializing in Multi-layer SDN control for SP networks. Until the end of 2013, Ori was a Principal Engineer at Cisco, where he was responsible for driving the architecture of router-transport integration. Before joining Cisco in 2002, Ori held senior architecture positions at Tellabs and Nortel, where he architected the first mesh optical network and the first fully switched optical network respectively. He started his work in optical networking at IBM, where the first commercial DWDM system was developed. For these contributions, he was awarded the grade of IEEE Fellow (2008) and OSA Fellow (2014). Ori published ~100 papers in the main international conferences and journals in the field, as well as several book chapters. He holds over 35 granted patents on optical networks, and a similar number of pending patents. He served as conference committee member and co-chair of several communication conferences and has been regularly invited to teach short courses and attend panels. He also serves as editor-in-chief for the primary journal for optical networking (JOCN) and as a steering committee member for the OFC conference. Ori holds a Ph.D. degree from the Technion. |
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| Gert Grammel, Juniper Networks | ||
 Gert holds a Master Degree in Technical Cybernetics. His passion is to work in an international and multi-cultural context, leading innovative solutions to implementation. He started his career 1993 defining and implementing innovative network architectures in CATV and Transport Networks including SDH, OTH and WDM. As Product Line Manager he spearheaded the development of a multi-layer control plane and its integration with a next generation Network Management System. This included working in relevant standards bodies such as IETF and OIF. In 2011 he joined Juniper as Product Line Manager for packet-optical convergence. Starting from 2014, as a member of in the Corporate CTO Office, he manages the corporate innovation activities in EMEA, focusing on virtualization and orchestration aspects. |
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| Hannes Gredler, Juniper Networks | ||
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| Jan Häglund, Head of Product Area Network Analytics & Control, Business Unit Cloud & IP, ERICSSON | ||
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| Wim Henderickx, Alcatel-Lucent | ||
 Mr. Wim Henderickx is Director Network Consulting Engineering – Technology in the IP Division at Alcatel-Lucent, based in Belgium. Mr. Henderickx provides senior level consulting on advanced IP solutions such as Triple Play, network routing, mobile and the enterprise to service providers throughout EMEA. He is also actively engaged in assessing and defining future technologies that will help shape communications networks and services of tomorrow. He has over 15 years’ experience in the communications and networking industry, and is a regular speaker at technical conferences all over the world. Mr. Henderickx holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Data Communications and a Masters degree in Economy and is a Bellabs Fellow. |
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| Michael Howard, Co-founder and Principal Analyst, Carrier Networks, Infonetics Research | ||
 Michael Howard co-founded market research firm Infonetics Research in 1990, and today is recognized worldwide as one of the industry’s leading experts in emerging markets, network operator trends, and user buying patterns. Michael leverages over 40 years of communications industry experience, including 22 years in market research, to author numerous works year-round, including quarterly vendor market share and forecast reports, service provider surveys, Continuous Research Service (CRS) analyst notes, white papers, and custom research. He specializes in mobile backhaul, small cells, carrier Ethernet, edge and core routers, IP/MPLS control planes, IP VPNs, cloud access, 40GE/100GE, software-defined networks (SDNs), OpenFlow, and packet-optical transport. Michael is a highly-sought speaker, and he frequently moderates webinars, chairs conference programs, and presents at industry events across the globe, including the Mobile Backhaul Conference at CTIA Wireless, 4G World, MPLS & Ethernet World Congress, Ethernet Europe, Carrier Ethernet World Congress (Europe and APAC), Ethernet Technology Summit, Evolving Packet Transport Networks, and SDN & OpenFlow World Congress. He is also regularly quoted in the press, including Information Week, Light Reading, FierceTelecom, Lightwave, OSP Magazine, Telecom Engine, Network World, Telecom Lead, CED Magazine, FierceBroadbandWireless, Carrier Ethernet News, and Laser Focus World. As a consultant to startups, service providers, vendors, and the investment community, Michael helps clients identify new market opportunities, provides due diligence, and advises on positioning, product development, business plans, and M&A activity. Before founding Infonetics, Michael was an IT Director at Tymshare/Tymnet, where he created network accounting and led the First Interstate Bank project that developed the world's first pre-Internet in-home banking system. Prior to that, shortly after receiving a BS in Mathematics from UC Berkeley, he worked for Systems Development Corporation on operating systems and programming language compilers for ARPAnet, which later became the Internet. In 2008, Michael co-authored the book, Carrier Ethernet: Extending Ethernet Beyond the LAN, which received 5 out of 5 stars on Amazon.com. An accomplished abalone diver, chef, and photographer, Michael is based out of Infonetics’ corporate headquarters in the Silicon Valley. |
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| Nicolas “Neela” Jacques, Executive Director, OpenDaylight | ||
 As OpenDaylight's executive director, Nicolas “Neela” Jacques works with the OpenDaylight community to advance SDN and NFV with a developer-driven open source platform for products and technologies that expand the intelligence, programmability and performance of network infrastructures. He oversees and provides guidance for all aspects of the project, from governance and technology to community and marketing. Formerly at VMware, Jacques was part of the core team that took virtualization from a niche development and testing product to ubiquitous use. He developed and took to market the company’s software-defined data center vision and strategy including VMware’s vCloud Suite. Jacques also founded and launched VMware's first cloud computing initiative in 2007. Prior to VMware, Jacques was a consultant with Bain & Company. He received his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business with High Honors and a Bachelor of Science from Georgetown University. |
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| Alastair Johnson, Principal Solution Architect, NUAGE NETWORKS | ||
 At Nuage Networks AJ is responsible for evangelism and development of SDN technology opportunities by helping customers understand how to apply new ways of working to telecommunications environments. AJ has extensive background in telco IP networking, including roles in major telco network transformation strategies. Prior to Nuage Networks, AJ was a product manager in Alcatel-Lucent's IP Routing organization. |
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| Andy Kennedy, Network & Security Virtualization Architect, VMware | ||
 Andy Kennedy is a Network & Security Virtualization Architect at VMware UK. His specific focus is on telecommunications Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and OpenStack; working to support VMware’s global strategy to transform service provider networks so operators benefit from dramatically compressed innovation cycles. Andy joined VMware as a Network Virtualization Platform Engineer in February 2013, helping to educate the European market about the benefits of software defined networking. More recently, Andy has been working with management specialists to drive network and security automation in Infrastructure as a Service cloud platforms. This work has enabled public cloud providers and global enterprises benefit from the associated cost savings, scalability, flexibility and speed of such solutions. Andy has more than 16 years of industry experience, including IBM, Juniper Networks and Goldman Sachs. Security has been a focal point throughout Andy’s career; starting at Goldman Sachs in 1999, where he was responsible for network and security infrastructure used to connect key trading systems to external eCommerce platforms. Andy graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. |
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| Mazen Khaddam, Cox Communications | ||
 Mazen Khaddam is an industry expert in IP network architecture and planning. Mazen is currently working at Cox Communications as a Principal lead Architect, where he has been leading the IP architecture group for past 16 years. The Cox IP network infrastructure has grown tremendously during this period and Mazen had the foresight and influence to design the most scalable and resilient network possible. Mazen has designed the network architecture for Cox as it relates too: service-free core, Multilayer network optimizations, Multilayer network dimensioning, Multilayer network planning, Hybrid IP/Optical protection and restoration, Broadcast video over IP/MPLS using-TE P2MP, and NG MVPN for VoD library distribution. Mazen has more than 20 years of experience in the communication fields and has a masters and bachelor degree in electrical engineering from the University of South Florida |
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| Sunil Khandekar, Nuage Networks | ||
 Sunil is the CEO of Nuage Networks, a new Alcatel-Lucent venture focussed on Datacenter network evolution. Formerly, Sunil was the Vice President Business Development for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region of the Alcatel-Lucent IP Division. Prior to this he had global responsibility for the Service Router portfolio as Vice President of Product Management for IP Division of Alcatel-Lucent based in Mountain View, California. Sunil joined former Alcatel through the 2003 acquisition TiMetra Networks, a Silicon Valley start-up focused on service routers for IP/MPLS networks, where he worked from its inception and led product management and standardization activities. Prior to TiMetra, he held a variety of product management and consulting engineering management roles with Bay and Nortel Networks in New York and Santa Clara. |
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| Kireeti Kompella, Juniper Networks | ||
 Kireeti Kompella is CTO and Chief Architect, Junos at Juniper Networks. His responsibilities include nurturing Junos on all Juniper platforms while exploring new horizons for Junos. His other interests include Packet Transport and large-scale MPLS. Dr. Kompella is active at the IETF where he was a co-chair of the CCAMP Working Group and the author of several Internet Drafts and RFCs in the areas of CCAMP, IS-IS, L2VPN, MPLS, OSPF and TE. He specializes in Layer 2 VPNs, Metro Ethernet, Virtual Private LAN Service, and the use of MPLS in access networks and mobile backhaul. Previously, he worked in the area of filesystems at Network Appliance and SGI; and earlier still in security and cryptography. Dr. Kompella received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur; and his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Southern California. |
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| Tim Laberge, MICROSOFT | ||
 Tim LaBerge is a Senior Service Engineering Manager in Global Networking Services at Microsoft. His current interests are in the areas of datacenter automation, routing protocol development (especially BGP), network monitoring, segment routing, and software control of the wide area network. Previous to Microsoft, he worked on routing infrastructure for Juniper Networks, high availability infrastructure for Cisco Systems, and distributed filesystems/storage for Quantum. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Kansas and has published papers in the areas of set theory, set-theoretic topology, and topological measure theory. |
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| Brian Lavallée, Director, Technology & Solutions Marketing, Ciena | ||
 Brian Lavallée is the Director of Technology & Solutions Marketing with global responsibility for Ciena’s packet networking solutions. Brian has over 20 years of telecommunications experience with previous roles in Product Line Management, Systems Engineering, Research & Development, and Manufacturing. During his career, he has worked in various areas of optical networking including access, metro, regional, long haul, and submarine networks. He holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from Concordia University and an MBA in Marketing from McGill University, both located in Montréal, Québec, Canada. |
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| Chris Liou, Infinera | ||
 Chris Liou is a Fellow and Vice President of Network Strategy at Infinera, where he focuses on optical transport networking architecture and multi-layer SDN for content providers, data center network operators and service providers. Chris has also served in the roles of Vice President of Product Planning and Vice President of Product Management at Infinera, where he oversaw all product planning and lifecycle management activities as well as technical marketing for the company’s intelligent transport networking product lines. Previously, Chris served as Senior Director of Product Management and Marketing at Ciena for the CoreDirector optical switching family. He has previously held product management and marketing positions at StrataCom and Cisco for WAN network and service management solutions, along with systems architecture and engineering positions at Hewlett-Packard and Telcordia, where he focused on distributed computing and object-oriented based network management solutions. Chris received his B.S.E. with high honors in Electrical Engineering along with a minor in Operations Research & Financial Engineering from Princeton University and received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford University. |
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| Stephane Litkowski, Orange | ||
 Stephane Litkowski is Network Architect for Orange Business Services. He contributes to the technical network design and strategy for enterprise MPLS VPN backbones (mostly RAEI and IGN). His area of expertise are mainly : BGP, MPLS, ISIS, Fast reroute and has very depth knowledge on router internal design (hardware and software) including Cisco, ALU and Juniper platforms. Stephane is involved in IETF, especially in routing area with contributions on BGP extensions, Fast Reroute solutions and more recently on YANG data modeling for routing protocols. He is editing and co-authoring multiple drafts including Segment Routing (SPRING) technology standardization. He is also responsible for the BGP protocol course in a engineering school since 2001. Stephane has been in Orange for 12 years and started working on network operational engineering teams, leading major backbone network migrations and evolutions projects (AS migration, VPN partitioning). In his role, he brought a lot of value added in major network crisis (providing solutions, workaround and service improvement plans), inventing innovative tools for network monitoring, providing high skilled technical guidance for network strategy (LFA, microloop simulations). Stephane was recognized as a member of Orange Expert community for Future Networks since 2013. |
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| Juergen Loehr OIF Representative, Director Advanced Technology, ALCATEL-LUCENT | ||
 Juergen Loehr is working as a product manager on Advanced Technology topics in Alcatel-Lucent’s IP Transport Business Unit. Prior to this position, he led the Systems Engineering and Architecture team for switching and cross-connect products. He received a degree in computer science from the Technical University Chemnitz, Germany. After working for some time in a research institution, he joined Alcatel as a software engineer, then moving to positions in Network Strategy, project management and software architecture. |
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| Diego Lopez, Telefonica I+D | ||
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| Victor Liu, Principal Engineer, Advanced Network Research, Huawei | ||
| Dr. Victor Liu has 20+ years’ research experience on design and optimization algorithms for IP and optical networks. He is with Huawei Research in California, USA. Previously, he worked on packet forwarding at Juniper and network design software at OPNET. | ||
| Julian Lucek, Juniper Networks | ||
 Julian Lucek is a Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks, where he has been working with many operators on the design and evolution of their networks. Before joining Juniper Networks in 1999, he worked at BT for several years, at first in the Photonics Research Department and later in the data transport and routing area. During this time he gained a PhD in ultrahigh-speed optical transmission and processing from Cambridge University. He is the holder of several patents in the area of communications technology. He has a Master's degree in Physics from Cambridge University and holds Juniper Networks Certified Internet Expert (JNCIE) certification number 21. He is co-author of the book "MPLS-Enabled Applications: Emerging Developments and New Technologies", by Ina Minei and Julian Lucek. This book is now in its third edition. |
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| Andrew G. Malis, Huawei | ||
 Andrew G. Malis is a Distinguished Engineer at Huawei Technologies. He specializes in product and network architecture and future evolution; standards leadership (internal and external to the company); customer consultation; and SDN, NFV, IP, MPLS, Ethernet, and other telecom and data networking protocols. Previously, he has held senior engineering positions at Verizon, Tellabs, Cascade Communications, BBN, and other industry-leading organizations. He also holds standards leadership positions as Services Area Director and Technical Council Member at the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) and as a Working Group co-chair and a member of the Routing Directorate in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). He has held leadership roles in numerous other standards organizations, including board memberships and president/chairman. He has written and contributed to many technology standards, including having authored over thirty IETF RFCs, and has spoken and chaired at numerous industry conferences. |
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| Pedro Marques, Juniper Networks | ||
 Pedro works as an OpenContrail developer. Pedro is one of the founders of Contrail Systems, the company that originated the OpenContrail project. He is the author of several IETF protocol specifications in the areas of internet routing (BGP) and network virtualization. His previous open source credits include the Linux IPv6 stack |
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| Victor Mendoza Grado, Verizon | ||
 Victor has been involved in Carrier R&D for over twenty years now, starting with AT&T Bell Labs and later with AT&T Labs. His areas of interest include distributed systems, SOA and cloud computing. He has also been involved in standards development for technology, including cloud services and data center through TM Forum and IEEE. Currently holds position of Consulting Cloud Architect at Verizon where he is in charge of cloud architecture, best practices and cloud optimization. Victor holds a PhD in EE from Purdue University. |
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| Thomas Morin, Orange Labs | ||
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| Thomas Nadeau, Brocade | ||
 Tom is a Distinguished Engineer at Brocade where he is The Chief Architect of Open Source in the Software Business Unit. Tom runs teams responsible for building commercial products based on open source, as well as contributions to upstream open source projects such as Open Daylight and Open Stack. Tom is also a member of the CTO Staff where he contributes to company wide technology strategy, architecture, partnerships and acquisitions. Tom is co-chair of the IETF NETMOD and EMAN Working Groups. NETMOD is responsible for the standardization of the Yang modeling language as well as Yang models. Tom created and maintains YangModels, one of the most popular open source Yang model repositories in use today. Tom has a new book out called SDN: Software Defined Networks, An authoritative Review of Network Programmability Technologies on O’Reilly Publishers. Tom co-edits the SDN Programmability Blog at http://www.sdnprogrammability.net |
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| Diane Patton, Technical Leader, Cisco | ||
| Diane Patton is a Technical Leader at Cisco systems with expertise in IP Routing, MPLS, and Optical primarily specializing in integrating IP and Optical architecture and technologies. She is currently responsible for influencing and driving development and integration of the technologies into cisco products, She is also extensively involved in the large scale customer deployments through design consultations and proof of concept labs, She is active in the BBF IP/MPLS and Core Working Group and received Outstanding Contributor 2013 award. She is a regular speaker at Cisco Live and Packet Optical Networking Conferences. Diane is also a 15+ year Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert, and holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering. | ||
| Manuel Paul, Senior Standards Expert, Deutsche Telekom, Broadband Forum | ||
| Board Member Manuel Paul is a senior expert in international standardization for Deutsche Telekom. He serves as a member of the Broadband Forum Board since 2013. Within Deutsche Telekom (DT) Mr. Paul works in standardization, as well as in strategy and R&D projects for DT's All-IP network transformation, coordinating activities related to Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and packet network standards. He is also active in other standards bodies such as the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Prior to his current position at DT, Manuel was a research professional and technology consultant for T-Systems, where he was active in a broad range of projects concerning packet transport technologies and transmission systems engineering, next generation network design and corporate R&D. | ||
| Chris Price, Ericsson | ||
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| Konstantinos Samdanis, NEC | ||
| Konstantinos Samdanis is a Senior Researcher and backhaul standardization specialist at NEC Europe Ltd, Germany working in the field of network management for LTE and mobile backhaul. Konstantinos is active at the Broadband Forum (BBF) in where he is the editor of a Work Item named Energy Efficient Mobile Backhaul. He has served as a guest editor for the IEEE Communication Magazine FT “Service Interoperability in Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (SIEPON)” and he is also the co-chair of the IEEE Telecommunication Standards Workshop 2013. In the past he has delivered numerous tutorials and talks in the field of green communications in various IEEE conferences, while his interests include also Software Defined Networks (SDN) for carrier networks and cloud networking. Konstantinos has also contributed on 3GPP System Architecture Group 5 in the areas of Self-Organized Networks and Energy Saving Management. He received a PhD in Mobile Communications from King’s College London, UK in 2009. | ||
| Yaakov Stein, RAD Data Communications | ||
 Yaakov (J) Stein is CTO of RAD Data Communications (Tel Aviv). He also lectures at Tel Aviv University and actively participates in IETF (where he co-chairs the TICTOC working group) and other standardization forums. He has authored numerous articles, patents, and standards, and the textbook “Digital Signal Processing, a Computer Science Perspective” (Wiley:2000). Before joining RAD he was Advanced Technology Manager for Comverse Information Systems, DSP and Neural Network team leader with Efrat Future Technologies, Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science at Polytechnic University (NY), and Research Scientist with the Israel Ministry of Defense. He holds a BSc in physics, mathematics and computer science, and MSc and PhD in theoretical physics, all from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was recipient of the Israel Defense Award (Israel’s highest award for defense-related research). His current areas of interest include timing and synchronization, OAM and performance monitoring, modems and DSL, communications security and encryption, speech coding and recognition, pattern recognition and neural networks, and all aspects of DSP. |
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| Konstantinos Samdanis,Nec | ||
| He is a Senior Researcher and backhaul standardization specialist at NEC Europe Ltd, Germany working in the field of network management for LTE and mobile backhaul. Konstantinos is active at the Broadband Forum (BBF) in where he is the editor of a Work Item named Energy Efficient Mobile Backhaul. He has served as a guest editor for the IEEE Communication Magazine FT “Service Interoperability in Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (SIEPON)” and he is also the co-chair of the IEEE Telecommunication Standards Workshop 2013. In the past he has delivered numerous tutorials and talks in the field of green communications in various IEEE conferences, while his interests include also Software Defined Networks (SDN) for carrier networks and cloud networking. Konstantinos has also contributed on 3GPP System Architecture Group 5 in the areas of Self-Organized Networks and Energy Saving Management. He received a PhD in Mobile Communications from King’s College London, UK in 2009. | ||
| George Swallow, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco | ||
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| Jeff Tantsura, Ericsson | ||
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| Bala Thekkedath, Ericsson | ||
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| Mark Townsley, Cisco | ||
 An industry-recognized Internet Engineering and Broadband Architecture expert, Mark Townsley joined Cisco in 1997 and is one of sixteen Cisco Fellows. Mark has been actively involved in Internet industry forums since 1995. His leadership appointments have included: two terms as Internet Area Director of the IETF from 2005-2009, IETF L2TP Working Group Chair from 1999-2005, IESG Liaison to the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), IETF Pseudowire WG Technical Advisor, and co-Chair of the newly formed IETF Home Networking Working Group (Homenet). Mark also serves as an Ambassador of the Broadband Forum, and was invited to speak to the FCC on IPv4 Exhaustion and IPv6 in June 2011. Mark is currently focused on the effects of IPv4 exhaustion and on removing barriers to IPv6 deployment for Cisco customers and the industry at large. He regularly updates Cisco’s most senior executives about this crucial topic and meets often with Cisco’s Enterprise and Service Provider customers about their IPv6 deployment strategy and IPv4 exhaustion mitigation. In 2010, he co-authored “IPv6 Rapid Deployment” (RFC 5969) which is responsible for the majority of production-grade broadband IPv6 connectivity today. Additionally, Mark is recognized as the primary force behind the Broadband Forum’s recent push to incorporate IPv6 in all of its Technical Reports, and co-authored “IPv6 for PPP Broadband Access”(TR-187). Originally from Huntsville, Alabama, home of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Mark had access to computer systems and communications technology at an early age. In the 1980s, his first experience with data communications was running pre-Internet dial-up “BBS” Bulletin Board Systems and University mainframes and workstations. Mark then moved to Washington, D.C., to complete his Master’s degree while working at the University of Maryland Institute for Systems Research and Center for Satellite and Hybrid Communications. After a short stint at IBM, Mark finally joined Cisco in 1997 where he led the scaling of Cisco’s IOS software to support the rapid growth of dial-up and broadband connectivity during the “dot-com” boom. During this period, Mark also designed, developed, and standardized L2TP (RFC 2661), a cornerstone technology enabling handoff of dial-up and broadband Internet connectivity between wholesale access and retail Internet service providers. Mark holds a Bachelor of Science (summa cum laude) degree in Electrical Engineering from Auburn University and a Master’s degree in Computer Science (magna cum laude) from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. In addition to his industry appointments and work at Cisco, Mark is currently teaching and developing courses on Internet Protocols for École Polytechnique. Mark lives with his family in Paris, France. |
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| Tina Tsou, Technical Lead and Principal Engineer, Huawei | ||
 She is responsible for network architecture design, new product definition, product marketing strategy, technology research, standards definition and embedded software design. Ms. Tsou is the project leader for the Huawei NBI design team, technical lead for the SDN IP backbone and edge projects, project leader for Huawei IPv6 development, team leader for the Huawei IPv6 campus network deployment, and technical lead for the China 863 project topic on Address Driven Networks key technology and verification (Huawei, Tsinghua, China Telecom, 21 Vianet Group, BUPT etc.). Tina Tsou participates in industry organizations as Vice Chair of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) - Northbound Interface Working Group, as the first woman from a Chinese business enterprise to chair an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working group, and in various leadership positions in the ONF, IETF, European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), and the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T). Ms., Tsou’s accomplishments include serving as technical lead for the Huawei Unified QoS Architecture and Future Internet Network Evolution project, designing and delivering Huawei’s first professional service product (IPv6 network migration consulting), building and delivering the Futurewei IPv6 enterprise campus network with Comcast and the Futurewei IT team, and key technical contributions to Huawei’s IPv6 network solutions. Tina Tsou received the Science Technology 1st Award from the China Communications Standards Association (CCSA), the Science and Technology Progress 1st Award from the Shenzhen Government, and the National Science and Technology Progress 2nd Award from the People’s Republic of China. Ms. Tsou has been awarded over 100 patents, 8 IETF RFCs, and has published multiple articles in IEEE magazine and the IETF Journal. |
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| Jean-Marc Uzé, Juniper Networks | ||
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| Dave Ward, Cisco | ||
 As CTO and Chief Architect of the Service Provider Division at Cisco, Dave is responsible for defining strategy and leading research and development of new innovation via tight partnerships with customers and academia. He is known in the industry because of his knowledge and expertise in IP/MPLS routing, high availability, network design, and systems software. He is the Routing Area Director at the IETF and Chair of four working groups: IS-IS, HIP, BFD and Softwires. Also, he is leading the work on defining a transport profile for MPLS at the ITU-T. He speaks frequently at the North American Network Operators’ Group (NANOG), IETF, IEEE and RIPE conferences and collaborates with several university and private research groups, including Stanford, MIT, Cambridge and Tsinghua University. David held the roles of software architect for IOS-XR, co-system architect of the CDS-1 multi-terabit router &ASR900, and was co-system architect of several next generation routers, line cards, line processors and service blades for multiple routing products in Cisco’s Service Provider portfolio. David also served as CTO of Platform Systems Division in Juniper Networks, responsible for the switches, routers and data center products in the portfolio as well as the operating system (Junos) and ASICs. David was also a Juniper Fellow and Chief Architect working on operating systems and next generation routing systems. David graduated from Syracuse University with a BS in International Relations and later received a Ph.D (ABD) and Master of Science in Forestry from University of Minnesota. |
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| Xu Xiaohu, Huawei | ||
 Research engineer with IP Advanced Technology Research Department of Huawei Technologies Graduated from Beijing University of Posts and Telecoms. Over 10 years experience in telecom industry Research on routing scalability issue, routing and addressing architecture, and data center network architecture |
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| Werner Weiershausen, Senior Manager, Architecture of Packet-Optical Transport Networks, Deutsche Telekom | ||
 Werner Weiershausen joined Deutsche Telekom in 1998 and has been working for different subsidiaries, first the T-Nova R&D Center, followed by T-Systems. June 2008 he changed to DT Technical Engineering Center, now Fixed-Mobile-Engineering Deutschland. He has first been engaged in theoretical and experimental research on integrated and fiber optics devices, measurement methodology and WDM fiber transmission. As project manager, since 2000 he has been heading different kind of projects, several R&D projects on high-speed transmission systems and on multi-layer network architectures, furthermore of strategic projects on internal consulting of DT's headquarter and divisions for next generation network transformation. He is now responsible for the architecture of national optical packet transport networks, also incorporating IP-over-Optical solutions. Werner has further been active in the executive management board (as CSO) of Luxdyne Ltd from 2008 to 2012, a Finnish startup company for the development of optical access network technologies. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific papers or conference contributions and holds several patents. He was active in standardization bodies (IEC, ITU-T, DKE) and as a chair and editor of Optics East Symposium, ITCom, SPIE Photonics West, co-organizer of further international conferences. |
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