Service Provider Summit

Wednesday, March 25, 2009
OFC/NFOEC Exhibit Floor Theater

The Service Provider Summit is open to all Conference and Show-Only Attendees! Join your colleagues for this dynamic program with topics and speakers of interest to CTOs, network architects, network designers and technologists within the service provider and carrier sector. The program includes panel discussions, keynote presentation, exhibit time and networking time.

The program will be located on the exhibit floor, so attendees can easily attend the sessions and tour the exhibit hall. Audience members are encouraged to participate in the question and answer segments that follow the presentations.

To view presentations from the 2008 Service Provider Summit, visit the OFC/NFOEC archive.

Service Provider Summit Organizers:
Christoph Pfistner, Vice President, Product Marketing, NeoPhotonics, USA
Karen Liu, Vice President, Components and Video Technologies, Ovum., USA

Schedule-at-a-Glance

Panel descriptions and speakers are being confirmed so check this site often for program updates.

Keynote Presentation

Can the Internet Scale for the Coming Explosion of Media and Mission Critical Applications? Robert Blumofe, Vice President, Networks and Operations, Akamai, USA Robert Blumofe is the Senior Vice President of Networks and Operations at Akamai. Dr. Blumofe leads the Akamai team responsible for the global strategy, deployment, operation and security of Akamai's production and corporate infrastructure supporting all of the company's services. Dr. Blumofe joined Akamai in 1999 to lead the company's first performance team. Serving as one of Akamai's chief architects, Dr. Blumofe was instrumental in the early design and development of the Akamai Network, which now handles hundreds of billions of Internet requests daily. He has led all of Networks and Operations since 2004, and most recently held the post of Vice President of Networks and Operations. Prior to Akamai, Dr. Blumofe was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He is widely published in the areas of algorithms and systems for highly distributed and parallel computing. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT and a Bachelor of Science degree from Brown University.

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Panel I: Core Networks—Keeping Pace

Moderator: Karen Liu, Vice President, Components and Video Technologies, Ovum, USA As data-rich applications increasingly permeate people’s business and personal lives, the capacity of networks will need to increase. A key challenge is how to support the traffic demand in an economically sustainable way. For thirteen years, the cost per bit per km has been dropping faster than Moore’s Law thanks to a series of technological improvements in DWDM transmission. But unlike Moore’s Law, there hasn’t been a simple rule to point to where the next step function will come from. Recent progress has been more incremental. Is this just a hiccup, a delayed impact of reduced investment or are we reaching the end of the DWDM run? Come hear how service providers are responding to the need to support ever increasing traffic in the core. Where will greater return be found, CapEx or OpEx? What technology directions promise continued or even greater cost per bit per km improvement? And is it all about lower cost or are there ways to extract more value as well?

Speakers

	Title To Be Announced William Jarr, Consultant, USA Bill has had a career encompassing both network and local television production and operations and domestic and international broadcast. Roles included producer/director and production manager at PBS, ABC and CBS affiliated stations and a 2-year stint in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia running the TV and A/V services at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre. During 14 years at the NBC Television Network in New York, he worked as a Broadcast Manager in network operations, an Operations Producer for NBC Sports, and Director of Operations for NBC News. Operations management included all major events, including the NFL pregame show, Super Bowls, World Series, National Conventions, NCAA tournaments and French Open Tennis. He was also instrumental in the start-up of CNBC and the NBC News Channel affiliate news service. Accomplishments include designing the distribution for the News Channel, building an international satellite teleport in Charlotte, North Carolina, and negotiating major international satellite contracts for NBC. After leaving NBC, Bill worked for major telecommunications and broadcast service providers in Business Development and Sales capacities. This included BT Broadcast services, PVI virtual imaging company, PanAmSat international satellite company, and Vyvx and Level 3 international telecommunications company. He is a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Technical Emmy Committee and is a participant in annual judging for Sports Emmy’s. Bill has a B.A. degree from the University of Washington with majors in communications and economics. With his years in the broadcasting industry he has maintained close ties with executives at all major networks, sports leagues and providers of equipment and services to broadcasters.
	Title To Be Announced Matthew Ma, Vice President, Transmission and Ethernet Engineering, Tata Communications, USA

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Panel II: FTTH—Advancing on Many Fronts

Moderator: Chris Pfistner, Vice President, Product Marketing, NeoPhotonics, USA In FTTH Japan is still leading the charge with more than 10M homes connected and a national goal to double that number by the end of 2010. The runner-up is still North America with Verizon’s FiOS program accounting for the lion’s share. However, other regions of the world, in particular in Europe and East Asia, have started major programs as well. In addition, the FTTH concept is starting to spread outside of the traditional telecom networks into the cable operators around the world. Of course, no FTTH panel would be complete without some discussion of killer applications, the role and challenges of video delivery, and the exploding market of web applications. Join us in this exciting session during which executives from major service providers will present their views on the opportunities and challenges for FTTx around the world. The individual presentations will be followed by a panel discussion and open Q&A session.

Speakers

	Internet Traffic Growth and Implications for Access Technologies Andrew Odlyzko, Professor, School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Ctr., Univ. of Minnesota, USA Current growth rates of Internet traffic can be maintained without major increases in capital investment and without major technological changes. Optical transport will certainly remain key to telecommunications, but how close to the endpoints it will be pushed will depend largely on future trends in traffic growth. Andrew Odlyzko has had extensive experience in research and management at Bell Labs, AT&T Labs and the University of Minnesota. He has worked on computational complexity, cryptography, number theory, combinatorics, coding theory, analysis, probability theory, ecommerce and economics of data networks. He may be known best for an early debunking of the myth of Internet traffic doubling every three months and for demonstrating that connectivity has traditionally mattered much more for society than content.
	Title To Be Announced Bryan Rader, CEO, Bandwidth Consulating LLC, USA
	Title To Be Announced Ching-Sheu Wang, ChungHwa Telecom, Taiwan

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