Service Provider Summit

Wednesday, March 9, 2011
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, a 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.

Service Provider Summit Chair:
Karen Liu, Vice President, Components and Video Technologies, Ovum, USA

Service Provider Summit Organizer:
Paul A. Bonenfant, Communications Components Analyst, Vice President - Equity Research, Morgan Keegan & Co., USA

Schedule-at-a-Glance
Moderators, speakers, and panel descriptions are being confirmed so check this site often for program updates.

Panel I: Evolution to Higher Speed

Moderator: David A. Brown, OIF Market Awareness and Education Committee Co-Chair; Marketing Director, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

Moderator Biography:
Dave Brown is Market Awareness and Education Committee – Networking Chair and an Officer of the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) since 2005.In these roles he manages the OIF marketing strategy and programs focused on accelerating the development and deployment of interoperable optical networks. Current OIF work focuses on multilayer control plane and 100G technologies. At Alcatel-Lucent he is responsible for transport applications marketing in the optics product division. Dave has 29 years of experience in telecommunications marketing including prior roles at Lucent Technologies, AT&T Microelectronics, and a contract manufacturing venture.

Panel Description:
The unabated demand for video and mobile broadband services combined with equally rising user expectations for on-demand, high-quality services propelled the evolution to 100G transport speeds. But this evolution stretched the technical tool set. Going beyond 100G will require new levels of innovation and collaboration—all at a compressed pace versus higher speed evolutions of the past. While everyone agrees that transport speeds beyond 100G will be required, the following questions remain:

• What are the market drivers? What will be the new killer applications—the next YouTube, the next level of social networking, enterprise service, or the next application for HD or 3-D video?
• How will service providers and networks adapt in terms of network architectures, flexibility, intelligence, and operational models?
• How far beyond 100G must we go—400G, 1T, more…? And by when?
• What new business challenges lay ahead, in terms of capitalization and new business case approaches, collaboration, and business models?
• And finally, who will be the key players to get us there and how—telecom service providers, equipment and component vendors, SDOs, content providers, government agencies, etc…?

Speakers:
Dana Cooperson, Vice President, Network Infrastructure, Ovum, USA
Hans-Martin Foisel, Head of Hybrid Technology Department, Deutsche Telekom, Germany
Glenn Wellbrock, Director of Optical Transport Network Architecture and Design, Verizon, USA

Panel II: What’s Going on in Wireless?

Moderator: Michael Howard, Principal Analyst and Co-Founder, Infonetics, USA

Moderator Biography:
Michael Howard co-founded market research firm Infonetics Research in 1990, and today is recognized worldwide as one of telecom’s leading experts in emerging markets, service provider trends, and user buying patterns.

Nicknamed the “Ethernet pope,” Michael leverages 40 years of communications and market research experience to author numerous works year-round, including market share and forecast reports on carrier Ethernet, routers and switches, IP MPLS VPN, and mobile backhaul. In 2008 he co-authored the book, Carrier Ethernet: Extending Ethernet Beyond the LAN.

An influential thought leader, Michael is a consultant to startups, carriers, vendors, and the investment community; he speaks at industry events year-round; and is frequently quoted in the press, including Business Week, CNN Money, The Daily Deal, Forbes, Fortune, Investor’s Business Daily, NetworkWorld, New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

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, Michael worked for Systems Development Corporation on operating systems and programming language compilers for ARPAnet, which later became the Internet.