ray.
i'm not familiar with RHK, but this might be a little something to draw you back to your ol' stomping grounds for a short while ...
cheers,
-chris.
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RHK Draws Top Industry Figures to its Terabit Network Conference: STARTRAX 99
11/02/1999
Business Wire
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 1999--
Sponsored in Part by GTE, Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks, General Dynamics-Advanced Technology Systems, Agilent Technologies, Perkin Elmer, TeleSoft Partners, Chorum Technologies, Ciena, FORE Systems, IP Cell, Kestrel Solutions, and Level One Communications
Top telecom veterans from JDS Uniphase, Corning, Frontier, Enron, Teleglobe, Sprint, Qwest, Pacific Bell, among others will present at this year's STARTRAX 99 conference -- "Building the Terabit Network," hosted by telecom market research firm, RHK.
Scheduled for November 15-17 in San Francisco, this three-day event will bring together leading service providers, system vendors, optical component suppliers, and financial institutions to explore the transformation of the PSTN from a voice-centric network to a data-centric terabit architecture. Panel sessions will address topics such as, "Migration to the Optical Network" and "Terabit Network-Backbone Architectures for Switching & Routing." Sponsors of this event include: GTE, Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks, General Dynamics-Advanced Technology Systems, Agilent Technologies, Perkin Elmer, TeleSoft Partners, Chorum, Ciena, FORE Systems, IP Cell, Kestrel Solutions, and Level One Communications.
STARTRAX panel sessions will address how the exponential growth of the network is driving requirements for terabit products, super-scalable architectures, and new network philosophies. Panels will be comprised of industry experts such as David Danagher, Director of Product Management, JDS Uniphase; David Charlton, Commercial Development Manager, Corning; Jon Plonka, VP Frontier Communications; Ted Seitz, Sr. VP Strategic Development, Enron Communications; Jack Norris, VP Global Networks for Teleglobe; Neil Grenfell, VP Advanced Technology Research at Sprint; Vab Goel, VP Architectures at Qwest; and Adrian Eriksen, Area Manager, Pacific Bell. Additionally, Vinod Khosla, General Manager at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Mary Henry, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs, and Paul Johnson, Sr. Technology Analyst, BancBoston Robertson Stephens, will provide a financial perspective on funding terabit networks.
Among the technologies that the sessions will spotlight are Access Networks, WDM/Optical Networking, New Voice Infrastructure, Core/Edge Switching & Routing, Optical Components, Network Management, and Transport Networks. In addition, RHK will present its latest forecast findings and market share data from its North American and European continuous information services. Global numbers will also be introduced from RHK's WDM and SDH service tracks.
"STARTRAX 99 will bring together industry leaders and venture-backed start-ups that are seeking to understand how the global telecom network will move to terabit capacity," remarks Joe Savage, Vice President of Research at RHK. "This annual event will reveal both the strategic directions of these players and the challenges they face as they implement new architectures."
STARTRAX 99 is an exclusive client conference being hosted by RHK at the Mark Hopkins Inter-Continental Hotel in San Francisco, on November 15-17, 1999. Clients attending are subscribers to RHK's services, which focus on emerging technologies in the public network. For more information about STARTRAX 99 or for complete service offerings, please contact Mike Mahan at 650/737-9600 x233.
RHK (Ryan Hankin Kent, Inc.) is the leading industry market research and consulting firm specializing in the analysis of advanced technologies for the public telecommunications network. The company provides subscription services and custom consulting to technology vendors, service providers and the investment community on North American and European markets. RHK's areas of expertise include: Core Switching & Routing, SONET Transport & DCS, WDM & Optical Networking, Loop Access Systems (IAPs, NGDLC, xDSL, HFC and FITL), Edge Switching & Routing, New Voice Infrastructure, Cable Modems, Network Management Systems, Emerging Network Architectures, Optical Components, Internet Video and other emerging technologies. RHK is based in South San Francisco, CA. For more information, visit the company's Web site at rhk.com
CONTACT: RHK (Ryan Hankin Kent, Inc.) Lee Kurnoff, 650/737-9600 Lee_Kurnoff@rhk.com |
