SCMR....5/19/2000 The optical networking presence at Supercomm 2000
(Atlanta, GA, June 4-8) is big. In addition to exhibitors in the Georgia
World Congress Center, the topic turns up in several conference
programs throughout the week, with heavy concentration on Monday,
June 5 (see programs below).
A series of forums presented by the International Engineering
Consortium includes the TecForum Optical Networking Advances,
Monday, June 5, 9:30 a.m. ? 5:00 p.m.
In addition to the TecForum, Supercomm offers free industry update
sessions on Monday. Check out M02A: Advances in Optics, from
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Also on Monday, 11:30 a.m. ? 1:00 p.m., the Global Telecom Market
Forum hosts the session, GTM-08: Intelligent Optical Networking ?
Evolving the Core for Enhanced Service Delivery.
Finally, the International Communications Association sports session
S-29: Broadband Optical (Carrier Side), on Wednesday, 3:30 p.m. -
5:00 p.m., hosted by Wael Yared, Sr. Manager, Arthur D. Little.
Following are the event programs:
M02A: Advances in Optics
Monday, June 5, 10:00 am ? 11:30 am
Located in Ballroom I
Chairperson:
Dorn Hetzel, Enron Broadband Services, Ambassador OIF
Speakers Bureau
Presentations:
Optical Local Loop?A Solution for Differentiated Service Delivery to
Business Subscribers
Rob Newman, President, CEO & Co-Founder, Atmosphere
Networks
The Role of SONET/SDH in Converged Datacom & Telecom
Networks
Stephen Susina, Senior Marketing Manager, Digital Systems
Division, Tellabs Operations
Evolutionary Optical Transport ? Migrating Today?s SONET Transport
Networks to All-Optical Networks of the Future
Carl Russo, Vice President & General Manager, Optical
Transport Business Unit, Cisco Systems
Latest Trends in Optical Networking-The Strategy and Migration Path
of IP and Optical Internetworking Integration
Dr. Jin-Yi Pan, Sorrento Networks, Inc., Ambassador OIF
Speakers Bureau
Global Telecom Market (GTM) Forum
GTM-08: Intelligent Optical Networking ? Evolving the Core for
Enhanced Service Delivery
Monday, June 5, 11:30 am ? 1:00 pm:
Chairperson
Scott Larson, Director of Marketing, International, Sycamore
Networks
Presentations
The Bandwidth Explosion ? The New Model for Global Bandwidth
Supply & Demand
Barry Flanigan, Senior Consultant, Telecoms Group, Ovum
The Evolution to an All-Optical Network
Andy Wright, Senior Staff Engineer, Optical Networks
Architecture, Williams Network
Next Generation Optical Networks
Pawan Jaggi, Senior Director-Network Engineering, Level 3
Communications
International Engineering Consortium TecForum
TF2: Optical Networking Advances
Monday, June 5, 9:30 am - 5:00 pm
9:45 am ? 10:00 am: Opening Remarks by TecForum chairpersons
Jai P. Agrawal, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
Technology, Purdue University, Calumet
Graham Howard, Director, Business Development, Siemens
ICN
10:00 am ? 10:30 am: Overview of Optical Fiber Communication and
Networking
Omer Farook, Professor, Electrical Engineering Technology,
Purdue University, Calumet
10:30 am ? 11:00 am: Optical Networks: An Overview
Anurag Dwivedi, Senior Research Scientist, Science and
Technology, Corning
11:00 am ? 11:45 am: Scaling the Internet: The IP?over-Optical
Architecture
Larry McAdams, Technical Marketing Engineer, Optical
Internetworking Business Unit, Cisco Systems
11:45 am ? 12:30 pm:
The Evolution from Fiber Multiplication to Intelligent Optical
Networking
Richard Barry, Founder and Chief Technology Officer,
Sycamore Networks
Transport of Data and Voice Over Protected Non-SONET Rings
Jason Fan, Manager, Network Architecture, Luminous
Networks
1:00 pm ? 2:00 pm: TecForum Luncheon, GTM/IEC Luncheon
Keynote Address
John Sidgemore, vice chairman, MCI WorldCom, and
Chairman, UUNET
2:00 pm ? 2:30 pm: The Customer-Empowered Networking
Revolution
Bill St. Arnaud, Senior Director, Network Products, Canarie
2:30 pm ? 3:15 pm: Next-Generation Packet-Aware Optical
Networks: The Effects of Data Services on Today's Optical
Infrastructure
Dan Parsons, Product Line Manager, Optical and Narrowband
Products, Advanced Fibre Communications
3:15 pm ? 3:45 pm: Break
3:45 pm ? 4:30 pm: Optical Networking: Beyond Capacity and Long
Reach
Daniel Y. Al-Salameh, Senior Manager, Advanced Optical
Networking Group, Lucent Technologies
4:30 pm ? 5:00 pm: Panel Discussion
Attendees can ask questions of the panel moderated by the
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