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Future of the FTTH Technologies

Thursday, June 19 • 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM • Room S111

Globally, service providers are embracing fiber-to-the-home technologies to deliver subscriber bandwidth demand. In North America, larger carriers including Verizon and AT&T have selected Gigabit Passive Optical Networking (GPON) as the basis of their FTTH deployments. The industry is looking ahead. Future networks will have some degree of compatibility with the embedded based and help move service providers beyond delivering voice, video and data. This panel session will give a high level overview of different approaches on this topic from various equipment vendors. Each vendor will discuss the direction the industry is heading and present their perspective on how their portfolio will support subscriber future needs.

Moderator

Steve Kemp, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent

Steve Kemp has 25 years experience in telecommunications and is currently senior director of product marketing for Alcatel-Lucent. There, he is responsible for the promotion of fiber-to-the-home, DSL, and loop carrier access products in North America. Prior to joining Alcatel-Lucent, he held similar positions in marketing and strategic planning where he was responsible for promoting and defining VOIP, mobile handset, optical transport, and switching solutions. A frequent speaker and contributor to trade articles, Mr. Kemp also holds a board position at the FTTH Council North America.

Speakers

Sanjay Patel, Director, Next Generation PON Architectures, Alcatel-Lucent
Dave Pratt, Senior Principal Engineer, Tellabs
Tim Scott, Vice President, Business Development and Sales, PacketFront 

Sanjay Patel is currently the director of next generation PON architectures at Alcatel-Lucent. He also serves as the Asia-Pacific Product Line Manager for the fiber-to-the-home product group. Prior to this, Sanjay was the technical manager for integrated photonics research at Bell Labs where he led a team that developed new ways of monolithically integrating optical components onto high-volume silicon platforms.

Sanjay’s contributions at Bell Labs include the modeling of absorption of cell phone radiation in humans, self-assembly of 3-D photonic band gap structures, sol-gel manufacturing of optical fibers, modeling of polymer dynamics, and designing new materials for holographic storage.

Sanjay holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelors of Technology in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur.

 

Dave Pratt is a senior principal engineer for product planning at Tellabs. In this role, he is responsible for product planning and business development of Tellabs access platform.

Previously, Pratt held variety of positions in software engineering, customer support, systems engineering, marketing and product line management. He has joined Tellabs in 1989 through its acquisition of Advanced Fibre Communications.

Pratt has more than 18 years of telecommunications industry experience and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Duke University and a Master of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

 

Tim Scott is a graduate of the Business School at the University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Ireland, and brings many years of international experience to the PacketFront team having spent over 10 years in the IP networking industry in Europe and the Middle East.  A Cisco Systems veteran, Tim has held many sales management and business development roles with a focus on the adoption of new technologies.  Tim’s past experience has included managing some of the most complex technology projects across the EMEA theatre and being deeply involved with major telecom, enterprise and Government initiatives.

Tim was core in establishing PacketFront Inc in the USA and has been focused on developing PacketFront’s brand in both the Municipal Telecom and Open Access sectors.  Tim has been actively involved in all PacketFront’s activities to date in the US which include Municipal, Utility, and Alternate Carrier successful project roll outs.

Tim currently heads up the Business Development and Sales team’s efforts.