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Future of Quad – the Play, the Potential, the Promise

Tuesday, June 17 • 11:20 AM - 12:05 PM • Room S115 

Today’s service provider networks are facing a dilemma that has been steadily growing over the past decade. Traditional legacy networks cannot cost-effectively deliver the required volumes of rich multi-play content with the quality of service users desire The fact is, while the nature of traffic running across networks has evolved drastically over the past decade, the manner in which packets are forwarded across the network has been fundamentally unchanged for the past forty years. Today’s vast array of rich media content including video, voice and interactive data requires an approach that enables and augments today’s network traffic. This discussion will underline cost-effective, efficient way to deliver the next wave of content.

Moderator

Bob Wallace, Executive Editor, xchange

Bob Wallace is executive editor for xchange magazine, where he is part of the team driving the editorial direction for the 12-year-old publication, and its website, www.xchangemag.com. He is charged with covering new and evolving TV/content and triple-play initiatives and related infrastructure for communications services providers. During his 24 years in the telecommunications industry Wallace has served as a writer, editor and content strategist and most recently as editor-in-chief at Telecommunications magazine we’re he set the editorial strategy for the brand’s print and electronic products as well as events. Previously, Wallace served as a writer/editor for InfoWorld, Computerworld and InformationWeek, covering corporate, Internet and service provider infrastructure trends. He was also a founding member of NetworkWorld. 

Speakers

Arun Bhikshesvaran, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Strategy, Ericsson North America
Robert C. McIntyre, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Service Provider Group, Cisco Systems, Inc. 
Dr. Lawrence G. Roberts, Founder and Chairman, Anagran, Inc.

 

Robert C. McIntyre currently serves as chief technical officer of Cisco’s Service Provider Group. 

Previously chief technical officer for Scientific Atlanta, a Cisco Company, McIntyre’s newly extended role will enable him to leverage the synergies of Scientific Atlanta and Cisco intellectual capital and integrated end-to-end technology portfolio to improve the overall service velocity of the ‘quad play’ for service providers and the industry. 

McIntyre began his career at Scientific Atlanta in 1991 and has held significant leadership roles in the company’s Transmission and Subscriber businesses. While leading the Subscriber business, his team designed the first real-time digital TV systems and held the first digital TV field trials over Hybrid Fiber Coax (HFC). Bob was named Chief Technical Officer in 1999.

Prior to joining Scientific Atlanta, McIntyre was vice president and general manager of Augat’s Interconnection Products Group and served as president and CEO of Avex, Inc., an electronic manufacturing company in Huntsville, Alabama.  Earlier in his career, he was the vice president and general manager of GTE Communication Systems in both their Telephone Switching and Transmission businesses.  McIntyre also spent 11 years at General Electric, working in a variety of technical management positions. He also participated in General Electric’s General Management Development Program.

McIntyre holds a Bachelor of Science in Metallurgy and Materials from Carnegie Mellon University.  He has done graduate work at Penn State in Engineering Mechanics, and at Gannon University in Business Administration Training programs.   McIntyre became a member of the Network Advisory Council of Accenture in 2006.  
 

Dr. Lawrence G. Roberts is recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities on packet switching and network architectures. He led the team that designed and developed ARPANET, the world's first major computer packet network, which evolved into the modern Internet. 

Dr. Roberts founded the first packet data communications carrier, Telenet, which was sold to GTE and became the data division of Sprint. He was also was a Founder and CEO of two ATM companies-NetExpress and ATM Systems. Most recently he was a Founder and CTO of Caspian Networks, the leader in high performance IP systems, where he designed and built IP Flow Routers. Currently Dr. Roberts is the Founder and Chairman of Anagran, Inc. Anagran produces high capacity flow management products, developed for streaming and interactive applications that eliminate congestion to instantly boost the end-to-end performance and capacity of IP networks.