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Packet Optical Networking: Market Dynamics, Applications and Enabling Technologies
Wednesday, June 18 • 12:35 PM - 1:35 PM • Room S111
Packet optical networking is the next evolution in optical networking and is rapidly emerging industry trend for constructing Ethernet and IP-centric metro aggregation and transport infrastructure networks. Packet optical networking platforms are an evolution of SONET/MSPP and ROADM optical networking gear and provide universal wavelength, SONET, and Connection-oriented Ethernet transport.
Service providers have a keen interest in this new class of equipment in order to meet key challenges in delivering large amounts of cost-effective bandwidth and providing a scalable Ethernet transport infrastructure while still coping with increasing amounts of traditional TDM traffic.
Therefore the worldwide market for packet optical networking gear is estimated to be as high as $2.8B by 2012 as this new class of equipment gradually takes over the role currently served by SONET MSPPs and ROADMs.
While packet optical networking platforms retain the operational characteristics of classical optical transport gear, there are several important new enabling technologies to be understood as well as some new operational and deployment considerations.
This session will include experts from across the spectrum of the supply chain providing sub-system manufacturer, system manufacturer, service provider and market analyst perspectives on this next evolution in optical networking.
Moderator
Sam Lisle, Director of Market Development, Fujitsu Network Communications Inc.
Sam Lisle is a director of market development at Fujitsu Network Communications, where he focuses on packet optical networking technology and applications. Sam holds U.S. patents in packet-aware optical networking and was instrumental in the definition of the FLASHWAVE® 4000 series of MSPP platforms from Fujitsu. Prior to Fujitsu, Sam worked for Bellcore (now Telcordia), specializing in the reliability analysis of SONET transport systems and fiber optic media. Sam holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Iowa and a master of science degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech.
Speakers
Steven Gringeri, Principal Member Technical Staff, Verizon Labs
Greg Nehib, Distinguished Product Planner, Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc.
Sterling Perrin, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
John Mills, Vice President, Product Planning, BTI Systems
John Mills brings more than 25 years of experience in optical networking to his role as Vice President, Product Planning at BTI. An industry veteran in transmission systems, he has worked on system design and development of systems from 135Mb/s to 10G.
Prior to joining BTI in 2002, John was part of Nortel Japan. Before his assignment in Japan he held senior development and product management positions for Nortel Networks. He holds a number of patents for his extensive work in the area of optical networking.
John holds Bachelor of Science from the University of Salford (UK).
Greg Nehib is a distinguished product planner at Fujitsu Network Communications, with a focus on packet optical network architectures and systems. He has worked in the telecommunications industry for over 15 years in progressively expanding roles in the areas of product line management, product planning, and sales engineering. Prior to joining Fujitsu, Greg was a senior manager of network engineering at Alcatel, a senior system engineer at Monterey Networks (now Cisco Systems), and a senior product manager at Cisco Systems. Greg received a bachelor of science degree in engineering technology, with a specialty in telecommunications, from Texas A&M University.
Sterling Perrin has more than 12 years' experience in telecommunications as an industry analyst and journalist. His coverage areas at Heavy Reading include optical networking, cable MSO infrastructure and services, and digital content. Perrin joined Heavy Reading after five years at IDC, where he served as lead optical networks analyst, responsible for the firm's optical networking subscription research and custom consulting activities.