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As Packet Design’s Chief Technology Officer, Cengiz Alaettinoglu is responsible for technology direction and is also involved in core engineering development of advanced technologies. Alaettinoglu’s background is as a researcher in routing protocols, including on scaling and convergence properties of inter- and intra-domain routing protocols. Previously he worked on the Routing Arbiter project at USC's Information Sciences Institute, and co-chaired the IETF group defining the Routing Policy Specification Language. He has a B.S. from Middle East Technical University (Turkey); and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Maryland.

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Loa Andersson is co-chair of the IETF MPLS-WG and L2VPN working groups. He is the Principal Networking Architect at the Swedish Research Institute, Acreo AB and is currently leading architectural, requirement and test activity for MultiService Metro Networks in the Nordic region. He has provided leadership in architectural development and product specification at several networking companies and is also co-author of key MPLS, L2VPN, L3VPN and GMPLS specifications and is a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB).

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Peter Arberg is a Director of Product Management with responsibilities for Architecture & Standards within Redback Networks. Prior to joining Redback, Peter Arberg worked as a Network Consultant for Cisco Systems and have also worked in both government and enterprise business implementing IP and MPLS networks.

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Dr. Awduche leads the Verizon Business Internet Engineering organization based in Ashburn (VA). In this role, he manages a team of engineering specialists responsible for network engineering of Verizon's public IP network, which is one of the largest IP networks in the world (previously known as UUNET). Prior to the acquisition of MCI by Verizon, Dr. Awduche led the Internet Engineering organization for MCI. He is notable for championing the development and standardization of MPLS traffic engineering technology and pioneering the concept of Multiprotocol Lambda Switching which is now called Generalized MPLS (GMPLS). In December 2005, EETimes listed Dr. Awduche as one of 29 innovators that have had a significant impact on a broad range of industry sectors. Dr. Awduche's academic background includes the M.S. degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the Ph.D. degree in Information Technology from George Mason University. In addition, he has an MBA degree from George Mason University.

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Thomas Beckhaus works at Deutsche Telekom in the residential business unit T-Com. He has started his career in 1996 as a system engineer with various ATM equipment and was deeply involved into the installation of the ATM infrastructure of Deutsche Telekom in late 90s. Thomas moved to IP/MPLS in 1999 and took over a leading role in the upgrading of the companies national and international IP network to MPLS in the timeframe from 1999 to 2001.

He also has a technology coordinating position between the national and international business units and subsidiaries of Deutsche Telekom. Since 2004, Thomas is responsible for the technology architecture of the Triple Play enabled IP/MPLS network of Deutsche Telekom, T-Com. In addition, he is the project leader of the IPv6 implementation project within T-Com.

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Nabil Bitar holds BS, MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Dr. Bitar is currently a principal member of technical staff at Verizon in the Packet Network Architecture department. He leads the network architecture for metro packet services, including Ethernet Services, Metro packet transport, video packet transport (video on demand, IPTV), IPVPN, VoIP routing, and IP and Ethernet services over FTTP. He is also a principle member of a team working on IP-MPLS backbone convergence.

Prior to joining Verizon in 2004, Dr. Bitar worked at Ascend/Lucent as a system architect for ATM and IP-MPLS services (forwarding, traffic management, signaling and routing). Prior to Ascend/Lucent, he worked at GTE Laboratories for 5 years on wireless AIN, ADSL architecture, IP Intserv and Diffserv, MPLS, VoIP and traffic management. He is is a regular contributor to the IETF and MFA forum where is leading the MPLS-InterCarrier Interconnect Technical specification . He authored or co-authored several technical papers and holds several patents.

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Matthew Bocci is Director of Technology and Standards with Alcatel-Lucent's IP Division. He is a regular contributor to the MFA Forum, where he is chair of the Interworking working group, and the IETF, he co-chairs the ANCP working group and is secretary of the PWE3 working group. His particular interests include traffic management and applications of MPLS, serving as editor of new standards in both.

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Ron Bonica is a member of Juniper Networks' routing protocol software development team. He also contributes to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), currently serving as co-director of the Operations and Management (O&M) Area, as well as co-chair of the Layer 3 Virtual Private Network Working Group. Ron also has authored several standard documents. Prior to joining Juniper Networks, Ron served as senior manager of engineering for MCI's vBNS+ network. The vBNS+ network offered L3VPN services to United States government customers.

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David Christophe is the MFA Forum education working group chair. He is currently a solutions manager with Lucent Technologies. David has over twenty years experience in data and optical networking. Prior to his current position, David has held a variety of positions in product management and systems engineering.

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Bruce Davie joined Cisco Systems in 1995, and was awarded recognition as a Cisco Fellow in 1998. Bruce leads an architecture group within Cisco's central software organization, with responsibility for the development of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities for IP networks. His group is also responsible for ensuring that Cisco's technical solutions are represented in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). In addition, he is leading a cross-company effort to create a common QoS & MPLS architecture across the Cisco product line.

Prior to joining Cisco, Bruce worked at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) and led a number of networking research projects as director of internetworking research and chief scientist. He has more than 15 years of networking and communications industry experience. Some of his most prominent contributions to the industry include authoring numerous books, RFCs, journal articles, and conference papers on IP networking. He is also an active participant in both the Internet Engineering Task Force and the Internet Research Task Force, and is a senior member of the IEEE. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Edinburgh University and a B.E. from the University of Melbourne.

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Esmael Dinan is a Principal 4G Capacity Engineer in Sprint Nextel 4G Divisions. A key specialist on WiMAX Technology, he is responsible for providing capacity solutions for planning a nationwide mobile WiMAX network. In his role, he provides technology solutions and mechanisms to design and operate air interface and backhaul capacity of an all-IP WiMAX wireless network. Previously, Dr. Dinan led the effort to support customers with plans for WiMAX equipment interoperability and conformance testing in Bechtel Communications. He performed numerous key wireless technology assignments and played a key role in many aspects of the business unit’s research activities, as well as on the ATT wireless engineering projects. Dr Dinan conducted research and development on access methods and performance modeling of 3G and 4G wireless communications and high-speed optical networks. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, and is a registered Professional Engineer in Maryland. He has authored more than 30 conference papers and journal articles and has two patents on novel signaling mechanisms developed for 3G cellular networks.

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Ted Duffy has been in Business Development at Agilent Technologies’ Data Networks Operation since 2001. Prior to Agilent, Ted worked at Lucent Technologies for 6 years in their Optical Networking group and Business Communication organization, now Avaya. Ted has also held Technical Sales and Marketing positions in other test companies including Tekelec, Tektronix and Tautron. Ted holds a BSCS from the University of Massachusetts and a Graduate certificate in Data Communications from Northeastern University.

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Luyuan Fang received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Flinders University of South Australia in 1991. She is presently a Senior Technical Specialist in the Network design and engineering organization at AT&T Labs. Prior to joining AT&T, she worked for Telstra, Nortel, and Racal Datacom. She has extensive experience in carrier IP/MPLS network design and engineering. As a primary contributor in the design and deployment of MPLS VPN in the AT&T IP backbone, Dr. Fang has gained a unique first-hand perspective of the practical challenges involved in BGP/MPLS VPN deployment using MPLS network. Dr. Fang is currently co-authoring several Internet Drafts and RFCs in the MPLS, L2 and L3 VPN, IDR, and Traffic Engineering Working Groups in IETF, and is a frequent invited speaker at major international conferences on MPLS technology and VPN deployment. She has also given several tutorials on MPLS and VPN technologies, and has published more than 60 technical papers.

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Adrian Farrel is co-chair of the IETF’s Common Control and Measurement Plane (CCAMP) Working Group, which is responsible for the development of the GMPLS family of protocols. He also chairs the Path Computation Element (PCE) Working Group, which is applying remote path computation techniques to MPLS and GMPLS networks, and the Layer One VPN (L1VPN) Working Group, which is developing mechanisms to manage connectivity over optical networks using GMPLS. He was a founding board member of the MPLS Forum, he is a regular attendee at ITU-T meetings that discuss the optical control plane, and he regularly serves on the technical committees for MPLS and GMPL conferences.

Building on his 20 years’ experience designing and developing communications software, Adrian runs a successful consultancy company, Old Dog Consulting, providing advice on implementation, deployment, and standardization of Internet Protocol-based solutions, especially in the arena of MPLS and GMPLS.

As well as frequently speaking at conferences, giving tutorials on MPLS and GMPLS, and authoring several white papers on GMPLS, Adrian is the author of The Internet and Its Protocols: A Comparative Approach (Morgan-Kaufmann, 2004) which explains many of the IP-based protocols including those that make up MPLS and GMPLS, and GMPLS: Architecture and Applications (Morgan-Kaufmann, 2005).

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Don Fedyk is a Senior Technical Advisor for Nortel Networks' Standards Group specializing in IP and Optical Control Plane Routing. He has been with Nortel Networks many years, initially developing routing systems on several Nortel packet switched data platforms. Don is an authority on Routing System design for both connectionless and path oriented routing. Don is a co-author of several GMPLS drafts and an active follower of several the IETF Working groups including CCAMP, MPLS, Traffic engineering, Routing Area WG, PWE3, PPVPN. Don received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo Ontario, Canada.

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Mat Ford is Principal Researcher in the Networks Research Centre of the Group CTO for BT. Mat chairs the Reference Implementation Working Group of the IPsphere Forum with a mission to deliver an enhanced commercial framework - or business layer - for IP services that preserves the fundamental ubiquity of the Internet's technical framework whilst also being capable of supporting a full range of business relationships so that participants have true flexibility in how they add value to upstream service outcomes. Mat joined BT in 1998 and initially developed network security designs for a range of platforms and conducted collaborative research into a number of emerging security technologies. Mat then spent several years focussed on IPv6 technology research, development, standardisation and deployment. He provided technical leadership to teams developing world-first IPv6 network deployments and chaired the IPv6 Cluster of the European Commission. Mat provided IPv6 technical consultancy to a diverse range of customers in his role as Internet Technology Consultant for BT. Mat holds an MA (Hons) from the University of Glasgow and an MSc (Distinction) from the London School of Economics.

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Wataru Imajuku, Ph.D. received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Chiba University, in 1992 and 1994, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo in 2002. Since assuming a position at the NTT laboratories in 1994, he has been consistently engaged in R&D activities on optical amplifiers, high-speed photonic transmission, and photonic IP networking. He led the development and deployment of the project on Generalized MPLS in the NTT laboratories, authored or co-authored more than 70 publications, and holds about 30 patents in his research field. Now, Dr. Imajuku is a senior research engineer at the NTT Network Innovation Laboratories and a member of the IEEE, IEICEJ and the Japan Society of Applied Physics.

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Frederic Jounay is an IP/MPLS network architect at Orange Labs. He joined France Telecom R&D in 2001 in the Access Network Laboratory. Following an initial period working on optical access architecture, his major focus since 2004 is the architecture studies related to the introduction of IP/MPLS in the access network. He is also involved in multicast network design. His current activities are the mobile backhauling architecture evolution. He is actively contributing to the IETF in the PWE3 and L2VPN working groups.

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Mazen has been a Principal Architect at Cox Communications for the last 8 years. The Cox IP network infrastructure has grown tremendously during this period and Mazen had the foresight and influence to design the most scalable and resilient network possible. Mazen is always seeking to optimize the network to meet real business needs.

The packet network architecture that Mazen has designed has allowed Cox to deliver a multi-service architecture for delivering high-speed Internet, business service VPNs, VoIP, Video over IP, and Call Center VoIP.

Mazen has more than 15 years of experience in the communication fields and has a masters and bachelor degree in electrical engineering from the University of South Florida. Mazen also has numerous certifications from Juniper, Cisco Systems, Sum Microsystems, and HP.

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Sunil Khandekar is the Vice President of Product Management in the Service Router Product Group of Alcatel’s IP Division. Sunil joined Alcatel through the 2003 acquisition of TiMetra Networks, a startup focused on service routers for IP/MPLS networks. Sunil has over 14 years experience in the communications and networking industry and has been an active participant in the IETF having co-authored and contributed to multiple drafts. Sunil has been a regular speaker at technical conferences all over the world on subjects such as Metro Ethernet, VPLS, MPLS and QoS. Sunil has a bachelor’s degree in ME and a Masters degree in CIS.

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Sanjay Khanna is a senior product marketing manager in Foundry Networks Service Provider Systems business unit. In his role, Sanjay is responsible for product strategy of the Foundry Networks XMR/MLX series of IP/MPLS Routers. Sanjay has over 14 years of experience in the design and development of next-generation IP, MPLS, Ethernet and ATM switches and routers, and has worked with multiple service providers in designing next generation MPLS, IP, Ethernet, wireless backhaul and triple-play networks. He has held numerous leadership positions in product management and engineering at Tellabs, Vivace Networks, Mariposa Technology and Newbridge. Sanjay holds B.E and M.E degrees in electrical engineering from Concordia University in Montreal, and a MBA from University of California at Berkeley.

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Kireeti Kompella is a Juniper Fellow at Juniper Networks. His current interests are all aspects of Multi-Protocol Label Switching, including Traffic Engineering, Generalized MPLS, and MPLS applications such as VPNs. Dr. Kompella is active at the IETF where he is a co-chair of the CCAMP Working Group and the author of several Internet Drafts and RFCs in the areas of CCAMP, IS-IS, L2VPN, MPLS, OSPF and TE. He specializes in Layer 2 VPNs, Metro Ethernet and Virtual Private LAN Service. Previously, he worked in the area of filesystems at Network Appliance and SGI; and earlier in the area of security and cryptography.

Dr. Kompella received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur; and his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Southern California.

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Nicolai Leymann is currently working in his 9th year for Deutsche Telekom in the area of IP Technologies and MPLS-Backbone design. This includes the integration of technologies - eg. IP-Multicast, VPLS etc. - in MPLS networks and VPN scenarios. During this work Mr. Leymann is responsible for several international related to IP Multicast, MPLS, VPLS, Multipoint-Services, Backbone-Design and VPNs.

Major focus is currently the design and integration of IP-Multicast into the new high speed network of Deutsche Telekom for Triple Play services (called "T-Home"), offering speeds up to 50 MBit/s.

He is also involved in the standarization process for Multicast services in MPLS, GMPLS and VPN environments (mainly within the IETF) and is looking into new backbone technologies as well as optical transport technologies.

Nicolai Leymann studied computer science at the Technical University Berlin and used to work there in several projects which were related to ATM networks, multimedia conferencing and network management.

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Frank Lyonnet is Director Product Management at Ipanema technologies for 2 years. Earlier, Frank founded ActiVia Networks, a Content Delivery Networking company. He managed the company growth until 2003 when he sold it to Stratacache an Ohio based leader in the WAN Optimization space. Frank Lyonnet began his career as a researcher within the l’Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA), the European host for W3C, for four years. Frank holds a doctorate in IT with a specialization in IP Networks from the University of Nice.

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Andrew G. Malis holds the position of Chief Technologist at Tellabs, which provides end-to-end service delivery and transport solutions for carriers. He has been active in wide-area data networking and telecommunications for over 30 years, beginning with the ARPANET, the foundation of today's Internet. He has also held senior engineering positions at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman; Ascom Nexion; Cascade Communications; Ascend Communications; Lucent Technologies; and Vivace Networks, which was purchased by Tellabs. His current responsibilities include Tellabs’ product architecture, future product planning, standards participation coordination, and customer consultation.

He is also President and Chairman of the Board of the MFA (MPLS, Frame Relay and ATM) Forum, served as the MPLS Forum’s founding Technical Committee Chair, has chaired a number of working groups in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the ATM Forum, and is a veteran participant and award recipient in other standards bodies and industry consortia. He has written, edited, and otherwise contributed to many standards documents in these organizations, including 21 IETF RFCs. He also serves on the technical advisory boards of several privately held high-tech companies, and has chaired and spoken at numerous industry conferences. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Brown University, and his Master of Science degree, also in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, at Harvard University.

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Dr. Dave McDysan is a Principal Member of Technical Staff (PMTS) in the Packet Network Architecture (PNA) group in the Verizon Technology Organization (VTO). He is responsible for architectural aspects related to Verizon's IP and Data services, including Internet access, IP VPNs, Ethernet and packet data services, Quality of Service, Voice over IP, Internet standards, and network economic and performance modeling. He works to investigate new and emerging technologies, define architectural approaches for these technologies, interact with other organizations to address important business aspects, and model the economic and performance advantages of new and refined architectures.

Dave has held a variety of positions in his 25 years of bridged service with the company. Most recently, he worked with a team to define a network evolution strategy that merged the former Verizon and MCI IP and data architecture plans. Prior to the acquisition by Verizon, he led a team in MCI that defined the converged backbone, multiservice edge, and converged packet access control protocol architecture. He also pioneered the decoupling of control and switching for VoIP, led all activities involved with the MCI trial and commercial ATM networks, developed architecture and designs for MCI’s frame relay and digital cross connect control networks and contributed to the intelligent network architecture for advanced voice services. Prior to the acquisition by MCI, he worked on Demand Assignment and TDMA in Satellite Business Systems.

Dr. McDysan has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech and his Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering and Doctorate of Science degree from George Washington University. He has been an instructor for IP and Data Communications at George Washington University. He has been active and held a variety of leadership positions in the ATM Forum, Multi-Service Switching Forum and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards groups. He has published five technical books on ATM, IP Quality of Service and IP VPNs.

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Ina Minei is a network protocols engineer at Juniper Networks where she focuses on next-generation technologies in the area of MPLS protocols and applications. She is an active participant in industry fora and conferences and has co-filed several patents in the area of IP and MPLS. For the last years her focus has been MPLS protocols (in particular LDP) and applications (in particular DiffServ-TE). Other interests include RSVP, MPLS management and GMPLS. She is co-author of "MPLS-Enabled Applications" published by Wiley & Sons in 2005.

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Dr. Kou Miyake received B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics in 1978 and 1980, and a Dr. Eng. degree on network performance analysis in 1991 from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, respectively.

Since joining the NTT Electrical Communication Laboratories in 1980, he has been active in network design and traffic engineering for satellite communications networks, packet-switched networks, and broadband communication networks. From 1998 to 2002, he had responsibility for the research and development of the Next Generation Network architecture and system engineering in NTT R&D Labs. From 2003 to 2007, he was the president of NTT Data Intelli-link Corporation, providing cutting-edge technologies to the telecommunication market. Currently, he is the director for NTT Service Integration Laboratories.

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Dinesh Mohan (mohand@nortel.com) has 14+ years of experience in telecom and data networking research, design, development, and product management. He is a subject matter expert on OAM and Carrier Ethernet. He has been an active contributor in IEEE 802.1, ITU-T SG 13 and SG 15, IETF L2VPN & PWE3 WG, MEF, and DSLF. He has also been an editor of several standards and draft recommendations in ITU-T, IEEE 802.1, MEF and IETF L2VPN WG. He is currently a product line manager in Nortel's Metro Ethernet Networks organization. He has received his B.E. from Delhi College of Engineering and M.Eng. from Carleton University.

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Monique Morrow is currently Distinguished Consulting Engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc. She has over 20 years experience in IP internetworking that includes design, implementation of complex customer projects and service development for service providers. Monique has been involved in developing managed Network Services like Remote Access and LAN Switching in a Service Provider environment. Monique has worked for both enterprise and service provider companies in the United States and in Europe.

Monique has presented in various conferences on the topic of MPLS. Additionally, Monique is co-author of the book Designing IP-Based Services: Solutions for Vendors and Service Providers. Monique is co-author of the book, MPLS VPN Security and co-author of the book, MPLS for Decision Makers. Monique is currently working on a book one that presents enterprise drivers and concerns for IP-based service delivery.

Monique is active in both the IETF and ITU-T SG 13 with a focus on OAM. She has a M.S in Telecommunications Management and an MBA. Additionally, Monique is also Vice-Chair of IPsphere Forum.

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Chris Nabinger is a distinguished industry speaker on a wide range of technology and visionary topics. Nabinger is responsible for commercial and corporate software and infrastructure at MASERGY, where his team deployed MASERGY’s leading-edge network and built industry award-winning embedded applications. Chris has over 20 years of experience building high-performance engineering and operational teams. Prior to joining MASERGY, Chris served in world-wide C-level roles with Polycom, Philips, InfoSpace, Prio, IGC Netcom, and SkyTel where he was responsible for technical and customer operations around the globe. Nabinger also served in management and technical positions at Verizon and AT&T.

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Pasula Reddy is responsible for data planning. Prior to joining Fujitsu, he worked in the product management organization at Redback Networks, where he focused on emerging layer-2 and layer-3 technologies. Before joining Redback, Reddy worked at Torrent Networks, CoSine Communications and the ProCurve Networking Business Unit at Hewlett-Packard. At ProCurve, he concentrated on technologies related to high-end Ethernet switching and compliance with the appropriate IETF and IEEE standards.

Reddy holds a Bachelor of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology Madras in India, and a Master of Science from North Carolina State University.

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Stefano Nocentini is the Head of Telecom Italia Lab, Innovation, Engineering and Testing. He joined Telecom Italia in 1987 after completing the Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Rome - La Sapienza. He has been credited to the introduction of the innovative features in the Telecom Italia's network, including the Next Generation Data Networks.

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Don O’Connor is a distinguished planner with Fujitsu Network Communications in Richardson, Texas. He has over 20 years experience in the data communications and telecommunications industries in design and planning positions. Don’s principal focus at Fujitsu is data communications including Ethernet and IP/MPLS applications and his current role involves product planning for data products and standards participation. Don also represents Fujitsu at the MFA Forum, IEEE 802 LAN/MAN committee, and IETF. He joined Fujitsu in 1993.

Prior to joining Fujitsu, Don was a senior fellow with Racal-Datacom in Sunrise, Fla. During his tenure there he designed data communications equipment. He was also active in ITU and US standards organizations, including serving as a Rapporteur in ITU. Don has been granted a number of patents in the data communications area, and has presented papers at conferences such as NFOEC. His educational background includes a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Tulane University and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona.

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Kenichi Ogaki received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in system engineering from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in 1997 and 1999, respectively. In 1999, he joined KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc., Saitama, Japan. He is a research engineer of integrated core network control and management laboratory. He is engaging in research on optical networking.

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Eiji Oki is a Senior Research Engineer with NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories. He is working on researching and developing high-speed optical IP backbone networks including standardization in IETF. He received B.E. and M.E. degrees in Instrumentation Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Keio University, Japan, in 1991, 1993, and 1999, respectively. In 1993, he joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation's (NTT's) Communication Switching Laboratories, Tokyo Japan. From 2000 to 2001, he was a Visiting Scholar at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York.

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Tomohiro Otani received the B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1992, 1994, 2002, and Professional Engineering degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University, USA, in 1998, respectively. In 1994, he joined Submarine Cable Systems Dept. of KDDI Corporation. He is a senior manager of integrated core network control and management group in KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc. He is also a manager of optical network department of KDDI corporation. He also hold a position as a research fellow in NICT JGN II Tsukuba Research Center. His research interests have been intelligent optical networks. He is a member of the IEICE.

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Hideki OTSUKI received B.E and M.E degrees from Musashi Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He then joined the National Institute of Informations and Communications. He received Doctor Degree of Electrical Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 2002. His major field of study is network architecture. He was involved in Intelligent Network since 1993. He developed Intelligent Network Service Simulator for B-ISDN, and a testbed with ATM switches. He has joined ATM satellite communication experiments. His current research interestsis GMPLS protocols.

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Tom Rarick is a senior principal engineer in Tellabs’ transport strategy and planning organization. In this role, his responsibilities include transport strategy, planning and business development. He has more than 20 years of telecommunications industry experience with specialties in transport, networking and systems engineering. Previously, Rarick led Tellabs systems engineering teams and advanced technology groups. He also served as Tellabs’ representative to the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions. Prior to Tellabs, Rarick was a development engineer at Rockwell International.

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Dr. Yakov Rekhter joined Juniper Networks in Dec 2000, where he is a Juniper Fellow. Prior to joining Juniper, Yakov worked at Cisco Systems, where he was a Cisco Fellow.

Yakov Rekhter was one of the leading architects and a major software developer of the NSFNET Backbone Phase II. He co-designed the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). He was also one of the lead designers of Tag Switching, BGP/MPLS based VPNs (aka 2547 VPNs), and MPLS Traffic Engineering. Among his most recent activities is the work on Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS), Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS), and multicast in BGP/MPLS VPNs and VPLS.

He is the author or co-author of over 60 IETF RFCs, and numerous papers and articles on TCP/IP and the Internet. His books include: "MPLS: Technology and Applications" (Morgan Kauffman, 2000) and "Switching in IP Networks: IP Switching, Tag Switching and Related Technologies" (Morgan Kauffman, 1998).

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Azhar Sayeed has more than 17 years of experience in the networking and communications industry that includes design and installation of complex networks involving multiple technologies and vendors. Currently, working as a Director of Product Management, in NSSTG, Cisco Systems, Mr. Sayeed is responsible for product management and rollout of IP Routing, Quality of Service (QoS), Broadband and Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) features in Cisco IOS® software. Cisco IOS® software is the network system software that powers the majority of Cisco's hardware platforms.

Azhar is the co-author of an upcoming book “MPLS and Next-Generation Networks: Foundations for NGN and Enterprise Virtualization” with Monique Morrow.

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Kohei Shiomoto is a Senior Research Engineer, Supervisor, Group Leader at NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan. He joined the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Tokyo, Japan in April 1989, where he was engaged in research and development of ATM traffic control and ATM switching system architecture design.

From August 1996 to September 1997, he was engaged in research on high-speed networking as a Visiting Scholar at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA. From September 1997 to June 2001, he was directing architecture design for high-speed IP/MPLS label switch router research project at NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan. From July 2001 to March 2004, he was engaged in the research fields of photonic IP router design, routing algorithm, and GMPLS routing and signaling standardization at NTT Network Innovation Laboratories. Since April 2004, he has been engaged in the research fields of photonic IP router design, routing algorithm, and GMPLS routing and signaling standardization at NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories. He is active in standardization of GMPLS in the IETF.

He received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D degrees in information and computer sciences from Osaka University, Osaka in 1987 1989, and 1998, respectively.

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Yoshiaki Sone received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in electronics engineering from Tohoku University in 2001 and 2003, respectively. He joined NTT in 2003 and has been engaged in research on control technology of photonic transport networks. His main fields of interest are new resilience schemes and multi-layer network architecture. He is a member of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan.

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George Swallow is the Co-Chair of the IETF's Working Group on Multiprotocol over Label Switching. He is a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems where he is a member of the architecture team for Label Switching. He defined Cisco's architecture for applying MPLS to the problem of traffic engineering and fast reroute. Recently he has been involved in point to multi-point traffic engineering and in developing protocols for monitoring and diagnosing MPLS networks and MPLS based network applications.

Prior to Cisco, George was employed by BBN. There he was involved in the design, deployment, and analysis of over 50 operational networks, including the Arpanet. This work involved extensive statistical measurement and analysis to investigate both network and protocol behavior. He was also involved in the design of packet and ATM switches. While at BBN, he held a number of positions ranging from Senior Network Analyst to Director of Network Engineering. He has been participating in the design and standardization of Internet & ATM standards since 1991.

George holds a MS in Mathematics from Northeastern University and a BA in Mathematics from the University of Virginia.

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Mallik Tatipamula is responsible for Service Provider Strategy and Planning at Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale. His responsibilities include developing reference architectures, defining the strategy and business plans for, leading the implementation of next generation products. Prior to Juniper, he was with Cisco systems for over 8 years, most recently at Cisco, led and made active contributions to Cisco IPNGN strategy. Mallik closely works with top 20 NGN operators around the world. Prior to Cisco, Mallik was a principal engineer at Motorola, Cellular Infrastructure Group, responsible for defining system architecture for advanced wireless and satellite systems. From 1993 to 1997, he was a senior member of scientific staff at BNR (now Nortel), Ottawa, responsible for development of Nortel’s optical (OC12/OC48) products and also involved in Nortel CDMA Base Station Development. From 1990 to 1992, Mallik was with Indian Telephone Industries as an Assistant Executive Engineer in Optical Transmission R&D Laboratories and Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, as a Senior Project Officer in Fiber Optics Labs, responsible for development of optical data links. Mallik has Ph.d in Information and communication engineering from The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan, Masters in Communication Systems and High Freq. Technologies from IIT Madras, and Bachelors in Electronics and Communications Engg., from NIT Warangal and Advanced Program Management from Stanford University. He has authored/coauthored number of publications including technical articles, reports, papers in conference proceedings. Mallik is a lead editor for “Multimedia Communication Networks: Technologies and services”, by Artech House Publishers, Boston and London. He is a senior member of IEEE and his biography appeared in Marquis “who is who in the world, who is who in America, and Who is who Science and Engineering”. He also serves on advisory boards of start-ups focused on wireless handsets/applications. Mallik is a keynote/invited speaker at various industry leading conferences and also delivered distinguished lectures at leading universities including Stanford Univ. UC Berkeley, IIT Delhi, Tokyo University etc.,

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Yukio Tsukishima received his B.E. and M.E. degrees from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1999 and 2001, respectively. In 2001, he joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation working in GMPLS-based photonic networking area. Now, he is a research engineer at NTT Network Innovation Laboratories in Japan. His main interest is in Lambda-Grid-networking. He received the Best Paper Award in 2007 from the 12th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC). He is a member of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan.

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