Ahmed Abdelhalim is a director of High End & Service Provider Systems at Foundry Networks. His main responsibilities include the definition of requirements for new high end Foundry products, the evangelization of new technologies and products, as well as assisting service providers in building next generation infrastructures. As part of his role, he is responsible for driving Foundry’s new flagship products like the NetIron XMR Series of Internet routers, NetIron MLX Metro routers, and the BigIron RX high performance switches. He was also responsible for driving Foundry’s prior generation of high end routers and switches: NetIron 40G, and BigIron MG8.

Prior to his work at Foundry, he worked as a consultant with Siemens Ltd. specializing in large scale data networking. His main responsibilities included offering consultancy services on designing and building scalable, high speed infrastructures utilizing key technologies like IP, Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, ATM, Frame Relay, Leased Lines, and ISDN. He was also responsible for promoting and evangelizing new technologies and network design approaches.

Prior to Siemens, he worked as a systems engineer with Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) where he specialized in TCP/IP routing and high end UNIX systems utilizing DEC’s state of the art Symmetric Multi-Processing on Alpha systems. In his role, he took over the responsibility of designing and overseeing the build-out of high performance computing networks, high availability clusters, Internet server clusters, ISP infrastructures, and WAN infrastructures utilizing both standard IP as well as some DEC proprietary technologies. He received a B.Sc. in Systems Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, in 1993. He brings over 12 years of experience in high end networking and high performance computing. His main interests include large scale networking, service convergence, QoS, Metro Ethernet, WAN, IPv6, and MPLS.

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Zubair Ahmad represents the Network Technology & Architecture organization of Orange Business Services. He has been with Orange Business Services (Equant/ Global One initially) since April 1996. During this period Zubair has held various positions in Network Operations and Engineering. Prior to joining Equant/ Global One, Zubair worked for Bell Atlantic from Jan '95 through Mar '96. He holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering and graduated from University of Florida, Gainesville in December 1994. Zubair's professional interests include: MPLS based L3 & L2 VPNs, MPLS Traffic Engineering, CoS, Multicast VPNs and High Availability.

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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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Deborah Brungard is a Technology Architect at AT&T Labs, Middletown, New Jersey. She has been with AT&T for more than 22 years. During this period, her work has included research and development on SDH products, international network planning, and strategic standards development. She was Chair of T1X1.5 from 2000-2003. She is currently IETF CCAMP WG Cochair. She received her M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering in 1984 from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey.

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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 (dwfedyk@nortel.com) is a Senior Technical Advisor at Nortel. Don is an authority on Routing System design for both connectionless and path oriented routing. Don is a contributor to several GMPLS drafts and an active follower of several the IETF Working groups including CCAMP, MPLS, Routing Area WG. Recently Don has been focused on application of GMPLS and Link State protocol to Provider Ethernet in the IEEE. Don received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo Ontario, Canada.

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Howard Green has been in the telecommunications industry since 1980, and has worked in several countries (UK, Germany, US) as a network strategist, software architect and technologist. He has worked in real time and distributed computing, VoIP, optical transport and management. He is currently at Ericsson Research in Stockholm, Sweden, where he is responsible for strategy and future programs for the Broadband and transport research group. His current work interests centre on transport control planes and network virtualization.

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Giles Heron is responsible for Data Networks Architecture for Tellabs EMEA. His current focus is on deploying MPLS-based networks for mobile carriers. He was previously network architect for PacketExchange, a startup carrier offering Ethernet services over a pan-European MPLS backbone – and the first provider to have deployed draft-martini Ethernet Private Lines. Prior to co-founding PacketExchange Giles was a member of the global network architecture team at Level(3) communications.

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Frederic Jounay has received the Dipl.-Ing. degree for Telecommunication Engineering in 2001. He joined France Telecom R&D this same year in the Access Network Laboratory. From 2001 to 2003, he was responsible for techno-economics studies related to multiple access technologies including xDSL and FTTx for the consumer and business markets. Since 2004, he is now working on optical access architecture with a main focus on IP TV services delivery (multicast features) with also investigations about the introduction of IP/MPLS-based access network. He is involved in IST projects, like MUSE.

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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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Andrew G. Malis holds the position of Director, Packet Network Architecture at Verizon Communications. 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; Vivace Networks; and Tellabs. His current responsibilities include Verizon's packet network architecture and evolution, standards participation, and vendor and customer consultation.

He is also a member of the Internet Engineering Task Force’s (IETF’s) Internet Architecture Board (IAB), President and Chairman of the Board of the IP/MPLS Forum, served as the MPLS Forum’s founding Technical Committee Chair, is on the board of the IPsphere Forum, has chaired a number of working groups in the 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 29 IETF RFCs. He has also served 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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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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Greg Nehib is a distinguished product planner at Fujitsu Network Communications, with a focus on packet transport network architectures and systems. He has worked in the telecommunications industry for over 14 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.

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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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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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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 1989. He was engaged in research and development of ATM node and network systems in NTT Laboratories from 1989 to 1995. He was Visiting Scholar at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA from 1996 to 1997. He was engaged in research and development on IP/MPLS networking from 1997 to 2001. He has been engaged in research and development in GMPLS networking, IP and optical multilayer multi-server networking at NTT Network Innovation Laboratories and NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories since 2001. He has been leading the IP Optical Networking Research Group in NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories since 2006. 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. He is a Fellow of IEICE, a member of IEEE, and ACM. He is active in standardization of GMPLS in the IETF. He received the Young Engineer Award from the IEICE in 1995. He received the Switching System Research Award from the IEICE in 1995 and 2001.

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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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Anwar Walid is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent. He received the B.S. degree from Polytechnic University, New York, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University. He developed theory and algorithms for resource management and QoS support for several Lucent products. He holds patents on congestion control, scheduling and routing in IP/MPLS networks. He gave tutorials on IP/MPLS traffic engineering in IEEE INFOCOM and INFORMS conferences. He received Best Paper Award from ACM Sigmetrics on multi-media traffic analysis. He contributed to the IETF MPLS and Traffic Engineering Working Groups. He served on NSF award panels and on executive and technical program committees of IEEE, SPIE and MPLS conferences. Dr. Walid is a senior member of the IEEE and an elected member of Tau Beta Pi (National Engineering Honor Society) and IFIP Working Group 7.3.

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Lei Wang is chief IP network architect in Telenor. Her primary responsibility is overall network design and implementation, in particular routing/switching and Quality of Service. Her recent interests are multiservice network QoS design, P2MP LSP and MPLS fast rerouting. She participates international fora and is co-author of several IETF drafts. She is the member of Technical Committee of this conference.

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Naoaki Yamanaka graduated from Keio University, Japan where he received B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering in 1981, 1983 and 1991, respectively.

In 1983 he joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation's (NTT's) Communication Switching Laboratories, Tokyo Japan, where he was engaged in research and development of a high-speed switching system and high-speed switching technologies for Broadband ISDN services. Since 1994, he has been active in the development of ATM base backbone network and system including Tb/s electrical/optical backbone switching as NTT's Distinguished Technical Member. He moved to Keio University, Department of Information and Computer Science in 2004. He is now researching future optical IP network, and optical MPLS router system. He is currently a Professor in Dept. of Information and Computer Science, Keio University, Japan and representative of Photonic Internet Labs and Committee Chair of iPOP2006,7,8. He has published over 122 peer-reviewed journal and transaction articles, written 82 international conference papers, and been awarded 174 patents including 17 international patents.

Dr. Yamanaka received Best of Conference Awards from the 40th, 44th, and 48th IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference in 1990, 1994 and 1998, TELECOM System Technology Prize from the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation in 1994, IEEE CPMT Transactions Part B: Best Transactions Paper Award in 1996 and IEICE Transaction Paper award in 1999. Dr. Yamanaka is Technical Editor of IEEE Communication Magazine, Broadband Network Area Editor of IEEE Communication Surveys, Former Editor of IEICE Transaction, Vice-director of Asia Pacific Board at IEEE Communications Society as well as Board member of IEEE CPMT Society. Dr. Yamanaka is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the IEICE.

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Raymod Zhang is Director of Advanced Engineering, BT Design and a Princinpal Architect of BT's 21CN Neworks. His main interests are in areas of large scale backbone routing, traffic engineering, performance and traffic statistical analysis, information architecture and service modleing, Software Driven Computing, MPLS and Ethernet related technologies. Raymond paticipates in several IETF drafts relating to MPLS, BGP based MPLS VPN, Inter-AS TE and more recently PCE based work. He received his MS degree in Electrical Engineering from City University of New York.

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