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Topic: APAC FTTH Forecast SA Lynn Hutcheson - Vice President, Communication Components Additional Information of Note: Prior to RHK, Lynn served as Senior Vice President of Engineering and Technology at C-COR.net and prior to C-COR he was Vice President of Engineering for ADC Telecommunications. For the nine years prior to joining ADC, he served as Director of Engineering for Raynet/Ericsson, where he led the company's pioneering efforts to develop fiber-to-the-curb, passive optical network access system equipment for telecoms providers. |
| Speaker for Plenary Session (23th July 2008) 11.40 am | |
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Topic: APAC Case Studies Roland Montagne - Head of Broadband Practice, IDATE Roland Montagne joined IDATE in 1998 and he is now Head of Broadband Practice at IDATE. Mr Montagne played a leading role in previous IDATE International studies and is also Project Manager for the IDATE annual market report concerning World Broadband Access Market. He has carried out several studies dealing with European Broadband roll out and he is in charge actually of a Survey on Broadband Access for the DGInfSo. Since 2004 Roland Montagne is also the project leader for the FTTH Council Europe European FTTH projects panorama. In 2006, he achieved a major study for the French Government on scenarios for deploying Very High Broadband networks in France (cost model and Government options). Roland Montagne also carried out several strategic analyses focused on US and Asian developing FTTH markets. Recently, he has been also involved on FTTH cost model analysis for the United Kingdom as well as best practice study looking at fibre indoor deployments as well as ducts sharing. In 2008 Roland is leading an annual worldwide FTTx watch service proposed by IDATERoland Montagne is a Telecommunications Engineer (ENST Paris, 1994) and received a Master on Electronics (University Paris 6, 1994). He also worked for AT&T Bell laboratories (USA) as Engineer on DWDM Optical Networks and ATM technologies. He started his carrier in the France Telecom R&D labs working on optical communications. |
| Speaker for Parallel Session (2 pm - 5pm), 23th July 2008 (Room 1) | |
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Topic: Optical Fibre Cable and Wiring Techniques for Optical Broadband and Access Networks Mr. Osamu Yamauchi is Senior Director NTT Laboratory Japan. |
| Speaker for Parallel Session (2 pm - 5pm), 23th July 2008 (Room 1) | |
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Topic: FTTH in Japan and the latest Technologies for the Access Network Mr. Wataru Katsurashima – Project Manager Mr. Wataru Katsurashima was in professional career of development of optical cables in high-fibre-count optical cable / aerial distribution cable / indoor & drop cable and several papers to IWCS (US) and to domestic institute (IEICE, Japan) |
| Speaker for Parallel Session (2 pm - 5pm), 23th July 2008 (Room 2) | |
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Topic: IDA Singapore - Govt Broadband policy and Regulation in Singapore Ms. Audrey Lee – Director Competition and Market Access Ms. Audrey Lee joined the Info-communication Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) as Director for Interconnection in November 2000. She was responsible for formulating the interconnection & access policy in a fully liberalized, multi-operator environment in Singapore. She was instrumental in developing the Reference Interconnection Offer and was also responsible for mediation & dispute resolution between telecom operators. Audrey currently heads the Competition & Market Access division and the Infocomm Policy division in IDA responsible for formulation of infocomm policies & the management of competition in the telecoms and postal markets. She is also responsible for investigation & enforcement of anti-competitive conduct, economic regulation, approval of Merger & Acquisitions in the telecommunications market, price regulation of the Dominant licensees, ensuring minimum quality of services in the telecoms and postal markets. Prior to IDA, she was the head of Regulatory with a major competitive telecoms player in Singapore. She was responsible for regulatory strategy relating to interconnection, market entry, regulatory compliance as well as negotiating wholesale & interconnection agreements with the incumbent telecom operator. Audrey graduated with honours in Economics from University of Strathclyde Glasgow (United Kingdom) and has a Masters of Science in Economics & Social Policy Analysis from the University of York (United Kingdom). She also obtained a Distinction in the certificate course in Telecoms Regulation from City University London. |
| Speaker for Parallel Session (2 pm - 5pm), 23th July 2008 (Room 1) | |
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Topic: FTTx Networks - Technology and Business Lessons from Around the Globe Niel Ransom – Chairman Dr. Niel Ransom is the Chairman of Teknovus, Inc., a leading provider of FTTH system-on-chip solutions. He also serves on the boards of directors of AMCC, CoreOptics, Overture Networks and Turin Networks. Previously, he was the worldwide CTO of Alcatel responsible for research, product strategy, intellectual property and R&D investment. Prior to Alcatel he directed the Advanced Technology Systems center of BellSouth and was heavily involved in BellSouth’s early FTTH deployments and served on the board of FSAN. Dr. Ransom began his career at Bell Laboratories. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from University of Notre Dame, BSEE and MSEE degrees from Old Dominion University, and an MBA from the University of Chicago. |
| Speaker for Parallel Session (2 pm - 5pm), 23th July 2008 (Room 2) | |
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Topic: Government Scorecard on Encouragement of FTTH Dave Pratt – Senior Principal Engineer for Tellabs 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 platforms.Previously, Pratt held variety of positions in software engineering, customer support, systems engineering, marketing and product line management. He 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. |
| Speaker for Parallel Sessions (2 pm - 5pm), 23th July 2008 (Room 2) | |
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Topic: FTTX Deployment in Reglated Environments - Experiences and Case Studies Mr.Crister Mattson - Senior Advisor Mr.Crister Mattson is Senior Advisor at Ericsson with focus on Open networks and Strategies for FTTH and City networks .From 2003 till 2007, Crister Mattsson has been Market and Information Director at STOKAB, internationally well known for its pioneering role in open broadband infrastructure. The STOKAB City Network made Stockholm to the most fibered city in Europe. Crister participated in the planning of Stockholm’s FTTH-Project a cooperation of STOKAB and the municipality housing companies. Prior to STOKAB, Crister held several positions at broadband companies in the Nordic countries. Crister Mattsson has written many articles and held many presentations on ICT-infrastructure as a public service on commercial terms. He wrote the handbook of Broadband 2007 for the real estate market by appointment of The Swedish Property Federation. |
| Speaker for Opening Session (9.00am), 24th July 2008 | |
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Topic: The Jalanese Market Situation for FTTH by The Foundation for Multimedia Communications (FMMC) Mr. Kan-ichirou Aritomi- Chairman of FMMC & President of ITU Association of Japan (ITU AJ) |
| Speaker for Plenary Session (9.30am), 24th July 2008 | |
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Topic: Strategy and Experience of BcN and FTTH operation Mr. Gwang-Ju Seo - Vice President, KT’s Network Group Gwang-Ju Seo is executive vice president of KT responsible for KT's Network Group, encompassing planning, installing, operating and maintaining KT's network.After he joined KT in 1980, Mr. Seo has held variousExecutive and Management roles mainly in network engineeringincluding transmission, PSTN, and portable internet. |
| Speaker for Plenary Session (10.00am), 24th July 2008 | |
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Topic: France Telecom Mr. Thierry Valette- FTTx Technical Director Mr. Valette is in charge of technical coordination to support the FTTx infrastructure developments for the France Telecom Group. He has more than 10 years of experience in telecom especially in IP businesses on both wholesale and retail markets. In 1999, he led the France Telecom worldwide IP backbone implementation before moving in 2001 to the France Telecom Internet division (Wanadoo), where he was involved in broadband strategy and technical development. In 2006, Mr. Valette joined the group network branch in the corporate entity to lead the team that supports for the fixed broadband networks development (DSL, WIMAX, and FTTx). |
| Speaker for Plenary Session (12.00pm), 24th July 2008 | |
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Topic: Hanaro Telecom Mr.Chan-Woong Park - Speaker from Hanaro Telecom Mr.Chan-Woong Park leads the Access Network Planning Team in Hanaro Telecom, a major broadband service provider in Korea, since 2006. Prior to his current role, he was the leader of the Internet Backbone Network Planning and Operation Team and worked under the ADSL Backbone Network Planning and Operation Team at Hanaro Telecom. He has been deeply involved in critical accomplishments and milestones of Hanaro Telecom. They include their ADSL backbone network deployment in 1999, world largest-scale commercialization of HFC Pre-DOCSIS 3.0 for 100 mega high-speech internet services, and their recent adoption of the GPON technology. |
| Speaker for Plenary session (12.30pm), 24th July 2008 | |
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HKBB-FTTH Experience and sustainability in Hong Kong
Topic: Profit from Unlimited Bandwidth Mr.Henry Yeung - Senior Manager, Network Development, Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited Mr. Yeung joined City Telecom Group in May 1999. Mr. Yeung was a key founding member the team that built the Metro Ethernet, delivering over one million home passes within a record 32 months of license grant. Mr. Yeung now leads a team of Talents with industry experience and market vision, responsible for expanding the home passes from 1.4 million today to 2.0 million by 2010. Mr . Y eung's team is responsible for the full aspects of network development, from site selection based on business returns, to dealing with building management for access, to installation of passive infrastructure in the most cost effective way.Mr. Yeung is a fellow member of Joint Utilities Policy Group which formulate standard and policy for civil work in Hong Kong . |
| Speaker for Parallel Session (2 pm - 5pm), 24th July 2008 (Room 2) | |
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Case Study Experiences
Topic: FTTH Council Experience, USA Joe Savage is President of the Fiber to the Home Council, North America. Joe has more than 38 years of executive level experience in telecommunications and optical networking, including CEO and Corporate Director positions with a number of optical equipment companies. He began his career in fiber optics in the 1970’s, helping to build the first fiber production facility at Western Electric in Norcross GA. He has served as VP Planning and Engineering for Fujitsu Network Systems, and as VP, Research for RHK, Inc. Joe is a Professional Engineer with a B.E.E and M.S.E.E. from Georgia Tech. He has received patents for high-speed digital transmission cable design and for methods of avoiding Internet congestion in the PSTN |
| Speaker for Parallel Sessions (2 pm - 5pm), 24th July 2008 (Room 1) | |
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Topic: 10GEPON: Standardization Status and Emerging Technical Solutions Dr. Glen Kramer - Chief Scientist Dr. Glen Kramer has conducted extensive research in the areas of traffic management, quality of service, and fairness in access networks. His book, Ethernet Passive Optical Networks, has been published in English (McGraw-Hill, 2005) and Chinese (BUPT Press, 2007). Dr. Kramer chairs the IEEE P802.3av "10 Gb/s EPON" Task Force, and previously served as EPON protocol clause editor for the IEEE 802.3ah "Ethernet in the First Mile" Task Force. Prior to joining Teknovus, Dr. Kramer worked at the Advanced Technology Lab at Alloptic, where he was responsible for design and performance analysis of PON scheduling protocols. He also participated in prototyping the very first EPON system. Dr. Kramer received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Davis, where he was awarded an NSF Grant to study next-generation broadband access networks. Dr. Kramer has published and presented over 20 papers, and authored 11 patents. |
| Speaker for Parallel Sessions (2 pm - 5pm), 24th July 2008 (Room 1) | |
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Topic: Next Gemeration Access: The Current and Future Mr. Jean-Pierre Lartigue - Vice President, Fixed Access Marketing and Communications |
| Speaker for Parallel Sessions (2 pm - 5pm), 24th July 2008 (Room 1) | |
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Topic: A Financial Perspective - Funding issues of FTTH Mr. Martin De Mijolla - Chief Information Officer Mr. Martin De Mijolla is Chief Information Officer of the Conseil Général of the "Department" of Hauts-de-Seine. The Conseil Général of the "Department" of Hauts-de-Seine is a local authority covering an urban area of 1.6 million inhabitants, 175 km2 (Hauts-de-Seine) on the very near west side of Paris till 2007, its President was Mr Nicolas Sarkozy, presently President of the French Republic its present President is Mr Patrick Devedjian, who is also the national chairman of UMP (French ruling party) |
| Speaker for Parallel Session (2 pm - 5pm), 24th July 2008 (Room 2) | |
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Speaker from Manicipality Asturias-Spain Topic: Asturias Regional Government Mr. Ivan Diaz Iglesias - Sales Manager of GIT Mr. Ivan Diaz Iglesias is Sales Manager of GIT that it’s a public company belonging 100% to the Principality of Asturias Government.During this 10 years he have performed the following positions: • Project Manager of Garben (Telefo'nica Contractor) for the Principality of Asturias • Project Manager of TeleCable (Cable Company of Asturias) • Customer Engineer of TeleCable (Cable Company of Asturias) |
| Speaker for Parallel Session (2 pm - 5pm), 24th July 2008 (Room 2) | |
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Speaker from SOCIETE GENERALE SENIOR Topic: Funding FTTH Roll-Out Mr. Jean-Philippe Haag Mr. Jean-Philippe Haag is Advisor to Société Générale Investment Bank Telecom and Media business line : Clients business and investment plans, markets and technological evolutions of the Telecom and Media sector. |
| Speaker for Parallel Session (2 pm - 5pm), 24th July 2008 (Room 1) | |
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Speaker from ADC KRONE Topic: Architecture used in USA Mr. Tim Badar - Program Manager for ADC’s FTTX Mr. Tim Badar is a Program Manager for ADC’s FTTX Products used to deliver Fiber To The Premises. Trevor has led the product development, product launch, and day-to-day business operations of ADC’s FTTX product line (OmniReach). OmniReach enables carriers worldwide to lower CAPEX costs by aligning network costs with service revenues, lowers OPEX costs by reducing installation time, and allows the construction and operation of world-class FTTP access networks more efficiently. He is an authority on FTTP architectures and speaks regularly at industry tradeshows and events. Trevor holds 20 patents relating to fiber optics, fiber optic hardware, and the Outside Plant. His previous responsibilities at ADC include Product Line Management of ADC OEM, Fiber Panel, and Fiber Raceway product lines. Trevor has been with ADC for 14 years—having spent the last 12 in the fiber organization. He has a BSME from the University of Minnesota, and an MBA from the University of St. Thomas. |
| Speaker for Parallel Session (2 pm - 5pm), 24th July 2008 (Room 1) | |
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Speaker from JDSU Topic: Test and Monitoring of PON/FTTH Systems Mr. Udo Fetzer - Market Manager for JDSU’s Fiber Optics Mr. Udo Fetzer is the regional Market Manager for JDSU’s Fiber Optics business unit. He owns responsibility for setting the strategic focus, and driving the business direction, for the company’s portfolio of fiber optic test instruments, solutions and services for lab and production, field testing, as well as fiber inspection and test, in Asia Pacific. Fetzer has more than 18 years of global experience in the fiber optics industry. In the past he has worked as a product manager and business development manager in the optical network components and systems industry, as well as for optical test and measurement. In his eight-year career with Acterna/JDSU, Fetzer has held various product management and business development positions within the fiber optic business unit, supporting the test and network performance needs of labs, operators and manufacturers across the region, including Australia, China, India, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, South East Asia, Taiwan and New Zealand. Prior to his current role, Fetzer served in various roles focussed on sales and product management for fiber optic components and systems. Fetzer was awarded a masters degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kaiserslautern, presenting a masters’ thesis on fiber optic test and measurement solutions that he designed for Siemens Germany. Fetzer is also a member of the FTTh Council in Asia Pacific. He currently resides in Koengen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany and travels regularly within Asia Pacific. |
