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1 |
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On the front line - shaping wireless policy |
| Author: |
Meredith Attwell Baker |
| Title: |
Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information |
| Organisation: |
NTIA |
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272KB |
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Meredith Attwell Baker is the Acting Assistant Secretary and Administrator National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) U.S. Department of Commerce. Ms Baker joined the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) in January 2004 as senior advisor and also served on detail to the White House, Office of Science and Technology Policy. Before joining NTIA, she was Vice President of Williams Mullen Strategies where she focused on telecommunications, intellectual property and international trade issues. Ms Baker’s previous experience includes serving as Senior Counsel to Covad Communications, and as Director of Congressional Affairs at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA). Ms Baker worked for the Fifth Circuit and the law firm of DeLange & Hudspeth, LLP and, as well, in the Legislative Affairs Office of the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C.
Meredith Attwell Baker is a member of the Texas State Bar. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Washington & Lee University and a Law degree from the University of Houston. |
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| The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), helps shape US Government domestic and international policies to foster increased private sector innovation and investment in the telecommunications and information industries. The agency aims to improve the nation’s competitiveness and economic growth, and guide interactions with foreign policy makers to open markets worldwide. They strive for a technology-neutral approach, with investment decisions driven by perceived market value and technical merit. The NTIA has actively pursued reforms to free up spectrum for commercial use. |
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Article no.: |
2 |
| Topic: |
The future of fixed broadband |
| Author: |
John Janowiak |
| Title: |
President |
| Organisation: |
International Engineering Consortium (IEC) |
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380KB |
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| John Janowiak is President of the International Engineering Consortium. Mr.Janowiak has 25 years of industry experience; he is responsible for IEC’s business and market development activities having grown the 63-year old association’s domestic activities to a truly global level. Mr Janowiak serves as the IEC’s principal liaison to many information industry corporations and non-profit organizations. He also guides the organization’s university relations ensuring technology transfer between industry and academia. |
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| Third and fourth generation wireless broadband is spurring the rollout of wireless broadband networks. Although some predict wireless will wholly replace fixed broadband for many purposes, this will not happen soon - if ever. Fibre-to-the Home (FTTH) is still better suited to such highly demanding - and growing - applications such as high-definition television (HDTV) - which with multiple TVs will consume more bandwidth than most wireless systems can handle. Wireless, though, will increasingly displace wireline for such applications as mobile network backhaul. |
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Article no.: |
3 |
| Topic: |
Satellites and the Next-Generation Networks race |
| Author: |
Grant Seiffert |
| Title: |
President |
| Organisation: |
Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) |
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236KB |
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Grant Seiffert is the President of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). Mr Seiffert oversees the policy, standards, tradeshow and marketing efforts for the information and communications technology (ICT) industry. Mr Seiffert joined TIA as Director of Government Relations. Later, as Vice President, he directed domestic and global policy and interacted with the U.S. Congress, the FCC and the Administration, as well as with international regulatory bodies and government leaders. Prior to joining TIA, Mr Seiffert served five years with Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.).
Grant Seiffert holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science from Radford University. |
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| Competition among mobile operators to provide broadband mobile service is hot. Each operator is planning 3G and 4G strategies to outflank their competition. Converged networks for voice, data multi-media, and video over IP are high on their priority lists as are QoS, mobile commerce, gaming, location services, video, mapping services, quick information searches, security and technical issues such as backhaul. Satellite services have been little discussed, but emerging, advanced systems, will undoubtedly become increasingly important in difficult to reach areas. |
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Article no.: |
4 |
| Topic: |
A strategy for the wireless world |
| Author: |
Dr Hassan Ahmed |
| Title: |
Chairman, President and CEO |
| Organisation: |
Sonus Networks |
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216KB |
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Hassan Ahmed is the Chairman, President and CEO of Sonus Networks. Prior to joining Sonus, Dr Ahmed was Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Core Switching division of Ascend Communications. He served as CTO and Vice President of Engineering prior to Ascend’s acquisition of Cascade Communications. Previously, Dr Ahmed was President and founder of WaveAccess, a pioneer in high-speed wireless network products. Dr Ahmed has also held the positions of Product Engineering Manager, Analog Devices, and director, VSLI Systems, Motorola Codex. Additionally, he was an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Management, Boston University.
Hassan Ahmed earned BSEE and MSAE degrees from Carleton University and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. |
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| Most personal communications will soon be wireless. Wireless broadband will bring a great variety of new services, but will also introduce a number of problems. Wireless broadband 3G/4G networks operate at higher frequencies than today’s 2G networks. At these frequencies the ability of the signal to penetrate walls is greatly reduced, so voice and data service quality will tend to degrade. Indoor picocells and femtocells provide a way to distribute signals indoors, while increasing both available bandwidth and quality. |
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Article no.: |
5 |
| Topic: |
3G and 4G - collaboration, not competition |
| Author: |
Perry LaForge |
| Title: |
Founder, Chairman & Executive Director |
| Organisation: |
CDMA Development Group |
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224KB |
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Perry LaForge is the Founder, Executive Director and Chairman of the CDMA Development Group (CDG), an association comprised of over 120 of the world’s leading wireless operators and manufacturers. Mr La Forge has led the development and worldwide commercialization of CDMA since the first proof of concept trials in 1988. He has over 24 years of experience working with high-technology companies including as Vice President and Partner of the international management-consulting firm of Pittiglio Rabin Todd and McGrath (PRTM). Mr La Forge has been a keynote speaker and moderated panels at conferences in over twenty countries and has worked with governments throughout the world to develop telecommunications policies. Mr La Forge is a frequent guest columnist for a number of publications and has appeared on CNN, CNBC, Chinese Television Network, Bloomberg Business News and Dow Jones. He is frequently quoted in publications, such as Forbes, Fortune, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, Wireless Week, RCR and BusinessWeek.
Mr La Forge has a Bachelor of Engineering Degree (magna cum laude) and a Masters of Business Degree (MBA) from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College. |
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| Demand for higher bandwidth services is driving both 3G and 4G mobile services. The leading 4G contenders are Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB), Long Term Evolution (LTE) and Mobile WiMAX. The switch to 4G will take years to complete, but 4G will assist 3G survival by providing affordable backhaul for 3G services. Given the superior propagation and penetration of frequencies below 1GHz, fewer base stations and backhaul links are needed, so technology-neutral regulation of lower frequencies can facilitate lower-cost 4G expansion. |
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Article no.: |
6 |
| Topic: |
3G, 4G or both - is more necessarily better? |
| Author: |
Drew Morin |
| Title: |
Senior Vice President & CTO |
| Organisation: |
TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) |
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240KB |
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As Senior Vice President and CTO for TeleCommunication Systems (TCS), Drew Morin is responsible for the technical direction and coordination of TCS’ development activities across business units. Mr Morin has over 25 years of experience in analysis, design, development and implementation of integrated voice/data/video communication systems for a wide variety of applications in both the government and commercial sectors. Prior to joining TCS, Mr Morin worked for BDM Corporation as a Communications Systems Engineer where he designed, developed and implemented next generation systems.
Mr. Morin holds a B.S. degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia and a Master of Science degree in Systems Engineering from George Mason University. |
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| Wireless communications began as a voice-only service. Today the emphasis is upon high-speed broadband wireless for a variety of data-based services ranging from email to mobile TV. The 3G services although a big improvement over 2G are still rather expensive and a bit too slow to give consumers the sort of advanced ‘anywhere’ services consumers really want. 4G networks are not only faster, but being IP-based, provide significant cost savings and the ability to provide true fixed/mobile and voice/data convergence. |
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Article no.: |
7 |
| Topic: |
Mobile commerce - success, speed and reliability |
| Author: |
Robert W. Pullen |
| Title: |
CEO and President |
| Organisation: |
Tellabs |
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192KB |
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Robert W. Pullen is CEO and President of Tellabs and a Member of its Board of Directors. Prior to being named CEO, Mr Pullen served in a variety of positions including: Vice President and General Manager of Global Services; Senior Vice President, North American Sales; and Senior Vice President of Tellabs’ Optical Networking Group. Mr Pullen has spoken at many industry forums regarding the development of global broadband full-service wireless and wireline networks to deliver the triple play of video, voice and data as well as upon the impact of DWDM, SONET/SDH and ATM/IP technology on telecommunications, service providers and end customers. Mr Pullen is the Chairman of the Executive Board of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). He is also Co-Chair for NXTcomm 2008.
Mr Pullen holds a B.S.E.E. degree, with emphasis on Physics, from the University of Illinois. He also holds a Master of Business Administration degree in Management from Northwestern University with a focus on Finance and Marketing. |
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| Mobile commerce and growing demand for mobile micro payments for vending machines, subway and bus tickets, entrance to show and sporting events, tolls and such are likely to drive the move to 4G. Many operators trying to upgrade to 4G are still struggling with 2.5G and 3G upgrades and need new revenues to finance the move. Among the challenges they face is the need to upgrade their backhaul networks to handle the great increase in traffic generated by 3G and 4G. |
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Article no.: |
8 |
| Topic: |
Converged networks - just a pretty name? |
| Author: |
Yossi Ben Harosh |
| Title: |
President and CEO |
| Organisation: |
Telrad Networks |
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236KB |
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Yossi Ben Harosh is the President and CEO of Telrad Networks. Mr Ben-Harosh has two decades of experience in telecommunications, operations and management, including over 16 years at Telrad. Prior to serving as CEO, he was Division President of Global Operations, responsible for all Telrad Operations Infrastructure and R&D of OEM/ODM products and solutions. Previously, Mr Ben-Harosh acted as Operations Manager in the areas of Global Supply Chain Management, New Product Introduction & Manufacturing, R&D Engineering Support and System Integration Fulfilment. Prior to joining Telrad, Mr Ben-Harosh was a project manager at TEVA Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.
Mr Ben-Harosh holds an MBA from Bar Ilan University and a BSc in Industrial Engineering & Management from Ben Gurion University. |
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| IP-based networks are gradually replacing digital switches, but TDM equipment installations are still growing at incumbents. New operators are building converged IP networks to offer the latest services, but most ‘converged networks’ are built with co-existing legacy and next-generation equipment since it takes as long as five years to changeover a network and the devices that use it. New converged networks will make it possible to provide, and charge for, variable quality-on-demand in accordance with the needs of each service. |
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Article no.: |
9 |
| Topic: |
Transforming and simplifying today’s network infrastructure |
| Author: |
Sue Spradley |
| Title: |
President |
| Organisation: |
Nokia Siemens Networks, North America |
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192KB |
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Sue Spradley is the President of Nokia Siemens Networks, North America. She has more than 20 years of experience in services, operations, sales, customer service and global product line management in the telecommunications industry. Ms Spradley is the former President of Nortel Global Services and Operations, and was most recently responsible for technical engineering, manufacturing and supply chain management. Her prior roles at Nortel included President of Global Product Line Management and North America Sales. Ms Spradley joined Nortel in 1997 as Vice President, Customer Service and Operations. Prior to joining Nortel, Ms Spradley was Vice President of Marketing and Product Development for Siemens Communications.
Sue Spradley holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Kansas and graduated from the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University Business School. |
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| The phenomenal growth of broadband demand - and that expected tomorrow - is forcing network operators to re-think their network, operational and operating strategies. By 2015, broadband demand will increase 100-fold. Conventional networks and network architectures cannot support this growth. Legacy fixed and wireless networks have to converge into IP-based wireless and fibre-based core and access networks within a Service Delivery Framework (SDF) to provide the needed broadband connectivity regardless of access technology and deliver new applications quickly and inexpensively. |
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Article no.: |
10 |
| Topic: |
Engineering today’s network for tomorrow’s convergence |
| Author: |
Pieter Poll |
| Title: |
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) |
| Organisation: |
Qwest |
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252KB |
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Pieter Poll is the CTO at Qwest, responsible for the strategic technological direction of the company, the evolution of the network and technologies utilized, network planning and engineering. Dr Poll served previously as Vice President - Corporate Strategy for Mahi Networks. Prior to Mahi, Dr Poll held a variety of leadership positions at Qwest, including :Vice President - Worldwide Technology Management, Vice President - Worldwide Emerging Technologies, and General Manager - Network Architecture and Strategy. Before that time, he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories developing architectural and evolutionary plans for digital switches and long-distance networks.
Dr Poll currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) and the Centre for Telecom Management at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. He participates on the Advisory Board for the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Programme at the University of Colorado - Boulder and the Metro Denver Wired Initiative.
Dr Poll graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Mathematics. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Physics at Cornell University. |
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| Telecommunications is morphing into something entirely new, driven by customer expectations of seamless solutions for their business and personal lives. With tomorrow’s networks, everything and everyone will be connected at all times to a worldwide matrix that delivers rich multimedia content communications and applications. Businesses will demand storage and traffic management capabilities and network size and sophistication will grow exponentially. By 2015, networks in the USA will handle one zettabyte (1021) of traffic annually - 50 times more than in 2006. |
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Article no.: |
11 |
| Topic: |
Full service broadband and connected lifestyles |
| Author: |
Arun Bhikshesvaran |
| Title: |
CTO and Vice President of Strategy and Marketing |
| Organisation: |
Ericsson North America |
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264KB |
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Mr Arun Bhikshesvaran is currently CTO and Vice President of Strategy and Marketing for Ericsson North America; he is responsible for identifying Ericsson’s long-term vision, defining the overall company strategy. Mr Bhikshesvaran has over 15 years of experience in wireless communications having served in a variety of roles within the industry including Systems Solutions and Integration, Field Engineering, R&D and Global Product Marketing.
Mr Bhikshesvaran earned a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering and has completed a Post Graduate Executive Program at Columbia Business School. |
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| The increasing availability of broadband connectivity at home, at work and on the move is shaping the lifestyles of millions of people around the world. Broadband connectivity is delivered via multiple flavours of technology and is driving innovation in all aspects of life, including travel, shopping, entertainment, teleworking, education and healthcare. These broadband experiences are increasingly powered by an architecture called Full Service Broadband, a collection of technology components and associated services designed to deliver high quality ubiquitous broadband connectivity. |
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Article no.: |
12 |
| Topic: |
Ethernet for wireless backhaul |
| Author: |
Charles R. Kenmore |
| Title: |
President and CEO |
| Organisation: |
ANDA Networks |
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272KB |
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As President and CEO of ANDA Networks, Charles R. Kenmore leads the Silicon Valley-based low-cost provider of application-specific access products for carriers and service providers. A telecom industry veteran with more than 30 years of progressive responsibilities in senior executive and general management roles, nineteen of which were as CEO, President or Vice President/GM, Mr.Kenmore has directed domestic and international business, marketing, sales, engineering, customer support, finance and operations functions. He has established four start-up businesses within larger companies and has successfully managed companies during prosperity and economic downturns.
Prior to joining ANDA Networks, Mr Kenmore’s most recent responsibilities included President of ADC International; Vice President and General Manager of the international division of the information systems group at Motorola; founding head of Sprint International; and Vice-President and General Manager of the international systems integration division at Comsat. He is a frequent speaker at investment banking and institutional investor conferences. Mr.Kenmore also serves on the board of TechNet and is a member of the TIA CEO Council. |
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| Wireless is usually only wireless at the customer access end of the network. The 3G and 4G wireless broadband networks operators are rolling out need in an economical way to backhaul the traffic they generate to the core network; and a standardised way to track and maintain the quality of service that demanding applications such as video require. Ethernet-based backhaul is economical, provides the needed quality control and is easily integrated into multi-vendor environments; it is increasingly the solution operators choose. |
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Article no.: |
13 |
| Topic: |
The backhaul bandwidth secret weapon |
| Author: |
Michail Tsatsanis & Nina Grooms Lee |
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Co-Founder & Chief Scientist; Director of Marketing |
| Organisation: |
Aktino |
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248KB |
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Michail Tsatsanis is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Aktino. Prior to founding Aktino, Dr Tsatsanis served as the Chief Scientist and Chief Technical Officer at Voyan Technology. He has also served as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. Dr Tsatsanis is the author of more than 80 peer-reviewed papers, two book chapters and several patents. He has received a number of distinctions including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and two IEEE Best Paper Awards. Dr Tsatsanis has served the IEEE in various capacities including as the Associate Editor for two IEEE Transactions and as the Chair of workshop organizing committees.
Dr.Tsatsanis holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia.
Nina Grooms Lee is the Director of Marketing at Aktino. Before joining Aktino, she served as Director of Product Marketing at ClearMesh Networks and managed a business planning and product management group at Alcatel-Lucent. |
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| Next generation - 3G and 4G - mobile networks are bandwidth intensive. Today’s mobile, radio-based, technologies can easily handle the broadband traffic, but the fixed networks that backhauls traffic from the radio base station at the heart of each cell will need greatly increased capacity to handle the traffic. High-speed fibre networks would be ideal, but are hard to justify economically. Advanced bonded copper-based solutions such as Multi-Input-Multi-Output (MIMO) on Discrete Multi-Tone (DMT) can economically handle the traffic using just eight copper pairs. |
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Article no.: |
14 |
| Topic: |
Mobile broadband needs microwave backhaul |
| Author: |
Philippe Dumont & Patrick Picquet |
| Title: |
VP, for Wireless Transmission; VP WTD North America |
| Organisation: |
Alcatel-Lucent |
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324KB |
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Philippe Dumont leads the Wireless Transmission Product Group of the Optics Division within Alcatel-Lucent’s Carrier Business Group.
Prior to this, Mr Dumont led the Wireless Transmission Division of the Wireless Business Group and, earlier, the Wireless Transmission Division and the Wireless ETSI Business Unit. Mr Dumont joined the Alcatel Cable Group overseeing production on the shop floor. After a period spent outside Alcatel as a consultant in strategy and organization for Solving International, he came back covering several management roles in the Alcatel Audit Group, in the Fixed Wireless Access BU (LMDS), where he created and supervised all supply chain and customer services activities, and in the Optic Networks Division/Wireless Transmission Division overseeing Operations in France.
Philippe Dumont holds an engineering degree from the Arts & Metiers and an MBA from Haute Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in Paris.
Patrick Picquet is VP WTD North America at Alcatel-Lucent. He heads the North American Wireless Transmission Regional Support Center (RSC) within the Optics business of Alcatel-Lucent. The Wireless Transmission RSC is responsible for the Business Development, Network Engineering and Tendering of point to point microwave radio network solutions. Previously Mr Picquet led the Wireless Transmission Division Business Unit for North America within the Wireless Transmission Division of Alcatel-Lucent as well as General Manager responsibilities for Ferrocom a ferrite manufacturing business.
Patrick Picquet holds B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington and an Executive MBA from Southern Methodist University. |
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| A significant part of mobile network operators’ costs result from backhaul, the transportation of the signals from the radio base stations to the core network. Today, operators in the US use leased T1 fixed lines for backhaul. The move to 3 and 4G mobile networks will increase traffic and the T1s per cell site two to seven times. The number of cells needed will grow four times as will network costs, but revenues will remain flat; rapidly shrinking margins will drive operators to seek lower cost wireless backhaul solutions. |
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Article no.: |
15 |
| Topic: |
Mobile revolution and telecom investing |
| Author: |
Dan D. Yang |
| Title: |
General Partner of Dowslake Venture and Founder/CEO |
| Organisation: |
Dowslake Microsystems |
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244KB |
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Dan D. Yang is a General Partner of Dowslake Venture and Founder/CEO of Dowslake Microsystems a private investment firm specialized in tech investing such as telecom, bio-tech and new energy. Prior to Dowslake Micro, Ms Yang founded AFC Technologies which was acquired by JDSU in 1999 Ms Yang holds 11 United States patents related to optical networking technology.
Dan D. Yang obtained her Ph.D. and M.S. in Optics and Photonics from University Paris-Orsay, France, and has a B.S. in Physics from Nanjing University, China. |
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| The mobile market is changing rapidly, product life cycles are extremely short, and technology is becoming an inexpensive commodity. Disruptive technologies do not emerge every day, and not every company has the skill to make it happen. It takes more than nice boxes and good salesmen to succeed. A strong, well-managed company and a product with truly substantial technological and cost advantages - preferably in a smaller form factor - is needed to displace the competition and sell to the operators. |
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Article no.: |
16 |
| Topic: |
Differentiated quality of IP service |
| Author: |
Jay Jayasimha |
| Title: |
CTO |
| Organisation: |
Veraz Networks |
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240KB |
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Mr Jayasimha has over 18 years experience in the areas of call processing, network planning and switching systems development. He has served as the Chief Technology Officer at Veraz Networks since 1999. Mr Jayasimha has been instrumental in the design and architecture of the ControlSwitch™, Veraz’ IMS-based switching product, and has made significant contributions in the areas of call processing, services and routing architectures. Prior to Veraz Networks, he held positions at British Telecommunication, MCI, Link USA Corp (now Global Crossing), and Qualcomm. Mr Jayasimha holds patents in the areas of call processing and call routing and is a member of IEEE/ACM.
Mr Jayasimha holds a Bachelors Engineering (hons) degree in Electrical Engg/Computer Science, from Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani, Rajasthan, India, and his professional credentials include IEEE/ACM. |
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| The emergence of IP as a unifying technology across the telecommunications industry has fundamentally altered the way consumers and enterprises buy, use and experience telecommunications services. While this rapid, technology-led, advancement is likely only to accelerate in the future; today, service providers and their customers are grappling with fundamental business issues, the answers to which will likely be as important as technology in shaping the industry’s future. |
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Article no.: |
17 |
| Topic: |
3G or 4G voice is still king |
| Author: |
Karl Brown |
| Title: |
Vice President of Marketing |
| Organisation: |
Ditech Networks, Inc |
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200KB |
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| About author: |
Karl Brown is the Vice President of Marketing at Ditech Networks. Mr Brown has over 15 years of experience in network communications, spanning wireline and wireless, voice and data, as well as equipment vendor and service provider environments. Prior to Ditech Networks, Mr Brown held marketing positions at ANDA Networks, Jetstream Communications, and Nortel Networks.
Karl Brown earned Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology as well as an MBA from Indiana University. |
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| Even though 3G and 4G networks are deployed to provide high-speed data connectivity for emerging mobile applications, even a sophisticated multi-function phone is still a phone; users expect high quality voice service. The most efficient way to achieve this is by deploying a Voice Enhancement Device capable of mitigating internal and external voice quality impairments. These devices enable operators to unobtrusively monitor live calls on the network and aggressively deploy low bit-rate codecs to increase call capacity, while maintaining acceptable voice quality levels. |
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