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ITU-T Workshop on NGN and its Transport Networks
Kobe, Japan, 20-21 April 2006

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Session 1: Opening Session
	Hiroshi MATSUI President, The ITU Association of Japan, Inc
	Born 6, August 1946. Joined former Ministry of Posts and Telecommunication (MPT) --- present Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication（MIC） --- on graduation from the University of Tokyo with Bachelors Degree in Law. Since then, Mr. Matsui assumed important posts in the government, including Director-General of the Postal Services Policy and Planning Bureau (2001) and Director-General of the Postal Services Agency（2002）. Before retiring from the Ministry in 2005, he was Vice-Minister for Policy Coordination (International Affairs and Telecommunications Bureau). As such, he has a remarkable career in the fields of post and telecommunications. He is currently President of three organizations; ITU Association of Japan and, Postal Savings Promotion Society and Data Communications Association of Japan. He also serves as Chairman of the Japan Host Committee for ITU-T Workshop on NGN and its Transport Networks

	Masao MATSUMOTO Director-General for Technology Policy Coordination, Minister’s Secretariat, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, JAPAN
	Masao MATSUMOTO has served MPT (Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications) and MIC (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) for nearly thirty years in the field of telecommunications administration and he has been principally engaged in radio regulatory administration and promotion of ICT R&D throughout his career. In 1976, after he was granted an M.S./E.E. from Kyoto University, he joined the Radio Regulatory Bureau of MPT, and gained experience in various posts in the Japanese government of Japan, including management of radio spectrum, development of space communications and introduction of new mobile communication systems. From 1980 to 1981 he studied spread spectrum technology at Purdue University in the US and was awarded an MS/EE. From 1991 to 1992 he served as a senior negotiator for the telecommunications sectors of GATS of WTO. At present, Mr. MATSUMOTO, as Director-General for Technology Policy Coordination, is responsible for promoting MIC's ICT R&D program.

	Dr. Yuji Inoue Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer (NTT)
	He joined NTT Laboratories in 1973. He was engaged in the standardization of ISDN, SDH and TNA through CCITT SG-18 (current ITU-T SG 13), and of network architecture through TINA-C. He has held the posts of Senior Vice President of NTT since 2002, as an executive in charge of R&D and international standardization. He was appointed Chief Technology Officer of NTT in 2006. He is an IEEE Fellow and also an IEICE Fellow.

	Chae Sub LEE ETRI
	Chae Sub LEE has been working in the telecoms standardisation field for over 20 years. He has actively involved in regional standards in ASTAP, APT, TTA and CJK in the area of network standards. He has been involved in ITU-T standards development for the ISDN, GII, IP-based networks and NGN. He was mainly involved in Study Group XVIII (currently SG13) as a rapporteur on Architecture and Interworking areas. He is a vice-chairman of ITU-T Study Group 13 and Chairman of WP2/13 on Architectural study. He also shared his role as Chairman of NGN Focus Group from June 2004 till November 2005. After a career of twenty years with KT as a senior researching engineer, he built a venture company called HiSPOT S.A. And he has been an invited researching staff to ETRI on International Standard acitivities.

	Brian MOORE Standards Manager, Lucent Technologies
	Brian Moore has been working in the telecomms standardisation field for over thirty years and has held many chairmanships in CEPT, ETSI and the ITU in the area of network standards. He has been involved in standards development for data networks, signalling systems, the ISDN and IP-based networks. He is currently chairman of ITU-T Study Group 13 which is the focal point for the standardisation activities on Next Generation Networks

	Yoichi MAEDA (SG 15 Chairman)
	Yoichi Maeda received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electronic engineering from Shizuoka University, Japan in 1976 and 1978, respectively. Since joining NTT in 1980, he has been engaged in research and development on access network transport systems for broadband communications including SDH, ATM and IP. From 1988 to 1989, he worked for British Telecom Research Laboratories, UK, as an exchange research engineer. He is a senior manager and currently leads the Global Strategy and the Full Service Access Groups in NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories. Since 1989, he has been an active participant in ITU-T Study Groups 13 and 15.　 He is currently serving as chairman of ITU-T SG15. He is a member of the IEEE and IEICE of Japan. He is a feature editor on standards of IEEE Communications Magazine.

Session 2
	Naotaka MORITA NTT Service Integration Laboratories
	Naotaka MORITA received his B.E. and M.E. degrees from Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan, in 1985 and 1987, respectively. In 1987, he joined the Research and Development Center of NTT Corporation, where he engaged in the research of ATM systems. From 2000, he has been studying VoIP and Interactive Multimedia technologies. From October 2004, he has been a Vice Chair and Working Party 3 chairman of SG13, which is the lead study group of NGN, in the ITU-T. He was a co-leader of working group 2, the Functional Architecture and Mobility Group in Focus Group of NGN (FGNGN) and an editor of draft ITU-T Recommendation Y.NGN-FRA “Functional Requirements and Architecture of the NGN.”

	Marco CARUGI CTO Senior Advisor, Nortel
	Marco began his career as telecommunication system engineer in Solvay, an international chemical group, and then worked for 8 years in France Telecom R&D as Research Engineer in Broadband Data Services and Network Technologies, participating in a number of international FT projects as technical expert in IP/MPLS and VPN domains. He joined Nortel in 2002 as Senior Advisor inside the CTO organization and his current focus is on Next Generation Networks and emerging IP-based services and technologies, promoting Nortel strategic interests in those areas in international standards bodies. Involved in standardization since 1996, he is currently acting as ITU-T NGN GSI Rapporteur for Question 2/13 (Requirements and implementation scenarios for emerging services in NGN) and actively participates in the NGN related ETSI TISPAN technical body, where he covers the Liaison Officer role from ITU-T SG13. Among his past management positions in standardization, he co-chaired the Services and Requirements working group in the ITU-T Focus Group on NGN, served on the Optical Internetworking Forum Board of Directors, chaired the IETF Provider Provisioned VPN Working Group and held Q11/13 Rapporteurship during the previous ITU-T study period. Marco has authored a number of IETF drafts and RFCs, ITU-T Recommendations, other contributions to standard bodies and papers. He holds an Electronic Engineering degree in Telecommunications from Pisa University (Italy), a M.S. in Engineering and Management of Telecommunication Networks from National Institute of Telecommunications (Evry, France) and a Master in International Business Development from ESSEC Business School (Paris).

	Keith G KNIGHTSON Communications Consultant
	Keith Knightson has more than 30 years experience in the design of network protocols and architectures, and use of open standards. He has provided consulting services to a number of organizations, in the area of network design and interconnection. Currently, special emphasis is being placed on the strategic and technical implications of Next Generation Networks and related IP-based infrastructures. Keith is currently the Rapporteur for NGN architectural work within ITU-T Study Group 13.

	Dick KNIGHT, BT Group plc
	Dick Knight started with PO Telecommunications in 1971. He worked on System X development and implemented ISDN protocols on a programmable design acceptance tester in the late 1980's. He has been working on Broadband Signaling since 1993, when he was the project manager of a collaborative European Union project, RACE MAGIC. Dick has had a technical book, "Broadband Signaling Explained" published. Dick is now in the BT Group Chief Technology Office, where he coordinates BT International Standards activities on NGN. Dick has represented BT in international standards bodies, including ETSI, ITU and IETF, is well known for his technical expertise, and has edited a number of international standards. He is currently: vice-chairman of Working Party 1 of ITU-T Study Group 13 (lead on Next Generation Networks); joint coordinator of the ITU-T Technical and Strategic Review, leading the ITU-T NGN-GSI activities; and vice-chairman of ETSI TISPAN, leading the System Group and TISPAN interactions with ITU-T.

	Anett SCHULKE Senior Research Staff Member, NEC Europe Ltd.
	Dr. Anett Schülke works as Senior Research Staff Member at NEC Network Laboratories, NEC Europe Ltd., Heidelberg. Anett Schülke received her PhD in Physics in 1995 from Dresden University of Technology. From 1996 to 1998 she was awarded a DAAD fellowship for the LBNL, California/USA and worked until 1999 as a Postdoctoral Fellow. At July 2000 she joined the NEC Network Laboratories. Her current work areas are Service Creation, Enabling and Provisioning Environments, IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and its applications (PoC, Group Management, Presence), especially focusing on personalization, service adaptation and context-aware service provisioning. She leads the project group for service architectures and is actively involved in the OMA standardization process. She is elected as Vice Chair of the OMA PoC Working Group.

Session 3
	Neal Seitz, NTIA Liaison, Institute for Telecommunication Sciences
	Neal Seitz is a senior engineer at the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS), the telecommunications research and engineering arm of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). He has held leadership positions in telecommunication performance standards committees for over 25 years. He currently chairs ITU-T Study Group 13 Working Party 4, which develops ITU-T Recommendations on network performance and resource management for multi-protocol and IP-based networks and their interworking. He has directed the development of over a dozen national and international telecommunication performance standards, and has authored numerous technical publications and contributions to national and international standards committees. He holds two U.S. patents for innovations in multi-channel speech compression technology. He has received Department of Commerce Gold Medal and Silver Medal awards for his contributions to standards development and technical management in telecommunications.

	Hui-Lan LU, Ph.D.,Bell Labs Fellow and CMTS, Lucent Technologies
	Dr. Hui-Lan Lu is the Rapporteur for ITU-T Q.4/13 on requirements and framework for QoS for NGN, which is responsible for developing, among other things, the new draft Recommendation (Y.racf) on the NGN resource and admission control functions. Dr. Lu joined Bell Labs in 1990 after receiving her doctorate in physics from Yale University. A pioneer in IP-PSTN convergence standardization, she is active in the IETF, ITU-T and ATIS. She has many publications, including the book entitled "Converged Networks and Services: Internetworking IP with PSTN" (John Wiley & Sons, 2000).

	Keith MAINWARING Cisco Systems
	Keith began his career in telecommunications in 1978 at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory of the UK Science and Engineering Research Council where he was involved in building and operating SERCNet which later evolved into the UK Joint Academic Network (JANET). From 1984 to 1990 he worked for Logica on a number of projects grounded on OSI protocols, in particular the X.400 message handling system, and on ISDN standardisation. From 1990 to 2000 he was engaged in ISDN, ATM and IP network development at Telia (formerly Swedish Telecom) in Stockholm, Sweden. He now has the position of Technical Leader in Cisco Systems with specialisation in the areas of Voice over IP, interworking with the PSTN and QoS control architectures. Keith has been active in standardisation activities for over two decades. He has been editor of several ITU-T Recommendations, ETSI and British Standards; Rapporteur in ITU-T Study Group 11 and in ITU-D SG1; and co-chair of the QoS working group in the ITU-T NGN Focus Group. He has a Higher Technical Certificate in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Oxford Polytechnic and a Masters Degree in Communications Policy Studies from City University, London. Keith has published a number of technical courses and numerous papers.

	Dinesh MOHAN CRO Senior Advisor, Nortel
	Dinesh Mohan has 13+ years of experience in telecom and data networking research, design and development. He is a subject matter expert on OAM and Carrier Ethernet standardization. He is an active contributor in IEEE 802.1, ITU-T SG 13 and SG 15, IETF L2VPN & PWE3 WG, MEF, and DSLF. He is currently an editor of several draft recommendations in ITU-T, IEEE 802.1, MEF and IETF L2VPN WG. He is a Senior Advisor in Nortel’s Chief Research Office. He received his B.E. from Delhi College of Engineering and M.Eng. from Carleton University.

	Tobey TRYGAR Principal Consultant, Telcordia
	Tobey Trygar is a Principal Consultant at Telcordia Technologies in the United States. Tobey works in the general area of telecommunications networks operations and management systems for commercial and government clients. He has been involved in various Standards Organizations and Industry Forums including ITU-T Study Groups 4, 15, and 16, the Transport and Synchronization Committee (OPTXS) Committee of the Alliance For Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), the Telemanagement Forum, and the Optical Internetworking Forum. He has served as the technical editor for several ITU-T Recommendations most recently for Recommendation G.7718, Framework for ASON (Automatic Switched Optical Network) Management, and is editor of the TeleManagement Forum’s Service Level Aagreement Handbook series. Tobey is the past Chairman of the OPTXS Optical Hierarchical Interfaces Subcommittee. He is currently working on an Operations Framework for multi-technology, multi-domain networks.

Session 4
	Steve TROWBRIDGE SG15 Vice Chairman
	Steve TROWBRIDGE received his B.S.(Electrical Engineering), M.S. and Ph.D.(Computer Science) from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1976, 1977, and 1979 respectively. He is a Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies where he has been employed since 1977 in a variety of positions related to product development, systems engineering, technical marketing support, and standards. He is currently vice-chairman of ITU-T Study Group 15, chairman of Working Party 3/15 (OTN Structure), chairman of Working Party 3/TSAG (Electronic Working Methods and Publication Policy), and chairman of the ATIS OPTXS-OHI (Optical Transport and Syncronization Committee-Optical Hierarchal Interfaces) sub-committee.

	Alan McGUIRE BT (UK)
	Alan McGuire graduated from the University of St, Andrews, Scotland, in 1987, with a First Class Honours degree in Physics and an M.Sc. in Bio Medical Physics from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1988. Since joining BT he has been involved in network architecture, statistical networking, optical networks, SDH, network management and control plane technologies. He currently manages a team responsible for current and next generation Ethernet systems. Alan has represented BT in a number of standards bodies and has been editor of a number of ITU-T Recommendations, and was a prime contributor in the development of the ASON architecture. He was a Guest Editor for Journal of Selected Areas in Communications Special Issue on Protocols and Architecture for Next Generation Optical WDM Networks. He is a Chartered Physicist, a member of the IEE, the IEEE, and the Institute of Physics.

	H. Kam LAM, Ph.D. CMTS, Lucent Technologies
	H. Kam LAM is the Rapporteur of Question 14 of ITU-T SG15 responsible for the study of transport network management and control. Kam leads Q14/15 in the specification of the ASON Recommendations (G.7713 series, G.7714 series, G.7715 series, G.7718 series), the OTN management Recommendations (G.874, G.874.1, G.875, & G.876), the SDH management Recommendations (G.784 & G.774 series), and the generic transport management and DCN Recommendations (G.7710 & G.7712). Kam is also active in many international and regional standards organizations, including ITU-T SG4, TeleManagement Forum, ATIS TMOC (formerly T1M1), and IETF. He has contributed to many standards specifications in the areas of management architecture, FCAPS functions, and information models. He is the author, editor, and co-editor of G.874.1 (OTN NE model – protocol-neutral), G.774 series (SDH NE Model – CMISE), M.3016 series (Management plane security), M.3060 (NGN Management principle), M.3100 (Network/NE Model – CMISE), M.3120 (Network/NE Model – CORBA); ATIS-0300074 (Security management system), ANSI T1.276 (Management plane security), T1.270, T1.214a, T1.240, T1.247, & T1.119; RFC 3591 (Optical Interface MIB), RFC 3878 (Alarm Reporting Control MIB); DAVIC 1.3; and ISO/IEC IS 16500-8. Kam is currently a CMTS for Lucent Technologies. He has a Ph.D. degree in Statistics, and was a research scientist and Associate Professor from 1978 – 1986 and a MTS & Principal Engineer at Bellcore from 1986 – 1997.

	Stephen SHEW Optical Network Architect, Nortel
	Stephen Shew is an Architect in the Optical Networks business unit at Nortel Networks also leads the standards team within that unit. In his career at Nortel, Stephen has participated in the development and specification of distributed routing protocols, traffic engineering optimization tools, ATM PNNI, and MPLS signalling. His standards involvement has included the ATM Forum and IETF. He is currently participating in ITU-T Study Group 15 and OIF, contributes to the architecture and protocols for the Automatic Switched Optical Network (ASON), and is a member of the OIF Board of Directors. Stephen received his Bachelor of Computer Science from Carleton University and MSc from the University of Toronto.

	Adrian FARREL Managing Director, Old Dog Consulting Limited
	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. Building on his 20 years’ experience designing and developing portable 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 areas of MPLS, GMPLS and ASON. 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).


	Jonathan Sadler Tellabs
	Jonathan Sadler is a Senior Principal Engineer in the Chief Technology Office at Tellabs. With over 20 years of data communications experience as a protocol implementer, network element designer, carrier network operations manager, and carrier network planner, Jonathan brings a broad set of knowledge and experiences to the design and analysis of carrier network technology. Currently, Jonathan is involved in the development of technologies providing the efficient transport of packet oriented services in Carrier Networks. Jonathan is the Chairman of the Optical Internetworking Forum's Architecture and Signaling Working Group and an active participant in the IETF and ITU. Jonathan studied Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Session 5
	Helmut SCHINK Siemens AG
	Current Position: Siemens Com, Common Development, Vice President Systems Engineering, Responsible for standardization, funded research management and innovation management Various external functions in ITU, TMF, ISOC, ETSI and ICANN, like member of the Board of the Telemanagement Forum, ITU-T SG 13 vice-chair, Member of the board of directors of ICANN (until June 2003), chair of ETSI project TIPHON on IP Telephony (until 2001) Job career: • 9 years in business unit for public communication networks, holding various technical and management functions marketing, like strategic product planning, business development and standardization. • 3 years in the corporate management and in strategic business development and developed e.g. a system for the seed development • 7 years development of semiconductor processes for GaAs high speed and low noise devices and developed e.g. a leading High Electron Mobility Transistor. • 4 years of basic research in micro-analytics • entered Siemens in 1980 Educational background: • Studies of Physics at Technical University of München • Diploma in Physics and Doctor degree in the area of micro-analytics and semiconductor physics.

	Yasunao MISAWA General Manager, Industry Relations Department, Technical Standards and Spectrum Division, KDDI Corporation, Japan
	Yasunao MISAWA received MS in Applied Physics from the University of Tokyo in 1984. He joined the telecommunications industry in 1991, when he began to work for IDO Corporation on the development and deployment of their mobile communication switched core network. After the merger with DDI and KDD in 2000, he managed the development of Service Nodes for KDDI’s mobile communications network. He initiated the company’s experimental study of MMD/IMS-based NGN with his colleagues in 2004. Since December, 2005, he is organizing the efforts across the company toward network convergence based on NGN architecture.

	Ms. Zhao Huiling China Telecom
	Ms. Zhao Huiling, senior engineer at professor level, PhD tutor, and chairperson of Network and Switching Technical Committee of China Communication Standardization Association (CCSA), is now vice-president of China Telecom Beijing Research Institute. She specializes in the research on broadband network, NGN, and development strategy of communication network, and chairs the setting of national network standards. She has authored 11 technical books and has won many prizes of science-tech programs at national and ministerial levels.

	Fan DONGYANG Senior Engineer, Manager of Telecom Standardization Department, Siemens Communication Networks Ltd., Beijing (SCNB)
	Since joined Siemens in 1992 Mr. Fan has worked for system test, software development, technical support and standardization. He currently participate standardization activities in China Communication Standards Association (CCSA) and the NGN standardization in ITU-T. He has been the co-chair of ITU-T FGNGN WG6 (evolution).

Session 6
	Andrew NUNN SG15 Vice-Chairman, BT, UK
	Andrew Nunn is a Vice Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 15 and Chairman of Working Party 1/15 (Optical and metallic access network). He has spent the whole of his career in the telecommunications transport network field and for the past 17 years has been involved in the development of international and regional standards in the ITU, ETSI and ATIS. Andrew is a Senior Standards Consultant with BT specialising in transport networks.

	Dr.-Ing. Martin SCHENK, VP Marketing, COM Access, Infineon Technologies
	Dr.-Ing. Martin Schenk is the VP Marketing at Infineon Technologies’ Communications Access business unit, Munich/Germany. Prior to joining Infineon in January 2005 he held a number of managerial positions with market leading companies including: VP Marketing, DSL products for Centillium Communications, Fremont/California; Director Marketing, Member of the Executive Management Team at Ishoni Networks, Santa Clara/California; and Business Development and Product Marketing for Siemens Semiconductors Munich/Germany and in San Jose/California. Dr.-Ing. Martin Schenk started his career in R&D at the Institute for Integrated Circuits, Munich/Germany, where he established and managed a research group for broadband access focusing on xDSL, home networking and broadband fixed wireless. He published or presented numerous papers on various aspects of broadband technologies and markets and filed 4 patents. Dr. Schenk received his Masters degree in EE (Dipl.-Ing.) in 1992 and the Ph.D. degree in EE (Dr.-Ing.) in 1997, both from the Technical University of Munich.

	Dr. Yukio NAKANO Senior Director Access Products Planning, Hitachi
	Dr. Yukio Nakano is responsible for product planning of optical access products especially PON systems in Hitachi. Since he joined Central Research Laboratories of Hitachi in 1983, he had been involved in Research and Development of transmission technologies and products such as SDH transmission, ATM cross-connect, and WDM. From 1996 to 2002, he was responsible for technical marketing of SONET and WDM products at Hitachi Telecom (USA), Inc. From 2002, he was in charge of marketing and products planning of access systems in Hitachi Japan. He holds Bachelor, Master and Doctor’s degree in Communication Engineering from Osaka University.

	Naoyoshi NAKAMURA Associate director, Science and Technical Research Laboratories, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK)
	Naoyoshi NAKAMURA joined NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) in 1987. Since 1991, he has been in Science and Technical Research Laboratories (STRL). From 2000 to 2003, he has been engaged in the advanced digital cable TV system R&D project in government-affiliated organization, Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan (TAO). His research interests include development of 1024/4096 QAM high-speed modem and IP-based broadband access system in HFC/FTTH. He is currently acting as an associate director in networked broadcasting systems research division of STRL. Mr. Nakamura is currently an associate rapporteur in ITU-T Study Group 9. The discussion is focusing on the extension of cable-based services over broadband in Home Networks and related set-top box technology. He is a member of the IEEE, IEICE, and ITE.

	Mitsuo NOHARA KDDI Corp.
	Dr. Mitsuo Nohara has served as the Mobile Multihop Relay Study Group Chair, IEEE802.16WG since Sept., 2005, aiming at enhancing its standards by providing some new features of relay into the networks. He got his BS, MS and Ph. D degrees all in Electronics Engineering from Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Japan in 1980, 1982 and 1996, respectively. He joined KDD (currently KDDI) in 1982, and has served in various R&D projects on satellite, mobile and wireless communications systems through his carriers at KDD R&D Labs., ATR Optical and Radio Comm Res. Lab., Inmarsat, ICO Global Communications, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, YRP Research Center of KDDI R&D Labs., and KDDI. He is a Senior Manager, Cognitive Radio Section, Media Tech. Dept. of KDDI Corp. He is a member of IEICE and IEEE.

Session 7
	Malcolm Betts Nortel Networks
	Malcolm Betts is the Rapporteur of Q.12/15. The work in this question covers the architecture of the transport network (G.805, G.809) and the application of specific technologies such as, Ethernet (G.8010), MLPS (G.8110), SDH (G.803) OTN (G.872) and ASON (G.8080). Malcolm works as an architect in the Optical Networks business unit at Nortel Networks. He is also active in several international standards organizations including ITU-T SG 13, SG 15 and the Tele Management Forum. During his career 30+ year he has been involved in the design and standardization of transmission systems.

	Italo BUSI CTO T&A Member, Alcatel OND
	Italo Busi graduated from Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 1997 where he received a degree in Telecommunication Engineering. In 1998 he joined Alcatel as a System Engineer for packet over transport technologies. He is currently member of the CTO Technology&Architecture group of the Optical Network Division (OND). He was an active participant in ITU-T SG15 for ATM over transport standardization (I.731 and I.732) as well as in IEEE 802.17 WG for RPR standardization. He is currently an active participant in ITU-T SG15 for Ethernet and MPLS over transport standardization activities (G.8010, G.8011.x, G.8012, G.8021, G.8110, G.8110.1, G.motnni, G.8121) where he is also editor of G.8110.1 (Application of MPLS in the Transport Network).

	Paul BOTTORFF Ethernet Architect, Nortel
	For the last 25 years Paul Bottorff has been a technologist and visionary of the data networking industry. Starting in the early 1980s with the development the first Ethernet products at Bridge Communications, Inc., Paul went on to advance state-of- the-art technology by working on the development and standardization of FDDI, ATM, and 10 GE WAN. Paul is currently editor of the IEEE 802.1ah and IEEE 802.1ag standards. He is the inventor of 10 G Ethernet WAN and a Director, VP and Secretary of the Metro Ethernet Forum. Paul is an Ethernet Architect at Nortel’s Enterprise Solutions and Packet Network Division. He is a member of the IEEE and participant in the IEEE 802.1 committee. He received his BS from University of Wisconsin Madison and holds four patents.

	Hiroshi OHTA Senior Research Engineer, NTT
	Hiroshi Ohta received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and his M.S. and Dr. Eng. degrees in Electronics Engineering from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan in 1985, 1987 and 2000 respectively. He joined Electrical Communication Laboratories of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Kanagawa, Japan in 1987. Since 1987 to 1999 he was engaged in research and development of ATM based transport systems, in particular, optical subscriber loops, cell loss analysis/recovery, OAM functions and protection switching as well as development of an ATM cross-connect system. Since 2000, he has been engaged in development of services for corporate users such as IP-VPN and metro Ethernet services and in development of services for consumers such as content delivery services (CDS). Since 1992, he actively participates in standardization meetings of ITU-T SG13, SG15, IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee and IETF. Currently, he is a rapporteur for Question 3/15 (General characteristics of optical transport networks) of ITU-T SG15.