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Joint ITU-T/IEEE workshop on Carrier-class Ethernet |
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Biographies |
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Joint ITU-T/IEEE workshop on Carrier-class Ethernet
Geneva, 31 May (afternoon) - 1 June 2007
Contact: tsbworkshops@itu.int
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 Hugh Barrass (Cisco)
Hugh Barrass is working with IEEE P802.1au Task Force on the subject of Congestion Management. Hugh is responsible for standards and technology at Cisco, where he designed five generations of LAN switch fabrics. Hugh has more than 25 years of electronics industry experience ranging from handheld products to supercomputers.
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 Malcolm Betts (Nortel, Canada)
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, G.ufatn) 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 Metro 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. |
 Marcus Duelk (Alcatel-Lucent)
Marcus Duelk graduated with a diploma in physics from TU Berlin, Germany,
and with a PhD in physics from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He joined Bell Labs
in 2000 and was working on various projects related to high-speed packet
switching and transport on the physical layer. For the last three years he
has been working on packet switching and routing architectures on L2/L3. He
has been involved in the standardization of 100 Gigabit Ethernet from the
early days of the Ethernet Alliance through the HSSG in the IEEE. He is an
IEEE Senior Member, an IEEE 802.3 voting member and contributing to the
ITU-T SG 15 as well.
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 Dave Faulkner (BT, UK)
David Faulkner is responsible for research leadership in access networks in
BT’s research and venturing programme. He received his first degree in
Electrical Engineering at Bristol University in 1975 and his MSc in
Telecommunications Systems and PhD in Electrical Engineering in
collaboration with the University of Essex in 1983. He worked on the design
of long-haul systems at BT Labs until his move to optical fibre local
networks 1983. From 1986 to 1993 he carried out pioneering work on both
narrow and broadband passive optical networks. Since 1994 he has managed a
number of R&D projects in both core and access and promoted broadband access
standards for BT. He is Rapporteur for ITU-T SG15 Question 2 on Optical
Systems for Fibre Access. He chairs the conference on Networks and Optical
Communications (NOC).
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Norman Finn (Cisco)
Norman Finn is a Cisco Fellow at Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose, California.
Since receiving his B.S. in Astronomy from the California Institute of
Technology, networking and operating systems have been the focus of his
career. He currently has 22 U.S. patents in process or awarded. He
contributed much of the normative text for ATM LAN Emulation, and has been
an active and productive member of IEEE 802.1 since 1996, including the
editorship of IEEE 802.1ag, Connectivity Fault Management.
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Howard Frazier (IEEE 802.3ah chair)
Howard M. Frazier is a Technical Director at Broadcom Corporation,
responsible for technical strategy development within the Enterprise
Networking Group. Previously,
Mr. Frazier was a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems. He is one of the
co-inventors of 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet and Fast Ethernet. He
also served as the chairman of the IEEE 802.3 task forces that wrote the
standards for
Ethernet in the First Mile (IEEE Std 802.3ah), Gigabit Ethernet (IEEE Std
802.3z) and Fast Ethernet (IEEE Std 802.3u). Mr. Frazier has served as the
chairman of the IEEE Standards Association Review Committee (RevCom) and as
the vice chairman of the IEEE-SA Standards Board.
Among his accomplishments in high-speed networking, he led the development
of the world's first 10/100BASE-T network interface controller in 1993 while
working at Sun Microsystems. Mr. Frazier has also co-authored a book titled
“Ethernet in the First Mile: Access for Everyone,” published by the IEEE
Standards Information Network/IEEE Press. He is a graduate of
Carnegie-Mellon University. |
 Geoffrey Garner (Samsung Electronics)
Geoffrey Garner is currently with Samsung Electronics, specializing in
network timing, jitter, and synchronization; network performance and quality
of service; systems engineering; and standards development. He is working on
the development of new standards in IEEE 802 and IEEE 1588 for carrying
time-sensitive traffic over Ethernet and 802.11 wireless networks. Since
2003 he previously worked on a variety of projects as a consultant that
include development of a simulator for Optical Burst Switching Network
performance and simulation of network level jitter and wander performance.
Prior to his work as a consultant, he was a Distinguished Member of
Technical Staff in the Transport Network Architecture Department of Lucent
Technologies. Beginning in 1992, his work at AT&T and then Lucent included
the development of international and national standards for jitter and
synchronization performance and transmission error performance of OTN and
SONET/SDH networks, and for Quality of Service of ATM networks. He was the
Rapporteur of the Transmission Error Performance Question in ITU-T SG 13
from 2001-2004, and the Editor for the ITU-T Recommendation specifying
jitter and wander in the Optical Transport Network (G.8251) in SG 15. He
joined AT&T in 1985, went with Lucent Technologies upon its divestiture from
AT&T in 1996, and became a consultant in 2003.
Geoffrey Garner received an S.B. degree in Physics from M.I.T. in 1976, S.M.
degrees in Nuclear Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from M.I.T. in
1978, and a Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from M.I.T. in 1985
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 Mike Gilson (BT, UK)
He has played a major role in developing and implementing BT's Time and
timing strategy from 1988 to present day. He has represented BT on various
national and international working groups and standards committees including
Eurescom, ETSI, ITU, IETF and Public Network Operators Interest Group (PNOIG).
He is currently actively contributing to ITU-T SG15 (Transport Networks,
Systems & Equipment) on the synchronization question (Q13). He is also on
the steering committee for the International Telecommunications
Synchronisation Forum (ITSF) and the National Institute Standards and
Technology (NIST) Workshop on Synchronization in Telecommunication Systems.
He joined BT in 1983 as an apprentice at BT Laboratories. In 1986 he joined
a team working on advanced transmission projects, before moving into the
area of synchronisation and timing. He received a BA (Hons) degree in
Business Studies from the University of East Anglia in 1996 and is a Member
of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (MIET - Formally MIEE).
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 Robert Grow (IEEE 802.3 Chair)
Bob Grow is the Chair of the IEEE 802.3 (Ethernet) working group, and Vice
Chair of the IEEE-SA Standards Board. Bob is a recipient of the IEEE
Standards Medallion for technical and leadership contributions to multiple
LAN standards, including a number of 802 standards. His career work has been
in systems architecture and product development -- primarily in the areas of
local networks, switching and converged communications. Bob was a co-founder
of XLNT, and since its acquisition has worked for Intel Corporation, where
he is a Principal Engineer in the Intel Corporate Technology Group.
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Steve Haddock (Extreme Networks, USA)
A co-founder of Extreme Networks, Haddock has 25 years of experience in
networking equipment design, project leadership and engineering management.
He has developed products based on technologies including Ethernet, FDDI and
ATM, as well as switching/routing architectures and client and server
adapters. Within the IEEE 802 Haddock has held positions of chair, co-chair,
editor, and co-editor on projects including 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ae
10 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ad Link Aggregation, 802.1ad Provider Bridging,
and 802.1ah Provider Backbone Bridging. Haddock holds several patents
relating to switch architectures and quality of service. Prior to Extreme
Networks, Haddock was chief engineer at Network Peripherals and held various
engineering and project management positions at Sun Microsystems and
Hewlett-Packard. He holds an MSEE and a BSME from Stanford University.
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 Bilel Jamoussi (Nortel)
Dr. Bilel Jamoussi is responsible for Nortel’s Strategic Standards
organization within the Office of the CTO. In this capacity, Bilel provides
strategic technology direction and leadership for Nortel’s involvement in
more than 90 standards development organizations, forums, and consortia. In
support of the emerging Broadband Access & Infrastructure standards, Bilel
and his team are focusing on IEEE 802.11/WiFi Alliance, 802.16/WiMAX Forum,
and 802.1ah/802.1Qay Carrier Ethernet.
An experienced standards professional, Bilel is an elected member of the
IEEE-SA Board of Governors and the Corporate Advisory Group (CAG). He also
serves on the steering committee of several international technical
conferences (e.g., the MPLS World Congress, Paris) and is an invited speaker
to several industry events.
Bilel contributes to the innovation and advancement of technology in the ICT
field. He has more than 20 patents and patent applications. Bilel has
actively contributed to the work of numerous IETF working groups (e.g., MPLS,
PPVPN, PWE3, CCAMP), both as author and editor of Internet Drafts, RFCs, and
technical papers.
Bilel has been with Nortel Networks for 12 years, during which time he has
held several leadership roles including software development on
routing/switching platforms and data network engineering of major
international customer networks.
Bilel received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from
Pennsylvania State University. Bilel’s Ph.D. dissertation was on TCP/IP
traffic analysis and its application to ATM network design. His MS thesis
was on the design and implementation of an IP remote Ethernet bridge. |
 Tony Jeffree (Consultant)
Tony has been involved in the IT industry since 1975, in areas including process control and commercial software development, embedded systems development, IT and management consultancy, and leadership training. Over his 22 year involvement with the work of IEEE 802, Tony has been Editor for several standards in the IEEE 802.1 Working Group, which is responsible for the LAN Bridging, management, and security standardization efforts in IEEE 802, and since March 2000 Tony has Chaired the IEEE 802.1 Working Group. Since 1996 Tony has worked as an independent consultant; currently, his standards development activities are supported by Cisco, Broadcom, Hewlett Packard, and Adva.
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 Glen Kramer (Teknovus, USA)
Glen Kramer is Chief Scientist for Teknovus, Inc. He received his Ph.D. in
Computer Science in University of California at Davis. Glen chairs the
10Gb/s EPON Task Force in IEEE 802.3. The author of “Ethernet Passive
Optical Networks” (McGraw Hill 2005), he has done extensive research in
areas of traffic management, Quality of Service and fairness in access
networks. Glen is the founder of the EPON Forum and teaches EPON tutorials
and workshops at conferences around the world. |
 Hing Kam Lam (Alcatel-Lucent)
H. Kam LAM is the Rapporteur of Question 14 of ITU-T SG15 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.7716, 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), the T-MPLS management Recommendations (G.tmpls-mgmt
series), the EoT management Recommendations (G.eot-mgmt series), and the
generic transport management (G.7710) and DCN Recommendations (G.7712).
Kam is active in many international and regional standards organizations,
including ITU-T SG15 & SG4, TeleManagement Forum, and ATIS TMOC (formerly
T1M1) in the areas of management architecture, FCAPS functions, and
information models. He is the author, editor, and co-editor of many ITU-T
recommendations, ANSI standards, and RFCs.
Kam is currently a CMTS of Alcatel-Lucent. He has a Ph.D. degree in
Statistics. He was a research scientist and Associate Professor from 1978 –
1986 and a MTS & Principal Engineer at Bellcore from 1986 – 1997.
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 John Lemon (Adtran)
John Lemon (jlemon@ieee.org) is a senior staff scientist in the Chief Technology Office of Adtran.
Over the past 24 years, he has held development, senior management, and architecture roles in several
areas of the data communications industry. John has been active in several standards organizations over
this time, with the MEF and IEEE 802 having his current focus. He has been active since the 2000 inception
of IEEE 802.17 Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) working group as contributor and editor on 802.17-2004, as Vice
Chair starting in 2003, and presently as the Chair of the RPR working group.
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 Yoichi Maeda (ITU-T SG 15 Chair)
Yoichi Maeda received 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 for 26 years. From 1988 to 1989 he worked for British Telecom
Research Laboratories, United Kingdom, as an exchange research engineer. He
currently leads the international standards and business promotion in NTT
Advanced Technology Corporation and is NTT’s Senior Adviser on
Standardization. Since 1989 he has been an active participant in ITU-T SGs
13 and 15. He has been serving as vice-chair of ITU-T SG13, chair of WP3 of
ITU-T SG13, and chair of OAN (Optical Access Network)-WG of FSAN (Full
Service Access Network) from 2001 to 2004. He has had an appointment of
chair of ITU-T SG15 for the 2005-2008 study period in October 2004 at
WTSA-04. He is a member of the IEICE of Japan. He has several publications
on B-ISDN standards including Introduction to ATM Networks and B-ISDN (1997,
John Wiley &Sons).
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 David Martin (Nortel)
“DAVID W. MARTIN (dwmartin@nortel.com) received his B.A.Sc. degree in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1982. He began his
career with AT&T Canada in the transmission group, working on vendor
evaluation and the field engineering of microwave systems. He then joined
Northern Telecom to work on the system design of their digital microwave
product line. David transferred to BNR in 1987 where he worked on the system
design of three generations of optical transport platforms. He then managed
a team to explore and define new technologies to enable data transport over
SDH/OTN networks, including ATM VP ring queuing architectures and protection
switching, GFP, Ethernet ring access fairness algorithms and mesh
restoration protocols. Currently he is with Nortel Networks where he is
working on the standards effort to enhance bridged Ethernet with carrier
grade functionality. He has contributed to the 802.3 Ethernet and 802.1
Bridging committees since 1999, in addition to ATIS T1S1/T1X1 and ITU-T
SG13/SG15. He is a member of the IEEE and holds 14 patents.”
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 Masahiro Maruyoshi (NTT)
Masahiro Maruyoshi received his B.E. and M.S. degree in Information
Enfineering from Nagoya University, Japan in 2000 and 2002, respectively.
He joined Information Sharing Platform Laboratories of Nippon Telegraph and
Telephone Corporation (NTT), Japan in 2002. Since 2002 to 2005 he was
engaged in research and development of Ethernet based virtual private
network system. Since 2006, he has been engaged in development of services
for corporate users such as wide area Ethernet services.
Since 2006, he actively participates in standardization meetings of ITU-T
SG15. Currently, he is a editor of G.8032 (Ethernet Ring Protection
Switching).
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John Messenger (ADVA Optical Networking Ltd)
John
Messenger graduated from Loughborough University of Technology in
Electronic, Computer and Systems Engineering in 1984 and initially
worked at Standard Telecommunication Laboratories in Harlow, UK. He
first attended IEEE 802 in 1987 and has continued as a member of 802.5,
802.12 and 802.1 for most of the last 20 years, serving as vice-chair of
802.5 and latterly as a member of the 802.1 operations team. He now
co-ordinates standards activities for ADVA Optical Networking Ltd
globally and works on product design for ADVA’s Ethernet Access
division.
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 Steven M. Mills (Chairman, IEEE-SA Standards Board)
Senior Architect
Hewlett-Packard Company
Sunnyvale, California
Steve Mills has worked at Hewlett-Packard Company for 25 years in the
research and development of products for the computer and telecommunications
industries. Mr. Mills is currently Senior Architect in the Industry
Standards Program Office where he leads HP’s participation in industry
consortia and standards development organizations. Prior to moving into the
Standards Program Office, Mr. Mills managed an R&D team responsible for the
development of hardware, operating systems and middleware of continuously
available platforms for use in the telecommunications industry. Mr. Mills
also spent several years as manager of a research team composed of business
and technology professionals performing mid-range market and technology
research. Other contributions include: the development of networking
products for HP's commercial servers, launching of the HP Openview network
management program, and the development of the strategy to move HP servers
to a standards based I/O subsystem architecture.
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Gary Nicholl (Cisco)
Gary Nicholl is a Senior Technical Lead in the Core Routing business unit at
Cisco Systems. He is currently responsible for the definition and
development of high speed optical interfaces for the CRS-1 core router,
including the recent integration of OTN and DWDM technologies (IPoDWDM).
Gary is also leading Cisco’s efforts on the definition of next generation
100GE technology, and is an active participant in the IEEE High Speed Study
Group (HSSG).
Gary also represents Cisco at various industry standards organizations and
industry forums, and in the past has been an active contributor in the
development of several 10G and 40G standards in the IEEE, OIF and ITU.
Prior to joining Cisco in 1997, Gary spent 10 years at Nortel Networks in
Ottawa, Canada, working in various R&D roles on the development of SONET/SDH
transport products.
Gary holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of
Manchester (UK).
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 Andrew Nunn (ITU-T SG 15 WP1 Chair)
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.
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 Hiroshi Ohta (ITU-T SG 15 Q3/15 Rapporteur)
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). Currently,
he is involved in development of NGN. Since 1992, he actively participates
in standardization meetings including 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
and a Working Group co-Chair of mboned WG in IETF.
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 Glenn Parsons (ITU-T SG 15 representative to IEEE802.3)
Glenn Parsons (gparsons@nortel.com) is a senior standards advisor in the
Chief Technology Office at Nortel. In his ten years at Nortel he has
participated in the development, product management and standards
specification of voice and fax messaging protocols, VoIP, web services and
Ethernet transport. Over the past number of years, Glenn has held several
management and editor positions in IETF, IEEE and ITU-T standards
activities. He is currently involved with Ethernet standardization in both
IEEE and ITU-T, as editor for IEEE 802.1ap (VLAN Bridge MIBs) and document
editor of G.8011 (Ethernet Services Framework) in ITU-T SG 15. Glenn is also
a member of the IEEE-SA Standards Board..
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Mick Seaman (IEEE 802.1 Interworking TF chair)
Mick Seaman is an independent consultant whose recent focus has been the
development of protocols and operational methods for the deployment of
Ethernet in public and mission critical networks. Mick confounded Telseon, a
metropolitan area network provider using Ethernet technology, in 1999, was
previously vice president and chief technology officer of 3Com's Enterprise
Business Unit, and managed the development of router architectures,
software, and hardware at 3Com and Digital Equipment Corporation. He has
served on a number of technical advisory boards including those of
Lightstorm Networks and TiMetra Networks. Mick chaired the IEEE 802.1
Interworking Task Group from its inception in 1986 until March 2007, was
responsible for the development of the 802.1D (MAC Bridge) and 802.1Q (VLAN)
standards, and continues to chair the IEEE 802.1 Security Task Group that
standardized 802.1AE (MAC Security).He was awarded the IEEE Medallion for
Outstanding Achievement through Standards in 1998, and holds more than 20
patents in the field of switching system and protocol design. Mick has a
Master’s Degree in Physics and Theoretical Physics from Cambridge
University.
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 Neal Seitz (ITU-T SG 13 WP4 Chair)
Neal Seitz (neal@its.bldrdoc.gov) 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 serves as Vice Chair of ITU-T Study Group 13
(NGN) and chairs SG 13 Working Party 4, which develops ITU-T Recommendations
on QoS and OAM. He has directed the development of over two dozen national
and international telecommunication performance standards and has authored
numerous technical publications and contributions to standards committees.
He holds two U.S. patents 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.
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 Michael Johas Teener (Broadcom, USA)
Michael Johas Teener is currently a Technical Director at Broadcom helping
with the architecture of advanced networking systems. For most of 2004 and
early 2005 he was an independent consulting engineer doing business as
PlumbLinks, and before that he was Plumbing Architect at Apple, a title that
he also held from 1988 until 1996. Between his two stints at Apple he was
Chief Technology Officer of Zayante, Inc., a FireWire technology provider he
co-founded in 1996 and was acquired by Apple in 2002. He was the chief
architect of Apple Computer’s Firewire technology, and was a major
contributor to much of the technology now consolidated under the 1394
standards. He is the chair of the IEEE 802.1 Audio/Video Bridging Task
Group, the former chair and editor of the IEEE 1394-1995 standard, the
originator and editor of the IEEE 1394b -2002 gigabit/long distance
supplement, and the chair and editor of the new IEEE 1394c-2006 gigabit/CAT5
supplement.
Mr. Johas Teener has a BS from Caltech, an MS from UCLA, and holds over 16
patents including several that are fundamental to the implementation of 1394
and 1394b. His career began with 8 years of real-time software and computer
hardware design for very leading-edge radar and sonar systems, was the
primary hardware architect for two early digital PBXs (including the first
use of Ethernet in a distributed telephone switching system), made major
contributions to FDDI and FDDI-2, and continued on in Silicon Valley at
National Semiconductor, Apple Computer, Zayante, and now Broadcom.
Pat Thaler (IEEE 802 Vice Chair)
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 Patricia Thaler (IEEE)
Pat has worked on product and standards development for networking since
1983, primarily in Ethernet. The span of her work covers physical to
applications layers. She is a past chair of the IEEE 802.3 10BASE-T task
force and IEEE 802.3 and is currently chair of the IEEE 802.1 Congestion
Management task force and 2nd Vice-Chair of IEEE 802. She has been an editor
on various projects, most recently the 64B/66B encoding Clause for 10 Gig
Ethernet, Clause 49 and the Autenegotiation Clause for Backplane Ethernet,
Clause 73. She also has been a contributor to Infininband, Incits T10 SCSI
and T11 Fibre Channel. She is an author of IETF RFCs and IDs regarding iSCSI
and RDMAP/ DDP – projects to move storage traffic and inter-processor
communications over consolidated Ethernet fabrics. This latter involvement
is the source of her interest in improving QOS capabilities over IEEE 802
networks. She joined Broadcom in 2006 after 29 years at HP and Agilent
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 Geoffrey O. Thompson (IEEE 802 Member Emeritus)
Geoffrey O. Thompson is a Standardization Consultant at Nortel Networks. He
serves as an Member Emeritus of the IEEE 802 Executive Committee and served
as Vice Chair of IEEE 802 from 2002-04 and Chair of IEEE 802.3 from 1993 to
2002. He has also served on a variety of IEEE-SA governance positions since
1994. He has been highly active in the development of Ethernet standards
since 1983 and generic cabling standards since 1990. Before joining
Synoptics Communications (subsequently Bay Networks, later acquired by
Nortel Networks) in 1988, Mr. Thompson spent over 20 years with Xerox
Corporation in various research and development positions where he worked on
pioneering implementations and products in facsimile, laser printing,
computer workstations and local area networking. Mr. Thompson received his
BSEE from Purdue University in 1964.
He has been issued 12 U.S. patents. |
 Steve Trowbridge (ITU-T SG 15 WP3 Chair)
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 currently a Consulting Member of Technical Staff in the Optics Business Division Chief Technology Office of Alcatel-Lucent, having first joined Bell Laboratories in 1977 and held 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 ITU-T Working Party 3/15 (OTN Structure), chairman of ITU-T 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.
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 Huub van Helvoort (Huawei)
Huub van Helvoort [IEEE SM ’04] (hhelvoort@huawei.com) received his M.S. E.
E. degree in 1977 at the Technical University, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
From that time he has been involved in the development of telecommunication
systems: telephony systems at Philips Telecommunications Industries,
subscriber-loop-carrier (SLC) and ISDN (NT1 and PRA) equipment at AT&T, SDH
and SONET equipment at Lucent Technologies, telecommunication devices (ASICs)
at TranSwitch, and currently he is a senior networking consultant for Huawei
Technologies. He has been a hardware and firmware designer, system
integrator and tester, systems engineer and system architect and coordinated
cross-system requirement development and management. He represented all
these companies in several SDOs: ETSI, ANSI, ITU-T and IETF. He contributed
to many SDH, OTN and SONET standards, in particular to the standards that
enabled the Next Generation SDH and OTN, i.e. ITU-T Rec. G.7041 (GFP),
G.7042 (LCAS) and G.7043(VCAT and LCAS for PDH). He is editor of several
ITU-T recommendations for SDH, Ethernet over Transport (ETH) and Transport
MPLS (T-MPLS). He is rapporteur for question 5 in studygroup 13 of the ITU-T
(responsible for packet transport OAM). He has published several books and
papers based on his expertise in VCAT, LCAS, GFP and Functional Modeling. (http://www.van-helvoort.eu)
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 Maarten Vissers (Alcatel-Lucent, Netherlands)
Maarten Vissers is a member of the Optics CTO group in Alcatel-Lucent. He
joined Alcatel in April 2003 as a Network Strategy Manager in the Optical
Network Division. He is currently focussing on data over transport aspects,
specifically the development of architecture, equipment, protection
switching, OAM and NNI specifications for a world wide packet transport
network. Since 1991 he is an active contributor to PDH, SDH, ATM, OTN, ASON,
T-MPLS and Ethernet standards development in ITU-T, ETSI and recently also
IEEE 802.1. He is an expert in functional modelling, fault management,
performance monitoring, protection switching, overhead and OAM for
connection monitoring and network node interface specifications. He is the
editor of a number of OTN, T-MPLS and Ethernet recommendations in ITU-T and
has been the editor of multiple SDH standards in ETSI and ITU-T. He holds a
masters degree in Electrical Engineering, digital systems from the Technical
University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands obtained in 1982. Prior to joining
Alcatel he was at Philips Telecommunication Industry, AT&T and Lucent
Technologies where he designed integrated circuits for PDH systems, was a
system engineer and system architect for SDH systems, championed the
development and use of common requirements and architectures as a cross
product systems engineer, lead the development of the OTN specifications as
a transport network architect and started Ethernet over Transport network
standardisation within ITU-T. |
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