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 Victor Blake
Victor Blake is a strategy, architecture, and engineering consultant for the Internet and broadband access industries. He has 22 years of experience in network operations, marketing and product management. He has been a consultant to EDS, Broadwing/Applied Theory, Redback Networks, Switch-On/PMC-Sierra, Teradiant Networks, Foundry Networks, Ryan, Hankin, and Kent. Previously, he was the Director of Network Strategy and Architecture at Advance/Newhouse communications (Bright House Networks), the 5th largest cable operator in the U.S. Prior to that he worked for Foundry Networks for almost 5 years. His past experience also includes being the Manager of Network Architecture at America Online, and was responsible for design, development, and implementation of data networks and telecommunications facilities for dial, Internet, and data center networks. |
Denis Beaudoin (Texas Instruments)
Denis Beaudoin has worked for TI for over 25 years
as the key architect and designer on over 20 major
silicon projects for various businesses involving
data networking, voice and high speed interfaces.
He has been involved in IEEE802 since 1988 and has
made key contributions in Ethernet IEEE802.3, Token
Ring IEEE802.5 and VG AnyLAN IEEE802.12. He holds
the title of DMTS - Distinguished Member, Technical
Staff; a level recognized across TI for his valued
silicon expertise and knowledge of communications.
He holds and has co-authored more than 20 patents
and holds a B.S degree in Electrical and Computer
Engineering from Massachusetts University. |
 Martin Carroll
Martin Carroll is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Verizon, responsible for technical standards management and strategy for optical technologies supporting access and transport networks. He received a B.S. in Civil Engineering Technology from Old Dominion University in 1981 and has 26 years of telecommunications and data communications experience with Verizon and its predecessor companies. Martin has worked across a wide range of technologies through various positions in outside plant engineering, product development, program management, technical regulatory and legal support, patent engineering, and standards management. Supporting key Verizon network and technology programs, Martin has participated in industry standards committees and forums for over 20 years, and is proactively contributing to initiatives at ITU-T SG 15, IEEE 802.3, FSAN, and ATIS. He is an IEEE member and IEEE 802.3 voting representative.
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Russell Davey (Optical design manager, BT Design)
He received an honours degree in physics from
Balliol College, Oxford in 1989; a PhD for his
research in mode-locked erbium fibre lasers from
Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK in 1992; and an
MSc in telecommunications engineering from
University College London in 2001.
He joined the R&D facility of British
Telecommunications at Martlesham near Ipswich (UK)
in 1994. He was heavily involved in the first
introduction and applications of WDM to the BT
network. Since 2001 he has managed BT’s R&D
activities in optical systems where his primary
interests are in future optical access systems. He
has also been participating in ITU-T and the Full
Service Access Network (FSAN) initiative since 2003. |
 Leopold Diouf
(Alcatel-Lucent)
After graduating with a Master of Science in
Computer Engineering from the Grenoble Instutute of
Science and Technology, Grenoble, France in 1990,
Leopold joined Cegelec (a then Alcatel subsidiary)
and worked on various projects including the
Eurotunnel (under see rail communication between
France and the UK).
In 1996, Leopold moved to the USA to support an
Alcatel wireless program with major US carriers
deploying TDMA and CDMA wireless technologies.
In 2000, Leopold joined the newly formed PON group
working on BPON and later transitioned GPON with
systems architecture project lead responsibilities.
In 2004, Leopold took responsibility in the wireline
access product management group of Alcatel-Lucent
and currently has worldwide responsibilities of the
Alcatel-Lucent GPON ONTs product line.
Leopold is Alcatel-Lucent representative to ITU and
FSAN. He is the product management lead for
Alcatel-Lucent next generation PON.
Leopold also holds an MBA degree from Regis
University, Colorado, USA and is a member of
Alcatel-Lucent Technology Academy. |
 Bernard Dugerdil
Bernard Dugerdil is working in the Telecommunication Industry for more than 30 years and is currently responsible to Coordinate Standards within Freescale Semiconductor (Freescale became a publicly traded company in July 2004 after more than 50 years as part of Motorola, Inc). Bernard is involved in Standards for more than 15 years. He is part of DSL Forum Technical committee leadership team (and one of the founder of DSL Forum), first contact for Freescale and active participant to ITU-T, member of ETSI Board of Director and member of HGI Board of Director. Bernard is also one of the founders of FTTH Council Europe. |
 Frank Effenberger (Huawei)
After completing his doctoral work in 1995, Dr.
Effenberger took a position with Bellcore (now
Telcordia) where he analyzed all types of access
network technologies, focusing on those that
employed passive optical networks. He witnessed the
early development of the FSAN initiative and the
development of the APON standard. In 2000, he moved
to Quantum Bridge Communications (now a part of
Motorola), where he managed system engineering in
their PON division. This work supported the
development and standardization of advanced optical
access systems based on B-PON and G-PON
technologies. In 2006, he became Director of FTTx in
the advanced technology department of Huawei
Technologies USA. He remains heavily involved in the
standards work, and is a leading contributor and
editor of the major PON standards in the ITU. In
addition, his work has turned towards more
forward-looking fiber access technologies, including
the 802.3av 10G EPON and ITU NGA topics. |
 Dave Faulkner
Dave Faulkner (ITU-T Q2/SG15 Rapporteur)
David Faulkner of “BT Group” has been a researcher in the field of access
networks with specialisation in PON systems since 1983 when he gained his
PhD in Electrical Engineering. From 1983- 2002 he lead a group in the area
of PON research. From 1998-2002 he led BT’s access networks research
programme. Since year 2000 he has been Rapporteur for ITU-T/SG15/Q2 on
“Fibre Systems for Access Networks”. From 2002-2005 he was BT’s Venture
Leader in access networks. He chairs the conference on Networks and Optical
Communications, is a member of the IEEE and holds 15 patents. He is studying
climate change issues with interest in ICTs and is promoting low energy
networks in BT and ITU-T. |
 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. |
 Yukihiro Fujimoto
Mr. Fujimoto joined NTT Telecommunication Networks Labs in 1990 where he had studied the fiber optic access network including optical access systems, cables and deployment scenarios. During 1997 – 1998, he stayed Lucent Technologies Bell lab (now a part of Alcatel- Lucent) in the Netherlands Huizen as a guest researcher to develop Pai-PON system, which is a STM-PON optical access system for telephony services. After finishing the commercial development of Pai-PON system, he had engaged to develop IEEE802.3ah specifications and GE-PON system for the commercial FTTH in NTT. Currently, he studies FTTH network enhancements and the next generation optical access. |
 Marek Hajduczenia
Marek Hajduczenia received his MSc in 2003 from
Technical University in Bialystok (electronics and
telecommunication) and PhD degree in
telecommunication from University of Coimbra in
2008. He is currently working at Nokia Siemens
Networks on projects connected with xPONs, data
security and optical networking. He is the Assistant
Editor for 802.3av PHY 10G-EPON Task Force and an
observer in IEEE 802.3ba 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s
Ethernet Task Force and participates in Full Service
Access Networks (FSAN) group. He is active also in
research area, with main research interests
including self-similar stochastic processes, control
management layer and security for optical access
networks, IPv4/IPv6 transition problems, optical
burst switching, Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation (DBA)
for xPON, Operation and Maintenance (OAM) in xPON
and Ethernet networks as well as Carrier Ethernet
systems. |
Makoto Kadowaki (NEC)
Makoto Kadowaki received his B.E. and M.E. degree in
electric engineering from Nagoya Institute of
Technology, Japan in 1984 and 1986, respectively.
Since joining to NEC in 1986, he has been engaged in
development on access network products.
He has been involved in development of standards in
the domestic standards organization (TTC). |
Junichi Kani
Senior Research Engineer, Optical Access Systems
Project, NTT Access Network service Systems
Laboratories.
He received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from
Waseda University, Tokyo, in 1994, 1996, and 2005,
respectively. In 1996, he joined NTT Laboratories,
where he has been engaged in R&D of optical
transmission systems and technologies for metro and
access applications, and has received five
conference awards. He has also been participating in
ITU-T and the Full Service Access Network (FSAN)
initiative since 2003. |
 Glen Kramer
Glen Kramer is chief scientist at Teknovus, Inc. Glen has done extensive research in areas of traffic management, quality of service, and fairness in access networks. His book Ethernet Passive Optical Networks has been published in English (McGraw-Hill, 2005) and Chinese (BUPT Press, 2007). Glen chairs the IEEE P802.3av “10 Gb/s EPON” task force and previously served as EPON protocol clause editor in IEEE 802.3ah "Ethernet in the First Mile" task force.
Prior to joining Teknovus, Glen worked at the Advanced Technology Lab at Alloptic, where he was responsible for design and performance analysis of PON scheduling protocols and was involved in prototyping the very first EPON system.
Dr. Kramer received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of California at Davis, where he was awarded an NSF grant to study next-generation broadband access networks. Glen has published and presented over 20 peer-reviewed papers and authored 11 patents.
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 Lowell Lamb
Lowell D. Lamb is the Chief Strategy Officer of
Teknovus, Inc., and has more than 10 years of
experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior
to Teknovus Lamb was the Director of PON Networks
for Terawave Communications, an optical access
company. Earlier in his career Lamb held positions
at SBC Laboratories, the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York, and was the Assistant Director of the Arizona
Fullerene Consortium at The University of Arizona in
Tucson, Arizona. Lamb has a Ph.D. in physics and is
the author of more than 20 publications and patents. |
 David Law
David Law is a Consultant Engineer at 3Com where has
worked on the specification and development of
Ethernet products since 1989. Throughout that time
he has been a member of the IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD
(Ethernet) Working Group where he has held a number
of positions including Task Force Editor and Chair
positions. He served as the Vice-Chair of IEEE 802.3
from 1996 until 2008 when he was elected to Chair of
IEEE 802.3. In 2004 he was appointed to the IEEE-SA
Standards Board review committee (RevCom) and in
2005 to the IEEE-SA Standards Board, the IEEE-SA
Standards Board patent committee (PatCom) and
IEEE-SA Standards Board procedures committee (ProCom).
In 2007 he served as Chair of PatCom and in 2008 he
is serving as Chair of RevCom. |
 David Li (Ligent, USA)
David Li is the Chief Technology Officer of Ligent
Photonics (USA) and Chief Scientist in Hisense
Broadband Multimedia Technologies. He received his
BSEE from Shandong University in 1984 and MSEE from
Beijing University of Areonautics and Astronautics
in 1987. He got the Doctor of Engineering degree
from University of Electronic Science and Technology
of China in 1990 and the Ph.D. from University of
Houston, respectively.
Prior to join Ligent in 2002, he held variety
positions as associate professor, principal design
engineer, technical supervisor, and director of
engineering in UESTC, CUHK, Texas Center for
Superconductivity, Epsilon Lambda Electronics, and
Molex Fiber Optics. He has been involved in the
design and manufacturing of the high-speed
electrical, optical modules and subsystems for more
than 20 years. Since 2000, David has been
participating the IEEE802.3ae/ IEEE802.3ah/
IEEE802.3av meetings actively. |
 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). |
 Hiroaki Mukai
Hiroaki Mukai received his B.E. and M.S. degree in
Electrical and Electronic Technology from Chiba
University, Japan in 1988 and 1990, respectively.
He joined Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan in
1990. Since 1990 to 2008 he was engaged in research
and development of optical communication system.
Particularly, since 1998, he has been engaged in
development of PON (Passive Optical Network)
systems. |
 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. |
 Thomas Pfeiffer
Thomas Pfeiffer is leading the optical access
systems research activities in Alcatel-Lucent Bell
Labs, and contributes to the standardisation efforts
at FSAN and ITU-T on Next Generation Optical Access
Networks. After finishing his PhD thesis in solid
state physics at the Max-Planck-Institute in
Stuttgart in 1986 he has joined former Alcatel,
investigating linear and nonlinear optical
transmission properties of fibres, developing fibre
amplifiers and mode locked lasers before he turned to
optical metro and access systems research in the
late 90ies. He has been involved in many research
and development projects dealing with various kinds
of optical access technologies like hybrid-fibre-cable
and -radio, optical code division multiplexing, GPON
and now NG-PON. |
Reinhard Scholl (ITU-T)
Reinhard Scholl is Deputy to the Director of the ITU-T Secretariat (TSB) since September 2002. Previously he has been with Siemens in Munich, Germany and with ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute). He received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois, USA.
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