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Biographies |
Ghani Abbas, Ericsson/Rapporteur, Q9/15
Ghani Abbas has spent over twenty years in SDH and Optical Networks
business, initially with GPT, Marconi and recently with Ericsson, UK. He
is currently international standards Consultant in Optical Networks
product strategy department. He previously held various engineering
development and management posts. He is currently the rapporteur for
ITU-T SG15 Q9, which develops standards for transport network equipment
and network protection and restoration. He is an active member of
IEEE802.3, OIF, ITU SG13 and SG15.
Ghani received B.Sc (Honour) from Manchester University in Electrical
Engineering and Ph.D degree in Electronics from Southampton University,
UK. |
 Jon Anderson, Opnext
Jon Anderson (janderson@opnext.com) is Director of Technology Programs at
Opnext, responsible for advanced technologies and standards development.
Prior to joining Opnext in 2002, he was with Lucent Bell Laboratories
where he held various technical staff and management positions and
worked on optical technologies, network and systems architecture,
advanced systems development and standards. He earned a Ph.D in Nuclear
Engineering from MIT, a M.S in Mathematics from RPI and a B.S. in
Nuclear Engineering from Oregon State University. |
 Pete Anslow, Ciena
Pete Anslow is the Associate Rapporteur of Q.6/15, is the Liaison
Rapporteur for SG15 to IEEE 802.3 on 40 and 100 Gbit/s Ethernet and was
the Chair of the Optical Sub-task Force of IEEE 802.3ba.
After graduating in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College London,
Pete worked for Racal on VHF radio design for 3 years before joining
STC’s Harlow Labs in 1980. He worked there on Optical transmission
technology for submarine systems until STC was taken over by Nortel and
the lab changed focus to terrestrial optical systems in 1994. Pete
became the leader of the Optical Physical Layer Advanced Technology
Group from 2003 to the end of 2004 when he changed role to participate
in optical standards full time, transitioning to Ciena in March 2010
with their acquisition of Nortel’s Optical business. |
Steve Carlson, High Speed Design/Chairman P802.3bf
Steven B. Carlson is the President of High Speed Design, Inc., a Portland,
Oregon-based consulting company. Mr. Carlson has over 30 years
experience in embedded control systems and networking for the
entertainment industry. He currently serves as the Chair of the IEEE
P802.3bf Time Sync Task Force and is the Executive Secretary of the IEEE
802.3 Ethernet Working Group. Mr. Carlson served as the Chair of IEEE
802.3af DTE Power via MDI project, usually referred to as “Power over
Ethernet,” and was a founder of the Entertainment Services and
Technology Association’s Technical Standards Program. |
Martin Carroll, Verizon
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 28 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, Ethernet Alliance, and ATIS. He is an IEEE
member and IEEE 802.3 voting representative. |
Chris Cole, Finisar
Chris Cole is a director at Finisar Corp., Sunnyvale, Calif. He received
a B.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics, and B.S. and M.S. in Electrical
Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At Hughes
Aircraft Co. (now Boeing SDC,) and then M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory, Chris
contributed to multiple imaging and communication satellite programs.
Later, he consulted on telecom ICs for Texas Instruments’ DSP Group and
Silicon Systems Inc. (now Teridian.) At Acuson Corp. (now Siemens
Ultrasound,) Chris was one of the architects of the Sequoia coherent
imaging ultrasound platform, where he was also director of hardware and
software development groups. As a principal consultant with the Parallax
Group, he carried out signal processing analysis and product definition
for several imaging and communication systems. Chris is now managing the
development of 40-Gb/s and 100-Gb/s LAN and WAN optical transceivers at
Finisar (which acquired his previous company, Big Bear Networks.) He is
a Senior Member of the IEEE. |
John D'Ambrosia, Force 10/Chairman IEEE P802.3ba task force
As the Director for Ethernet-based Standards in the CTO Office at Force10
Networks, John D’Ambrosia leads the company's involvement in industry
groups. John has been an active participant in the development of
Ethernet-related technologies since 1999. At the present time, he is the
chair of the IEEE P802.3ba Task Force, which is driving the standards
development process for 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s Ethernet. John served as
secretary for the IEEE 802.3ap Backplane Ethernet Task Force, and
participated in the development of XAUI for 10 Gigabit Ethernet. John is
a founder of the Ethernet Alliance and has served as a director and
secretary. John was the chair of the XAUI Interoperability work group
for the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance. For all of his efforts related to
Ethernet, John was recognized by Network World in 2006, as part of its
“50 Most Powerful People in Networking” list. John also acted as
secretary for the High Speed Backplane Initiative and chair of the
Optical Internetworking Forum's Market Awareness & Education committee.
Prior to joining Force10, John was with Tyco Electronics for 17 years. |
 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 standards work, and has been the leading
contributor and editor of the major PON standards in the ITU. In 2008,
he became the chairman of ITU-T Q2/15 – the group that creates standards
for optical access systems. He and his team work on forward-looking
fiber access technologies, including the 802.3av 10G EPON and ITU XG-PON
topics. Notably, his team supported the world’s first field trial of
XG-PON. Currently, his attention is focused on the extensions beyond 10G
PON technology to address higher speed, wider split, and longer reach. |
 Jean-Loup Ferrant, Calnex,
Ericsson
Jean-Loup Ferrant (jean-loup.ferrant@calnexsol.com), graduated from INPG
Grenoble (France), joined Alcatel in 1975 and worked on analog systems,
PCM and digital cross-connects. He has been working on SDH
synchronization since 1990 and on SDH and OTN standardization for more
than 15 years in ETSI TM1, TM3 and ITU-T SG13 and SG15. He has been
rapporteur of SG15 Q13 on network synchronization since year 2001. He
was one of the Alcatel-Lucent experts on synchronization in transport
networks until he retired in March 2009. He is still rapporteur of SG15
Q13, sponsored by Calnex. |
Geoffrey Garner, Samsung
Geoffrey M. Garner (gmgarner@alum.mit.edu) is a consultant in
telecommunications, specializing in network timing, jitter, and
synchronization; network performance and quality of service; standards
development; and related modeling and simulation. He currently consults
for Samsung Electronics on timing and synchronization for Audio/Video
Bridging (AVB) networks. He has been a consultant since 2003; other
current work includes simulation of timing performance for new OTN
clients and development of related standards in ITU-T Q13/15, for Huawei
Technologies. He is editor of IEEE P802.1AS, and is a member of the IEEE
Registration Authority Committee. Prior to 2003, he was a Distinguished
Member of Technical Staff in Bell Labs Lucent Technologies. 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. |
Adam Healey, LSI
Adam Healey is a Distinguished Engineer at LSI Corporation where he
supports the development and standardization of high speed serial
interface products. Prior to joining Lucent Microelectronics in 2000,
Adam worked for University of New Hampshire’s InterOperability Lab where
he developed many of the test procedures and systems used to verify
interoperability, performance, and compliance to standards of 10, 100,
and 1000 Mb/s Ethernet products. During his tenure at Lucent
Microelectronics, which later became Agere Systems and then LSI
Corporation, Adam was involved in wide variety of projects including
channel modeling and equalization strategies for high speed optical and
electrical links, transcoding and error correction coding subsystems,
and transport networking architecture. Adam is a member of the IEEE and
regular contributor to the development of industry standards through his
work in the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet working group and INCITS T11.2 Fibre
Channel Physical Variants task group. Adam was chairman of the IEEE
P802.3ap Task Force chartered to develop the standard for Ethernet
operation over electrical backplanes at speeds of 1 and 10 Gb/s and
currently secretary of the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working Group. Adam has
also previously served a technical committee chairman and Vice President
of Technology for the Ethernet Alliance. Adam received B.S. [‘95] and
M.S. [‘00] degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of New
Hampshire. |
Bilel Jamoussi, ITU/Chief, Study Groups Department
Dr. Bilel Jamoussi is Chief of the Study Groups Department at the ITU
Telecommunication Standardization Bureau in Geneva where he is
responsible for the organization and management of the ITU-T Study
Groups, Global Standardization Initiatives, Joint Coordination
Activities, Focus Groups, and the secretariat comprising Counsellors and
Assistants. For the past 15 years he has been with Nortel where he has
held several leadership roles including Strategic Standards, Advanced
Technology, Software Development for routing/switching platforms, and
Data Network Engineering of major international customer networks. As
Director of the Strategic Standards organization within the office of
the Chief Technical Officer (CTO), Bilel provided strategic technology
direction and leadership for Nortel’s involvement in more than 90
standards development organizations, forums and consortia. He led
Nortel's Green ICT standards game plan and has been a member of the
Scientific Committee of the Green Telco World Congress 2009.
An experienced standards professional, Bilel was an elected member of
the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Board of Governors and the
IEEE-SA Corporate Advisory Group (CAG). He served on the IEEE Standards
Education Committee, the IEEE-SA Nominations and Appointments Committee,
the IEEE-SA BOG International ad hoc, and the Technical Liaison from
IEEE-SA to ITU-T and ITU-D.
Bilel contributes to the innovation and advancement of technology in the
ICT Field. He has 22 granted and filed US patents in diverse areas:
packet, optical, wireless, and quality of service.
Email: bilel.jamoussi@itu.int |
Vinod Kumar, Tejas Networks
Mr. Vinod Kumar received his B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering
from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2003. Subsequently,
he completed his post graduation in Telecommunication from the Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2005. Since then he is with Tejas
Networks Ltd. working in Standards and Technologies Team. His primary
focus is Optical Transport systems, Protection Switching, Quality of
Service, Traffic Engineering, Networking Algorithms, Wireless Backhaul
for 2G, 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi and mobile-WiMax, L2-L3 interworking, IP/MPLS, and
Carrier-Ethernet. Towards this end, he has applied for several patents.
Mr. Vinod Kumar has made several contributions towards IEEE 802.1Qbf.
His other areas of interest are Synchronization, TDM-Ethernet Circuit
Emulation Service, Data-Centre Bridging, Virtualization and
Load-balancing. |
 David Law, 3Com/Chairman, IEEE 802.3 WG
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 Ethernet
Working Group where he has held a number of leadership positions. He
served as the Vice-Chair of IEEE 802.3 from 1996 to 2008 and in 2008 was
elected to Chair of IEEE 802.3. David has been a member of the IEEE-SA
Standards Board since 2005, has served as the Chair of IEEE-SA Standards
Board Review Committee (RevCom) since 2008 and is also currently serving
as the Chair of the IEEE Standards Education Committee. In 2000 he
received the IEEE-SA Standards Medallion for 'leadership and technical
contributions to Ethernet networking standards' and in 2009 he received
the IEEE Standards Association Standards Board Distinguished Service
award 'For long term service to improve the operation and integrity of
IEEE-SA governance'.
David has a BEng (hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from
Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland. |
Yoichi Maeda, NTT/Chairman, ITU-T SG15
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 2009-2012 study period in
October 2008 at WTSA-08 for his second term. He is a Fellow 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). |
Satoshi Narikawa, NTT
Satoshi Narikawa received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical and
electronic engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan,
in 2001 and 2003, respectively.
In 2003, he joined the NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories,
Japan, where he was engaged in research on innovative optical
multiplexing systems for access applications. Since 2007, he has been
engaged in research and development on next-generation wide-area
Ethernet services. He actively participates in standardization meetings
of ITU-T SG15. Currently, he is an acting co-editor of ITU-T G.8032. |
Michel Ouellette, Huawei
Michel Ouellette (michel.ouellette@huawei.com) is a Technical Advisor in
Huawei’s IP Network Solutions and Clock Lab, where he focuses on mobile
backhaul networks and the development and analysis of packet network
architectures/protocols for accurate frequency and phase/time
distribution. He participates in ITU-T and IEEE 802.3 standardization.
Prior to joining Huawei, Michel spent 12 years at Nortel focusing on
ATM/TDM pseudowires, Synchronous Ethernet, clock algorithms for base
stations, TCP/IP active queue management and ATM switching. Michel has
been granted ten patents and has published several international journal
papers. Michel received B.A.Sc and M.A.Sc from the University of Ottawa
(Canada) in 1995 and 1997 and l’Ecole Nationale Superieure des
Telecommunications (France). |
Panos Saltsidis, Ericsson
Panagiotis Saltsidis is holding a PhD in High Energy Theoretical Physics
from the University of Stockholm and has worked as a Post Doc in String
Theory at the University of Cambridge during 1998-2001. He joined
Ericsson in 2001 working in Optical Networks research. Since 2002 he
works in Ericsson Research on Ethernet Standardization and has been
Ericsson’s MEF and IEEE802.1 standards coordinator. He has been one of
the main contributors on a number of Ethernet standards including
Connectivity Fault Management, Provider Backbone Bridges, Multiple
Registration Protocol, Two-Port MAC Relay, Data Driven and Data
Dependent CFM and others. He is the sole editor of the IEEE 802.1Qay
Provider Backbone Bridges – Traffic Engineering and holds twenty patents
in the Metro Ethernet domain. Panagiotis is currently holding a Senior
Specialist position on Ethernet Switching and is coordinating Ericsson’s
standards activities within IEEE802.1. |
 Jessy Rouyer, Alcatel-Lucent/Co-Editor
Jessy Rouyer (jessy.rouyer@alcatel-lucent.com) has been a member of the
Optics Division Chief Technology Office at Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc.
since 2008, having first joined the research center of Alcatel USA, Inc.
in 2000 and later Bell Labs. During his 10+ year career, he has worked
on the research, specification, and software development of high-speed
optical routing and carrier-grade Ethernet equipment solutions. He has
authored or co-authored 12 pending or awarded U.S. patents related to
Ethernet bridging, OAM and protection. He has been an active member of
IEEE 802.1 since 2003 and ITU-T Q9/15 since 2008 where he has
contributed in particular to the standardization of xSTP, G.8032 and
G.8031. In 2009, he became co-editor of ITU-T Rec. G.8031 Ethernet
Linear Protection Switching. He holds M.S. and B.S. degrees in computer
networks and systems from Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France. |
Stefano Ruffini, Calnex, Ericsson/Q13/15 Associate Rapporteur
Stefano Ruffini (stefano.ruffini@ericsson.com) - Expert R&D; Research &
Innovation, Ericsson. Joined Ericsson in 1993 and has been working on
Synchronization aspects for about 15 years. Has represented Ericsson in
various standardization organizations (including ETSI, ITU, 3GPP, IETF)
and is currently actively contributing to ITU-T SG15 Q13 (serving as
associate rapporteur and editor) and IETF TICTOC. Is one of the Ericsson
experts involved in the definition of the equipment and network
synchronization solutions. |
 Henk Steenman, Amsterdam Internet Exchange
Henk Steenman is working as CTO at the Amsterdam Internet Exchange since
2001. Before he worked among others at AT&T (Solutions and Labs) and
SURFnet in various network design, architecture and management roles. |
 Bob Sultan, Huawei
Bob Sultan (bsultan@huawei.com) is a member of Huawei Technologies’
Advanced Technology Division where he works on Ethernet Transport and
Data Center Switching. Bob is currently the editor of IEEE 802.1Qbf
PBB-TE Infrastructure Segment Protection and was previously a clause
editor for IEEE 802.17 Resilient Packet Ring. He worked for a number of
years at Fujitsu Network Communications where he designed control
software for the FLASH-150 ADM. Bob worked for many years at the IBM
T.J. Watson Research Center on SNA, routing, and broadband switching
products. He spent four years at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
where he designed control software for IBM’s Campus ATM switching
product. Bob holds a BS degree from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and an MS degree in Computer Science from Pennsylvania State
University. |
Mike Teener, Broadcom
Michael Johas Teener is currently a Senior Technical Director at
Broadcom with major responsibilities for time-sensitive and high
performance/low cost network technologies. From 2002 until 2004 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 IEEE Std 1394-1995, the originator and editor of
IEEE Std 1394b -2002 gigabit/long distance supplement, and the chair and
editor of IEEE Std 1394c-2006 gigabit/CAT5 supplement.
Mr. Johas Teener has a BS from Caltech, an MS from UCLA, and holds 29
patents (and over 20 more in process), mostly related to telecom,
FireWire, and audio/video networking. 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. |
 Steve Trowbridge, Alcatel-Lucent/WP3/15 Chairman
Dr. Stephen J. Trowbridge is a Consulting Member of Technical Staff (CMTS)
at Alcatel-Lucent. He received his BS (EE&CS), MS (CS), and Ph.D. (CS)
from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He joined Bell Laboratories –
AT&T (now Alcatel-Lucent) in September 1977. He has been active in
optical networking standardization since 1995. He is vice-chair of ITU-T
TSAG, chairman of ITU-T Working Party 3/15 (responsible for OTN
standards including G.709), chairman of the ATIS COAST-OHI working
group, and a member of the IEEE P802.3ba editorial team. |
 Vijay Vusirikala, Google
Vijay Vusirikala is currently Optical Network Architect at Google. Prior
to Google, Vijay was at Infinera, Motorola and Sycamore Networks in
senior marketing, business development and architecture roles working on
optical networks and systems ranging from backbone core to access
networks. Vijay has published extensively, spoken at numerous industry
events, and holds seven patents in optical devices and systems. He
obtained a Ph.D from the University of Maryland, College Park in
optoelectronic integration, and a BSEE from IIT, Madras in India. |
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