Keynote Speakers
KEYNOTE 1: Dynamic Converged Optical Network Architectures
September 15, 2009 [Tuesday] 9:30 - 11:00 AM
Speaker: Ioannis Tomkos, Professor, Athens Information Technology, Greece
Abstract: A fundamental challenge at this point of optical networking evolution, is to develop novel unifying technologies and solutions that are controlled by an intelligent control and management plane and achieve convergence in multiple levels of the network operation (i.e. access / metro / core network segments, optical / wireless technology domains, optical / network / service layer integration, optical circuit / burst / packet switching paradigms, single / multiple domain networks), thus reaching an optical infrastructure that will enable optimum and efficient end-to-end service delivery with the required performance guarantees.
The presentation will address solutions for achieving this converged framework. Emphasis will be given on the activities of relevant EU research projects from which recent results will be highlighted.
Speaker Biography: Dr. Ioannis Tomkos has the rank of Full Professor at Athens Information Technology Center, where he serves as its Associate Dean (since 2004) and is an Adjunct Faculty at the Information Networking Institute of Carnegie-Mellon University, USA. In the past (1999 - 2002) he held a senior scientist position at Corning Inc. USA. He joined AIT in 2002 where he founded and serves as the Head of the "High Speed Networks and Optical Communication (NOC)" Research Group that was/is involved in many EU funded research projects (including 5 running and 2 accepted FP7 projects) within which Dr. Tomkos is representing AIT as Principal Investigator and has a consortium-wide leading role (e.g. Project Leader of the EU ICT STREP project DICONET, Project Leader of the EU ICT STREP project ACCORDANCE, Technical Manager of the EU IST STREP project TRIUMPH, Chairman of the EU COST 291 project, WP leader in many other projects).
KEYNOTE 2: Towards an Integrated Optical and Wireless Access Architecture
September 16, 2009 [Wednesday] 9:30 - 11:00 AM
Speaker: Juan Pedro Fernández-Palacios Giménez, Project Manager, Telefonica I+D
Abstract: A huge traffic growth is expected in the metro and core network through new FTTH and mobile broadband access connections (e.g. LTE). The network costs of current architectures strongly depend on traffic growth: the higher the traffic, the higher the network costs. Such a cost increase could impact on the ISP's margins. Therefore, new architectural solutions able to face with the huge expected traffic increase in a more cost-effective way will be needed in order to assure a low cost broadband Internet access. The presentation will focus on the migration steps to be taken towards an end-to-end network architecture able to absorb the expected traffic increase while minimizing transport costs.
Speaker Biography: Juan Pedro Fernández-Palacios Giménez graduated with a degree of Telecommunications Engineering from Polytechnic University of Valencia. In September of 2000 he joined Telefonica I+D where he has been working on the design and planning of optical networks within Telefonica Group. Currently he is Project Manager in the Division of Network Planning and Techno-Economic Evaluation of Telefonica I+D.