Richard A. Steenbergen, nLayer Communications, Moderator
Greg Hankins, Force10 Networks; Drew Perkins, Infinera; Igor Gashinsky, Yahoo!; Lane Patterson, Equinix
A debate over the merits of 40G vs 100G technology. Still assembling panelists, but would expect to see some major vendor and customer proponents on both sides, as well as some "neutral" third parties to discuss the difficulties at the optical and ASIC layers.
Bios:
Richard Steenbergen is the Co-Founder of nLayer Communications, where he currently serves as Chief Technical Officer and devotes a significant amount of time to the strategic management of peering and transit relationships. Previously, he served as a Sr. Network Engineer for several large NSPs, and was the Sr. Software Engineer responsible for developing optimized routing technologies at netVmg, Inc.
Igor Gashinsky is a principal architect at Yahoo!, a global content provider, where he is involved in projects ranging from overall network design (including highly resilient switching and routing architecture, peering, MPLS, L4-7 loadbalancing), as well as scalable content delivery methodologies and DNS architecture.
Greg Hankins is Director, Technical Marketing for Force10 Networks. He is responsible for working with ISPs and IXs around the world as a consulting engineer and product evangelist.
Drew Perkins serves as founder and CTO for Infinera. Previously, Mr. Perkins was a founder of and served as the CTO for both OnFiber Communications and Lightera Networks. OnFiber developed some of the world's largest metro DWDM networks and recently merged with Qwest Communications. Lightera developed the CoreDirector optical switch and merged with Ciena. The CoreDirector is currently deployed at many of the world's tier 1 carriers. Mr. Perkins has also served as Vice Chairman of the Optical Internet working Forum (OIF) Technical Committee from its inception through its first year of operation. Mr. Perkins was the principal architect of numerous TCP/IP, ATM, Ethernet hardware and software products and protocols at FORE Systems, Inc. Throughout his career, Mr. Perkins has participated extensively in standards bodies including the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), IEEE, ATM Forum, OIF and ANSI. Mr. Perkins has 25 years of industry involvement and is well known for authoring the PPP Protocol, which continues to be one of the standard that is used to link the Internet together.
Link to the Presentations:
Introduction
Richard Steenbergen
Greg Hankins
Drew Perkins
Igor Gashinsky
Lane Patterson
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