VON Europe 2005 Conference and Expo - produced by pulver.com

VON Europe 2005 Expo Hours:
Tuesday May 24th: 6:30pm-8:30pm (with Welcome Reception)
Wednesday May 25th: 10am-4pm
Thursday May 26th: 10am-4pm
Crossing the Borders
Wednesday, May 25, 2005, 8:45am - 10:00am
What does it take for carriers to establish links between each other to connect IP Communications? Do Session Controllers solve the requirements or are other network to network interfaces desired? This panel discusses the security, commerce, and communication requirements for the borders.
· Do Session Controllers need their own standard?
· How are Session Controllers going to shape new markets?

Chris Celiberti, Director Advanced Services, NeuStar
Chris Celiberti works in the strategic technologies group at NeuStar, Inc. and is a telecommunications VoIP veteran focused on the OSS\BSS space. Chris has worked in positions including System Engineering, Product and Program Management and Business Development for several fortune 500 companies. Additionally, Chris has been an active participant in several global standards groups as well as an industry speaker.

Micaela Giuhat, AVP, Global Alliances, Netrake
Micaela Giuhat, Assistant Vice President of Global Alliances, Netrake Corporation, is responsible for developing strategic planning and development and partnerships for Netrake’s nCite Session Controller systems. She brings with her more than 20 years of experience designing and developing technology for voice and data networks in the telecommunications industry. Prior to joining Netrake, Ms. Giuhat held product management positions at Santera Systems, IEX Corporation and Newbridge Networks where she was responsible for creating and launching ATM, IP, Class 4/5, and frame relay technologies. Other experiences include system-engineering positions at Bell Northern Research (Nortel), TELRAD, BEZEK and Telecommunications Networks Enterprise.

Kevin Klett, Vice President, Product Management, Acme Packet
Kevin Klett joined Acme Packet from Lucent Technologies where he served as assistant vice president of Corporate Systems Engineering for the company's OPENet Division. At Lucent, he created and directed a global corporate systems engineering team to support sales of the company's Softswitch Solutions and the former Excel programmable converged service platforms. Mr. Klett joined Excel Switching in 1995 (acquired by Lucent in 1999) and served in systems engineering, engineering project management, protocol development, and support management. His background in engineering management, technical sales support, customer service, and product management – coupled with his understanding of converged network solutions, signaling, and telephony – brings a broad range of experience to Acme Packet. Mr. Klett holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications from the University of Connecticut.

Sridhar Ramachandran, Chief Technical Officer, NexTone Communications
Co-founded NexTone Communications in February of 1998, bringing to NexTone a wealth of technical and business background in the telecom and datacom industry. Ramachandran earned his Bachelors in Technology in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai (Madras), India. He has a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

NexTone Communications
NexTone develops carrier-grade products that provide scalable session management of voice over IP (VoIP) and other real-time services. NexTone's portfolio of core and edge session management technologies enables service providers and carriers to interconnect their voice networks in the most simple and cost effective way.