POTS Telephony vs. VoIP Communications
Monday, January 24, 2005, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
The Carriers are being pressured by their investors to protect what they have, find new revenue and cut costs. Here the issue of what business the carrier is really in can be better explored.
· Does the term POTS include wireless and basic transport?
· What are the carriers facing as the usage patterns include more forms of communication than just voice?
· Should we consider WiFi / WiMax the loop of the future?
· What are the carriers’ big hurdles today?
Alan Bugos, Vice President of Engineering, iBasis
Alan R. Bugos, Vice President of Engineering at iBasis, Inc., is responsible for overseeing the engineering design, testing/evaluation, systems integration, and global deployment of iBasis' International Internet telephony network (PoPs), including interoperability, enhanced VoIP services and applications. Mr. Bugos has more than 15 years of hands-on experience in telecommunications, optical networking, data networking, and communications systems integration and has been involved in VoIP R&D and deployments since 1998. He was the recipient of GTE's highest technical merit award, the Warner Award for Technical Achievement in pioneering DSL data networks in 1997. He has published over 45 technical publications and received BS and MS Engineering degrees from the University of Tennessee - Knoxville.
Maurice Duault, Consulting Engineer, Cisco Systems
As part of Cisco Europe Middle East Africa Operations, Maurice is driving the EMEA Service Provider business and residential VoIP architecture activity.
A graduate of the Ecole Superieure d'Electricite, he initiated a data voice integration architecture program for an international Service Provider, and participated in significant software developments of broadband switches and communication controllers. He has been very active in ATM Forum, ETSI, and ITU, edited an ATM Forum specification on Voice and Telephony over ATM, and is IEEE senior member.
Michael Haberler, Chairman, Internet Foundation Austria
Michael Haberler is currently chairman of Internet Foundation Austria, the registry for .at domain names. He holds degrees in communications and electronics, and business administration, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University.
He established and led the first commercial ISP in Austria in 1991 to a size of 90 people, helped consolidate european ISP's into Eunet International Ltd, and was a instrumental in the sale of Eunet to Qwest Communications. He also co-founded the Austrian ISP Association, Internet Foundation Austria, the nic.at registry, the enum.at ENUM registry, and is on the board of several hi-tech companies, and in the investment committee of a venture capital firm.
Maurice Malka, Managing Director, Telecom Services International SA
Maurice Malka, Eng. Polytechnique, MBA, is the founder & Chairman Telecom Services International-TSI based in Geneva. He leads the developement of the "Genius Pass eXchange" for interactive IP services and operates an open settlement protocol-OSP Clearinghouse based on the ETSI standard . He has been active in VoIP wholesale exchanges for the past 6 years prior to launching TSI's VoIP Clearinghouse in London.
He operated prepaid calling cards and call-back services for 12 years. Having received Bell System training, he was CTO of BCE's central office equipment (developed Nortel’s DMS and strategic plans for Telcos). He also performs due diligence for investors. He modernized the networks of many carriers' Governments, Hospitals and Enterprise. He co-wrote Peat Marwick's report on the impact of Competion in Canada (technology developement, job creation, strategic position, etc), and intervenes at various regulatory boards in Americas and in Europe
Alan Nunn, Chief Voice Architect, BT
Alan Nunn has worked in BT for 17 years and currently works in BT Group CTO as Chief Voice Architect, responsible for setting the future direction of BT's voice networks. He deals primarily with technology and strategic issues around Voice and Broadband. Prior to this he was responsible for end to end design of BT's 0800 platform and migration of service to it. He was previously the designer for Geographic Number Portability in BT. He has a first class honours degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
