100+ Years vs. 10+ Years
Tuesday, January 25, 2005, 11:15am - 12:00
The traditional network supports services that the government has seen as important ,such as emergency services, wiretapping, and lifeline services. Should VoIP be subsidizing these activities in the same way? Or should new structures be put in place?
· How have the requirements changed thanks to wireline and wireless?
· What is the expectation for integration technology?
· Are the differences in the countries’ standards forcing delays?
· Will a common infrastructure be needed? How should it be paid for?
Bertrand Chauvet, International Business Development Director, NetCentrex
Bertrand Chauvet, Director of International Business Development at NetCentrex, has over 18 years’ experience in the voice processing and telecoms industry. Prior to joining NetCentrex, Mr. Chauvet was responsible for IP Telephony Business Development and Strategic Marketing for Intel in their Communications division for EMEA. He has also held management positions at Elan, a text-to-speech company, and Acsys, a voice recognition company. His current responsibilities at NetCentrex include the management of NetCentrex’ Business Consulting Services and Consultants, a department which delivers advanced business cases and service strategies to service providers. He is currently driving NetCentrex’ launch strategies for 3G and Fixed-Mobile convergence services.
Lawrence Conroy, Senior Systems Architect, Telecommunications, Siemens
Lawrence has worked in computing and networking for over 25 years. He has been involved on a wide range of projects, starting with system definition of a Battlefield telecommunications, distributed computing systems and the early days of commercial IP networking. Since then he has focused on computer support for communications, with development of CTI systems, Intelligent Network service design, and over 10 years work on Internet based personal communications architecture. He is active in ETSI TIPHON and the IETF, and has authored several RFCs. His current interests lie in ENUM (he has been heavily involved in the UK ENUM Trial) and expanding the use of ENUM deployments beyond pure SIP routing.
Jonathan Christensen, CTO and VP of Products, FaceTime Communications
Jonathan Christensen leads FaceTime's technology efforts developing solutions for secure IP communications. Christensen brings more than a decade of experience helping shape strategy for the growth of IP communications for world class organizations such as Microsoft Corporation and Time Warner. At Microsoft Christensen lead program management for the company’s Real Time Communications group and delivered the first generation of its SIP based products. Prior to joining Microsoft Corporation, Christensen held management positions at Time Warner, pioneering commercial Internet services including access, hosting, and Web design. While at Time Warner, Jonathan was instrumental in bringing to market the first generation of consumer broadband services. Mr. Christensen has a Master of Business Administration from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a Bachelor of Arts in Law and Society from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Richard Stastny, Senior Analyst, Telekom Austria
Richard has over 30 years of experience in computing, switching, signalling, numbering and networking. He was involved in the adaption of digital switching systems (DMS-100 and EWSD) for the Austrian market and also in the introduction of OAM and billing systems within Telekom Austria. He is participating actively in various international standard bodies, e.g. ETSI SMG, TMN, TISPAN, VISIONng, ITU-T SG2 and IETF. In the last years he was responsible in OeFEG for the convergence of NGN networks, the migration to IP based networks, VoIP and ENUM. In this role he was involved in ITU-T regarding the 878 country code for UPT and the recent ENUM related recommendations, also in ETSI TISPAN and the IETF. He is also the chair of the Austrian ENUM Forum.
