The Fast Net
Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 9:00am - 10:15amTwo days to change your understanding of what working on the Net will be as speeds increase dramatically. Conference Chair Dave Burstein gets to talk as a reporter to some of the most interesting people in the world about what our work will be. Once a year Dave brings some of the best together for two days to exchange ideas with each other. In 2003 we learned fiber was ready to go home; today Verizon and NTT are deploying millions of lines. In 2004 we had the world's first demonstration of DSL at 100 megabits and presentations of how cable will go that fast and more. This year we'll introduce the technology and center on what's going to happen on the Net, especially the IP video that anyone who came to Fast Net the last two years knew would be ready to explode today.
Dave Burstein, Editor, DSL PrimeDave Burstein editor of DSL Prime the industry newsletter for DSL.
Author of the book "DSL a Wiley Tech Brief" published by John Wiley and Sons and Chair of Fast Net Futures now in it's third year. Burstein consults on DSL strategies, technology, and telecom policy.
Hank Kafka, Chief Architect, BellSouthAs Chief Architect for BellSouth, Hank Kafka is responsible for drawing the future technology roadmap for voice, data, video, and wireless in the core network, the access network, and the premises network. He has 25 years of experience in telecommunications, focused on identifying key emerging technologies, shaping them to meet customer and service provider needs, and pushing the best of them from the lab into the network. At Bell Labs he developed data communications and video technologies for telecom products. At Johnson Controls he applied voice and data services to meet business application needs for local, regional, and global networks. At BellSouth he has been driving the technology behind the transformation to a converged data-centric network architecture, including leading the world’s first field deployment of a standards-based PON.
Nikos Theodosopoluos, Wireline Equipment and Data Networking Analyst, UBSNikos Theodosopoulos is a managing director in the technology group of UBS Warburg Equity Research. An analyst since 1994, Mr. Theodosopoulos specializes in the wireline telecommunications equipment and data networking sectors. He has been ranked on Institutional Investor’s All-American Team for six consecutive years. In 2001, Mr. Theodosopoulos ranked number three in the data networking category and was runner-up in wireline equipment on Institutional Investor’s All-American Research Team. Prior to joining UBS Warburg, Mr. Theodosopoulos was the senior telecommunications equipment analyst at Bear Stearns & Co. Before that, he held several technical, marketing and sales positions at AT&T and Bell Laboratories.
