Speed Thrills
Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 10:30am - 12:30Ikanos and Metalink changed the industry by demonstrating 100 Mbps DSL at Fast Net 2004. They’ll be back as will their competitors in DSL, wireless cable. CableLabs has demonstrated 200 meg down 100 meg up for Brian Roberts at Comcast. 50 to 100 meg gear is shipping both DSL and cable in Korea and Japan and will soon be available worldwide. No blue sky here, technology is ready for mass deployment in the coming years.
Peter Chow, DSL CTO, DSP Systems, Texas InstrumentsDr. Peter Chow is the chief technology officer of Texas Instruments' DSL group, where he is responsible for the technology vision and definition of TI's DSL long term roadmap. Dr. Chow has previously held engineering, platform, and program management positions within TI's DSL Business Unit and Amati Communications, which was acquired by TI in 1997. In these roles, he managed the development team of TI's CO DSL products, coordinated hardware and software development for several major platforms, and supported TI's DSL customers.
Dr. Chow has a Ph.D. and a MSE in EE from Stanford University and a BS in EECS from Princeton University. He holds numerous patents relating to DSL and broadband technologies.
Ron Cates, VP, North American Sales & Marketing, MetalinkRon Cates is the Associate Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Metalink Broadband. Mr. Cates has been in the semiconductor industry for over 25 years and has held a number of executive level positions including Vice President and General Manger of the Broadband Access Business Unit at Conexant Systems and Vice President of World Wide Sales at Peregrine Semiconductor. He holds a B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and an MBA from San Diego State University.
Kris Shankar, VP, Product Line Management, Centillium CommunicationsKris Shankar is Vice President, Product Line Management of the xDSL Business Unit at Centillium Communications. Shankar has more than 15 years experience in the communications industry ranging from 64Kb/s Digital Loop Carriers to 2.4 Tb/s ultra-long haul optical transmission systems. He began his career at Bell Northern Research working on access products for the North American carrier space. He has held management positions at Fujitsu Network Communications and Ericsson developing next generation SONET, DSLAM & MSPP platforms. He also co-founded Metro-Optix, a maker of metro bandwidth management products.
Rajesh Vashist, President and Chief Executive Officer, IkanosMr. Vashist has extensive experience in leading rapidly growing, highly profitable, market-driven businesses in both the hardware and software sectors. He has developed businesses that generated high returns by building successful marketing and engineering teams, leveraging third-party relationships, and managing direct and indirect sales models. Prior to joining Ikanos, Vashist was general manager of the OEM Solutions Group at Adaptec, Inc., where, among other duties, he had profit-and-loss responsibility of about $400 million for the Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) Group. During his years in marketing management positions at Vitelic Semiconductor, a venture capital-funded startup, Vashist helped establish the company as the leader in the market for caching products. He started his marketing career at Samsung Semiconductor. Vashist holds a B.S. degree in engineering from Regional Engineering College (REC) Rourkela in India and an M.B.A. from Marquette University in Wisconsin.
