March 5-10, 2006
Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA, USA
Over the last 12 months, video has emerged as the
killer app for IP. According to a recent report
from Infonetics Research, IPTV subscribers are
increasing briskly and will top 53 million
worldwide by 2009. Additionally, subscriber growth
is strong in all regions, especially in Asia
Pacific. Technology experts from around the world
will converge at OFC/NFOEC next week to report on
and discuss the state of IPTV and its impact
worldwide.
As the largest and most comprehensive
international event for optical communications,
this year's combined OFC/NFOEC will host the
entire scope of optical communications, providing
exhibits, live demonstrations and educational
activities for all audiences.
Highlights: IPTV Educational Programming includes:
Tuesday, March 7 at 12:00 noon -- IPTV -- A
Business and Technical Overview. Hear experts
discuss the latest trends and developments in
IPTV. Confirmed speakers include:
- Ken Twist, Vice President, Access Technologies
& Vendor Strategies, Ovum RHK (moderator)
- Benoit Mercier, AVP of Marketing, Alcatel North
America
- Patrick Pfeffer, Chief Network Architect,
Detecon
- Thierry Fautier, Director Telco Solutions,
Harmonic
- Jacob Larsen, Director, Multimedia Network
Solutions, Lucent
- Chris Rice, Executive Vice President, Network
Planning & Engineering, AT&T
The panel will be held in room 201D of the Anaheim
Convention Center. OFC/NFOEC is hosting this event
exclusively for registered members of the press
and analyst community. RSVP to
leah@wilkinsonshein.com.
Special Session: Thursday, March 9, 2006 at
9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
Special Session: IP Video and Its Many
Implications, Featuring: Tony Werner, Senior
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer,
Liberty Global, Inc.
Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 5:50 p.m. - 6:10 p.m.
High-Availability in Multipoint to Multipoint
Ethernet for the Delivery of Triple Play Services,
Luis Aguirre-Torres, Gady Rosenfeld; Corrigent
Systems
Wednesday, March 8, 2006, 1:30 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.
Access Transport Network Technologies for IPTV
Distribution, Mohamed El-Sayed, Ying Hu,
Samrat V. Kulkarni, Newman Wilson; Lucent
Technologies
Thursday, March 9, 2006, 12:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Dimensioning of Active Broadcast Channels in
Access IPTV Network, Lev B. Sofman, Bill Krogfoss,
Anshul Agrawal; Alcatel USA
Registration for OFC/NFOEC 2006 has begun and can be accessed
here.