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.