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  BROADNETS 2005 Panels

 


Industrial Panel: Wireless Broadband 
Moderator: Dr. Craig J. Mathias [Farpoint Group]
Duration: October 5, 2005, Wednesday, 15:30-17:00pm
     
Academic Panel: Roles for Optical and Wireless in Tomorrow's Broadband Service Networks
Moderators: Dr. Surendar Chandra [Univ. of Notre Dame] and Dr. Rudra Dutta [NCSU]
Duration: October 6, 2005, Thursday, 15:30-17:00pm
    

Industrial Panel

Title: Wireless Broadband
Moderator: Dr. Craig J. Mathias [Farpoint Group]
Duration: October 5, 2005, Wednesday, 15:30-17:00pm
Panelists Dr. Dev Gupta [Founder and Chairman, NewLANS]
Fanny Mlinarsky [Founder and CTO, Azimuth Systems]
Pierre Humblet [VP of Advanced Technology, Airvana, Inc.]
Dr. Asa Kalavade [Founder and CTO, Tatara Systems]
Abstract: "Wireless Broadband" used to be an oxymoron, and not too long ago. With the accelerating pace of innovation, and more talented engineers working (on a global basis) in the field, we're seeing new broadband developments across the entire spectrum of wireless products and services - PANs, LANs, MANs, and WANs. This panel will include presentations on some of the most interesting areas of broadband wireless, as well as ample time for questions, discussion, and debate.
    

Academic Panel

Title: Roles for Optical and Wireless in Tomorrow's Broadband Service Networks
Moderators: Dr. Surendar Chandra [Univ. of Notre Dame] and Dr. Rudra Dutta [NCSU]
Duration: October 6, 2005, Thursday, 15:30-17:00pm
Panelists TBD
Abstract: This panel will address the broad theme of how optical and wireless technology will play into what roles in the planetary network of the near future. Some researchers feel that the planetary network of tomorrow will be bimodal, with high performance optical networks and high flexibility wireless networks complementing each other. However, not everybody agrees on where the split between the two will occur. Recently, access networks have been seen as an arena in which the two are clearly competing. With the development of wider area wireless models such as 802.16, the technology of choice in community area or metro area networks is also being called into question. The panel will address this question from various points of view such as research, current or near-term technology, standardization, etc. Since the function of such networks is being seen more and more in the light of providing services, the panel will also discuss any impact that services and middleware considerations have on this issue.

We envisage the format to be as follows: some brief introductory remarks (5-10 minutes) from each panelist, probably without any slides or visuals, then a period of raising some questions with each panelist responding, and finally an open questions period from the audience, again addressed by the panelists.