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Photonics Briefing #14
Optical Networking Interoperability
July 25, 2001
9am to 12:30pm
Boston University Photonics Center, Boston, MA
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Chairman: TBA
Optical Networking Interoperability
Photonics Briefing Objective
Optical networks are being developed by a large number of manufacturers with different specifications and interfaces. Several standards organizations such as IETF and the OIF are developing systems operability standards. This briefing will review the present state of these standards, problems being addressed, recent interoperability trials, and the timescale of when interoperability standards will be available.
Until standards are developed, opportunities exist for new start ups to fill the void left by the absence of standards for the interconnection of networks. These opportunities will be discussed by some of the speakers.
Who should be interested:
Executives from the following companies
- CLECs
- Component Suppliers
- Competitive Local exchange carriers
- Long Distance Carriers
- Telephone Companies
- Systems Suppliers
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- Entrepreneurs
- Consultants
- Venture Capitalists
- Investors
- CATV Companies
- Integrated Service
- Providers
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Contents
- Overview of Optical Networks and the Need for Interoperability -
Dr. Paul Polishuk, President and CEO, IGI Consulting
- Soothing the Pain of Provisioning Across Multi-Vendor Optical Networks -
Mike Goldner, Senior Product Manager, Emperative
- Switched Optical Networks -
Kenneth Stephens, Bell South
- Optical Uni: OIS Update -
Amy Copley, Senior Product Manager, Sycamore Networks
- The State of High-Speed Communications: Connecting Global Networks -
Bob Fisher, Universal Access
Photonics Center at Boston University
The Photonics Center was launched by Boston University in 1994 as a new model for university-industry collaboration. The Center accelerates the development of new products and companies enabled by emerging photonics technologies, from both within and outside Boston University, by forging business partnerships with new and existing companies. It has created an infrastructure that provides its partners access to seventeen fully permitted laboratories containing more than $25 million in state-of-the-art capital equipment in an $85 million, fully-permitted facility. Partners also have access to a full-time technical staff, and the expertise of more than 50 affiliated faculty with a wide range of technical and business expertise. The Photonics Center’s combined education, research, and commercialization mission positions it to anticipate the impact and timing of photonics technologies on major markets such as telecommunications.
BU Photonics Center
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