Keynote 1: Brother, Can You Spare a Gigabit?: Ethernet in Tough Economic Times
Wednesday, February 24th, 11:20am-Noon
 Brad Booth
Founder and Board of Directors Chair
Ethernet Alliance
Brad Booth is a Founder of the Ethernet Alliance and the Chair of its Board of Directors. The Ethernet Alliance is a consortium of over 80 vendors, universities, and industry and government professionals committed to the continued success and advancement of Ethernet technology.
Brad is also a Senior Principal Engineer for AMCC, where he drives alignment of strategic planning with industry initiatives and standards. He has been active in the standards area as an officer of the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance and of several IEEE standards groups. He was recognized by Network World magazine in 2006 as one of the 50 most powerful people in networking.
Brad has previous experience with Intel, PMC-Sierra, and Bell-Northern Research.
Abstract: Brother, Can You Spare a Gigabit?: Ethernet in Tough Economic Times
While the world deals with tough economic times, one area is still seeing steady growth: Internet use. Fueled by more users everywhere, cheaper and more widely available means for people to be online and connect, the emergence of popular applications such as video sharing and social networking, and growing demand for high bandwidth applications, networks continue to expand. Ethernet, the only tried and true local area network technology, is surging to the forefront to bear the load as THE network infrastructure. We will look at emerging Ethernet technologies and how they will impact future networks.
About the Ethernet Alliance
The Ethernet Alliance is a consortium of over 100 members including system and component vendors, industry experts, and university and government professionals who are committed to the continued success and expansion of Ethernet technology. The Alliance takes IEEE 802 Ethernet standards to market by supporting activities that span from incubation of new technologies to interoperability demonstrations, certification, and education. It serves the industry as a whole to assist with the on-going incubation, development, launch, and sustained support of Ethernet technologies. The Ethernet Alliance is designed to be an organization that will exist as long as Ethernet does.
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Keynote 2: Current State and Future Plans for 40/100 GbE
Wednesday, February 24th, 2:00-2:30pm
 John D'Ambrosia
Senior Scientist
Force10 Networks
Chair of the IEEE P802.3ba 40GbE and 100GbE Task Force
John D’Ambrosia is a Senior Scientist for Components Technology at Force10 Networks and Chair of the IEEE P802.3ba Task Force, which is driving the standards development process for 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s Ethernet. He has been an active participant in the development of Ethernet-related technologies since 1999. John served as secretary for the IEEE 802.3ap Backplane Ethernet Task Force, and participated in the development of the 10 Gb Attachment Unit Interface (XAUI) for 10 Gigabit Ethernet. John also served as a director and secretary for the Ethernet Alliance, and was the chair of the XAUI Interoperability work group for the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance. He was secretary for the High Speed Backplane Initiative and chair of the Optical Internetworking Forum's Market Awareness and Education Committee. Before joining Force10, John was with Tyco Electronics for 17 years. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering Technology from Penn State and a Master’s in Engineering Management from National Technological University.
Abstract: Current State and Future Plans for 10/100 GbE
The demand for bandwidth has outpaced what 10GbE can deliver. Fueled by applications such as social networking and video transfers, the pervasive need for bandwidth permeates the entire Ethernet ecosystem from computing to network applications. The 40/100 GbE standards effort will provide the interconnect solution for the next generation of servers, switches, and backbones. The architecture is flexible and scalable with initial physical layer specifications based on either 10 lanes of 10Gb/s or 4 lanes of 25 Gb/s. We can expect to see continuing work in many areas to reduce costs, improve signal integrity, extend lengths, and allow for more configurations. Ethernet will continue to evolve, and judging from previous specifications, the 40/100 GbE standards will evolve for the next 10 years.
About Force10 Networks
Force10 Networks is a technology leader that provides the reliable infrastructure required to build and secure intelligent services networks. Force10’s products deliver the scalability, reliability, and application awareness to deliver content cost-effectively from the enterprise or converged network to the mobile business user or consumer.
Force10 is uniquely positioned to leverage intelligent Ethernet that creates and drives application-aware networks for wireless backhaul, metro transport, and data center environments.
As these markets evolve beyond legacy networks, Force10 is committed to providing resilient Ethernet solutions that scale more effectively and provide the intelligence that ensures higher quality of service at lower total cost.
Today, customers including leading enterprise data centers, global wireless and wireline service providers, top supercomputing environments, and iconic Internet brands have derived significant value from Force10's solutions. More than 60,000 cell sites today are using Force10 wireless backhaul solutions worldwide, and over 1,400 customers have deployed its Ethernet switching/routing, metro edge, and converged access solutions.
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Keynote 3: The New Era of Networking: Beyond the Breaking Point
Wednesday, February 24th, 2:30-3:00pm
 Mike Banic
Vice President, Enterprise Marketing
Juniper Networks
With more than 20 years experience in the networking industry, Mike Banic brings a practical understanding of how technology can solve business problems to his position as Vice President, Enterprise Marketing at Juniper Networks, where he is responsible for the go-to-market strategy and programs of the company’s enterprise solutions. While at Juniper, Mr. Banic has also held several senior management positions, most recently Vice President of Marketing, leading the marketing efforts for Juniper's switching business. Previously, he served as Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Peribit Networks, and held leadership roles at Trapeze Networks, Rhapsody, Extreme Networks, and 3Com.
Mr. Banic has also held systems engineering positions at Synernetics, Fibercom, and Artel Communications. He holds a BSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts.
Abstract: Ethernet: The New Era of Networking: Beyond the Breaking Point
The advent of huge mega data centers to deliver compelling applications and services creates new demands for network capacity, availability, latency, security, automation, and economics. Besides meeting capacity needs with 10 gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) and newly ratified standards for 40 or 100GbE, new and innovative network designs are necessary to meet all the technical requirements and improve networking economics. The result will be data centers that continue to deliver great user experiences while controlling the costs of new services at scale.
In his presentation, Mr. Banic will discuss the technology enablers for the new era of networking that is set to unleash a powerful set of services and applications, taking industries to new heights. He will also discuss how the networking industry will evolve over the next 18-24 months, looking beyond 10GbE and 40/100GbE technologies.
About Juniper Networks
From devices to data centers, from consumers to the cloud, Juniper Networks delivers innovative software, silicon and systems that transform the experience and economics of networking. The company serves more than 30,000 customers and partners worldwide, and generated more than $3 billion in revenue over the last year. Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net.
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Keynote 4: Ethernet: Good for All What Ails the Data Center
Thursday, February 25th, 11:20am - Noon
 Silvano Gai
Cisco Fellow
Cisco Systems
Silvano Gai is a Cisco Fellow and an architect for such important Cisco products as the Catalyst 6000 family of network switches, the MDS family of storage networking switches, and the Nexus unified fabric switches. He has over 27 years of experience in computer engineering and computer networks. He is the author of several books and many technical publications on computer networking and is responsible for 30 issued patents and 50 patent applications. His current focus is on storage area network (SAN) virtualization and internetworking. He was previously a full professor of Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino (Italy) and a researcher at CNR (the Italian National Council for Scientific Research).
Silvano holds a Dr. Eng. in electronic engineering from Politecnico di Torino. He is also the manager of the FCOE.com Website.
Abstract: Ethernet: Good for All What Ails the Data Center
Ethernet started out many years ago as a low-cost, best-efforts method for connecting small numbers of users. Today it is on the verge of becoming the standard means of communications within entire data centers, covering local and wide area networks, storage, telecom services, and other functions. What will it take for Ethernet to fulfill the ever-increasing demands of all these applications? How will we provide for higher speeds, transport mechanisms, huge numbers of nodes, retention of legacy networks and services, accounting usage, security, high availability, management, virtualization, low latency, and other needs? This talk will explore the trends in Ethernet deployment and outline the evolution of the standards that cope with them. It will include discussions of access and backbone layers, server virtualization, virtual machine motion, secure identification, unification with storage protocols, lossless Ethernet, data center requirements, and high performance computing.
About Cisco Systems
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections - whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible, providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP) based networking technologies. Today, with more than 60,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as application networking, digital media, mobility, security, storage networking, telepresence, unified communications, video, and virtualization.
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