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2011 Proceedings

Tuesday, February 22nd

8:30am-Noon

Workshop on High-Speed (25 Gbps) Signaling, Part 1

	Introduction to High Speed Signaling: Issues and Standards Joel Goergen - Distinguished Engineer, Cisco Systems
	Data Mining S-Parameters: Unlocking the mother lode of information Dr. Eric Bogatin, Signal Integrity Evangelist
	Factors & Paradoxes to Consider in 25 Gbps/pair System Design Dr. Edward P. Sayre, P.E., Broadcom
	4x25G Based 100G Electrical to Optical Interfaces Ziad Hatab and Frank Chang, Vitesse Semiconductor Corp.
	Feasibility of Unretimed 4x25G Host to Module "cPPI" Ali Ghiasi, Broadcom

8:30am-Noon

Workshop on Beyond 100 GbE - Terabit Ethernet, Part 1

	Standards Efforts Beyond 100GbE John D'Ambrosia, Chief Ethernet Evangelist, Force10 Networks
	End Points Moving to Quick Path Interconnect (QPI)* Shreyas Shah, Architect, Xilinx
	The Path to 1 TbE: Integration using Silicon Photonics Arlon Martin, VP Marketing, Kotura
	Scalable Chip Platforms for TbE and Beyond Eric Hall, VP of Business Development, Aurrion, Inc.

1:00-3:00pm

Workshop on High-Speed (25 Gbps) Signaling, Part 2

	Viability of 25G SerDes IP Saman Sadr, Director of Analog Design and Kevin Walsh, Director of Marketing, Snowbush IP (A Division of Gennum Corporation)
	25 Gb/s Physical Layer Challenges Joe Dambach, Molex Corporation
	Coding and modulation considerations for 100 Gb/s Ethernet over backplane Adam Healey, Distinguished Engineer, LSI Corporation

1:00-3:00pm

Workshop on Beyond 100 GbE - Terabit Ethernet, Part 2

	Technology Alternatives for 400GbE and Beyond Optical Interfaces Chris Cole, Director, Finisar
	Terabit Ethernet on the Horizon - Why it's needed now David Iles, Director - Product Management, Blade Network Technologies
	Cable Assemblies, Test Fixtures, and Backplanes for 100 GbE and Beyond Chris DiMinico, President, MC Communications/LEONI Cables and Systems

3:15-4:30pm

Plenary on High-Speed Test Equipment

High-Speed Test Equipment Panel - A User's Perspective

Gary Delp, PhD / System Architect, Mayo Clinic

Wednesday, February 23th

8:30-9:40am

Session 101: Carrier Ethernet

	Ethernet Exchanges: A Seamless Extension Bob Schrage, Director - Solutions Architecture / Interconnection Services, Telx
	Y.156sam vs. RFC 2544: ROI Is Not the Only Metric Bruno Giguere, EXFO
	Letting the Tools do the Work Steve Hateley, Cirector of Product & Alliance Marketing, InfoVista
	Building Next-Generation Ethernet Global Network Dr. Ahmad Khalil, Carrier Ethernet Architect, TATA Communications, USA

8:30-10:50am

Tutorial T1A: 40/100 GbE: What's Happening? Part 1

	Results of the Ethernet Alliances HSE Plugfest Dave Schneider, Senior Marketing, Evangelist, Ixia
	Enabling 100GbE Using 4 x 25 Gb/s Retimed Interfaces Ed Frlan, Principal Product Definition Specialist, Gennum Corporation

8:30-10:50am

Tutorial T1B: Ethernet in Data Centers

	Introducing QFABRIC - Reinventing the Data Center Network Dhritiman Dasgupta, Director of Product Markeiting, Juniper Networks
	The TRILL Protocol and Data Centers Donald Eastlake, Principal Engineer, Huawei Technologies
	Networked Flash Memory using PCIe over Ethernet Peter Kirkpatrick, Flunder and Chief Architect, Aprius
	40 Gigabit Ethernet for the Data Center Dan Tuchler, BNT VP Product Management, Blade Network Technologies (an IBM company)
	Converged 40/100GbE Data Center Fabric Frank Yang, Technical Marketing Manager, CommScope
	40Gbps Datacenter Acive Copper Interconnects John Mitchell, Senior Marketing Manager, and Gourgen Oganessyan, Staff Product Marketing Engineer, Intersil

9:50-11:00am

Session 102: Energy-Efficient Ethernet

	The Future of Energy Efficient Ethernet Michael J. Bennett, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
	Where Next? The Next Generation for EEE Hugh Barrass, Technologist, Cisco (bio)

9:50-11:00am

Session 103: Design and Development Issues

	Challenges in Ethernet Product Design James Sun, Centec Networks
	Ethernet Over PCI Express Kallol Biswas, Nucleodyne Systems

11:00-11:30am

Keynote 1

Basis for SAN/LAN Convergence in the Data Center

Greg Scherer, Vice-President - Server and Storage Strategy, Broadcom

11:30am-Noon

Keynote 2

Tomorrow's Cloud Starts Today

Rob Hays, Director - Open Data Center Initiative, Intel Data Center Group

2:00-4:30pm

Tutorial T2A: 40/100 GbE: What's Happening? Part 2

	Challenges of Monitoring at 40G & 100G Daniel Joseph Barry, VP Marketing, Napatech
	Monitoring the New Data Center: Beyond 10G, Virtualized and Elastic Sharon Besser, VP Technologies, Net Optics
	Preparing Your Cabling Infrastructure Now for 40/100 Gbe David Hall, Manager, Data Center Applications
	Higher Speed over Twisted-Pair (HSoTP) Dave Hess, Technical Manager - LAN Standardization, Nexans Inc.
	10G/25G/40G/100G Data Center I/O Connector & Cable Overview/Status Jay Neer, Strategic Product Manager Industry Standards, Molex
	Challenges Supporting 1588 in 10/40/100G Ethernet Daniel Koehler, Co-Founder, MorethanIP GmbH

2:00-4:30pm

Tutorial T2B: Ethernet and Virtualization

	Introduction to Bridge Port Extension Joe Pelissier, Technical Leader, Cisco Systems
	Virtualization: Who's Watching the Network Steven Shalita, Vice President of Marketing, NetScout
	Best Practices for Server Virtualization Tara Van Unen, Senior Manager Market Development, Ixia
	VM Migration Acceleration over 40GigE - Meet SLA & Maximize ROI Motti Beck, Director Marketing, Mellanox
	10-Gigabit Ethernet I/O Virtualization - Managing SLAs for I/O Intensive Workloads in Virtualized Environments Leonid Grossman, VP Software Engineering, Exar Corporation

2:00-3:10pm

Session 104: Power over Ethernet

	Beyond PoE+ Matthew Tyler, Product Marketing Manager, ON Semiconductor
	Energy Efficient Power over Ethernet Daniel Feldman, Director of Marketing, Microsemi
	Advanced Power Management for PoE Power Saving John Gammel and Quentin Stephenson, Silicon Labs
	A PoE Pass-through Switch Fred R. Schindler, Technical Leader, Cisco Systems

2:00-3:10pm

Session 105: Ethernet Chipsets/Components

	Ethernet Data Center Optical Components Lisa Huff, CDCP, Principal Analyst, Discerning Analytics
	PCI over Ethernet and Internet Dr. Joseph Y. Hui, ISS Chair Professor of ECEE, ASU, President, Pcion, Inc. and Dr. David Daniel, VP of Pcion Inc.
	Low Cost 100GE Data Center Interconnect Marek Tlalka, VP of Marketing, Luxtera, Inc.
	10GBase-T Third-Generation Enhancements Jose Tellado, Ph.D, VP of Systems Engineering, PHYs, PLX Technology
	Ethernet as a Transport Layer Brad Booth, Director of Technology, AppliedMicro

3:20-4:30pm

Session 106: Ethernet Security

	Why Cryptographic Hardware Acceleration is Essential for a High Performance Ethernet Device Steve Singer, Worldwide Systems Engineering Manager, Authentec
	Carrier Ethernet Security Threats and Mitigation Best Practices Ralph Santitoro, Director of Carrier Ethernet Market Development, Fujitsu
	"What, me worry?" Mauricio Sanchez, Chief Security Architect, HP Networking
	MACsec Is Inescapable (in hardware) Dmitri Varsanofiev, IP Cores, Inc.

3:20-4:30pm

Session 107: Ethernet Environments

	Car: Looking More Like the Internet! Deepak Shankar, Founder and CEO, Mirabilis Design Inc.
	Ethernet Global Resource Sharing Mario Cavalli, General Manager, HyperTransport Technology Consortium
	"OpenFlow" an Enterprise Ethernet Network Revolution? Peter Christy, Internet Research Group

4:30-5:30pm

Plenary on Reinventing Ethernet: Ethernet for Next-Generation Applications

	Introduction Brad Booth, Director of Technology, Applied Micro
	Future of Ethernet in Data Center Renato Recio, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Data Center Networking CTO
	Ethernet for Next-Generation Applications Joe Dambach, Molex Inc.
	Ethernet in 2015 Scott Kipp, Standards Activist, Brocade
	Carrier's View about Ubiquitous Ethernet T.J. Xia and Glenn Wellbrock
	Carrier's View about Ubiquitous Ethernet T.J. Xia and Glenn Wellbrock
	Plenary on Reinventing Ethernet Shehsad T. Merchant, Senior Director - Strategy, Extreme Networks
	Globalized Adoption of Carrier Ethernet-End User Matthew Maderios, Comcast

Thursday, February 24th

8:30-9:45am

Session 201: Ethernet for Service Providers

	Neutral Tandem's Ethernet Exchange Jeff Beer, RVP - Ethernet Sales, Neutral Tandem
	RoCE for Low Latency Ethernet Gilad Shainer, Mellanox Technologies

8:30-10:50am

Tutorial T3A: Ethernet and Cloud Computing

	Data Center to cloud (D2C) Chandra Shekhar Pandey, Director Solutions Engineering and Architectures, Juniper Networks
	Network Monitoring Challenges at 40G and 100G King Won, Co-founder / VP - Product Services, Gigamon, LLC

8:30-10:50am

Tutorial T3B: Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
Sponsored by the Fibre Channel Industry Association

	Fibre Channel over Ethernet Brian Berg, President, Software Design
	Unified Storage Networking Dennis Martin, President, Demartek
	Unified Storage and FcoE Mike McNamara, NetApp
	Building a Phased Plan for End-to-End FCoE Shaun Walsh, VP Corporate Marketing, Emulex Corporation
	The Truth about FCoE: Technology and Standards Claudio DeSanti, Fellow, Cisco Systems
	The Truth about FCoE: Deplloyment Experiences Mike Frase, Distinguished Support Engineer, Cisco Systems

10:00-11:30am

Session 202: Broadband Networks

	Multicast Services Using Point-to-Multipoint Pseudowires Santiago Álvarez, Manager - Technical Marketing, Cisco Systems
	Ethernet Network Performance Differentiation Greg S. Gum, Chief Marketing & Business Development Officer, ANDA Networks, Inc.
	Carrier Ethernet Next Gen Switch Requirements Sanjeev Rampal, Cisco Systems

11:00-11:30am

Keynote 3

Rethinking the Data Center

Alex Gray, SVP/GM Ethernet Switching Business Unit, Juniper Networks

11:30am-Noon

Keynote 4

Ethernet And the Data Center

Dinesh G. Dutt, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco

2:00-3:20pm

Special Vendor Session: Low Latency TCP Offload Delivers 10G Performance

TCP Offload Vs Non Offload

Kelly Masood, CTO and President, Intelop Corporation

2:00-3:20pm

Session 203: Market Research

	Server Transition to 10GbE Frank Berry, Senior Analyst, IT Brand Pulse
	Carrier Ethernet Ray Mota, ACG Research
	Ethernet Research Jag Bolaria, The Linley Group

3:40-5:00pm

Session 204: Future of Ethernet Networks

	DQMAN Overview Jesús Alonso-Zárate, PhD. - Research Associate, CTTC
	Coexistence of a Novel MAC Protocol for Wireless Ad hoc Networks and the IEEE 802.11 Jesús Alonso-Zárate, Elli Kartsakli, Luis alonso, and Christos Verikoukis