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- From: matt lucas <matt@telestrat.com>
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- Subject: Conference: Asychronous Transfer Mode
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- A TELESTRATEGIES CONFERENCE: ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE
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- Plus a one-day pre-conference tutorial, "Understanding ATM/SONET
- Technology and Applications"
-
-
- January 26-27, 1993
- Sheraton Crystal City Hotel Arlington, VA
-
- For complete information and registration, call TeleStrategies @
- 703-734-7050
-
- Or, E_mail to: atm_info@telestrat.com
-
- TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1993
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- 8:30 - 9:00 REGISTRATION
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- 9:00 - 10:15 ATM STATUS REPORT
-
- The speakers will examine recent developments concerning ATM. Subject
- matter will include vendor roll-outs for LANs, WANs and MANs; market
- responses to ATM; likely trends; ATM and SONET; industry concerns
- about ATM; unresolved technical issues and other roadblocks that may
- inhibit ATM deployment; and ATM technology versus "short-term"
- technological solutions like FDDI. The speakers will also address the
- issue of whether ATM will become the bridge between the
- telecommunications and computer industries or a wedge between the two.
-
- Val Sribar, Consultant, Ernst & Young
- Dr. James F. Mollenauer, President, Technology Strategy Associates
-
- 10:15 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK
-
- 10:45 - 12:15 ATM AND LOCAL AREA NETWORKS
-
- What progress have hub, router and bridge vendors made in accelerating
- the movement to ATM? What are some of the technical and market
- inhibitors to success? What are their plans to overcome the barriers
- that standards bodies will raise? Some of the key players in this
- field will discuss their solutions and offer insights on how the
- market will develop.
-
- Charles Giancarlo, Vice President, Marketing, Adaptive Corp.
- William Lanfri, Vice President, Marketing, SynOptics
- Representative, Cisco Systems, Inc.
- Representative, Cabletron Systems, Inc.
-
- 12:15 - 1:30 HOSTED LUNCH
-
- 1:30 - 3:30 ATM TO THE DESKTOP
-
- Bringing ATM to the desktop will be a primary factor in determining
- ATM's success or failure and may also affect the future of BISDN. What
- progress have manufacturers made in the development of adapters and
- chip-sets for desktop CPE? What type of business alliances have been
- formed? What are the technical and cost drivers? How long will
- business customers have to wait until they can reap the benefits of
- ATM on the desk?
-
- Val Sribar, Consultant, Ernst & Young - CHAIRPERSON
- Eric Cooper, President, Fore Systems
- Vern Little, Manager, Product Marketing, PMC-Sierra, Inc.
- Shekar Rao, Digital Communications Product Manager,
- Engineering Manager, Hewlett-Packard
-
- 3:30 - 4:00 COFFEE BREAK
-
- 4:00 - 5:30 MARKET RESPONSE TO ATM: IXC AND LEC VIEWPOINTS
-
- How committed are telecommunications carriers to ATM-based networks?
- Some industry analysts believe they are hedging their bets until the
- commercial market responds in a more definitive fashion. How are their
- customers responding to the emergence of ATM? What are the carriers
- offering as intermediate solutions until ATM arrives? How are they
- helping customers plan for a migration to an ATM-based world.
-
- Ben Lisowski, Director, Data Product Planning, SPRINT
- John Strickland, Director, Broadband Technology
- U S WEST Advanced Communications
- Scott Yeager, Vice President, Sales & Distribution, MFS DATANET
- Representative, AT&T Data Communications Services
-
- 5:30 - 6:30 RECEPTION
-
- WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1993
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- 8:30 - 10:30 ATM FIELD TRIAL RESULTS
-
- Several ATM field trials involving commercial and government
- applications are taking place around the country. One test bed is
- using a switch known as packet transfer mode (PTM), which is designed
- to test the gigabit speed barrier within and between desktop computing
- systems. There are also plans to use the test sites to research op to
- electronic switching systems for ATM transmission. The ultimate goal
- of the field trials is to improve telecommunications and desktop-to-
- desktop speed to the point where multimedia can become a reality. The
- speakers will discuss test bed activities to date, switch platform
- effectiveness, unresolved technical issues and economic considera-
- tions. They will also make predictions about when the public is likely
- to benefit.
-
- William Dowey, Product Manager, GTE Government Systems
- Dr. Rafi Gadron, Associate Director, Center for Telecommunications
- Research, Columbia University
- Mark Juliano, Director, Marketing, Fore Systems
- Jonathan Smith, Assistant Professor, Computer & Information
- Science, University of Pennsylvania Distributed Systems Laboratory
- Anthony Villasenor, Program Manager, NASA
-
- 10:30- 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
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- 11:00 - 12:15 PRIVATE ATM NETWORKS VS. FDDI AND SMDS
-
- The panelists will give their views on the future of ATM and the
- effect it will have to create synergies and complement other
- technologies such as SMD. What role remains for FDDI? Will ATM
- have a lasting effect on the telecommunications industry, or is it
- just another fad?
-
- Dr. Thomas Fowler, Principal Engineer, The MITRE Corporation
- CHAIRPERSON
- Charles Giancarlo, Vice President, Marketing, Adaptive Corp.
- Steve Starliper, Director, SMDS, Pacific Bell
- William Lanfri, Vice President, Marketing, SynOptics
-
- 12:15 - 1:30 HOSTED LUNCH
-
- 1:30 - 2:30 THE ROLE OF CONSORTIA IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES
-
- The speakers will discuss the role of consortia in the advancement of
- ATM technology. The speakers will provide the latest information on
- technical activities and relate these issues to market requirements
- and technology development. Other related topics will be discussed in
- terms of their impact on the deployment and market acceptance of ATM.
-
- Irfan Ali, Vice President, Marketing, The ATM Forum
- Vern Little, Manager, Product Marketing, The Saturn Group
-
- 2:30 - 2:45 COFFEE BREAK
-
- 2:45 - 4:00 ACCELERATING THE DEVELOPMENT & DEPLOYMENT OF ATM SWITCH PLATFORMS
-
- ATM switch technology appears the solution to solve many currently
- plaguing LANs, WANs and many other telecommunications networks. For
- example, ATM platforms embedded in SONET are expected to increase
- transmission capacity and improve network management capability. IXC
- and LEC plans to move to ATM have caused switch vendors to move more
- rapidly to test and market ATM switches. The speakers will discuss
- their plans for accelerating the testing and deployment of ATM and why
- they are betting, along with others in the industry, that ATM is truly
- an internetworking breakthrough.
-
- Irfan Ali, Manager, Strategic Technology, Northern Telecom
- Steve Cortez, Senior Manager, ATM Product Marketing, DSC Communications
- Roger Levy, Manager, Broadband Standards & Applications
- AT&T Network Systems
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