Just as the industry banded together to deliver worldwide standards for DSL, the industry has been busy establishing interoperability benchmarks for PON technologies. Service providers and telecommunications companies are realizing that PON deployments are now overtaking DSL deployments in some regions and interoperability has become a crucial requirement to ensure supply and drive down cost.

The panel will discuss the efforts behind and status of ITU-T and IEEE-based PON interoperability. For a complete view of the industry, the panel will consist of a service provider, an equipment vendor, standards organizations and test labs. Standards initiatives, the carrier experience, equipment vendor challenges, and requirements for worldwide interoperability will be addressed.

Andrew Vought Chief Executive Officer BroadLight

Mr. Vought previously served in the office of the president at GlobespanVirata (formerly known as Virata). At Virata, he helped lead the company from start-up mode to a successful IPO, which culminated in the company becoming the market-share leader of CPE DSL semiconductors and software. Prior to Virata, Mr. Vought founded and served as a general partner of Cheyenne Capital Corporation, a private venture capital firm. He has more than 25 years of semiconductor and technology management experience.

Benjamin Reboul Director FTTH, Asia-Pacific Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell

Bo Wang Senior Manager, Technical Department China Telecom

Mr. Wang is engaged in the research on broadband access, wireless access, and residential networks. He is also responsible for standard formulation and research project management in related fields.

Ching-Sheu Wang Project Manager, Broadband Network Lab Chunghwa Telecom

Dr. Wang joined Chunghwa Telecom in 1992 as a senior researcher and eventually became project manager of the Broadband Network Lab. His responsibilities have been in optical analog/digital video transmission technology for CATV, digital loop carrier for multiple service network planning and automatic line testing system design, DSL, FTTH PON, DWDM, and metro Ethernet software in transmission and access network systems.

Gerry Wong Chief Executive Officer Cambridge Industry Group (CIG)