The Emerging Wireless SIG Presents...
Femto Services:
Femto Services:
The Next Wave of Wireless Innovation
Femtocells are one of the hottest new wireless technologies on the market today. For the past few years it was not a question of if but when. Now with the commercial offering of Femtocells by Verizon, Sprint and most recently AT&T in the USA as well as Softbank in Japan, Vodafone in the UK and last week's announcement by China Unicom, it seems that the when is now. Most current Femto offerings are focused on better home coverage for voice and data services, but with commercial roll-outs accelerating it begs the question: What next?
Femto Services are the wave of the future, according to many industry insiders. Once consumers and Enterprise subscribers have their own personal base stations in their home or office several new enhanced services become possible leveraging presence as well as connected home applications. This networking, presentation and panel discussion will provide an overview of Femto services: what they are and what you can do with them. The Femto Forum will also be announcing their new simple handset API which allows the handset development community to easily leverage and write applications that make use of the presence of Femto cells.
PANELISTS:
Rob Riordan
Vice President, Cellcom
Rob Riordan, executive vice president and director of corporate development for Nsight, is a dynamic speaker and lively commentator on emerging technologies in the telecommunications world. In his role he looks six months to six years ahead of where the company is today. When Rob is not working on mergers, acquiring new markets and spectrum or interfacing with investment bankers, he spends much time researching potential technologies and their role at Nsight. Through his studies of Mobile IP, for example, Nsight became the first company in the US to provide the service. This knowledge combined with his 30 years of telecom experience allows Rob to speak on a number of subjects. As a Competent Toastmaster, he has traveled the globe through speaking engagements during the last ten years. Past topics include Wireless: Friend or Foe, Wireless Internet Futures, and National Issues from a Small Company Perspective. In addition to various state telecommunications meetings, Rob has spoken on behalf of the Wireless Communications Association, Broadband Wireless Forum, OPASTCO, Telecoms and IT Brand Building and Development Forum in London, UK the Broadband Fixed Wireless Access World Congress in Rome, Italy, Femtocells Asia and Femtocells World Summit just to name a few.
Fabio Chiussi
Vice President of Technology, Airvana
Fabio M. Chiussi is a pioneer of femtozone services and a passionate advocate of an open femtozone service ecosystem. As Vice President of Technology at Airvana, he leads the activities related to femtocell-based services and applications. He is actively involved in the Femto Forum Service SIG. Prior to joining Airvana in June 2005, Fabio was Founder, Chief Technical Officer, and President of Invento Networks, a startup building WiMAX infrastructure equipment. From 1993 to 2003, Fabio was with Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, where he was Director, Data Networking and Wireless Systems, and a Bell Labs Fellow. During those years, he led the design of three generations of the Lucent ATLANTA chipset, an industry-leading silicon solution for ATM and IP switching and port processing; within the ATLANTA project, he also held various development responsibilities, including leading the development of the switch fabric devices for the third generation of the chipset. From 2000 to 2003, Dr. Chiussi and his department worked on the development of several MPLS-centric switching systems for applications ranging from Metro Gigabit Ethernet services to wireless access, and offering various flavors of Virtual Private Networks and other advanced IP services. Dr. Chiussi has written more than 80 technical papers and holds more than 20 patents, with about 15 more pending. Dr. Chiussi was named the 1997 Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer. He holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, a Ph.D. in Information Systems from University of Padua, Italy, and a M.S. in Engineering Management from Stanford University.
Steve Brightfield
Director of Product Management, Qualcomm
Steve Brightfield is a Director of Product Management at Qualcomm, defining their femtocell semiconductor products as well as a Qualcomm representative at the Femto Forum in WG1. He is also responsible for the CDMA basestation product roadmap for macro and pico cells supporting the evolution of 3GPP2 for 1x-Advanced, DO-Rev. B, DO-Advanced and LTE. Steve started his career as an applied research engineer in the electronic warfare division of the US Navy developing automatic detection, recognition and countermeasures algorithms for speech, sonar and digital communications systems. These programs included leading development activities on expendable sonobouys with intelligent detection algorithms, remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs) for automated missile defense jamming as well as a variety of SIGINT, ECM and ESM programs. During this stint, he was also a Navy lead for the Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Technology (VHSIC) development program. This program lead him to Silicon Valley and the semiconductor industry, where he worked in both start-ups ( VP Marketing for BOPS & Improv Systems, Founder & CEO of Centamicron) as well as established market leaders ( Zoran, Plessey, LSI Logic). He is also a special limited partner with the Venture Capital firm of Campventures, focused on early stage funding for semiconductor and biotechnology firms.
MODERATOR:
Andy Germano
Vice Chairman, Femto Forum
As Vice Chair Andy leading the Services Special Interest Group (SIG) as well as serving as the Femto Forum liaison to the 3GPP2 and the WiMAX Forum. Andy also leads the Femto Forum initiative into developing and growth markets as well as representing the Forum at industry events such as Supercomm, CTIA and CES for example. Andy has over 22 years of Telecoms and Wireless experience including large company (Verizon, Nortel, QUALCOMM) and start-up companies (Tantivy, WiDeFi, AuthenTec). Andy has experience working in Engineering, Product Management and Business Development and Marketing across the Femto eco-system including: Network Operator, Infrastructure, Consumer Electronics and Semiconductor for both Wireline and Wireless (GSM & CDMA) ventures. He is a member of IEEE Standards Association and was involved in the creation of the 802.16 standard as well as participation in several other 802 wireless standards (802.11; 802.15). Andy was also instrumental in the creation of the WWINA (Wireless Wideband InterNet Access) standard as part of the T1P1 via 3GPP. Andy has an MBA from Duke University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.
DATE:
November 20th 2009
TIME:
7:30AM - Registration/ Networking/ Breakfast
8:00AM - Program Begins
9:30AM - Program Ends
LOCATION:
12400 High Bluff Dr.
San Diego CA 92130
COST:
Pre-Registration: (Please Pre-Register by noon on 11/19/09)
$10.00 - CommNexus Sponsor
$20.00 - Non-Sponsor
At the Door:
$20.00 - CommNexus Sponsor
$30.00 - Non-Sponsor
Students, Military & Press: FREE
EVENT SPONSORED BY:
Femto Services are the wave of the future, according to many industry insiders. Once consumers and Enterprise subscribers have their own personal base stations in their home or office several new enhanced services become possible leveraging presence as well as connected home applications. This networking, presentation and panel discussion will provide an overview of Femto services: what they are and what you can do with them. The Femto Forum will also be announcing their new simple handset API which allows the handset development community to easily leverage and write applications that make use of the presence of Femto cells.
PANELISTS:
Rob Riordan
Vice President, Cellcom
Rob Riordan, executive vice president and director of corporate development for Nsight, is a dynamic speaker and lively commentator on emerging technologies in the telecommunications world. In his role he looks six months to six years ahead of where the company is today. When Rob is not working on mergers, acquiring new markets and spectrum or interfacing with investment bankers, he spends much time researching potential technologies and their role at Nsight. Through his studies of Mobile IP, for example, Nsight became the first company in the US to provide the service. This knowledge combined with his 30 years of telecom experience allows Rob to speak on a number of subjects. As a Competent Toastmaster, he has traveled the globe through speaking engagements during the last ten years. Past topics include Wireless: Friend or Foe, Wireless Internet Futures, and National Issues from a Small Company Perspective. In addition to various state telecommunications meetings, Rob has spoken on behalf of the Wireless Communications Association, Broadband Wireless Forum, OPASTCO, Telecoms and IT Brand Building and Development Forum in London, UK the Broadband Fixed Wireless Access World Congress in Rome, Italy, Femtocells Asia and Femtocells World Summit just to name a few.
Fabio Chiussi
Vice President of Technology, Airvana
Fabio M. Chiussi is a pioneer of femtozone services and a passionate advocate of an open femtozone service ecosystem. As Vice President of Technology at Airvana, he leads the activities related to femtocell-based services and applications. He is actively involved in the Femto Forum Service SIG. Prior to joining Airvana in June 2005, Fabio was Founder, Chief Technical Officer, and President of Invento Networks, a startup building WiMAX infrastructure equipment. From 1993 to 2003, Fabio was with Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, where he was Director, Data Networking and Wireless Systems, and a Bell Labs Fellow. During those years, he led the design of three generations of the Lucent ATLANTA chipset, an industry-leading silicon solution for ATM and IP switching and port processing; within the ATLANTA project, he also held various development responsibilities, including leading the development of the switch fabric devices for the third generation of the chipset. From 2000 to 2003, Dr. Chiussi and his department worked on the development of several MPLS-centric switching systems for applications ranging from Metro Gigabit Ethernet services to wireless access, and offering various flavors of Virtual Private Networks and other advanced IP services. Dr. Chiussi has written more than 80 technical papers and holds more than 20 patents, with about 15 more pending. Dr. Chiussi was named the 1997 Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer. He holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, a Ph.D. in Information Systems from University of Padua, Italy, and a M.S. in Engineering Management from Stanford University.
Steve Brightfield
Director of Product Management, Qualcomm
Steve Brightfield is a Director of Product Management at Qualcomm, defining their femtocell semiconductor products as well as a Qualcomm representative at the Femto Forum in WG1. He is also responsible for the CDMA basestation product roadmap for macro and pico cells supporting the evolution of 3GPP2 for 1x-Advanced, DO-Rev. B, DO-Advanced and LTE. Steve started his career as an applied research engineer in the electronic warfare division of the US Navy developing automatic detection, recognition and countermeasures algorithms for speech, sonar and digital communications systems. These programs included leading development activities on expendable sonobouys with intelligent detection algorithms, remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs) for automated missile defense jamming as well as a variety of SIGINT, ECM and ESM programs. During this stint, he was also a Navy lead for the Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Technology (VHSIC) development program. This program lead him to Silicon Valley and the semiconductor industry, where he worked in both start-ups ( VP Marketing for BOPS & Improv Systems, Founder & CEO of Centamicron) as well as established market leaders ( Zoran, Plessey, LSI Logic). He is also a special limited partner with the Venture Capital firm of Campventures, focused on early stage funding for semiconductor and biotechnology firms.
MODERATOR:
Andy Germano
Vice Chairman, Femto Forum
As Vice Chair Andy leading the Services Special Interest Group (SIG) as well as serving as the Femto Forum liaison to the 3GPP2 and the WiMAX Forum. Andy also leads the Femto Forum initiative into developing and growth markets as well as representing the Forum at industry events such as Supercomm, CTIA and CES for example. Andy has over 22 years of Telecoms and Wireless experience including large company (Verizon, Nortel, QUALCOMM) and start-up companies (Tantivy, WiDeFi, AuthenTec). Andy has experience working in Engineering, Product Management and Business Development and Marketing across the Femto eco-system including: Network Operator, Infrastructure, Consumer Electronics and Semiconductor for both Wireline and Wireless (GSM & CDMA) ventures. He is a member of IEEE Standards Association and was involved in the creation of the 802.16 standard as well as participation in several other 802 wireless standards (802.11; 802.15). Andy was also instrumental in the creation of the WWINA (Wireless Wideband InterNet Access) standard as part of the T1P1 via 3GPP. Andy has an MBA from Duke University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.
DATE:
November 20th 2009
TIME:
7:30AM - Registration/ Networking/ Breakfast
8:00AM - Program Begins
9:30AM - Program Ends
LOCATION:
12400 High Bluff Dr.
San Diego CA 92130
COST:
Pre-Registration: (Please Pre-Register by noon on 11/19/09)
$10.00 - CommNexus Sponsor
$20.00 - Non-Sponsor
At the Door:
$20.00 - CommNexus Sponsor
$30.00 - Non-Sponsor
Students, Military & Press: FREE
EVENT SPONSORED BY:
Questions? Contact Bailey Cunning at bcunning@commnexus.org
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