Karin Ahl

Biography: Karin Ahl started to get engaged with the FTTH Council Europe through the, at that time, new Business Committee and its work on the Business Guide during 2009. Karin’s contributions was at that time, apart from taking an active role in the discussions about how to dispose the Business Guide, to contribute her knowledge in concrete business cases, business models and an outlook in general. This is something that Karin in here daily work as business developer at Rala Infratech in Sweden is very well aware of. In early 2010 Karin was appointed with the vice chair position in the Committee and later on during the General Assembly in Amsterdam she was elected for the chair position.
Karin started to work at Rala Infratech in early 2005 within the project management. Today her role is divided into business development as well as project management. Before that Karin worked as business developer at Utsikt Linköping, one of the first real open networks in Sweden and still today one of the largest.
Besides this Karin holds a position as board member in Sweden Broadband Alliance and is also currently in charge of, and founder of, a network for professional women in the telecom sector in Sweden. Earlier she has also been engaged as member of the project committee in the Sweden Urban Network Association.
Karin holds a master degree in Social and Political Science and Economics from  the University of Linköping. Karin graduated in 2002.
Today Karin lives in the southern part of Sweden close to Linköping.

Paolo Sebben

Biography: Paolo Sebben is chair of the Business Committee of the FTTH Council Europe.
He started his career 20 years ago with Alcatel. After several years as a manager in telecom technology development companies, he moved to Swisscom, where he was Head of Key Account Management.
He now uses his experience in the field as consultant and is co-founder of effectas, market leader in Switzerland. He was one of the main drivers behind the FTTH development in Switzerland. Together with power utilities he founded and managed as former managing director of openaxs, the Swiss FTTH – association.
He is mechanical engineer and holds an MBA from Strathclyde University of Glasgow.

Prof. Michael Fourman

Biography & Abstract

Biography: Michael Fourman, FRSE, FBCS, received his Doctorate in Mathematical Logic from the University of Oxford in 1974. He has held academic appointments on three continents in Departments of Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science and Informatics. Since 1988 he has been Chair of Computer Systems at the University of Edinburgh. He was principal author of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s ‘Digital Scotland’ report (2010) and is closely involved in the national debate on Scotland’s Digital Ambition.

Abstract: This presentation outlines the demographics of Scotland – the communities housing 90% of Scotland’s population are more densely populated than the corresponding communities in England – and discuss the implications for FTTH.

Suvi Lindén

Biography: Suvi Lindén was Finland’s Minister of Communications in 2007-2011. She was previously Minister of Culture, 1999-2002. Ms Lindén is a member of the National Coalition Party and was a Member of Parliament 1995-2011.
In Parliament she has been Chair of the Education and Culture Committee, and Vice Chair of the parliamentary group of the National Coalition Party. She has also been Member of the Speaker’s Council, Foreign Affairs Committee, Committee for the Future, Transport and Communications Committee, Environment Committee, and the Finnish Delegation to the Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region.
Ms Lindén has held positions of trust in a number of organisations. These include positions as Commissioner of the United Nations Broadband Commission for Digital Development, Member of the United Nations Advisory Board of the Digital Health Initiative, Chair of the Ubiquitous Information Society Advisory Board.
The Intelligent Community Forum, a New York-based think tank named her as its “Visionary of the Year for 2011” for her commitment to ensuring affordable broadband access to every citizen in Finland.
Ms Lindén holds a Master of Science (major in Information Technology) degree from the University of Oulu.

Jacob Bolin

Biography & Abstract

Biography: Jacob Bolin is a Project Manager at the Swedish Broadband Forum. Before his current position he was a Senior Legal Officer at the Post and Telecom Agency with a responsibility for market regulation regarding the broadband and broadcasting markets. He has his background in the Competition Law area working at the Swedish Competition Authority investigating cases regarding anti-competitive agreements, abuse of dominance and mergers mainly concerning the telecom and media sector and the financial markets.

Abstract: The overall objective for Sweden is to have world-class broadband. This implies that by 2020 at least 90 percent of all households and enterprises should have access to broadband at a minimum speed of 100 Mbit. A high usage of IT and the Internet is good for Sweden in relation to growth, competiveness and innovation. The underlying principle of the Broadband Strategy is that electronic communications and broadband are provided by the market. However, there are multiple factors that affects the market conditions. The Swedish Government has inititiated a Broadband Forum to identify obstacles and find constructive solutions that contribute to increased collaboration and deployment of infrastructure. The Forum is a meeting place for dialogue and collaboration between actors, both public and private, that plays a part and contributes to the fulfillment of the Broadband Strategy.

Andreas Weiss

Biography: After studying economic engineering at the Technical University of Berlin Andreas joined the banking industry nearly 20 years ago with assignments in Munich, London, Sao Paulo, Cologne and latest Düsseldorf. Since the year 2000 he is exclusively involved in structuring & financing telecom and cable companies in Europe with clear focus on Germany.

Dr. Gerlas van den Hoven

Biography: Gerlas van den Hoven started his career at Philips Research in the area of components for long haul and metro networks. He worked as product line manager for optical amplification at JDS Uniphase, where he became part of the JDSU Netherlands management team. After JDSU, Gerlas worked for Genoa Corporation as VP Products. Here, he developed the market for lowcost integrated optical amplifiers for the metro-access market. In 2002, Gerlas co-founded Genexis, a company focused on the development of home gateways for fiber-to-the-home. He is currently CEO of Genexis. Gerlas van den Hoven holds a PhD on the subject of silicon-based photonic materials. 

Eng. Cristina Deac

Biography: Cristina Deac was elected chair of the Deployment & Operations Committee in April 2011. Cristina’s activities in the FTTH Council Europe started in 2007 as a member of the Content & Revenue Committee, then in the Sustainable Development Committee. In 2010 Cristina was elected vice-chair of the Deployment & Operations Committee and she was actively supporting the Council’s Business Committee.

Benoît Felten

Biography: CEO and co-founder of Diffraction Analysis, Benoît Felten is a recognized expert on issues related to Next-Generation-Access. Felten’s expertise focuses on NGAN in terms of architecture, relevant vendor strategies as well as new service opportunities for ISPs, carriers, and MSOs. His analysis particularly emphasises the understanding of business models and go to market challenges related to next-generation broadband as well as the necessary transformation of the telco ecosystem needed to sustain the access revolution.
Before starting Diffraction Analysis, Felten was a Director of Access Network Research at Yankee Group where he led the company’s research efforts in the NGA field. Prior to Yankee Group, Felten was at Arcome, a French telecom consultancy and analysis firm where he managed and carried out numerous high-profile consultancy projects for operators and vendors in continental Europe and North Africa. Before joining Arcome, Felten was the SME Portfolio Manager at Belgacom France where he was responsible for their Fiber to the Office offers.
Felten lives in Paris. He complements his day job by blogging about the economic and social impacts of next generation access on Fiberevolution and tweets under the handle of @fiberguy.

Dr. Ir. Michael Peeters

Biography: Dr. Ir. Michael Peeters is CTO for the Wireline Division at Alcatel-Lucent. Previously, Michael led the Access Node Technology and Copper research group in Bell Labs. Before that, he held positions in Research & Innovation and academia and has over 15 years of industry experience with a focus on photonics and copper physical layer technologies.
As Wireline CTO, he leads the organization that is responsible for determining the mid- to long term technology and the standardization strategy for the division. The CTO office works directly with the Wireline product units and marketing organization, gauging the current portfolio and near-term roadmap options in order to safeguard the use of the right technology and strategy. Additionally, they interact closely with Bell labs, customers and third party technology providers, evaluating and benchmarking future innovation opportunities.
He is senior member of the IEEE, has been an author or co-author on more than 30 SCI-rated publications and over 70 publications at international peer-reviewed conferences. He acts a a reviewer for IEEE and OSA journals and committee member for several conferences. He also holds several patents in the field of fixed access technology.

Ben Eman

Biography: Ben Eman, born in Breda (Netherlands) in 1958, is since 2007 Project Leader, Member of the Genexis Mgt Team, Manager of Development and IT, and Director of Development. 
From 1985 until 2007, he worked for Mercedes-Benz Nederland B.V./ Daimler-Benz Nederland / Daimler-Chrysler AG on the Development and Design of ERP systems. After a sabbatical in China in 1988, he returned to be responsible for the roll-out of the CRM system in European Countries for Daimler- Chrysler AG as a Sr. Business Consultant and Engineer.
Ben studied Geology at the RUU Utrecht. He is married with Zhou Qian. His interests are sailing, Italy, and China.

Karin Ahl

Biography: Karin Ahl started to get engaged with the FTTH Council Europe through the, at that time, new Business Committee and its work on the Business Guide during 2009. Karin’s contributions was at that time, apart from taking an active role in the discussions about how to dispose the Business Guide, to contribute her knowledge in concrete business cases, business models and an outlook in general. This is something that Karin in here daily work as business developer at Rala Infratech in Sweden is very well aware of. In early 2010 Karin was appointed with the vice chair position in the Committee and later on during the General Assembly in Amsterdam she was elected for the chair position.
Karin started to work at Rala Infratech in early 2005 within the project management. Today her role is divided into business development as well as project management. Before that Karin worked as business developer at Utsikt Linköping, one of the first real open networks in Sweden and still today one of the largest.
Besides this Karin holds a position as board member in Sweden Broadband Alliance and is also currently in charge of, and founder of, a network for professional women in the telecom sector in Sweden. Earlier she has also been engaged as member of the project committee in the Sweden Urban Network Association.
Karin holds a master degree in Social and Political Science and Economics from the University of Linköping. Karin graduated in 2002.

Jan Vandenbroeck

Biography: Jan Vandenbroeck is FTTH Business Development Manager at TE Connectivity. He has over 31 years of experience in tele- and datacommunications.
Since 1985, Jan Vandenbroeck has held product management positions in Europe and North America where he introduced several new product lines for the long distance, metro and access fiber networks. He currently focuses on fiber connectivity systems.
Mr. Vandenbroeck is married with 3 children. 

Axel-Oliver Homburger

Biography: Starting in 2001 in the ITC branche as educated IT-System merchand and graduation in business administration at the german market leader for struktured cabling ( Metz Connect BTR) I took over the sales responsibillity for Eastern - and Western Europe in 2004 as Area Sales Manager to deploy this fast growing markets. After two year alternating the branche ( SOMFY )  as Key Account Manager and afterwards Sales Manager I came back to the branche in 2010 to deploy the SCM core and outsideplant assortment and strategie at R&M for FFTH e.g public networks in 2010. 32 years old, married living in Germany near the Lake of Constance at the Swiss border.

Alessandro Pirri

Biography & Abstract

Biography: Alessandro Pirri has an Aerospace Engineering degree, and he has worked at Prysmian Group since 1998, when the company was still Pirelli.
Passing through several Plant Responsibilities in the Special Cables Division, he’s been involved in TLC activities since 2001, first as Data Cables Product Manager, then as TLC cables Design Manager and finally he’s the Director of Connectivity and FTTx with the goal to bring together and maximize the extensive knowledge and experience of the access network technologies already existing in the former Prysmian and Draka.

Abstract: The last mile deployments are facing a more and more stringent need of solutions which may be installed in very crowded and narrow pathways. The space  inside the handholes, already occupied by the previously installed cables and closures, is very often limited to a very little available volume. The same happens inside the majority of Multi Dwelling Units built some tenths of years ago. The Retractable Techniques, avoiding any need of looping the cable as well as not requiring any space for splicing the fibres, do minimize both the space to be booked and the operation time on site.

Wolfgang Fischer

Biography: Wolfgang Fischer is chief architect for Service Provider Next Generation Access solutions in EMEA. He has extensive experience in Service Provider networking solutions covering ISDN protocols, ATM systems and network architectures, broadband access, voice, traffic and queuing theory. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany.
Wolfgang is one of the founders of the FTTH Council Europe, and continues to contribute actively to the activities of this important industry organization. Wolfgang Fischer was elected chair of the Content & Applications Committee in April 2011. In April 2006 he was elected chair of the Architecture Committee. He was first elected Board Member in April 2007 and stayed with the Board for the full term of 3 years (he was re-elected in 2008 and 2009).

Wolfgang Fischer

Biography: Wolfgang Fischer is chief architect for Service Provider Next Generation Access solutions in EMEA. He has extensive experience in Service Provider networking solutions covering ISDN protocols, ATM systems and network architectures, broadband access, voice, traffic and queuing theory. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany.
Wolfgang is one of the founders of the FTTH Council Europe, and continues to contribute actively to the activities of this important industry organization. Wolfgang Fischer was elected chair of the Content & Applications Committee in April 2011. In April 2006 he was elected chair of the Architecture Committee. He was first elected Board Member in April 2007 and stayed with the Board for the full term of 3 years (he was re-elected in 2008 and 2009).

Benoît Felten

Biography: CEO and co-founder of Diffraction Analysis, Benoît Felten is a recognized expert on issues related to Next-Generation-Access. Felten’s expertise focuses on NGAN in terms of architecture, relevant vendor strategies as well as new service opportunities for ISPs, carriers, and MSOs. His analysis particularly emphasises the understanding of business models and go to market challenges related to next-generation broadband as well as the necessary transformation of the telco ecosystem needed to sustain the access revolution.
 Before starting Diffraction Analysis, Felten was a Director of Access Network Research at Yankee Group where he led the company’s research efforts in the NGA field. Prior to Yankee Group, Felten was at Arcome, a French telecom consultancy and analysis firm where he managed and carried out numerous high-profile consultancy projects for operators and vendors in continental Europe and North Africa. Before joining Arcome, Felten was the SME Portfolio Manager at Belgacom France where he was responsible for their Fiber to the Office offers.
 Felten lives in Paris. He complements his day job by blogging about the economic and social impacts of next generation access on Fiberevolution and tweets under the handle of @fiberguy.

Christophe de Saint-Martin

Biography: Christophe de Saint-Martin is Director of Marketing for Western Europe for fixed network products. His role covers product & solution marketing, marketing communication and strategic marketing for FTTx & Next Generation PON technologies. He published articles in industry media and contributed to innovation awards wins for ZTE.
Prior to his current position, he was Marketing Manager for EMEA in Nortel Networks for 2G & 3G wireless access products and managed the wireless demo center. Deeply involved in wireless and wireline technologies with vendors for the past 20 years in sales and marketing activities, Christophe de Saint-Martin contributed to contracts signed with worldwide operators overreaching 100 million Euros.
He holds a Masters Degree of Electronic Engineering from ESME Sudria (Paris).

Dr. Roman Glatty

Abstract: While traffic growth is a reality driven by more video services and smartphone usage, traditional fixed-line operators are becoming pure providers of access pipes while Over-the-Top (OTT) & content providers get a higher slice of the value chain with more revenues.
Operators have to rethink their business model and build broadband networks with a "smarter" "terminal-pipe-cloud" architecture enabling them to charge ISPs/ICPs based on quality and share revenues in the future industrial value chain of Internet services led by OTT services.
Smart access over fibre network are based on integrated and future proof technologies: 
-GPON and Next Gen PON to deliver super-high-bandwidth access for users using a unified broadband access platform
-Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology to enable the operator to clearly see the services and applications in the pipe and to provide QoS assurances for high-value services.
Based on its understanding of the development of fixed broadband in Europe, ZTE?s ?Europe Fixed Broadband Business Model? is based on a unified and intelligent next generation access solution bringing operators the following benefits: More bandwidth to bear the  growth of video services, reduced cost with Open, green and simplified networks and  new revenue streams with Intelligent networks.

Jörgen Persson

Biography & Abstract

Biography: Jörgen Persson is Product Manager Cabinets &Closures at Nexans Sweden, which is one of the leading Nexans units for Telecom cables and components. He has more than 20 years of experience in working with installation and design of components for optical networks.

Abstract: Roll out speed has a significant impact when it comes to speed up return of investment in FTTH projects. Cables and components that are easy to handle and install is of course of vital importance. In addition also smart packaging of these products will play an important part in reducing the time of installation and time of presence at the subscriber's site. Furthermore "packaging" of connectors, patchcords and pigtails is another vital issue when it comes to cable management in the distribution points. This presentation will review some new ideas and innovative techniques that aims to bring such improvements.

Thomas Björkståhl

Biography & Abstract

Biography: Thomas Björkståhl is Product Manager Fiber optic cables at Nexans Sweden, one of the leading Nexans units for Telecom cables & components. He has been working with sales and marketing of telecom products for the last 20 years. He has a marketing degree from the Swedish business school, IHM.

Abstract: Roll out speed has a significant impact when it comes to speed up return of investment in FTTH projects. Cables and components that are easy to handle and install is of course of vital importance. In addition also smart packaging of these products will play an important part in reducing the time of installation and time of presence at the subscriber's site. Furthermore "packaging" of connectors, patchcords and pigtails is another vital issue when it comes to cable management in the distribution points. This presentation will review some new ideas and innovative techniques that aims to bring such improvements. 

Xavier Renard

Biography: Xavier RENARD is leading the Product and Marketing Management at Nexans Interface, which is the leading Nexans unit for the Telecom components. He is bringing 10 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and particularly in the optical networks. His experience enables him to hold positions in trade associations that are working to promote FTTH and bring expertise to organisations like regulation authorities or standard comities. He was previously involved in R&D projects in the Telecoms, but also in the avionics and the automotive market.

Luke Sullivan

Biography & Abstract

Biography: Luke Sullivan is the Product Manager for Dynamic Design, a software development company providing the ConnectMaster inventory and resource management platform to network operators. He brings 10 years experience in Telecommunications Network Operations and Maintenance across a wide range of infrastructure and technology for companies such as Nextgen Networks in Australia. Currently based near Nantes, France, Luke applies his focus on day-to-day business processes and the end-user experience to tailoring the ConnectMaster platform for FTTH projects.

Abstract: In calculating OPEX budgets, each service and network manager knows the challenge of balancing operational investment and risk. This is a big equation, with factors that include the types of infrastructure, services, service levels and measures that will be in place in the operational network.
Our presentation is centered on one part of this equation, and targeted to those responsible for service assurance or reactive maintenance: In day-to-day operations, what are the common events that could create the biggest inefficiencies, and how can they be streamlined? Most importantly, what are the potential time and cost benefits of doing so? We focus on reactive maintenance use cases in MDU’s to demonstrate the impacts of inadequate service data for the operations teams, what data is needed, and the benefits of equipping them with the right information and tools. 

Xavier Renard

Biography & Abstract

Biography: Xavier RENARD is leading the Product and Marketing Management at Nexans Interface, which is the leading Nexans unit for the Telecom components. He is bringing 10 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and particularly in the optical networks. His experience enables him to hold positions in trade associations that are working to promote FTTH and bring expertise to organisations like regulation authorities or standard comities. He was previously involved in R&D projects in the Telecoms, but also in the avionics and the automotive market.

Abstract: Today, extraction techniques to deploy FTTH inside a building are so widely used and bring so much capex savings, that it is difficult to imagine not using it. Smart procedures and smart packagings add CAPEX efficiency, but what is their impact on the maintainability? To answer, it is needed to identify the weak points of the fiber network. What are the causes and the statistics of failure in the MDU? What are the impacts on the existing passive infrastructure and how to deal with them? How to take advantage of well-known techniques to rebuild the optical link?

Faris Awartani

Biography: Biography: Mr. Faris Awartani is the founding board member and the Chairman of the FTTH Council MENA.
Mr. Awartani has over 20 years of experience in the telecommunication industry and held many high level positions with regards to the Wireless telecommunications systems such as CEO of International telecommunications and Electronic corp (ITEC) in Palestine and he is currently the CEO of Moseco Group with operations in Saudi, Jordan, Palestine, Qatar, and the UAE.
Between 2001 and 2011 he grew his business portfolio by creating Bazy Trading and Contracting in Saudi,  he also established many companies such as ESCO Jordan and ESCO Saudi as main dealer for Fastlink and Zain Jordan and Saudi, and concluded a Joint-Venture with Kathrein Germany and created Kathrein ME.
Between 1997 and 1999 he was member of the International Chamber of Commerce of Jordan where He participated in the liaising between the International Chamber of Commerce and the International Chamber of Commerce office in Jordan in order to create awareness for the local business community about the ICC objectives and regulations to be as the reference for any possible conflict abroad.
Since 1997 and till date Mr Awartani set the policy and acted as strategy guider where he was one of the main investors in participating and reviewing the executive management’s performance, policies and goals achievement as the Vice Chairman and Board member of several companies and financial institutions such as the Jordan Gulf Bank (Jordan), Al Jallaf General Trading(UAE), Al Salam Investments (Jordan), Falcon Investments (Jordan) and the Chairman of the Board of FTTH Council MENA.
Faris holds a BS of engineering management and operations research from SMU,Texas, USA.

Dr. Hosein Badran

Biography: Dr. Hosein Badran holds the position of Regional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Distinguished Systems Architect, with Cisco Systems International, covering the Middle East and Africa region. With close to 25 years experience in the telecommunication and networking industry as well as academia. As a Regional CTO, Dr. Badran is closely engaged with major operators on the deployment of new IP NGN technologies, as well as with government agencies, telecom regulators and ministries for the promotion of new ICT-related country transformation initiatives.
Dr. Badran holds a PhD in ATM Networks from Queen’s University in Canada (1994), MSc in Teletraffic Engineering from Cairo University in Egypt (1987), and B.Sc. (Highest Honors) in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Cairo University (1985). He held teaching positions at both Cairo and Queen’s universities. Dr. Badran has been a Senior Member of the IEEE since 1998. He is a recipient of the Cisco Chairman’s Club Award, a Cisco WiMAX Ambassador and an International ATM Forum Ambassador.
Dr. Badran is the official Cisco representative to the ITU Council Working Group on Child Online Protection (CWG-CP), and has been appointed as Founding Board Member of the newly formed FTTH Middle East and North Africa Council.

Bernd Hesse

Biography & Abstract

Biography: Bernd Hesse Senior Business Development Director at Ericsson brings over 25 years of accomplishments in the international telecommunication market. Prior to Ericsson, he was VP of BD/Marketing at Novera Optics (acquired by Nortel 2008) where he led all international WDM PON activities. Before that Bernd held various management positions (Director Marketing in Centillium Commiunications for EPON SoC, Co-Founder and VP BD in FiberZone Networks, Director of International Business Development at Opthos Inc., where he focused on introducing Opthos into the carrier space and establishing potential partners. He joined Opthos from Cisco Systems, where he was Optical Market Development Manager. Prior to CISCO Systems, Bernd has also served. as Director BD at Ericsson managing the first volume PON (OPAL) deployments in Germany.
He is the founder and chairman of the WDM PON Forum and holds a Master’s degree in Telecommunication from the University in Siegen, Germany.

Abstract: This introduction will provide and overview of the WDM PON Forum and the history of events being organized by the WDM PON Forum in the past.

Johan Henæs

Biography & Abstract

Biography: Johan Henæs B.Sc has been working in the telecom industry all his career, with long experience in system design and implementations. Since 2005 as CTO and later VP Sales for component vendor Ignis Photonyx focusing on the development of components for WDM-PON. One of the initiators behind the EU-supported GIGAWAM project, aiming for next generation WDM-PON systems with higher level of integration and significantly lower cost. For the present time he is working as a CEO and owner of System integrator Lambda Networks in Norway.

Abstract: This presentation will give an overview of the market status for WDM-PON and look into triggers and opportunities for the technology in the years to come.

Wim Te Niet

Biography: Wim te Niet (1965) is Vice President Global Sales & Marketing for the Fiber Access Networks business at LG-Ericsson. In this role he is responsible for all commercial and market aspects of the global FttX Business and leads the global sales & marketing team.
Prior to assuming his position within LG-Ericsson in 2009, Wim has held a range of executive positions in Nortel Networks, most recently (2006-2009) President Central Europe and CEO Nortel Germany, in which role he had the responsibility for the various Nortel's divisions (Carrier, Enterprise, Services) in the region. Before that he was Vice President Carrier Networks for the Benelux and Nordics region (2004-2006) Wim is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and holds a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Business Administration from the University of Groningen.

Curt Badstieber

Biography: Curt Badstieber is employed at Nokia Siemens Networks as a researcher in the Next Generation Optical Access (NGOA) group.
His main objective is to explore the functions and implications of an Open Optical Metro-Access Environment as well as supporting related NSN activities towards standardization.
He was previously responsible for the product and feature management of the Hybrid-PON system formerly under study in NSN and prior to that has worked predominantly as Key Account Manager for Fixed Networks in the United Arab Emirates. Curt Badstieber has 17 years of experience in telecommunications in various positions. He joined Siemens AG in 1995 after completing his bachelor’s degree in Communication Engineering in Plymouth / UK. Throughout his career with NSN & Siemens, he focused primarily on all aspects of fixed telecommunications networks and equipment. He was instrumentally involved in some of the key fixed network deployments of Siemens / NSN in the greater Middle East arena.

Dr. Klaus Grobe

Biography: Biography: Klaus Grobe received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees in electrical engineering from Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany, in 1990 and 1998, respectively. From 1990 to 1993, he developed fiber-optic telemetry systems for deep-sea exploration. From 1998, he worked for German and pan-European network operators where he planned, designed and introduced DWDM networks. Since 2000, he is with ADVA AG Optical Networking where he is now Sr. Principal Engineer in the Advanced Technology group.
Dr. Grobe authored and co-authored more than 90 scientific publications as well as three book chapters on WDM and PON technologies. He is member of the IEEE Photonics Society, the German VDE ITG (German Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies), and ITG Study Group 5.3.3 on Photonic Networks. He serves the OFC technical subcommittee on Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements and represents ADVA in FSAN NGOAN. He holds 20 (pending) patents.

Jon Baldry

Biography: As Technical Marketing Director at Transmode, Jon has responsibility for Strategic and Technical Marketing and Market Communications.  Jon has spent 20 years working in the telecoms industry, primarily in optical and packet-optical systems.  He joined Transmode in 2004 and has previously worked for Lucent Technologies and Sycamore Networks in a variety of sales and marketing roles.  Jon is a Chartered Engineer and holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electrical Engineering and Electronics from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST).

Dr. Alexander Niepel

Biography & abstract

Biography: Alexander Niepel is heading the NSN project on Next Generation Optical Access taking product management and partner management responsibilities since 2010. As part of that Alexander drove the strategic investments into ClariPhy Communications - a US based CMOS IC company with special expertise on mixed signal processing - and Skorpios Technologies - a US based Silicon Photonics company - where he is now member of the Board of Directors.
Alexander has a 13 year track record in telecommunications industry, mostly in product management functions. He had product responsibilities for Mobile Switching Center products and broadband wireless access products (FLASH-OFDM). With formation of NSN he took over responsibility for the strategy role of the newly formed transport business unit. 

Abstract: WDM PON systems differentiate from TDM PON system by providing single user wavelengths opposed to multi-user wavelengths. This allows new network deployment strategies with substantially higher investment efficiency as capacity needs to be provided only according to take rate increase. This investment efficiency increase is boosted by the option to design PON trees with significantly higher splitting factors.
In combination with the tunability of WDM PON systems the fiber spectrum can be utilized more efficiently and more flexible. This is essential to seamlessly phase in and out technology generations within the same frequency band without any need to enforce user migration. The same technology concepts can be used for wavelength unbundling based open access. Opposed to bit stream unbundling based open access, it allows service providers can compete fully independently, even using different technologies on the same fiber infrastructure. 

Magnus Olson

Biography & Abstract

Biography: Magnus Olson joined the Institute of Optical, Stockholm, in 1993. There he contributed in the fields of wavelength conversion in diode pumped solid state lasers and development of speciality fibers for telecom applications. From 1998 he was at the Swedish research institute Acreo responsible for the fiber optic access related development. 2005-2008 Magnus was in charge of the project office at Packetfront, where he developed a GPON system solution. In 2008 Magnus joined Transmode, where he is Director of Hardware Engineering.

Abstract: This paper presents an open, standards-based WDM-PON approach that also helps operators avoid stranding assets and embrace future standards. The solution utilizes a standard C-band DWDM ITU-T channel plan and dual fiber injection locked MSA compliant SFPs. By using the Native Packet Optical approach all services are transported transparently without lock-in to any technology or vendor-specific hardware. Applications include Fiber-to-the-Building or Curb for high-speed broadband services, Fiber-to-the-Basestation for mobile backhaul and direct fiber access for Enterprise services.
The use of the C-Band within the iWDM-PON solution keeps the access and metro networks on the same standard wavelength grid. This enables wavelengths to go all-optical to any location in the access, metro or core networks because it avoids the need for wavelength conversion as traffic moves from one network to the other. An update of our experimental results will be given at the conference.

Dr. Stefan Murry

Biography & Abstract

Biography: Dr. Murry has led the sales and marketing effort at Applied Optoelectronics since the company's founding in 1997. In his marketing role, he has made contributions to many different fiber-optic access technologies include mutli-wavelength cable-television architectures, GPON, and more recently WDM-PON. He is a member of the Board of the WDM-PON forum, where he was also one of the founding members.

Abstract: In the last several years it has become apparent the TDM approaches to PON technology will become a bandwidth-limiting factor. In order to utilize a much greater proportion of the available bandwidth on an optical fiber, WDM-PON has been proposed as an alternative for ultra-high bandwidth fiber optic access systems. This talk will focus on recent and current development in the components that will enable cost-effective WDM-PON networks.

Dr. Bas Huiszoon

Biography & Abstract

Biography: Bas Huiszoon is a sales director of Genexis since 2010 and covers the Southern-Europe and Latin-America markets. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 2008. Prior to his position at Genexis, he spent 2 years as a post-doc at the UAM university in Madrid, Spain, to investigate various aspects of next-generation fiber-optic access networks such as optical CDMA, wired-wireless network convergence and energy-efficiency. He published a book on optical code communication, and is the author or co-author of more than 40 papers in international journals and conferences.

Abstract: In this work, we elaborate on the centralization of splitters in wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) passive optical networks (PON) instead of individually placing the splitters in the field. It is shown that such way of deploying WDM PON in fiber-to-the-home/building (FTTH/B) scenarios leads to a higher efficiency in the splitter occupation rate, lowers the energy consumption per user, and can improve the capital and operational expenses (CAPEX, OPEX) during and after deployment. The presentation touches upon these aspects. Moreover, a high-level comparison is made between other popular FTTH technologies such as point-to-point (PTP) Ethernet and Gigabit PON (GPON).

Dr. Bas Huiszoon

Biography & Abstract

Biography: Bas Huiszoon is a sales director of Genexis since 2010 and covers the Southern-Europe and Latin-America markets. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 2008. Prior to his position at Genexis, he spent 2 years as a post-doc at the UAM university in Madrid, Spain, to investigate various aspects of next-generation fiber-optic access networks such as optical CDMA, wired-wireless network convergence and energy-efficiency. He published a book on optical code communication, and is the author or co-author of more than 40 papers in international journals and conferences.

Abstract: The strong increase of bandwidth demand in the access domain presents a challenge for service providers to deliver high-bandwidth and high-quality services to the end user’s device in the home. It is clear that fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) deployments put more pressure on the performance of the in-home network. Commonly, only the power-lines provide coverage to all rooms in a home; however, newly built homes may have coaxial or even CAT-5/6 cables pre-installed to several rooms. As an alternative, polymer optical fiber (POF) is an attractive technology with an outstanding performance, a low-cost, and an ease-of-installation.
This talk addresses the drivers of high-bandwidth in-home networking and positions POF for in-home networking as alternative to legacy solutions. The support of optical in-home networking at the FTTH gateway is discussed. Finally, we present some considerations on the installation issues in brownfield scenarios.

Ulrich Pint

Biography & Abstract

Biography: Born on 12.11.1960 at Hagen. Elektrotrechnik studies at the FH-Hagen to Okt. 1986. 1986 - 2001: Busch-Jaeger Elektro GmbH (ABB) with changing activities. Last overall management of product management in 2001 - today: Head of business area data technology at Rutenbeck.

Abstract:
-Normative requirements acc. DIN 18015-2 / DIN 50173-4
-Installation solutions for new construction and retrofitting
-Practical example

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Fischer-Hirchert

Biography & Abstract

Biography: Academic and Professional Background
Ulrich H. P. Fischer holds Diploma and PhD degree in Physics from the Free University Berlin, Germany. In 2005 he achieved his postdoctoral lecture qualification in photonic  packaging technology at TU Dresden. He has been working on research positions in the Heinrich-Hertz-Institute in Germany. Several international research projects have been performed with European partners from France, Netherlands, Norway and the UK. He is currently Professor of Optical Communications Systems at the Harz University of Applied Sciences, Germany,
Publications and Publishing
He has edited several books about ‘Optoelectronic Packaging’ (VDE, Berlin, Germany), holds several patents and published more than 100 papers in international scientific journals.
Key Research and Consulting Interests
Ulrich’s research activity has always been related to Spectroscopy and Optical Communications Technology. Specific current interests include the validation of complex instruments, and the development of WDM over POF technology for high speed transmission systems. He has been reviewer for several publications of the Optical Society of America's including Photonics Technology Letters and Applied Optics and also at the Deutsche Forschungs Gemeinschaft DFG.

Abstract: Standard communication systems over Polymer Optical Fibers (POFs) use a single channel for data transmission. Strong modal dispersion, caused by high numerical aperture and large core diameter, severely limits the bandwidth - length product of standard step-index POF (SI-POF) to approximately 50 MHz for 100 m. This certainly allows 100 Mbit/s transmission, but for higher data rates spectrally efficient modulation schemes must be used. Many working groups make strong efforts to fully utilize the available bandwidth of SI-POF. Up to now multi gigabit transmission with blue, green and red lasers were reported.
POF, with its numerous advantages as a transmission medium, has a strong potential to re-place traditional communication mediums in consumer’s part of access network. How-ever, due to constantly growing bandwidth demands, a capacity offered by a single channel may present a bottleneck of such a system. After exploiting the capabilities of a single chan-nel, the next step in increasing the capacity of an individual POF is to use multiple channels over a single fiber, which is well known as wavelength division multiplexing (WDM). In glass fiber technology the use of WDM in the infrared range is well established. In fact, WDM is a key technology in modern optical long-haul communications, allowing hundreds of channels to be transferred over a single-mode glass optical fiber.
Combining independent bandwidth-efficient channels onto a single SI-POF by means of WDM technology will make SI-POF an ultimate transmission medium for short-range com-munication systems. This gives strong motivation not only to invest time and resources to develop an efficient MUX/DMUX for SI-POF systems, but also to make efforts to design and standardize spectral grid for future WDM applications in visible spectrum. 

Stéphane Emery

Biography & Abstract

Biography: Master degree in Electrical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and MBA in International Management at the University of Geneva.
1996-2000: Project Leader by Philips Semiconductors, developing micro-controllers and chips for the telephony market.
2000-2006: Design Center Manager by Transwitch Corp, development of chips for high-speed telecommunications (ATM, SDH/SONET, E1/T1, IP). Development of new processor architectures.
2006-2009: Leader of the System Group by NXP and DSPG, leading a multi-site international team with engineers in Israel, Germany and Switzerland. Specification of the products and development of the architecture of cordless and VoIP chips; development of the reference platforms (system solutions) for our customers.
Since 2009: Co-founder and CTO of Innodul. Development of chips for the data transmission over POF (Plastic Optical Fiber) links.

Abstract: Innodul, a Swiss company developing chips for data transmission over POF links, developed a Gigabit chip based on DMT (Discrete Multi Tone) modulation technique. This solution offers full compatibility with existing 100Mbps and 200Mbps solutions and, thanks to the DMT modulation, gives to the user the optimal throughput for any link quality.

Dr. Wolf-Dieter Oels

Biography & Abstract

Biography: Universities: Physics in Bonn and Aachen/Max-Planck-Institut in Düsseldorf  (optics,semiconductors);
Business: silicon semiconductors in Bavaria and California, office equipment in California and Germany, FTTO optical networks, network training seminars, POF marketing at OptechNet (University Duisburg/Essen)

Abstract: EM-fields from mobile communicatio may effect the well being of people in  home networks. Both the WHO (world health organisation) and the Council of Europe have asked  for precautious actions. A solution to combine home cabling and mobile commnication on the basis of POF optical networks with low power access points and the ends of the POF lines is proposed and announced.