Conferences and Other Professional Activities



International Workshops on Optical Burst Switching (WOBS) at Opticomm 2003, and Globecomm 2003
Organized and Chaired by Chunming Qiao


Discussion Group on "Optical Networking" as a part of the NSF ANIR PI Workshop, Washington D.C., Jan 2003
Chaired by Chunming Qiao (see Final Report in PDF)


Panel on "IP over (ATM/SONET/WDM)": as a part of the IEEE Globecom, Brazil, Dec. 1999
Co-organized by Chunming Qiao of SUNY at Buffalo and Ender Ayanoglu of Cisco
(see Introduction in Powerpoint)

Distinguished panelists and their slides (click on their names to download PowerPoint files):
Joe Berthold, VP Network Architecture and Standards, Ciena,
Richard Cardwell, Director, Network Studies, Telcordia Technologies
Jeff Fitchett, Advanced Network Planning, Nortel Networks
Larry McAdams, Manager, Optical Internetworking Business, Cisco
Niall Robinson, Director, Photonic System Integration, Qtera
Antonio Rodriguez, Manager, Optical Networking Architecture, Bell-labs, Lucent
Charles Rohrs, Research Fellow, Tellabs Research Center


Panel on "How will Optical Internet Evolve?" organized at the All-optical Networking Conf, Boston, Sept 1999

Introduction (PowerPoint) by Chunming Qiao, SUNY at Buffalo
Presentation (PowerPoint) by Bill St. Arnaud, Senior Project Director, CANARIE Inc., CANADA
Presentation (PowerPoint) by Joseph Bannister, Director, Computer Network Division, Information Science Institute, USC, CA.
Presentation (PowerPoint) by Charles Rohrs, Research Fellow, Tellabs Research Center, Boston, MA.
Presentation (PowerPoint) by David Su, Manager, High Speed Networks, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Maryland, USA.
Presentation (PowerPoint) by Yijun Xiong, Senior Scientist, Alcatel USA Corporate Research Center, Texas.


Keynote: "The Optical Future of High-Speed Networks", delivered at the Sixth Int'l Workshop on Protocols for High Speed Networks (PfHSN), Salem, MA. Aug. 1999.


Interview Article: "All-optical Networks May One Day Form a National Backbone" in SPIE's OE Reports Aug. 1999


Video-taped interview: Played during the Alcatel's Communications Week (an Alcatel-Bell PR extravaganza) Belgium, Nov. 1998

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