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Conference Program
- 09:00 a.m. - 09:30 a.m. Registration & Coffee
- 09:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Introduction
Simon Stanley, author of the Heavy Reading report, "ATCA, AMC, & MicroTCA Market Forecast: Revenue Surge Ahead," sets the scene with a review of recent developments in the market, looking at technology trends, customer acceptance, and market growth. The high-availability features built into ATCA, AMC, and MicroTCA open up new opportunities for semiconductor vendors, chassis and backplane vendors, telecom blade manufacturers, and networking system vendors to expand their businesses and bring down system and development costs.
- 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Panel Session: Is ATCA Delivering Flexibility & Performance?
The ATCA platform is billed as a truly flexible and interoperable COTS solution delivering the required performance for many telecom applications, from wireless infrastructure through IMS to IPTV. In this session we review the business case for ATCA and discuss the limitations and challenges facing system designers considering ATCA as a platform.
Panelists: Ian MacMillan, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Interphase
Venkataraman Prasannan, Senior Director for AdvancedTCA Product Line, Radisys
Tom Ertel, Vice President of Engineering, Nextpoint Networks/Genband
- 11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. Break
- 11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Keynote: Anthony Ambrose, VP & GM of Communications Networks, RadiSys
- 12:00 p.m. - 01:30 p.m. Lunch & Table-Top Displays
- 01:30 p.m. - 02:30 p.m. Panel Session: Is Off-the-Shelf Software for ATCA Applications a Reality?
Software is a key part of any telecom system. Software developers have a wide range of solutions to choose from, including carrier-grade Linux, high availability middleware, databases, and other common building blocks. In this session we discuss whether these solutions are really available off-the-shelf for ATCA-based applications and what the challenges are for developers wanting to integrate these solutions.
Panelists: Michael Christofferson, Director of Product Management, Enea
Eric Gregory, ATCA Senior Product Manager, Radisys
Hakan Millroth, CEO & Co-Founder, Tail-f Systems
David Fick, Chief Architect, GoAhead Software
- 02:30 p.m. - 02:45 p.m. Break
- 02:45 p.m. - 03:30 p.m. Keynote: Paul Steinberg, Chairman, SCOPE Alliance
- 03:30 p.m. - 04:30 p.m. Roundtable: The Impact of ATCA
Light Reading's West Coast Editor, Craig Matsumoto, will moderate this discussion on the impact that ATCA and other standardized platforms are having on the telecom market; the organizational changes required to implement ATCA; best practices and lessons learned; where are we now; and what are the key challenges going forward.
Panelists: Paul Steinberg, Motorola Fellow & Chief Architect, Home & Networks Mobility, Motorola Networks
Eric Gregory, ATCA Product Manager, Radisys
Al Hewitt, Principle Software Architecture, 4DK Technologies, Inc.
- 04:30 p.m. - 06:30 p.m. Cocktail Reception & Table-Top Displays
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