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OIF Board of Directors
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President
Hans-Martin Foisel
Deutsche Telekom
Phone: +49.30.3497.4466
Fax: +49.30.3497.4956
Email: H.Foisel@telekom.de |
Vice President
Stephen Shew
Nortel
Phone: +1.613.763.2462
Fax: +1.613.763.7204
Email: sdshew@nortel.com |
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Secretary/Treasurer
Martha Fratt
AT&T
Phone: +1.732.420.6188
Fax: +1.732.368.7280
Email: fratt@att.com |
Vice President, Marketing
Jim Jones
Alcatel-Lucent
Phone: +1.972.477.2744
Fax: +1.972.408.7109
Email: jim.d.jones@alcatel-lucent.com |
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Board Member
Ghani Abbas
Ericsson
Phone: +44.24.7643.5405
Email: ghani.abbas@ericsson.com |
Board Member
Jeffrey Hutchins
CoreOptics
Phone: 1.408.838.9111
Email: jeff@coreoptics.com |
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Board Member
Steve Joiner
Finisar
Phone: +1.408.542.5032
Fax: +1.408.710.1133
Email: Steve.joiner@finisar.com |
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Technical Committee
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Technical Committee Chair
Lyndon Ong
Ciena Corporation
Phone: +1.408.962.4929
Email: lyong@ciena.com |
Technical Committee Vice Chair
Klaus-Holger Otto
Alcatel-Lucent
Phone: +49.911.526.3594
Fax: +49.911.526.3595
Email: khotto@alcatel-lucent.com |
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Architecture & Signaling Working Group Chair
Jonathan Sadler
Tellabs
Phone: +1.630.798.6182
Fax: +1.630.798.6347
Email: jonathan.sadler@tellabs.com |
Carrier Working Group Chair
Hans-Martin Foisel
Deutsche Telekom
Phone: +49.30.3497.4466
Fax: +49.30.3497.4956
Email: H.Foisel@telekom.de |
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Interoperability Working Group Chair
Jim Jones
Alcatel-Lucent
Phone: +1.972.477.2744
Fax: +1.972.408.7109
Email: jim.d.jones@alcatel-lucent.com |
OAM&P Working Group Chair
Doug Zuckerman
Telcordia Technologies
Phone: +1.732.493.4620
Fax: +1.732.876.0215
Email: w2xd@aol.com |
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Physical and Link Layer Working Group Chair
David R. Stauffer, Ph.D.
IBM Corporation
Phone: +1.802.769.6914
Fax: +1.802.769.5882
Email: dstauffe@us.ibm.com |
Physical Layer User Group Chair
Torsten Wuth
Nokia Siemens Networks
Phone: +49.89.636.86471
Fax: +49.89.636.55900
Email: torsten.wuth@nsn.com |
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Physical and Link Layer Working Group Vice Chair
Karl Gass
Sandia National Laboratories
Phone: +1.505.844.8849
Fax: +1.505.844.7011
Email: kgass@sandia.gov |
Market Awareness & Education Committee (MA&E)
MA&E Committee Co-Chair; Networking
Dave Brown
Alcatel-Lucent
Phone: +1.908.582.4085
Email: dave.brown@alcatel-lucent.com |
MA&E Committee Co-Chair; PLL
Rod Smith
Tyco Electronics
Phone: +1.717.986.5912
Email: rssmith@tycoelectronics.com |
OIF Board of Directors (detail)
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Hans-Martin Foisel
Hans-Martin Foisel is Head of Hybrid Technology Department in the Technical Engineering Center at Deutsche Telekom. A main activity area comprises control plane enabled networks, their architectures, functions, standardization and interoperability aspects. He joined the OIF in 1998, being active mainly in the Networking Working Groups and is chairing since 2002 the Carrier Working Group. Prior to joining Deutsche Telekom, he has worked at Heinrich-Hertz-Institute in Berlin for 19 years in the field of optical transmission systems research. He holds a diploma of Electrical Engineering from the University Kassel and the Technical University Berlin, Germany.
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Stephen Shew
Stephen Shew is an Architect in the Optical Networks business unit at Nortel. In his career at Nortel, Stephen has participated in the development and specification of distributed routing protocols, traffic engineering optimization tools, ATM PNNI, and MPLS signalling. His standards involvement has included the ATM Forum and IETF. He is currently participating in ITU-T Study Group 15 and the Optical Internetworking Forum, and contributes to the architecture and protocols for the Automatic Switched Optical Network (ASON). Stephen received his Bachelor of Computer Science from Carleton University and MSc from the University of Toronto.
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Martha Fratt
Bio coming soon.
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Jim Jones
Jim Jones joined Alcatel-Lucent in 1999 and is currently Optics Transport Applications Marketing Manager. In this role Jim develops and supports global marketing and sales of cross-product optical transport solutions, leading a virtual team of product managers, marketing, CTO, network architects, and regional solutions and marketing members. His team focuses on intelligent optical solutions enabled by innovations in control plane and cross-layer automation. Jim is active in standardization work and has contributed to control plane standards and interoperability work in OIF, ITU-T and IETF. He chaired the OIF Architecture/Signaling Working Group from 2001 to 2004 and the OIF Technical Committee from 2004 to 2007. Before joining Alcatel-Lucent, Jim was a Senior Member of Technical Staff with Texas Instruments and Raytheon from 1978 to 1999, developing real-time signal processing and RF systems. He received his BSEE and MSEE from the University of Michigan, and his MS in Telecommunications from Southern Methodist University.
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Ghani Abbas
Ghani Abbas has spent over twenty years in SDH and Optical Networks business, initially with GPT, Marconi and recently with Ericsson, UK. He is currently international standards Consultant in the Optical Networks product strategy department. He previously held various engineering development and management posts. He is currently the rapporteur for ITU-T SG15 Q9, which develops standards for transport network equipment and network protection and restoration. He is an active member of IEEE802.3, OIF, ITU-T SG15. Ghani received B.Sc (Honour) from Manchester University in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D degree in Electronics from Southampton University, UK.
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Jeffrey Hutchins
Jeff is currently Director of Business Development for CoreOptics and has been involved in optoelectronic product development for over 29 years. Jeff has been active in developing and promoting standards efforts and has authored many of the Optical Internetworking Forum's tunable laser implementation agreements. Prior to joining CoreOptics, Jeff worked at Hewlett Packard for 22 years managing a wide variety of optical IC efforts. In 2000, Jeff joined iolon where he managed the tunable laser product line, and in 2005, Jeff joined Intel managing telecom product development. Jeff earned his BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
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Steve Joiner
Steve has been developing products for emerging fiber-optic communication applications for 25 years. Steve currently works with Finisar Corporation. Prior to joining Finisar, Steve was director of marketing for pluggable transceivers at Bookham. Steve works with both customers and standards bodies to create the best application of technology to meet market needs. Steve joined Hewlett-Packard in 1978, working in III-V devices, fiber-optic cable fabrication, fiber-optic transceiver development and standards development. He was program manager for HP¹s first 1300 nm LED transceiver for the ESCON and FDDI markets. Later, he was responsible for all fiber-optic product development, then moved into technology planning and pre-competitive collaboration. In 1999 he joined the newly-formed Agilent Technologies Corporate Laboratory, where he managed the Network Architecture and Technology Department. He has chaired numerous standards committees, participating in the development several multi-source agreements for fiber-optic packaging. Steve earned his BA, MA and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Rice University in Houston.
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OIF Officers
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Dave Brown
Dave Brown is a Senior Director of Marketing for Alcatel-Lucent where he leads the strategic marketing and cross-product solutions marketing teams for the Optics Business Division. In this role Dave is responsible for global market development and pre-sales support. His team focuses on developing and marketing all-packet transport solutions for carriers, MSOs, and enterprises. This work focuses on Ethernet, triple play, wireless transport, and storage area networking applications. In his 25 years experience in telecommunications marketing, Dave has led global marketing programs for products and services across the telecommunications value chain– from PBXs and PC Cards to microprocessors, multiplexers and manufacturing services. Recently, Dave was re-elected to the position of Co-Chair - Market Awareness and Education Committee – Networking of the Optical Internetworking Forum. Dave has completed executive education programs at The Wharton School-University of Pennsylvania and Thunderbird-The Garvin Graduate School of International Management.
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Rod Smith
Rod Smith has 10 years experience in Product Management and Business Development for Tyco Electronics. Currently, he is a Global Industry Lead, driving new product development for Data Center applications. Rod is the OIF Market Awareness and Education Committee Co-Chair - Physical and Link Layer. Additionally, he is active in numerous industry standards, including T10 and T11 working committees under INCITS, the Small Form Factor (SFF) committee and supports Tyco Electronics’ global industry standards presence. Rod earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Wake Forest University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Pennsylvania State University.
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Lyndon Ong
Lyndon Ong is currently Director of Network Control Architecture in the CTO organization of Ciena Corporation, a supplier of intelligent optical and data transport equipment. Dr. Ong joined Ciena in 2001 after working at Nortel Networks, Bay Networks and Bellcore/Telcordia. He received his doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 1991. He has had a long career in the area of control protocols, starting with the original team defining Signaling System 7 standards for North America, to working on ATM networking, IP QoS and SCTP transport protocols and finally the optical control plane. Dr. Ong has chaired groups in ITU-T Standards, currently chairs the Signaling Transport WG in IETF, and was editor of the OIF E-NNI Signaling 1.0 Implementation Agreement.
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Klaus-Holger Otto
Klaus-Holger Otto is ASIC/FPGA Design Engineer in R&D of the Optics Division of Alcatel-Lucent Germany. He is a member of the Alcatel-Lucent Technical Academy (ALTA), a network of technical matter experts inside the company. He joined OIF in 2003, being mainly active in the Physical and Link Layer Working Group and Physical Link Layer Users Group. He served up to date as editor for several OIF projects: TDM-P, CEI-P, SFI-5.2, SFI-S, CEI-28-SR and CEI-25-LR. Prior to Alcatel-Lucent, he worked for Philips Kommunikations Industrie (PKI), AT&T and Lucent Technologies. He holds a diploma of Electrical Engineering from Technical University Darmstadt, Germany.
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