GLOBECOM

Tuesday, 29 November, 4:00PM-5:45PM - click here for the slide show (372KB)
Networks Communications: Wireless Issues
Location: Majestic Ballroom F / Level Two / Renaissance Grand Hotel

Session Chair:
Dan Simone, Trapeze Networks, USA - (click here for biography)

Speakers:
Amit Sinha, AirDefense, USA - (click here for biography)
Geri Mitchell-Brown, SpectraLink, USA - (click here for biography)
Tuomo Rutanen, Ekahau, USA - (click here for biography)

What is behind all the hype about Wifi?

Wifi is evolving rapidly with new applications, mobile devices and network equipment arriving continuously in the marketplace. Yet Wifi delivers less performance than cheap, ubiquitous Ethernet and is also perceived to be less reliable and less secure. This session will explore whatís behind this dichotomy with a panel that will discuss the business motivations for adopting wireless, the market drivers for mobile devices, and the some of the major issues that exist in deploying a large scale wifi network.

Tuesday, 29 November, 4:00PM-5:45PM
Enterprise Communications: Wireless Communications "The Missing Link: A Mobility Strategy for Enterprises
Location: Majestic Ballroom F / Level Two / Renaissance Grand Hotel

Session Chair:
Mikko Ju Salminen, Nokia, Finland - (click here for biography)

Speakers:
Mikko Ju Salminen, Nokia, Finland - (click here for biography)
Kirsi Valta Elisa, Technology of Elisha, USA - (click here for biography)
Douglas McMahon, Hewlett Packard, USA - (click here for biography)
Mark Desautels, Wireless Internet Development - (click here for biography)

This session will cover the role of a mobility strategy in optimizing the costs and effectiveness of enterprise communications. It will also cover the economic and strategic drivers behind enterprise mobility, as well as the related impact of convergence. The discussion will include examples of operators who are taking advantage of the enterprise opportunity by offering hosted solutions for wireless voice.

Wednesday, 30 November, 10:30AM-12:15PM - click here for the slide show (216KB)
Enterprise Communications: Virtualization Issues
Location: Majestic Ballroom F / Level Two / Renaissance Grand Hotel

Speakers:
Karl Triebes, F5 USA - (click here for biography)
Leonid Stavnitser, Oracle Global IT - (click here for biography)

This session discusses the virtualization of enterprise IT stacks in optimizing the real-time and compliance related aspects of the enterprise. The economic and strategic drivers behind virtualization will be presented. This discussion will include enterprises who are implementing virtualization across the IT infrastructure. In addition, the panel will discuss demonstrated cost savings achieved by enterprises that have opted for these solutions.

Wednesday, 30 November, 2:00PM-3:45PM
Enterprise Communications: Data Issues
Location: Majestic Ballroom F / Level Two / Renaissance Grand Hotel

Session Chair:
Bill Hayden, Edward Jones, USA - (click here for biography)

Speakers:
Glenn Graber, Cisco, USA - (click here for biography)
Mark Henderson, McData, USA - (click here for biography)
Dave Petersen, IBM, USA - (click here for biography)
Rick Hoffman, Edward Jones, USA - (click here for biography)

This session will focus on advanced functions in storage area networks. We will discuss the concept of applications running in the storage network itself, storage area network extension and protocol conversion. Also under discussion will be data replication and synchronization through storage networks.

Wednesday, 30 November, 4:00PM-5:45PM
Enterprise Communications: Security Issues "Emerging Threats in Enterprise Messaginges
Location: Majestic Ballroom F / Level Two / Renaissance Grand Hotel

Speakers:
Sean D. True, Inboxer, Inc., USA - (click here for biography)
Jon Callas, PGP Inc., USA - (click here for biography)
Wally Marsden, Avinti Inc,., USA - (click here for biography)
Jon Sakoda, IMlogic, Inc., USA - (click here for biography)

Enterprise messaging is under direct attack today from spam, spim, phishing and viruses. Additional risk has long been present from intellectual property leakage and privacy violations through non-compliant messaging, though the superlinear growth in use of electronic messaging across the corporate threshold, and the addition of new capabilities and new protocols, has significantly increased the security workload and the need for technical mitigation. This panel will address these issues, with a focus on new threats to the enterprise, both against messaging infrastructure and against other assets via messaging-borne attacks. The discussion will focus on existing and emerging technical mitigation of risk from these threats.

Thursday, 1 December, 10:30AM-12:15PM
Military Communications: Operational Issues
Location: Majestic Ballroom F / Level Two / Renaissance Grand Hotel

Session Chair:
To be announced

This session will address network-enabled military communications need to support joint and allied operations. Senior government and military leaders will present operational designs and address concerns.

Thursday, 1 December, 2:00PM-3:4PM - click here for the slide show (1.7MB)
Military Communications: Systems Issues
Location: Majestic Ballroom F / Level Two / Renaissance Grand Hotel

Session Chair:
William W. Schoening, The Boeing Company, USA - (click here for biography)
David Corman, The Boeing Company, USA - (click here for biography)

This session will present some of the successes and challenges in developing and delivering networked communications systems. Invited speakers from industry will present system architecture and design for high availability solutions.

Thursday, 1 December, 4:00PM-5:45PM
Military Communications: Research Issues
Location: Majestic Ballroom F / Level Two / Renaissance Grand Hotel

Session Chair:
James Gantt, Murray State University, USA - (click here for biography)

Speakers:
Jay Gowens, US Army Research Laboratory, USA - (click here for biography)
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John D. McLean, Naval Research Laboratory, USA - (click here for biography)
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This session will present emerging systems and technologies showcasing the state-of-the-art in military communications. Invited speakers from university and government labs will present research activities and describe recent advances.