From: Ray Pelletier <rpelletier@isoc.org>
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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:08:41 -0500
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Subject: [79all] Thursday Speakers & FREE Lunch! Thanks Huawei!
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Attending the Thursday Speaker Series?

Lunch is on Huawei!  That's right, Huawei is buying lunch.

Seating is limited to 300 or so. =20

Lunch boxes will be available in the Valley Wing Ballroom Foyer: Choices =
of food include: sandwich, salad, fruit, water.=20

Two Speakers.  Two topics.

Where:  	Valley Grand Ballroom B
When:	Thursday, Noon - 12:50


Topic 1:  	Virtualization and Cloud Networking

	New IT models such as cloud computing are driving the need for =
greater service agility, energy efficiency and dynamism in
	networks. How will network equipment vendors respond? What can =
we learn from advances in virtualization and cloud
	computing? How will router architectures change? What are the =
major technical challenges and how can we as an industry
	and academic community address them?

Speaker:  Geoffrey Mattson, CTO and VP of Huawei Technologies IP BU

	Geoffrey has held positions as Engineering VP and CTO for =
several routing system startups. He holds numerous patents in the IP and =
MPLS technologies and has contributed to standards. He currently serves =
as CTO and VP of the IP Business Unit at Huawei Technologies in Silicon =
Valley.


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Topic 2:	Opportunities and Challenges for Next Generation =
Communication Network
Speaker:	Yuan Fei, Vice General Manager, Standards Development =
and Industry Relations, ZTE Corporation

	Yuan has been with ZTE since 1996 and has also held positions as =
Technical Planning Manager, Optical Transmission System Dept., and Chief =
Engineer, Strategic Planning and Standard Research, Optical Transport =
Product Division.