IEC's C5 World Forum Forges through Network and Technologies Frontier with Global Leaders in Milan
U.S. Contact: Lisa Reyes
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E-Mail: lreyes@iec.org
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European Contact: Howard Jones
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MILAN – 5 April 2007 – The International Engineering Consortium (IEC's) C5 World Forum; led the way in discovering the latest advancements in next-generation networks last month at the Fiera Milano Congressi Milan Convention Centre with Telecom Italia as the official host sponsor.
Global leaders such as Stefano Pileri, managing director of technology at Telecom Italia; Matt Bross, group chief technology officer of BT Group; and Bruno Lamborghini, vice chairman at Olivetti and chairman of the EITO, served as keynoters last week at the forum.
IEC Executive Vice President Roger Plummer commented, "The C5 World Forum closed with industry professionals from around the globe learning the latest in next-generation networks and technologies from nearly 200 global leaders paving the way for the industry. We are looking forward to bringing this niche group together again next year in London with BT as the official host sponsor."
Other ICT (information and communications technologies) leaders, including Debra Covey, managing director at BT Wholesale; Jaime Fink, vice president of technology and strategy at 2Wire; Eugenio Iannone, senior vice president of application engineering and market validation at Pirelli Labs; Stefano Nocentini, head of Tilab at Telecom Italia; Paolo Pastorino, chief technology officer at Home Gateway Initiative; Eyal Rosen, vice president of marketing at Nokia Siemens Network; Yossi Saad, vice president of marketing at Actelis; David Stevenson, vice president of access network management and home devices product group at Alcatel-Lucent; Emil Svanberg, vice president of product management at Operax; and Martin Thunman, chief executive officer at PacketFront, shared their expert knowledge and insight with C5 World Forum attendees.
Major sponsors of the C5 World Forum included Telecom Italia (official host sponsor), Nokia and Siemens representing the future Nokia Siemens Networks, Ericsson, Italtel, ADVA Optical Networking, ECI, KEYMILE, Tellabs, Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei Technologies, Thomson, Operax and more.
The C5 World Forum exhibition also housed many leading-edge technologies, including PBT (provider backbone bridge - traffic engineering) developments from Nortel as well as Nokia and Siemens representing the future Nokia Siemens Networks. Huawei Technologies officially unveiled its WDM/OTN solution, a WDM-based optical transport network and automatic switched optical network (OTN/ASON), which incorporates its OSN6800 and OSN3800 optical switches.
Also on the floor of the C5 World Forum, Pirelli illustrated its WDM-PON technology by showing C5 delegates how its own booth could act as the OLT to deliver a wavelength to the booths of Alcatel-Lucent, Telecom Italia and Italtel. Each of the booths acted as a "building" by housing the ONT.
The IEC brings this event back to London in 2008 with BT as the official host sponsor.
For more C5 event news and highlights, including photos, interviews and news coverage of the C5 World Forum, visit www.iec.org/events/2007/c5 or contact Lisa Reyes at lreyes@iec.org or at +1-312-559-3325.
About the C5 World Forum
The C5 World Forum (Customer-Centric Converged Communication and Content), focused on networks and technologies, emerged from the need to move beyond the digital networked economy to focus more intently on the implications of network convergence of communications and its role in shaping personalized content and communications for customers.
Previously known as the 21st Century Communications World Forum, the forum premiered in 2005, drawing more than 2,000 registrants eager to discuss the latest advances in the move toward customer-centric information and communications technologies. The 2006 show in London, England, which saw a 75 percent increase in registration over the 2005 forum, analyzed the business and technology requirements for making convergent IP communications a reality in today's world on a carrier scale.
The premiere of the C5 World Forum will take place in the Fiera Milano Congressi in Milan, Italy, from 26–29 March 2007. Telecom Italia will be the forum's official host sponsor. For more information, visit www.iec.org/events/2007/c5.
About the IEC
A nonprofit organization, the IEC is dedicated to catalyzing technology and business progress worldwide in a range of high-technology industries and their university communities. Since 1944, the IEC has provided high-quality educational opportunities for industry professionals, academics, and students.
In conjunction with industry-leading companies, the IEC has developed an extensive, free, on-line educational program. The IEC conducts industry-university programs that have a substantial impact on curricula. It also conducts research and develops publications, conferences, and technological exhibits that address major opportunities and challenges of the information age.
More than 70 leading high-technology universities are IEC affiliates, and the IEC handles the affairs of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association and Eta Kappa Nu, the honor society for electrical and computer engineers. Visit www.iec.org.
