Leading Experts in WAN Equipment Market Experts

Puneet Chopra, BE, MBA is an Independent Consultant, looking after Service Layer Solutions for the Fixed and Wireless market place. These include: Broadband Access Technologies; Mobile Packet Backbone Architectures; RADIUS; WAP Gateway; Intelligent Network Services like Mobile-VPN & Fixed network VPN;...

Michael Gazier is a Senior Director in the Office of the CTO at Ciena, a company specializing in data, voice, cell/4G, video transport, and networking equipment for telecom, MSO, government, and enterprises. He works on business development, network architecture, and M&A activities. He also contributes...

William Gewirtz, Ph.D., is the Lead Partner of Communications and Networking at the Market Strategy Group, a management consultancy. He is also the Principal of WLG Consulting, a company providing consulting services to operating and investment entities in the enterprise networking and the telecom sector.

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Sam Greenholtz is the Co-Founder and Principal of Telecom Pragmatics, Inc., a consulting and market research company specializing in the telecom market. He has expertise inc FTTx, optical networking, VoIP, ethernet and wireless technologies including WiMAX, 3G, CDMA and EV-DO. Prior to joining the consulting...

Gerald Harris is an independent consultant. He is currently a program manager and consultant for the UMTS roll-out for a wireless carrier in the US. He is responsible for site acquisition and development, RF design, construction and core network integration. Previously, Mr. Harris was the Senior Project...

Michael Horsch Fizz is a Senior Advisor at FCI, a company providing system integration and strategy consulting services. Mr. Fizz specializes in monitoring and predicting industry trends coupled with quantitative and qualitative reviews of technology vendors. Vendors include Avaya, Brocade, CA, 3Com,...

Hong Jiang, PhD, is the President and Chief Executive Officer in HJ Solutions, a technology consulting firm. Dr. Jiang has expertise in the Chinese mobile industry. She focuses on Chinese operators’ reorganization efforts, 3G wireless developments including the domestic standard TD SCDMA and wireless...

Jacob Larsen is the Vice President Merger Integration for the Carrier Business Group at Alcatel-Lucent. He oversees the consolidation of Alcatel’s and Lucent’s activities in broadband access, optical networking, carrier routing, wireless networking (CDMA, GSM, 3G UMTS, WiMax, and LTE) and NG networking....

Matthias Machowinski is a Directing Analyst at Infonetics Research, a market research company since 2000. He has expertise in enterprise voice and data technologies and buying trends. He also has expertise in communication networks deployed by SMBs and enterprises at the desktop, wiring closets, and...

Paul Massie is the Senior Director of Information Technology at Genesis Microchip, a fabless semiconductor firm with 1,200 employees. He is responsible for all IT functions at a growing US$ 300MM company based in multiple countries. Previously, Mr. Massie was the Director of IT Infrastructure at Openwave...

Cliff McElroy is the President of Datec, systems integrator and value added reseller providing data center solutions, LAN, WAN and VPN, application optimization, global availability, data center power, backup recovery, IT Cost Visibility, storage, security, convergence and wireless applications. He...

Sheldon Meredith is the Senior Director of National Radio Network Strategy and Development at AT&T Mobility, formerly Cingular Wireless, a company providing mobile voice and data communication services. He has over 23 years experience in mobile communications product R&D; telecom manufacturing, deployment...

Dave Metcalf is the President and Chief Executive Officer of JCN Group, a systems integration firm providing solutions to commercial and federal government clients. He has more than 18 years of experience in the information technology and telecommunications industries. His firm provides solutions from...

Roberto Saracco, Ph.D., is the Director of Long Term Research and Scientific Communications at Telecom Italia, an integrated wireline carrier. He is also Director of The Future Centre in Venice, a research think tank on new Ecosystems and related Biz Models. He is responsible for development of technology...

Joseph Savage is the Managing Director at Telecom ThinkTank Inc., a telecommunications consultancy. Mr. Savage is also the President of the Fiber to the Home Council, North America, a market advocacy group of 130 high-tech companies. He has more than 30 years of experience in telecommunications networking...

Matthew Standish is the Owner and Principal of Interactive Mobile Media, a consultancy. He was most recently (9/07) the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for BroadSoft’s Wireless, IMS and VoIP soft-switching solutions. He is now consulting on his own within the telecom field. Previously Mr. Standish was...

Stephen Sutkowski is the President of Telecom Strategic Visions, a consultant firm. He has working knowledge of business processes (service activation, provisioning, service assurance, and customer care), network functional and performance requirements, evaluation and analysis of suppliers for routing,...