Study Group: Carrier Edge (Access) Equipment Experts(?)
Council Members in this Study Group: 78
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Leading Experts in this Study Group
President
Telecom Strategic Visions
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,...
Samuel GreenholtzPrincipal
Telecom Pragmatics
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...
Michael Horsch FizzSenior Advisor
FCI Inc.
Michael Horsch Fizz is the Senior Advisor at FCI, a company providing system integration and strategy consulting services. He specializes in monitoring and predicting industry trends coupled with quantitative and qualitative reviews of technology vendors. Vendors include but are not limited to Avaya,...
Mark TeterChief Technology Officer
ADVANCED SYSTEMS GROUP
Mark Teter is the Chief Technology Officer at Advanced Systems Group, a value added reseller and systems integrator. He is responsible for managing accounts for Sun Microsystems, IBM, Hitachi Data Systems, EMC, Symantec, Qlogic, Emulex, F5, Adaptec, Network Appliance, Cisco, Quantum, Brocade and Checkpoint....
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Telscape Communications
Joseph Holop is the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Telscape Communications, a competitive local exchange carrier employing 600. He is responsible for engineering, network, switching, field operations, IT development and IT infrastructure. Mr. Holop is a member of the executive...
Distinguished MTS
Sprint Nextel Corporation
Zhisheng Chen, Ph.D., is a member of technical staff at Sprint, a wireless carrier. He is responsible for support of the Sprint network evolution plan, and formulating network architecture and tech ecosystems framework to support Sprint tech development. He was responsible for development of the ecosystems...
Jacob LarsenVP Merger Integration, Carrier Business Group
Alcatel - Lucent - CC
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....
Executive Director
Four Points Technology, L.L.C.
Thomas Flynn is the Executive Director of Four Points Technology, providing IT products and Services to the Federal government. Previously, he was the Executive Director - Partners & Programs at Apptis...
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1. Several years ago, the proposed merger between Tellabs and Ciena made a lot of sense. 2. Now from Tellabs’ perspective, a potential marriage would appear even more favorable. 3. Private equity firms taking over...
1. It is hard to ignore the irony of a recent statement in USA Today made by Ciena’s CEO, Gary Smith. 2. He said, “Experience is not about having more answers. It's about asking the right questions." 3. AT&T...
All stock holders need to calm down. Of course things are going to get worse before they get better. It is the nature of restructuring – pain first, followed by healing, followed by growth. Sprint needs ot rid itself of non-core assets now to pay down debt.
The stakes will be high in suppliers vying for the business of AT&T. 2. The technologies span the network – from last mile access to high-capacity long haul at the largest RBOC. 3. Although Verizon has completed its major RFPs for now, there appears to be at least a couple out there...
1. Ciena’s international position is definitely looking up. 2. Throughout Europe, the supplier is working really hard to get additional market penetration. 3. While Asia has never really been a hot spot for Ciena,...
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