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ADVISORY/ Bijan Khosravi of Movaz Networks to Discuss the Coming `Third Inflection Point' of Telecommunications Networks at the Next Generation Networks Ventures Conference.


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ADVISORY...for Thursday (April 19)

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 2001

In a session April 19 on "Core Optical Platforms - Switching to a Dynamic Backbone," Bijan Khosravi, Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Movaz Networks, will present his views on the delivery of wavelength-based services as the next "shake out" point at the dawning of the all optical network.

What carriers need in the all optical network is a way to implement bandwidth on demand and shorter waits for service provisioning. Both of these features are aimed at one thing, faster revenue generation to lead to profitability. This represents the coming "third inflection point Inflection Point

An event that changes the way we think and act.
-Andy Grove, Founder of Intel.

Notes:
For example, the fall of the Berlin Wall was an inflection point in global politics and the commercialization of the Internet was an inflection point in technology.
." The first occurred at the juncture of OC-192 vs. OC-48 and the second arose with the advent of "next generation SONET" platforms.

Before founding Movaz, Mr. Bijan Khosravi was vice president of global optical sales at Redback Networks Redback Networks is a telecommunications equipment company. History
Redback Networks was founded in August, 1996. Redback is an ERICSSON subsidiary since the beginning of 2007 (was previously traded on NASDAQ under the symbol RBAK).
. He co-founded Siara Systems, where he had responsibility for business development, product planning Product Planning is the ongoing process of identifying and articulating market requirements that define a product’s feature set. See also
  • Market requirement
  • Product management
  • Product Manager
 and management, product marketing, and marketing communication. In late 1999, Siara and Redback agreed to merge, at which time Siara was priced at $4.3B. Before Siara, Mr. Khosravi was with Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony  where he led the strategic and business development group for Nortel's SONET and optical network division.

If you are interested in interviewing Mr. Khosravi during this conference or another time, please contact Michael Newsom at tel. 508 541 9036 or email mnewsom31@mediaone.net.

    WHEN:    Thursday, April 19, 2001
             8:30 - 10:15 a.m.

    WHERE:   Next Generation Networks Ventures (www.ngnventures.com)
             Hyatt Regency, San Francisco Airport
             1333 Bayshore Highway
             Burlingame, CA 94010


About Movaz Networks

Movaz Networks provides next generation all optical solutions for delivery of cost effective wavelength services. The company's products, designed for established and emerging carriers, are full-featured carrier-class solutions incorporating advanced optical transport, distributed photonic switching, MPLS (1) (MultiProtocol Lambda Switching) The earlier name for GMPLS. See GMPLS.

(2) (MultiProtocol Label Switching) A standard from the IETF for including routing information in the packets of an IP network.
 (multi-protocol lambda switching See GMPLS. ) protocols, and standards based network management. Bijan Khosravi, CEO, founded Movaz in June 2000. Movaz has grown rapidly to over 200 technical and business professionals. It has facilities in Atlanta, Cleveland, Washington Cleveland is a tiny unincorporated community in Klickitat County, Washington. It contains an old cemetery and a rodeo. The rodeo, the oldest in the state, has been completely refurbished.  and Ottawa. Visit Movaz on the web at www.movaz.com.
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