International Engineering Consortium: Broadband Industry Converges On Berlin.Business Editors Broadband DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary World Forum 2002 CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 11, 2002 Top executives from Europe's leading broadband service providers are coming to Berlin, October 28-31 for the International Engineering Consortium's Broadband DSL World Forum 2002. Chaired by Gerd Tenzer, Member of the Managing Board at Deutsche Telekom, the World Forum will focus on the broadband technology developments, provisioning challenges, regulations, obstacles, and opportunities facing the global DSL marketplace, with a special focus on Europe. The following is a partial list of key business leaders who will be speaking at the four-day industry conference--a must-attend event for all service providers, manufacturers and content providers: Hans Albert Aukes, Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , T-Com 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. , T-Com, Deutsche Telekom Albrecht Baur, President Broadband Access Business Unit, Siemens ICN ICN International Council of Nurses. Pinny Chaviv, President and CEO, Inovia Telecoms/ECI Martin Cooper, CEO, ArrayComm John Davies, Chief Operating Officer, British Telecom Mark de Simone, Vice President-Technical Marketing, Cisco Ashok Dhawan, President, Broadband Access Group, Lucent Technologies Glenda Dorchak, Vice President, Platform Networking Group, Intel Chris Earnshaw, Group Engineering Director and CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. , British Telecom Jean-Yves Gouiffes, Executive Vice President, France Telecom Paul Hanson, Director-Strategic Planning, Aliant Telecom Kevin Keith, Vice President and Leader, Global Strategic Research Laboratory, Telecom Media Networks, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Stefano Pileri, President-Network Services, Telecom Italia Michel Rahier, President, Broadband Networks, Alcatel Dr. Ulrich Schoen, President-Access Solutions, Siemens ICN Geir A. Sivertsvik, Visionary Officer, Telenor Networks and Chairman, GIIF GIIF Global ISDN & Future Access Technologies Industry Forum Wim Steenhaut, Vice President-Product Management, Belgacom Elek Straub, Chairman and CEO, MATAV MATAV Magyar Tavkozlesi Vallalat (telephone company; Hungary) William Witowsky, CTO, Broadband Communication Group, Texas Instruments The World Forum is designed to help service providers deliver profitable, efficient broadband services, including incumbent local exchange carriers, unbundlers, ASPs, ISPs, cable companies, and wireless/satellite communications carriers. For information on participating in the Broadband DSL World Forum 2002, call 312-559-4600 or visit http://www.iec.org/events/2002/dslwfeurope/. About Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom is Europe's largest communications company and one of the largest communications carriers worldwide based on 2001 revenues of 48.3 billion euros. The company is active in four key growth segments of the global telecommunications market: mobile communications, network access services, consumer Internet services and integrated IT and telecommunications solutions. Through T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom's mobile telephony subsidiary, and through other majority and minority shareholdings, Deutsche Telekom today served more than 69 million mobile telephony customers worldwide. Deutsche Telekom offers its customers a complete range of fixed-line voice telephony products and services through more than 57 million access lines. The company is a leading provider of high-speed digital access lines, with about 2.3 million new asymmetric digital subscriber line (communications, protocol) Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line - (ADSL, or Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop) A form of Digital Subscriber Line in which the bandwidth available for downstream connection is significantly larger then for upstream. (T-DSL T-DSL Telekom-Digital Subscriber Line (Deutsche Telekom) ) services currently sold and about 21 million channels using the information transfer standard ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. (Integrated Services Digital Network Integrated services digital network (ISDN) A generic term referring to the integration of communications services transported over digital facilities such as wire pairs, coaxial cables, optical fibers, microwave radio, and satellites. ) as of year end 2001. T-Online is one of Europe's largest Internet service providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. , with approximately 11 million subscribers. T-Systems is Europe's second-largest provider of comprehensive IT and telecommunication solution and services to business customers in more than 20 countries. For more information about Deutsche Telekom, visit www.telekom.de/international. About the International Engineering Consortium The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) is a nonprofit, university-affiliated organization dedicated to catalyzing positive change in the information industry. The Consortium conducts research, develops educational forums, provides Web-based learning programs that address key topics and technologies for the information age. Also, the Consortium has important service programs for academia. For detailed information on IEC programs, visit www.iec.org. |
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