Network Processing Forum Announces New Board Members and Working Group Chairs.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 19, 2002 The Network Processing Forum The Network Processing Forum (NPF) was organized to facilitate and accelerate the development of next-generation networking and telecommunications products based on network processing technologies. The NPF was merged into the Optical Internetworking Forum in June of 2006. (NPF NPF National Park Foundation NPF Norton Personal Firewall NPF National Parkinson Foundation NPF National Pain Foundation (Englewood, Colorado) NPF National Psoriasis Foundation NPF National Pro Fastpitch NPF Network Processing Forum ) today announced the results of the elections for its Board of Directors and Working Group Chairs. Dave Husak, chief technical officer and founder of C-Port Corporation, was elected vice-chairman of the Board of Directors. Husak has been a member of the Board of Directors since its inception. Chuck Sannipoli, vice president and general manager of the Network Processor Group for IP Infusion, was elected board member for a two-year term. Both Arvind Ahuja, senior product line manager for AMCC AMCC Applied Micro Circuits Corporation AMCC Air Mobility Control Center AMCC Ashore Mobile Contingency Communications AMCC Advanced Materials Commercialization Center AMCC allied movement coordination center (US DoD) , and Raj Yavatkar, chief software architect for the Internet Exchange Architecture Internet Exchange Architecture (acronym: IXA) is a chip set and framework produced by Intel Corporation used by manufacturers to design customised network processors. Introduced in 1999, the first model was based on the StrongARM processor. at Intel Communications Group, were re-elected to two-year terms as board members. Serge Audenaert, chief architect, Routed Data Networks at Alcatel Bell N.V., was elected chairman of the Benchmarking Working Group. Sunil Baliga, director of networking products, SoC and ASSP (Application Specific Standard Part) An ASIC chip that is designed as a generic device for a particular market. Whereas an ASIC is typically used only by its creator, ASSPs are used by many different companies in the design of their products. See ASIC. at Kawasaki LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. , was elected chairman of the Technical Education & Marketing Working Group. Russell Dietz, vice president and chief technology officer at HiFn, was elected chairman of the Hardware Working Group. Mike Lerer, technology facilitator for Avici Systems Inc., was elected chairman of the Software Working Group. "Dave, Chuck, Arvind, Raj, Serge, Sunil, Russ, and Mike are all highly qualified experts in their fields," said Misha Nossik, who was re-elected chairman of the Board of Directors. "We are confident they will greatly assist the NPF as it continues its progress toward establishing specifications for programmable network elements that will reduce design burden and time-to-market for next-generation networking and telecommunications equipment." About the Newly-Elected Board Members and Working Group Chairs The newly appointed and re-elected NPF board members and Working Group chairs have a wealth of expertise and experience in the electronics and network processing industry. Dave Husak has 16 years of technical development experience in the networking hardware industry. Previously, he was a founding engineer of Synernetics, the pioneering Ethernet/FDDI switch company. 3Com acquired Synernetics in 1994, where he continued as a principal architect of the 3Com CoreBuilder product line. Husak has contributed extensively to industry standardization efforts and has been actively involved in other networking standards efforts, including ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) Often pronounced "fiddy," it was a LAN and MAN access method that had its heyday in the mid-1990s. FDDI was an ANSI standard token passing network that transmitted 100 Mbps over optical fiber up to 10 kilometers. , IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 802, the IETF See Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force , and the ATM Forum. He has been granted six patents in network systems, architectures and protocols, and has a number of applications pending. He holds a B.S.E.E. and has completed graduate work in communications engineering at MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Arvind Ahuja has over 14 years of progressive marketing, product management, business development, and technical experience in high-value IP-based software/hardware solutions targeted towards the data communication and telecommunication market. Prior to AMCC, he held management and engineering positions at Fore Systems, Marconi, Nortel, and Empowertel. Arvind holds a BS in Computer Engineering from San Jose State University. Chuck Sannipoli has more than 34 years experience in all aspects of the networking industry. Prior to joining IP Infusion, he completed a career at IBM during which he held key senior management positions in the Networking business area, spanning hardware and software research and development, as well as product and program management. Sannipoli was instrumental in the creation of the Network Processing Forum and served as the initial Chairman until his departure from IBM. A strong advocate of network processing, he holds several patents pending in IBM's portfolio based on this technology. Sannipoli holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, Ga.; coeducational; state supported; chartered 1885, opened 1888. It is a member school in the university system of Georgia. Significant among its facilities and programs are the Frank H. and is a Senior Member of the IEEE. Raj Yavatkar previously led the R&D activities in the areas of programmable networks, policy-based network management, and end2end Quality of Service (QoS). He initiated and led the definition of a framework for policy-based networking that resulted in both the development of IETF standards (e.g., COPS) and the technology that Intel licensed to HP OpenView and others. At Intel, Yavatkar has played a major role in defining Intel's Internet QoS roadmap and previously led the development of RSVP (ReSerVation Protocol) A communications protocol that signals a router to reserve bandwidth for real time transmission. RSVP is designed to clear a path for audio and video traffic, eliminating annoying skips and hesitations. and a policy-based network management framework. He was also a principal contributor to the design of the packet scheduling framework and Generic QoS API for Windows 2000 OS from Microsoft. Yavatkar received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1989. He has numerous publications to his credit and serves on the technical program committees of leading conferences and workshops such as the ACM Sigcomm, Global Internet, IEEE Infocom, IEEE Multimedia, IEEE HPNC HPNC Hyde Park Neighborhood Club (Chicago, Illinois) HPNC High Performance Network Connections for Science and Engineering Research HPNC Hurstwood Park Neurological Center (Haywards Heath, UK) (High-Performance Networking), and ACM Multimedia. He also co-authored the book "Inside the Internet's Resource reservation Protocol (protocol) Resource Reservation Protocol - (RSVP) A protocol that supports quality of service. http://zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,389107,00.html. (RSVP)" published by John Wiley. He was previously the US Editor for the journal, Computer Communications, and currently serves on the editorial board of two journals: ACM/Springer Verlag's Multimedia Systems and Kluwer Academic Press's Multimedia Tools and Applications Serge Audenaert obtained an MSc degree in electrical engineering in 1992. He has been a Research Assistant on the faculty of Applied Sciences in Ghent -- Belgium in the domain of LCD system design and mixed signal ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. design. Audenaert joined Alcatel in 1998 and was responsible for hardware architecture design on carrier grade edge and core data products. Since August 2001, Audenaert has been responsible for the Alcatel's technical strategy for product development, corporate IP strategy and partnering activities. He also acts as the liaison between Alcatel's Routed Data Networks division and the company's corporate divisions of the office of the CTO, Research and Innovation Unit and the Network Strategy Group. Sunil Baliga has more than 15 years of experience in marketing semiconductors, primarily in the programmable logic and ASIC markets. He has a BSEE BSEE abbr. Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado University of Colorado may refer to:
Russell Dietz is the primary architect of the MeterFlow and MeterWorks technology. Prior to joining Hifn, he was Apptitude's chief technical officer. In 1988, Dietz was a founding partner of Technically Elite Concepts, which merged into Technically Elite in 1995. From 1984 through 1988 Dietz held various technical positions at Magnavox Electronic Systems and Digital Equipment Corporation. Dietz is an active participant in the Internet and Engineering Task Force (IETF). Mike Lerer. Prior to joining Avici, Lerer was a founder and executive of Pixelworks Inc. and Small System Design Inc. He currently is chairman of the Physical Link Layer Working Group of the Optical Internetworking Forum The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) was organized to facilitate and accelerate the development of next-generation optical internetworking products. The OIF produces Electrical, Tunable Laser, Very Short Reach Hardware Interfaces. . Lerer began his career at Sanders Technology and Sanders Associates, following graduation from MIT with degrees in Management and Computer Science. Network Processing Forum Organization Board of Directors Chairman -- Misha Nossik, Solidum Systems Vice-Chairman -- Dave Husak, C-Port Corporation Treasurer -- Juan Garza, Agere Systems Board Member -- Arvind Ahuja, AMCC Board Member -- Richard Anderson, IBM Board Member -- Chuck Sannipoli, IP Infusion Board Member -- Raj Yavatkar, Intel Working Group Chairs Benchmarking Working Group Chair -- Serge Audenaert, Alcatel Hardware Working Group Chair -- Russell Dietz, Hifn Software Working Group Chair -- Mike Lerer, Avici Technical Education & Marketing Working Group Chair -- Sunil Baliga, Kawasaki LSI About the Network Processing Forum The Network Processing Forum (NPF) was organized to facilitate and accelerate the development of next-generation networking and telecommunications products based on network processing technologies. By establishing common specifications, the NPF will enable equipment providers to significantly reduce their design burden while having the flexibility to use the best components to fit their requirements. The organization was formed to build on the efforts of two former industry groups -- the Common Programming Interface Forum (CPIX CPIX Consumer Price Index CPIX Consumer Price Index Excluding Mortgage Costs ) and the Common Switch Interface Consortium (CSIX) -- by delivering specifications for programmable network elements that reduce equipment time-to-market while dramatically increasing time-in-market. Established in February 2001, the NPF has close to 90 members. For more information, visit the Forum's web site at http://www.npforum.org. |
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