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SubOptic 2007 Program Chairman Dave

Robles said three newly scheduled tutorials continue the SubOptic tradition of cover- ing all aspects of the undersea telecommu- nications industry and the many fields related to it. Admittance to all tutorials is included in the registration fee. The three new tutorials are: "Maintenance of Undersea Cable

Networks"

Presented by James H. Coble of AT&T and Frederic Exertier of France Telecom

Marine. Coble has more than 20 years of industry experience and is responsible for the maintenance of AT&T's undersea cable network. Exertier joined France

Telecom Marine four years ago as EVP in charge of the Mediterranean depot and as

MECMA Project Manager. "Our tutorial will cover many factors that need to be considered when determin- ing how an undersea network will be main- tained, including the reliability of the com- ponents and the route planned for the cable," said Coble and Exertier.

Maintenance of undersea cable networks actually begins during the planning stage for construction, they said. The duo will also discuss planning for the frequency of network failure as well as highlighting some popular post-installation mainte- nance options. "High Performance Hybrid Optical-

Packet Networks: Developments and

Potential Impacts"

Presented by Donald R. Riley, Ph.D. and

Jerry Sobieski. Riley is Professor of

Information Systems at the Robert H.

Smith School of Business, and affiliate

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, at the University of Maryland, College Park.

He serves on several boards at the collegiate and national level and has been recognized by the Chinese Academy of Sciences as "Senior Technical Advisor" to China's

Science and Technology Network. Sobieski is the Director for Research Initiatives at

Mid-Atlantic Crossroads in Washington,

DC. He has a background in high per- formance parallel and distributed comput- ing, advanced networking, and specializes in the application of these technologies to e-science. "This tutorial will provide insight into developments, driving motivations, poten- tial future developments and possible implications for the submarine cable industry," said Riley. "The session will include overviews of GLIF and DRAGON objectives and technology developments and other related projects." "Legal Aspects of Bandwidth Sales for

New and Existing Systems"

Presented by Mike Conradi, a senior lawyer at London's technology specialist firm, Kemp Little LLP. Conradi has exten- sive experience in the submarine fiberoptic cable world and has written and presented extensively on various submarine telecom- munication topics. "The tutorial will focus on the legal issues surrounding buying and selling submarine fiber capacity," said

Conradi. "We will discuss everything from the contents of a submarine capacity con- tract to ensuring continuous quality."

SubOptic 2007 will take place at the

Marriott Waterfront Hotel in Baltimore's

Inner Harbor from May 14 through May 17, 2007.

For more information visit www.suboptic.org

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