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Prior to that, he has worked in various managerial and marketing positions at Nixdorf Computers in Germany, and Hewlett-Packard in the Middle East, as International Sales Manager at ComputerLand Europe in Luxembourg, and as Managing Director of ComputerLand Switzerland. From 1992 to 1998, he was with the Canadian Internet and internetworking specialist, DEVELCON, where he served as Vice President of Sales and Business Development. In 1998, Latif joined Telebit Communications A/S as Vice President, Sales EMEA (In June 1999, Ericsson acquired a major share in Telebit, creating Ericsson Telebit A/S). With support from the IETF IPv6 Working Group and the IPv6 Deployment Initiative, Latif founded the IPv6 Forum in May 1999. He has also served, from 1996 to 1998, as chairman of Global-ISDN. He holds an ESCAE (France), and did post-graduate work in business and administration in the UK.

Daniel Minoli has many years of technical-hands-on and managerial experience (including budget and/or PL responsibility) in networking, telecom, video, Enterprise Architecture, and security for global carriers and financial companies. He has worked at AIG, ARPA think tanks, Bell Telephone Laboratories, ITT, Prudential Securities, Bell Communications Research (now Telcordia), AT&T, Capital One Financial, and SES AMERICOM, where he is Director of Terrestrial Systems Engineering. Previously he also played a founding role in the launching of two companies through the high-tech incubator Leading Edge Networks Inc., which he ran in the early 2000s: Global Wireless Services, a provider of secure broadband hotspot mobile Internet and hotspot VoIP services; and, InfoPort Communications Group, an optical and Gigabit Ethernet metropolitan carrier supporting Data Center/SAN/channel extension and Grid Computing network access services. Daniel has also been a member of the IEEE and served in several capacities for over 30 years.

At SES AMERICOM he is responsible for engineering satellite-based IPTV and DVB-H systems. This includes overall engineering design, deployment, and operation of SD/HD encoding, inner/outer AES encryption, Conditional Access Systems, Set Top boxes middleware, Set Top boxes, Headends, and related terrestrial connectivity. At Bellcore he did extensive work on broadband, on video-on-demand for the RBOCs (Video Dialtone); on multimedia over ISDN/ATM, and on distance learning (satellite) networks. At DVI he deployed (satellite-based) distance learning system for William Patterson College. At Stevens Institute of Technology (Adjunct) he taught about a dozen graduate courses on digital video. At AT&T he deployed large broadband networks also to support video applications (TCG was owned by four Cable companies). At Capital One he was involved with the deployment of corporate Video-on-demand. As a consultant he handled the technology-assessment function of several high-tech companies seeking funding, developing multimedia, digital video, physical layer switching, VSATs, telemedicine, Java-based CTI, VoFR & VPNs, HDTV, optical chips, H.323 gateways, nanofabrication/(Quantum Cascade Lasers), wireless, and TMN mediation.

Mr. Minoli has published 48 books on topics that include enterprise networking, broadband, video, VoIP, wireless, and security. He has also written columns for ComputerWorld, NetworkWorld, and Network Computing (1985-2006). He has taught at New York University (Information Technology Institute), Rutgers University, Stevens Institute of Technology, and Monmouth University (1984-2006). Also, he was a Technology Analyst At-Large, for Gartner/DataPro (1985-2001); based on extensive hand-on work at financial firms and carriers, he tracked technologies and wrote around 50 distinct CTO/CIO-level technical/architectural scans in the area of telephony and data systems, including topics on security, disaster recovery, IT outsourcing, network management, LANs, WANs (ATM and MPLS), wireless (LAN and public hotspot), VoIP, network design/economics, carrier networks (such as metro Ethernet and CWDM/DWDM), and e-commerce. Over the years he has advised Venture Capitals for investments of $150M in a dozen high-tech companies. He has acted as Expert Witness in a (won) $11B lawsuit regarding a VoIP-based wireless Air-to-Ground communication system, and has been involved as a technical expert in a number of patent infringement proceedings.

Samir Chatterjee is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Science at Claremont Graduate University, USA. He is the Founding Director of the Network Convergence Laboratory in Claremont. Samir has been involved with EntNet activities since its inception and the Secretary during the period 2002-2004. of EntNet. Samir has played leading roles several events sponsored by the EntNet and IEEE Communication Society including organizer of the SIP Workshop “Enterprise Voice/Video/Instant Messaging Services Over IP: Is SIP Ready for Prime Time?” at the 4^th Enterprise Networking and Services Conference at SUPERCOMM2004, General Chair and Organizer for 5^th International Workshop on Enterprise Networking and Computing in Healthcare Industry (IEEE Healthcom 2003), and Local Organizing Chair of the IEEE Conference on Enterprise Networking and Computing (ENCOM98) in Atlanta

Samir received the B.E (Hons.) degree in Electronics Engineering from Jadavpur University, India and M.S. and Ph.D degree in Computer Science from the School of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando. Prior to joining CGU, he was an Associate Professor of CIS at Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business in Atlanta. Dr. Chatterjee's research interests are interdisciplinary. He likes to solve hard computer science related networking problems while focusing on real-world business solutions. He is presently designing algorithms and protocols for Quality-of-Service, Voice/Video over IP, and next-generation Internet Architectures. He is currently working on developing efficient Grid-enabled tools for bioinformatics. He has published over 40 articles in leading journals such as Communications of the ACM, Computer Communications, Computer Networks, Journal of Internet Technology, Communications of the AIS, Information System Frontier and conferences. He has been on the program committee of several IEEE and ACM conferences and a regular participant at EntNet@Supercom. He has served as Principal Investigator in various NSF, BellSouth, Northrop-Grumman and Internet-2 funded projects and serves as a consultant to top industry. He is an Associate Editor of International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking.

David Yates is an Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems at Bentley College. Yates's expertise includes computer networking, data communications, sensor networks, embedded systems, operating systems, and computer architecture. Before joining Bentley, David held positions at the University of Massachusetts and Boston University. His work on topics such as sensor networks, content management & distribution, multimedia & streaming media, networked servers, network security, wireless & mobile computing, and scalable Internet architectures has been published and presented at international symposiums and conferences, and appeared in refereed journals. With various colleagues, he holds several U.S. patents for processes and equipment related to computer networking, content management, and mobile computing. He has given numerous invited talks and tutorials, and is a consultant to several companies developing Internet and sensor technologies.

In the corporate arena, David was a co-founder and vice president of software development at InfoLibria - a startup that grew to become a leading provider of hardware and software for building content distribution and delivery networks. The company also won product and engineering awards from Network magazine, Data Communications magazine, and the Massachusetts Interactive Media Council before its 2003 acquisition by Certeon. Active in several professional organizations, David has been a referee for submissions to journals and conferences for the ACM and IEEE. He holds a PhD and MSc from the University of Massachusetts. He also holds a BSc from Tufts University.