The seminar will be presented by Chuck Gershman, president and CEO of Bay Microsystems. Loring Wirbel of CMP is moderating the 90 minute seminar, which begins at 8:30am.

Service providers are scrambling to grab an ever-increasing portion of the total subscriber dollar - currently divided amongst Cable Operators, Telcos, and Satellite Service Providers, each providing one or more forms of Internet Access, Telephony, and Video on Demand services. Recently, the race has begun to consolidate all of these services. Known as Triple-Play services, trial networks capable of delivery of a full suite of these services are now being deployed. This class describes the competing technologies employed, provides a Network Topology overview, and examines the demanding technical challenges presented by the convergence of these services. It explores the characteristics of a new class of Broadband Access Network Element responsible for the "Intelligence" behind Triple-Play convergence services and will further discuss how the latest class of Network Processors and Traffic Managers are being applied to provide high performance.

Bay Microsystems is a privately held communications technology company delivering the building blocks of programmable network processors, software and subsystems for high performance intelligent networks. Bay's Internetworking Processor™ (InP) family of products is scalable, intelligent and ultra high performance, and is in use within broadband networks developed by the U.S. Government and by commercial providers serving the metro-edge, metro-core, regional and long-haul markets. For more information visit www.baymicrosystems.com.

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