**** Columbia Network Research Group Seminar ****

Title:    Next Generation Networks: The New Public Network 
Speaker:  Richard D. Gitlin
          Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering
          Columbia University 
When:     Wednesday, October 4, 10 am
Where:    Interschool Lab, CEPSR Building, 7th floor
          Columbia University


Abstract:

There is no longer any debate that wide-area networks, 
based on packet technology, will emerge as a compelling 
alternative to the Public Switched Telecommunications 
Network (PSTN).  This next-generation network will be a 
multi-service, high performance network, will support 
rapid service creation, and will provide a quality of 
service that is matched to the applications it carries.  
Extraordinary rates of progress in semiconductor, photonic, 
and software technologies have fueled an unparalleled 
level of expectations about this converged voice and 
data, wireline and wireless "network of networks."  
We will describe the means by which quality of service, 
security, and network management will be provided in the 
next-generation network.

The expanding ubiquity of the Internet Protocol (IP) is 
driving convergence in desktop applications that will 
be voice, data, and, ultimately, video oriented.  These 
applications will need assurances from the integrated, 
converged network that the performance they receive is 
consistent and at appropriate service levels.  This 
imposes stringent requirements on quality of service 
(QoS), as well as on security, since the applications 
will require confidentiality and isolation from one 
another.  Given these complex demands, more than ever 
before there is a need for efficient network management.  
This will require not only overall network management, 
but also management on a per customer, per application, 
or per perhaps even on a per flow basis.  

This presentation first describes the fast pace of 
technology evolution that is driving the realization 
of innovative next-generation networks.  It then addresses 
the technological advances that will be used to achieve 
the QoS, security, and network management requirements 
for demanding applications such as Voice over Packet, 
Virtual Private Networks, and high-speed Remote Data Access.

Bio:

Dr. Richard D. Gitlin is Visiting Professor of Electrical 
Engineering at Columbia University. Before assuming this 
position, he was with Lucent Technologies for more than 
thirty years, where he held several executive positions. 
He was the Chief Technical Officer and Vice President 
of R&D, of the Data Networking Systems Business Unit, 
where he was responsible for product development, 
architecture and systems engineering, standards, and 
advanced development for all data networking products. 
>From 1995 to 1998 he was Senior Vice President for 
Communication Sciences Research at Bell Labs, Lucent 
Technologies. Throughout his career he has conducted 
and led pioneering research and development in digital 
communications and networking that has  resulted in many 
innovative products including: the industry leading ATLANTA 
ATM Chipset, Globeview --- the world's first 20 gigabit/sec 
ATM switch, wire-speed and quality of service [QoS]-aware IP 
switches, multicode technology for CDMA wireless data 
(IS-95B), and the record-setting BLAST fixed-wireless loop 
system based on advanced spatial domain (smart antenna) 
processing. Earlier in his career he led the team that 
pioneered the V.32/V.34 voice-band modems, and in 1986 
he was a co-inventor of the DSL technology. 

He is the co-recipient of three prize paper awards including 
the 1995 IEEE Communications Society's Steven O. Rice Award 
for the best original paper published in the IEEE Transactions 
on Communications, the 1994 IEEE Communications Society's Frederick 
Ellersick Award for the best paper published in the IEEE 
Communications, and the 1982 Bell System Technical Journal 
Award for the best paper in communications science.  Dr. Gitlin 
is the co-author of the text Data Communications Principles, more 
than 95 technical papers, numerous conference papers and keynote 
presentations.  He holds 43 patents in the area of data communications, 
digital signal processing, wireless systems, and broadband networking. 
He is a Fellow of the IEEE and is also a Bell Laboratories Fellow. 

Dr. Gitlin has served as Chair of the Communication Theory 
Committee of the IEEE Communications Society, as a member of 
the COMSOC Awards Board, as Editor for communication theory of 
the IEEE Transactions on Communications, as a member of the Board 
of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society, and a member of 
the Nominations and Elections Board.  He has served on the Advisory 
Committee for Computer Science and Engineering  (CISE) of the
National Science Foundation and the Industrial Advisory Board of 
the EE/CS Department of University California (Berkeley). He has
been an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton 
University. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Bell 
Labs Technical Journal, Mobile Networks and Applications, and the 
Journal of Communications Networks (JCN). 

Dr. Gitlin received the D. Eng. Sc. Degree from Columbia University  in
1969.