Dr. Barry is a telecommunications equipment provider industry veteran and is a recognized innovator in multi-service IP networking. Prior to founding Brilliant Telecommunications, Dr. Barry was the founder of Luminous Networks, where he was responsible for the technical direction and innovations that enabled Luminous Networks to become an established fiber optic telecommunications equipment provider. Dr. Barry was a major contributor to the IEEE 802.17 Resilient Packet Ring technology and has authored more than 20 patents. Dr Barry also held management positions at Nuko and DEC. Dr. Barry holds a Ph.D. and a MSEE from Stanford University, and a B.S. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Tommy has almost 30 years experience in the Telecoms Industry. His experience has been in telecoms test and measurement having been employed by Hewlett Packard, later Agilent Technologies, in their Telecom Test Instrumentation Divisions.

His career has seen him gain experience of every aspect of product development from hands-on design through to Programme Management of R&D Projects. He has held senior positions, leading Business Teams with P&L responsibility for the market segment Calnex is addressing.

Charles Curry is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and founder & Managing Director of Chronos Technology Ltd. Charles graduated in Electronics from Liverpool University in 1973, and started his career at GEC Hirst Research Centre, progressing to Racal Instruments where he was responsible for sales of test equipment including specialist frequency and time products such as Loran C and Caesium standards. Later with GSE Rentals Charles was involved with some of the first civil GPS and laptop PC deployments into the North Sea offshore oil industry during the early 1980’s.

He founded Chronos, a leading system integrator for synchronisation and timing products in the UK telecom industry, in 1986. Chronos has supplied and installed 1000’s of GPS & Timing systems worldwide for mobile and fixed line telecom operators. The Chronos Synchronisation MasterClass has been delivered to more than a 1000 delegates across the globe.

Charles founded the International Telecom Sync Forum (ITSF) in 2001 and chairs the ITSF Steering Group. He is also a member of the Workshop in Sync in Telecommunications Systems (WSTS) Steering Group which meets annually in Boulder, Colorado. Charles is on the Steering Group for the Technology Strategy Board’s Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) for Digital Systems - Location and Timing Programme. Charles is also a member of the Industry Advisory Boards for the Universities of Liverpool and Bath, Electrical and Electronics Faculties. 

Tim is working on next generation synchronization techniques. He has presented extensively on the subject at conferences such as ITSF and WSTS, and is an active contributor to standards activities in synchronization, in particular in his current role as editor of the draft ITU-T recommendation G.8260 on definitions and metrics for packet-based synchronization.

Prior to Symmetricom, he was a System Architect with Zarlink Semiconductor for seven years, where he worked on their Convergence product line, dealing with carrying TDM circuits over packet networks, and in particular on the synchronization aspects of carrying real-time information over packet networks. During this time he was the editor for the MEF’s standards on Circuit Emulation Services (MEF3, 8 and 18). In previous roles he has also worked in areas as diverse as the design of embedded CPU cores for ASIC devices, and telephony systems for railway signaling.

Tim has a BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Leeds, and an MSc. in Computation from the University of Manchester. He is a Member of the IET and a Chartered Engineer.

Bob is founder and president of Iometrix, the networking industry's preeminent testing authority, has dedicated his career to providing globally recognized and trusted certification tests to the fast growing networking industry. Iometrix is the official certification test laboratory of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), the MultiService Forum (MSF) and the Broadband Forum (BBF) and is actively engaged in the forthcoming IEEE ICAP 1588 Certification Program. Bob is also strongly committed to advancing industry standards for testing and has authored test specifications in several leading standards bodies including the IETF, IEEE, MEF, MSF, IP/MPLS Forum and BBF. Bob attended university in both North America and Europe and holds several post-graduate degrees in such diverse fields as formal logic and economics. He resides in San Francisco and is an avid cyclist.

Michel's current activities are related to the development of IP packet and optical network architectures for providing accurate frequency/phase/time distribution and synchronization, and in the analysis of QoS/QoE traffic management of IP mobile backhaul networks. He currently participates in standardization activities in the ITU-T Study Group15 and IEEE 802.3bf Task Force. Prior to joining Huawei, Michel spent 12 years at Nortel focusing on ATM/TDM pseudowires, Synchronous Ethernet, clock algorithms for base stations, TCP/IP active queue management and ATM switching. Michel has been granted ten patents and has published several international journal papers. Michel received the B.A.Sc and M.A.Sc from the University of Ottawa (Canada) in 1995 and 1997 and l’Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (France).

Peter is the network synchronization specialist and a Product Manager for the 7750 Service Routers for the Alcatel-Lucent IP Division. The IPD portfolio encompasses IP/MPLS routers, Multi-Service WAN switches and Network & Service Management products. Peter is responsible for advising the product groups within IPD on all issues related to clock synchronization. As part of this mandate, Peter has been actively investigating the emerging technologies for timing distribution over the converged IP/MPLS networks. In the last three years he has evaluated ACR, 1588, and Synchronous Ethernet over the Alcatel-Lucent Service Router, xDSL, and Microwave transport environments.

Peter joined Alcatel-Lucent through the 2000 acquisition of Newbridge Networks. Prior to his focus on Synchronization, Peter was a software manager developing H.248 media gateways and ATM signalling and routing features. He has been an active participant in the ATM and MFA fora and more recently in ITU-T SG15.

He started his career as a software developer for satellite communications and defence companies. He received his Honours B.Math from the University of Waterloo, Canada in 1986.

Peter joined Alcatel-Lucent through the 2000 acquisition of Newbridge Networks. Prior to his focus on Synchronization, Peter was a software manager developing H.248 media gateways and ATM signalling and routing features. He has been an active participant in the ATM and MFA fora and more recently in ITU-T SG15.

At Anue, Chip is responsible for technical direction and he has led the development of Anue’s industry leading network impairment emulators. Prior to Anue, Chip was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. He is the author of numerous patents in the areas of network testing, signal processing and digital video. He holds a Bachelor’s degree cum laude from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a master’s Degree from Columbia University in Electrical Engineering, and is a member of Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society.