Thursday, March 31 10:45 AM - Noon Track IV: The Telco Advantage and the IPTV Digital Home: Gateway to Services - VOIP, Wireless Music, Broadband and Set-top This is the year that the Telcos make their entry into the Digital Home, providing the full array of services, starting with the basic telecommunications packages, moving along into VoIP, Wireless, Broadband and finally into the full set-up video assortment of otherwise broadcast and cable based entertainment, news, movie and sports offerings. Telco as a full communications, entertainment and video provider, it was a service that was waiting to happen. After the false start of the mid-90s, it was only a ten-year wait for the real McCoy to emerge – and this time it’s for real. In this session, we will explore what the process of the rollout will look like, try to understand what the technologies of IPTV look like and try to understand what the Telco-IPTV timeline with the consumer will look like. A whole new world of content and technology will soon be available to the consumer and in this session we get a view of that future. Microsoft, speaker to be announced Jay Fausch, Senior Director of Marketing, Alcatel's Fixed Communications Group Keith R. Wehmeyer, P.E., General Manager, IP Decoders, Thomson Access Platforms and Gateways Josette Bonte, Managing Director, Broadband Services, RHK Matthew Marnik, Director of Marketing & Business Development, Broadband Networks Group, Nortel Brian Queen, Digital Media Solutions Manager, IBM Corp. Rick Doherty, co-founder and Director, The Envisioneering Group, Moderator Jay Fausch is Senior Director of Marketing at Alcatel's Fixed Communications Group in Raleigh, NC, where he is responsible for leading the company's global strategic marketing efforts focusing on broadband access and DSL. Prior to joining Alcatel, he held key management positions at Lucent, Paradyne, Racal Data Communications and Westell Technologies. Jay is a DSL Forum Ambassador and is Chairman of the DSL Forum's Marketing Committee. He also sits on the Board of Directors of the Fiber to the Home Council. Jay received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Duke University and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jay is an acknowledged expert on wireline broadband access and a frequent speaker at industry conferences. Matthew Marnik is a Director of Marketing and Business Development for the Broadband Networks group at Nortel. He also brings a wealth of broadband experience to the Broadband Services Forum, for which he serves on the Board of Directors. With Nortel, he launched the industry's first Optical Ethernet solution, introduced Nortel's Ethernet switching portfolio to the service provider market, and developed the enterprise market for broadband IP services. Prior to his work at Nortel Networks, Matthew was a management consultant with Price Waterhouse. Matthew is a graduate of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and the College of the Holy Cross. Josette Bonte, Managing Director, Broadband Services, RHK: Dr. Josette Bonte is retained by RHK as an Executive Affiliate servicing the firm’s broadband content and services advisory practice and research programs. Dr. Bonte has twelve years of experience as an executive working in the film and television production and distribution industries followed by ten years in new media and telecommunications. In the eighties, Dr. Bonte served as Executive Director of Unifrance Film, where she represented the French motion picture and television industry in Hollywood for eight years. She subsequently founded EuroScreen Partners, a film production company capitalized by European cable operators and banks. Dr. Bonte most recently served as Senior Vice President, Business Development, for online games company Media Station, Inc. where she headed the technology licensing and broadband affiliate relations department. She previously worked with the PanAmSat Net/36 team, where she concentrated on broadband content strategy and customer acquisition. In 1994, she joined US West as Head of Strategic Marketing, Entertainment and Interactive Services, where she participated in the company’s early interactive media and VoD trials and became the company’s liason with the Hollywood entertainment industry for content licensing. Dr. Bonte received an M.F.A from the UCLA School of Film and Television and a Ph.D. in Telecommunications and New Media from the Sorbonne. Rick Doherty is a co-founder and Director of The Envisioneering Group; a two-decade old Seaford, NY Technology Assessment and Market Research Corporation. Before that, for thirteen years, Doherty was the Senior Technology Writer for Electronic Engineering Times, where he remains a guest columnist. Doherty is an electro-physicist who has garnered more than a dozen U.S. patents in computing, communications, medical electronics, high performance tooling and consumer electronics industry sectors along with dozens of international patents. During Doherty's 32 year career he has been Director of the Urban Vehicle Design Group at Pratt Institute, an engineer for Data General Corp., Chief Engineer of Lourdes Industries, Inc., founder and President of Optronic Labs and since 1983, co-founder and Director of The Envisioneering Group. There, he directs laboratory testing of technologies, products and services, oversees publication of the Envisioneering Newsletter, market research reports and provides senior executive counsel on market development and intellectual property protection, portfolio management and licensing opportunities. Doherty's prime focus is on researching and articulating the impact of advanced digital technologies, services, products, industry initiatives and standards efforts on consumers, industry and society. Doherty is a 31 year member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and is active with its Biomedical Engineering, Solid State Circuits Society , Consumer Electronics Society, Broadcast Engineering, Magnetic Technology Society, Technology & Social Policy and other I.E.E.E. societies. This is his eleventh year as a planning director for the International Conference on Consumer Electronics. Doherty is also a member of the Society for Information Display, Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers and many other technology & professional business industry associations. In addition, Doherty has been a co-chair of, and presently sits on several cross industry standards associations and technical working groups, spanning consumer digital electronics, communications, digital media and computing architecture definition groups. He is called upon by the industry to organize and chair panels at trade conferences and technical symposia more than a dozen times each year. Amongst his many industry awards, Doherty has been cited by the International Television Association for his many years of technology coverage of digital video design and engineering trends, and is the writer most cited by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment for detailed features on the evolution of America's Digital TV system. Doherty also assisted Dr. Richard Feynman, NASA and Congressional researchers in the Shuttle Challenger accident investigation at the Kennedy Space Center, Johnson Space Center and many NASA contractor sites. In 2003, Doherty was nominated to and accepted a multi-year position on the Presidential Medal of Technology Award Selection Committee, reporting to the White House and Department of Commerce. Acting as an independent resource on the impact of digital and internet technologies on the consumer, society and business, Doherty is quoted frequently for his opinions on new technologies by CNN, CNBC, Fox News and by numerous American and international industry trade and daily business publications, including the Wall Street Journal, NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Newsday and the San Jose Mercury News. Doherty is married and resides in Seaford, NY with his wife and two daughters. Keith R. Wehmeyer, P.E., General Manager, IP Decoders, Thomson Access Platforms and Gateways: Keith R. Wehmeyer is the General Manager for the IP Decoders in Thomson's Access Platforms and Gateways Group. With expertise in the fields of broadband, consumer electronics and audio/video distribution and compression technologies, Keith is currently managing the IP video business for Thomson. This involves working on growth strategies and product development in the areas of IP set top boxes and compression technologies. For the past six years he has been involved in the development of broadband-enabled entertainment products with major corporate partners including Microsoft, Intel and Gemstar. Previously he was involved in planning and development for various home entertainment products such as DIRECTV* satellite receivers, HDTVs, and electronic program guides. Keith holds BSEE and MSEE degrees from the University of Cincinnati and has been awarded thirteen U.S. patents. He is the author of the book, "What Every Engineer Should Know About Microcomputer Program Design" (Marcel Dekker, publisher). He is a licensed Professional Engineer, and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.