Optical Internetworking Forum Elects New Board Of Directors, Officers
OIF's newly elected officers include President and Chairman Sid Chaudhuri, director of network architecture at Tellium; Vice President Bob Tkach, chief technical officer at Celion Networks; Treasurer Tom Afferton, district manager of transport architecture at AT&T; and Vice President of Marketing Gerry Barañano, vice president of sales at Nortel Networks. Board members-at-large include John McDonough, technology standards manager at Cisco Systems; Rick Barry, co-founder and chief technology officer at Sycamore Networks, Inc.; and Joe Berthold, vice president of network architecture at Ciena Corporation. New committee leaders include Technical Committee Chair Steve Joiner, department manager of Agilent Lab's communication and optical research laboratory at Agilent Technologies; Technical Committee Vice Chair Dan Spears, director of optical network services at Ciena Corporation; and Market Awareness and Education Committee Chair Amy Copley, senior manager of product marketing at Sycamore Networks, Inc.
"We have assembled a strong team to lead the OIF for the next year," said Sid Chaudhuri, president and chairman, OIF. "We have a great mix of talents and expertise and I'm looking forward to working with the board to continue the important work that the OIF is doing to lead the industry towards more interoperable optical networks."
About the OIF
Launched in April of 1998, the OIF is a rapidly growing, non-profit organization with 330+ member companies to date, including many of the world's leading carriers and vendors. As the only industry group uniting representatives from packet and voice networks, the OIF helps advance the standards and methods of optical networks. OIF's purpose is to accelerate the deployment of interoperable, cost-effective and robust optical internetworks and their associated technologies. Optical internetworks are data networks composed of routers and data switches interconnected by optical networking elements.
With the goal of promoting worldwide compatibility of optical internetworking products, the OIF actively supports and extends the work of national and international standards bodies. Formal liaisons have been established with The ATM Forum, IEEE 802.3 HSSG, T1M1, T1X1 and the IETF. More information on the OIF can be found at www.oiforum.com.