Trusted Computing is a growing field of security which will have dramatic impact on various other aspects of computing. Currently, over 10 million Trusted Platform Module (TPM) hardware units have been incorporated and shipped within laptops and desktops, with projections of over 20 million units shipped by 2006. In the current presentation we describe the aims of trusted computing, some technology standards being developed by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), its various working groups and the organization aspects of the TCG. In addition, the presentation will provide some background on the Mobile Phone Working Group within the TCG and describe its current activities.

Thomas has over 15 years of experience in the security space. Previous to SignaCert, Thomas spent five years as Principal Scientist and Security Architect at VeriSign Inc. His broad industry experience includes security-related roles at a defense research organization, at a Telco company (NTT in Japan), at an IP network vendor (Bay Networks), and leading roles at a couple of start-ups in the area network security.

Thomas Hardjono is well known in a number of standardization bodies through his leadership in establishing standardization communities and groups. These include chairing three groups in the IETF (Secure Multicast group, Internet-DRM group, and IP Multicast Security group), co-founding a DRM group in OASIS (Rights-Language Technical Committee), and co-chairing the Infrastructure Working Group within the Trusted Computing Group (TCG). Thomas is also author of a number of key specifications in these standardization organizations.

Powerline Communications (PLC) and Wireless communications have different strengths: wireless has mobility; powerline has high quality coverage. For backbone applications and high quality video and audio distribution where mobility does not apply – displays are seldom moved, require a power cord to operate and demand error free communications - then PLC offers the only widely viable solution. This presentation will begin with an overview of the State-of-the-Art of Powerline Communications for Access, In-Building distribution and Home Networking applications followed by a discussion of how PLC competes with, complements and co-exists with wireless technologies for both Wide Area and Local Area Networks.

Chano Gomez is Vice President for Technology and Strategic Partnerships for DS2 and heads the North America operations. He joined DS2 in 1999 as a Design Engineer in the System Architecture Group. His pioneering work in Powerline Technology has led to several patents. He holds a degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Valencia, Spain.

The cable companies are in a race with the Telcos to provide combined data, voice and video service. In North America, cable has built a lead offering data and video services, and is quickly deploying voice service. CableLabs has developed a series of specifications for managed data and voice service that have ensured broad interoperability, thereby enabling a quick roll-out of servies. This presentation provides a summary of the CableLabs specifications such as DOCSIS, PacketCable and CableHome and an overview of the technology behind them.

Craig Owens is currently Product Development Manager for Gateways in the Service Provider Engineering group at Netgear, with responsibility for Cable Modem, ADSL, VoIP and Wireless Access products. His team developed a line of Cable Gateway products which were the first to be certified for CableHome 1.0 and 1.1. Prior to Netgear, he held positions at DirecTV Broadband and 3Com. As Cable Systems Architect at 3Com, Craig worked closely with Com21 and participated in early Cable Modem standardization efforts that eventually led to the creation of the DOCSIS specifications.

While the world's data transmission capacities are growing at an enormous rate, relatively few users have broadband access to them. Wired solutions, including fiber, cable modems, and digital subscriber lines, have limitations that prevent ubiquitous deployment. Broadband wireless access (BWA) is an alternative that offers quick build-out at a low cost. A key issue for the success of these systems is global standardization. Within the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee, the 802.16 Working Group on Broadband Wireless Access, with hundreds of participants worldwide, has completed the WirelessMAN air interface standard for fixed wireless metropolitan area networks. Supporting industry groups, such as the WiMAX Forum, have blossomed, and the 802.16 WG is nearly finished with an extension of the standard to address mobile terminals as well. This talk provides an overview of the 802.16 technology, which is based on a QoS-oriented, scheduled point-to-multipoint medium access control layer and OFDM/OFDMA physical layers.

Roger B. Marks (r.b.marks@ieee.org) is with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado, USA. In 1998, he initiated the effort that led to the IEEE 802.16 Working Group on Broadband Wireless Access, chairing it since inception and serving as Technical Editor of IEEE Standards 802.16 and 802.16.2. He also serves actively on the IEEE 802 Executive Committee. Marks received his A.B. in Physics in 1980 from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in Applied Physics in 1988 from Yale University. Author of over 80 publications, his awards include the 2003 Individual Governmental Vision Award from the Wireless Communications Association and a 1995 IEEE Technical Field Award. He developed the IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference and chaired it from 1996 through 1999. A Fellow of the IEEE, he has served as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer since 1999.

The increasing popularity of 802.11 has led to new challenges in building wireless LANs. User demands for network service always outrun available capacity, and 802.11 is no exception. Boosting the peak data rate in 802.11 from 11 Mbps to 54 Mbps has only barely satiated the demand for speed, so 802.11 Task Group N has started work on a new PHY with 100 Mbps throughput. Network architects must simultaneously confront the demand for ubiquitous access, even in administrative environments that make unified network control impossible. In response, many distributed networks are built as "federations," based on IEEE 802.1X and related protocols.

Matthew Gast is the Director of Consulting Engineering at Trapeze and the author of 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly, 2002; second edition expected May 2005). At Trapeze, he helps leading organizations understand and deploy scalable, standards-based wireless LANs. Prior to Trapeze, Matthew held a series of engineering positions in at a variety of network security companies. He is a regular participant and instructor at the Interop Labs (iLabs), where he works with other leading engineers to understand cutting-edge network protcols. Matthew contributed to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommendations on wireless LAN security developed by the U.S. government, and has served on the technical advisory boards of several start-up companies.

In the age where networks are ever more vulnerable to security threats, intrusions, attacks and malicious activity, it is unimaginable to manage the network blindly. The need for always-on visibility into the network has never been greater. It is the dream of any network manager to have visibility to the network traffic at every point in the network all the time with zero impact to network performance. Traditional technologies for network monitoring are prohibitively expensive to deploy widely throughout the network, and also choke network performance when enabled. The problem worsens as networks grow in size, speed, and capacity, and as security vulnerabilities increase. Network managers have suffered long by sacrificing network visibility and security in favor of capital cost and performance.

sFlow is a modern standards-based network monitoring and export protocol (RFC 3176) that addresses many of the challenges that network managers have long faced. sFlow technology offers visibility into the network on every port and at every bandwidth speed. By embedding sFlow technology into network router and switch ASICs, sFlow becomes an "always-on" technology that operates at wire speed performance, no matter what protocol or port bandwidth capacity. Cost of implementation is driven down dramatically when compared to traditional network monitoring solutions using mirrored ports, probes, and line tap technologies. A full enterprise-wide monitoring capability for every port in the corporate network is now possible using sFlow.

This talk presents the challenges of current network monitoring technologies, an overview of sFlow technology and its use, and the key benefits of using sFlow for network monitoring, visibility and security.

Gopala Tumuluri is the Product Line Manager for Multi-Layer Switching at Foundry Networks. Mr. Tumuluri has extensive experience in multi-layer networking solutions for Enterprise and Service Provider customers. Prior to joining Foundry, he held Product Management and Engineering positions at Elematics, Calient Networks and FORE Systems. Mr. Tumuluri graduated with an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, and an MS degree in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky.

• Where is mobile wireless technology going?
• What is driving the changes in this space?
• What new products will we likely see?
• How will the service offerings change?
• How will China be a key influencer on these changes?

Stanley Chia, a technology strategist for Vodafone, will discuss his views of these questions and the future of the mobile wireless industry.

Dr. Stanley Chia is Senior Director, Vodafone Group R&D-US. He has been with the mobile communications industry for over 23 years and has held leadership positions in network operations, technology development, and strategy. Prior to joining Vodafone and its predecessor AirTouch, he worked for British Telecom (UK), and SmarTone Mobile Communications (Hongkong). He is Senior Member of Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (US) and Fellow of Institution of Electrical Engineers (UK).

While radio frequency identification (RFID) has been used since WWII, acceptance of EPCGlobal standards for UHF tags has kicked off a scramble to deploy RFID on a massive scale. Early deployments have focussed heavily on meeting the physical challenges of achieving acceptable tag reading performance. However the application of the base reader technology to new domains has lead to innovations incorporating other sensor technologies into the tags themselves. At the same time real-world experience indicates that functional success requires meeting new architectural requirements that are likely to be common to sensor networks and other ways of interacting with the "world of things" at network edge. The solutions created for RFID will likely set the model going forward for many technologies.

Jim Wright is currently a Senior Staff Engineer in Sun Microsystem's Market Development Engineering organization, Jim joined SunLabs in 1988 to integrate voice and audio technologies in Solaris. After leading the development and adoption of the Java Telephony API in the telecommunications industry, he delivered Sun's first client-server telephony management system. Subsequently Jim developed VOIP gateways and high-throughput load balancing prototypes on multi-processor SPARC systems. Jim was the lead architect on SunTone, Sun's Service Provider Certification for application services standards, recruiting 1500 member companies and achieving over 200 certifications. Currently Jim leads the RFID Hardware Interface Team for the Sun Java System RFID Software Platform, and he works in the area of Java sensor networks.

Combating electromagnetic interference is one of the most important design objectives for communications equipment designers. Newly introduced methods and products solve these problems while at the same time comply with new mandated regulations. Performance characteristics and benefits of new shielding products will be discussed.

The European Union (EU) has approved two directives that directly affect global OEMs and their new product introduction (NPI) teams. The first is called WEEE standing for Waste Electrical and Electronic Communications Equipment and requires "producers" of electronic communications equipment for distribution in the EU to provide for recovery and recycling of their electronic products. The second directive, Restriction on Hazardous Substances or RoHS affects which materials are used in the construction of an electronic device and notably eliminates lead from current lead-based solders. These regulations in concert with new regulations for electromagnetic compliance (EMC) now strongly drive the choice of materials, components, and processes made by NPI teams. This talk will briefly review the WEEE and RoHS Directives and discuss how these new regulations affect new product design of communications equipment especially in regards to the choice of EMI shielding. We will contrast older methods of shielding (metal cans and conductive paint on plastic) with a new EMI shielding material based on the thin film metallization of thermoformed structure.

Dr. Rocky Arnold is a co-founder of WaveZero and served as its CEO from 2000-2004. Rocky has over 20 years of experience involving research, the creation of intellectual property, and the commercialization of technology. In the 10 years prior to founding WaveZero, Rocky working with emerging high technology companies and their entrepreneurial leaders to develop start-up strategies and business plans for securing initial rounds of funding. Rocky has M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering from Stanford University, an M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, a B.S.M.E. degree from the University of Missouri, and an MBA from Notre Dame De Namur University. Rocky served in the U.S. Army and U.S. Army Reserves to the rank of Captain with distinction.