Weissberger Biography

In this on-line publication, we share our analysis, opinions and direction on the interactive television news and views that we believe will be of interest and use to our friends associated directly or indirectly with independent telephone companies. For more information as to the various ways Viodi works with independent telephone companies, please go to http://www.viodi.com/alliance/

Disclaimer:

The Viodi View [Viodi, LLC] and its associates used their best efforts in collecting and preparing the information published herein. However, the Viodi View [Viodi, LLC] does not assume, and hereby disclaims, any and all liability for any loss or damage caused by errors or omissions, whether such errors or omissions resulted from negligence, accident, or other causes.

All displayed trademarks, logos and service marks are the property of their respective owners. © 2006 Viodi, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
5255 Stevens Creek, #127 Santa Clara, CA 95051

Biography of: Alan J Weissberger , Technical Director

Data Communications Technology
2013 Acacia Court
Santa Clara, CA 95050-3482
aweissberger at sbcglobal dot net
(408) 863 6042 -VM

As the founder and Technical Director of Data Communications Technology (DCT) , a technical consulting firm started in March 1983, Alan J Weissberger specializes in telecommunications and enterprise networking standards and their implementation. His clients have included network providers (AT&T, NTT , Pacific Bell, US West, Entel and CTC in Chile, Telkom South Africa, Moroccan PTT, others), equipment and semiconductor manufacturers (many), and large end users. In 1995 and 1996 Alan was the principal architect for the European Commission’s multi-service, multi-country ATM network – the largest private network in Europe (that network has now evolved into Gig Ethernet over CWDM). In 2000-2001, he was Ciena’s lead ITU-T delegate, contributing to the standardization of the optical control plane in SG13 and SG15. From 2003-2006, Alan represented NEC Corp in several standards committees – Metro Ethernet Forum, ITU-T SG13 (Ethernet + IP OAM), OASIS TC dealing with Web Services, Global Grid Forum and the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF).

Alan’s current focus areas are: 3G broadband technologies, fixed & mobile WiMAX and related broadband wireless applications, municipal wireless networks, optical Ethernet, Web Services standards and specifications, Grid Computer networking and architecture, technology assessment of Next Generation optical and wireless broadband networks. An initiative on the use of Web Services for Next Gen service management has been proposed to several service providers, including BT and Verizon.

Weissberger has almost 40 years of computer and communications engineering, technical marketing, and strategic planning experience. He was granted seven patents and has one pending on implementation of SONET/ SDH virtual concatenation (filed by start-up Lambda Networks). He has been on the Editorial Board of the Wiley International Journal of Network Management, and Grid Today for 12 years.

Alan has lectured extensively on network and telecom topics – both in public seminars and private workshops at client companies. He is very well known in Europe , Japan , Taiwan , Singapore , Israel , South America , and South Africa for his seminars and over 130 published papers in IEEE journals, web sites, and trade publications . Alan was an adjunct Professor at Santa Clara University from 1975- 1988, where he established the Graduate EE Telecom curriculum and taught 42 graduate EE classes. Weissberger also presented guest lectures at IIT in Madras . He is a Sr Member of the IEEE (1980) with degrees from SUNY at Stony Brook (BS), Northeastern University (MSEE) and MIT (ScD).

Weissberger’s assessment of xDSL and DWDM technologies were published in 1999 by Price Waterhouse Coopers. Dataquest, IDC, Forrester, and RHK have published Alan’s technology summaries. He was a co-author of the John Wiley & Sons book on ATM over ADSL (Jan 2000), working closely with co-lecturer and prime author John Bingham. Alan taught xDSL short courses at IEEE Infocom 1998 and privately for selected clients from 1997-1999.

DCT was a Principal Member of the ATM Forum from 1993 to Feb 1997. Previously, Alan has actively participated in the Frame Relay Forum, DSL Forum, SONET Interoperability Forum, and OIF, as well as T1X1.5, T1E1.4, T1M1.3, T1S1.5. He has published over 150 technical contributions to these standards bodies and forums – many in the last five years.

Here are a few career highlights:

Principal architect of European Commission’s private network: 3 phases from 1995-1997
Consultant to many telcos, including AT&T, NTT , Pacific Bell, US West, Telkom
Web Services standards and specifications
Grid Computer Networking and architecture
WiMAX, mesh WiFi, municipal wireless and fixed wireless broadband applications
Technology assessment of Next Generation Networks based on ITU-T FG-NGN
Optical control plane standardization contributions in OIF and ITU-T
Patent pending on SDH /SONET virtual concatenation
Co-author of Generic Framing Procedure (GFP)- used to encapsulate Ethernet frames in SDH payloads- standardized by T1X1.5 and the ITU-T.

http://www.viodi.com/weissberger/

http://www.webtorials.com/abstracts/DCTI.htm

http://www.webtorials.com/abstracts/Weissberger2.htm

http://www.computerhistory.org/events/The_Rise_of_Silicon_Valley_EventSummary.pdf

http://www.computerhistory.org/events/SunFoundersPanelEventSummary.pdf

Viodi View Subscribe

Municipal Wireless: Business Models, Privacy, and Missing Applications

The Report

[Premium $Fee]