For Immediate Release
ATIS 1200 G Street, NW Suite 500 Washington, DC 20005	Contact: Trish Gessner Phone: 202-434-8851 E-mail: tgessner@atis.org www.atis.org

ATIS Educational Sessions Scheduled for SUPERCOMM 2005

June 2, 2005, Washington – ATIS will offer a series of presentations on "Planning the Next-Gen Network" June 7-8 in its booth (#78008) at SUPERCOMM 2005.

TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2005

10:15 a.m. -- NGN and the Challenges of Interconnection
Stuart Goldman, Consulting Member Technical Staff, Lucent Technologies
Co-Chair, the ATIS Network Interconnection Interoperability Forum (NIIF)

11:30 a.m. -- NGN: The Regulatory Requirements
Tony Rutkowski, Vice President for Regulatory Affairs, VeriSign

1:30 pm -- Public Safety Issues and E911
Maureen Napolitano, Director, 9-1-1 Customer Services, Verizon
Chair, ATIS Emergency Services Interconnection Forum (ESIF)

2:45 p.m.-- IPTV: The Drivers for Deployment
David Deas, Vice President Networks & Services, SBC Laboratories, Inc.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2005

10:15 a.m.-- Network Security: An Industry Update
Francois J.N. Cosquer, Chief Security Architect, Alcatel

11:30 a.m. -- Service Quality Measurement for the NGN
Neal Seitz, NTIA/Institute for Telecommunications Sciences
Vice Chair, ATIS Network Performance, Reliability, and Quality of Service Committee (PRQC)

1:30 p.m. -- NGN Framework: Requirements and Architecture
Andrew White, Technology Management, Qwest Communications

2:45 p.m. -- IMS Architecture and Network Convergence
Larry Opella, Director, ANA FMC Strategic Solutions Development, Alcatel

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