Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

May 21: ECpE Seminar

 

Students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend the following seminar:

Topic: Light-trails: From ideas to products

Speaker: Ashwin Gumaste, MIT Visiting Scholar, and James R. Isaac Chair in Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Date: Wednesday, May 21

Time: 1:10 p.m.

Location: 3043N/3043S Coover Hall

Abstract: The talk focuses on light-trail technology as a solution for metro optical networks. In particular, we focus on conceptualization, prototyping ,and productization of light-trails. Features of light-trails, design parameters and protocols are discussed. Issues such as fault tolerance, topology growth are considered. Provisioning of services such as Triple Play, SAN, Video on demand, and pseudo wires over light-trail networks are also discussed. An overview of light-trail based products and the IITB test-bed on light-trails summarizes the talk.

Speaker biography: Ashwin Gumaste is currently the James R. Isaac Chair in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is at present on sabbatical as a visiting scholar with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. He was previously with Fujitsu Laboratories (USA), Inc. as a member of research staff in the Photonics Networking Laboratory (2001-05). Prior to this he worked in Fujitsu Network Communications R&D and prior to that with Cisco Systems in the Optical Networking Group (ONG). He has more than 40 pending U.S. and EU patents and has published more than 80 papers in referred conferences and journals. He has authored three books in broadband networks called DWDM Network Designs and Engineering Solutions (a networking bestseller), and First-Mile Access Networks and Enabling Technologies (for Pearson Education/Cisco Press) and Broadband Services: User Needs, Business Models, and Technologies for John Wiley. Ashwin's research has been funded by vendors, providers, system integrators, and government agencies. He has served program chair, co-chair, publicity chair, and workshop chair for IEEE conferences and as program committee member for IEEE ICC, Globecom, OFC, ICCCN, Gridnets, etc. Ashwin is also a guest editor for IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Network. He can be reached through www.ashwin.name.

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