Come learn how this market growth and network availability will impact your business and the requirements for increased network bandwidth.

When: Tuesday September 13, 2011
Where: Ravinia Crowne Plaza
Networking: 5:30PM

Join our panel as they examine the option for enterprise customers to procure, operate and maintain their own private fiber networks.  While leased circuits from telecom service providers will always be available, large enterprise users require large capacity at low cost of ownership. The global market for packet-optical switching systems is expected to increase to $2.9 billion by 2015, representing a 66.5% compounded annual growth rate from 2010-2015, according to a new market tracker product just released from Heavy Reading.

Our panel features representatives from each of the network components necessary to build a private fiber network including long-haul fiber, regional access fiber, optical networking equipment, network integrator and network operations center. They will focus on topics such as:

• How does a company get started deploying a private fiber network?
• What is the payback model for a build versus buy strategy?
• Learn how incremental cost per Mbps of bandwidth is impacted (i.e. margin cost versus incremental cost)?
• How is network reliability affected once a private fiber network is deployed?
• What are the challenges and opportunities of owning and operating a private fiber network?

Moderator

Brian Savory, Business Development Manager
ATP Emeritus Board Member

Brian Savory is a telecom professional with extensive engineering, marketing, project management and business development experience in fiber based transport networks, data networks and wireless telecommunications. He has helped enterprise customers build, operate and maintain private fiber optic networks. In a business development role, he has facilitated optical networking projects in the research and education, data center, dark fiber provider, health care and electric utility market verticals. Brian currently works for Optelian as Business Development Manager.

In addition to his career engagements, Brian is active in the Atlanta telecom professional development and networking community. He is an active member of the Atlanta Telecom Professionals (ATP). He has served as Director of Sponsorships for their annual awards event as well as on the Board of Directors as the Director of Enterprise Initiatives. Brian is also on the Board of the Infrastructure Society of the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG).

On a national front, Brian is involved with Internet2, an advanced networking consortium led by the research and education community. He currently serves on the Internet2 Architecture & Operations Advisory Council (AOAC) as well as the Program Committee.

One of the most rewarding times of his career was working at Georgia Tech assisting in establishing Southern Light Rail, Inc. (SLR), the research and education (R&E) regional optical network (RON) in the Southeast where he served as SLR’s President and Executive Director. SLR operates the Internet 2 SoX GigaPoP in the Southeast and is a member of National LambdaRail. While at Georgia Tech, Brian facilitated the procurement, implementation and operation of the University of Alabama System RON which connects the University of Alabama campuses and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center campus to telecom POPs in Atlanta.

Brian graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree and earned his MBA from Georgia State University.

Panelists

Hunter Newby, Chief Executive Officer
Allied Fiber

Hunter Newby is a twelve year veteran of the telecom networking industry. He has built a depth of creative and management experience and expertise in multiple disciplines within the field ranging from sales, marketing and technical aspects to network engineering and raising capital.

Prior to founding Allied Fiber, Hunter was Chief Strategy Officer of the Telx Group, Inc., one of the leading carrier hotel interconnection facility operators in the U.S. Telx was founded in 2000 to address the need for a neutral environment for colocation and interconnection for all network operators. Mr. Newby led the direction of the company into this new dimension of the communication networking industry that had previously never existed. Under Mr. Newby’s direction, Telx successfully created an entirely new business model and built the strongest brand name in the world for carrier-neutral core interconnection facilities.

During his tenure at Telx, Hunter participated in management meetings with investors continually assisting in the capital raising process to fund the business as it grew. Through his role at Telx as Chief Strategy Officer and ultimately a member of the Board, he was directly involved in more than $500 million in transactions between 2003 and 2007. He built and trained an outstanding sales team which produced consistent positive monthly, quarterly and annual revenue growth even through the telecom industry's downturn in the early 2000’s.

Hunter led not only the strategy of the company, but also the industry. He is well known in the Carrier Hotel Interconnection business and is also a recognized authority on Ethernet transport and Voice Peering.

Hunter has been involved with various industry councils and publications, including the Pacific Telecommunications Council (Vice Chairman of PTC Advisory Council), VON (Advisory Board Member), the International Engineering Consortium (Board Member), TMC - Internet Telephony Magazine monthly columnist and IP Business Magazine contributing editor. He received Bachelor’s degree in Communications from Drexel University.

Jess Ollila, Senior Product Manager - Professional Services
CenturyLink/Qwest Business

Jess Ollila has been with CenturyLink/Qwest for over 10 years.  His focus is on strategy with Revenue services include Pre Sales discovery, aligning resources, custom contractual statements of work, Engineering to Post Sales Project Management and onto Product Development. Broad background in communications, Engineering to Sales. Specialize in custom solutions to product development for large clients.

Joe Patton, Vice President of Sales
FiberLight, LLC

Joe Patton became Vice President of Sales for FiberLight in 2009 where he leads the team addressing the Large Enterprise/Wholesale markets. Joe started with FiberLight in early 2007 after serving in various Senior Sales Management and high level customer acquisition positions. Joe’s career spans 21 years where he has held various roles including Customer Service, Sales and Alternate Channels Management. He has a long history of building top teams throughout the communications industry and improving the overall operations and product offering for companies such as MCI, XO, Global Crossing and other communications carriers. Joe serves as Board Chairman of the non-profit, Sage School as well as heading up the Infrastructure Society at the Technology Association of Georgia. Joe enjoys time with his wife and 5 children. He enjoys swimming, soccer, camping and going to church with his family.

Dave Mills, Vice-President of Sales & Marketing
Optelian

Optelian is proud to announce that Dave Mills has been promoted from the role of Vice President of Sales to the role of Vice President of Sales, Service and Marketing where he will continue to expand on our unprecedented growth.

Mr. Mills joined Optelian Access Networks in September 2002, soon after it was launched, and has been a key element of its growth from a start-up through its position today as one of the industry’s most respected optical transport solutions providers.

His 20 plus year background in telecommunications, including technical and sales leadership roles in both the service provider and network equipment vendor organizations gives him a unique understanding of the needs of our customer’s.

Brandon Ross , Network Architect and ResidentExpert on ISP
Torrey Point  

Brandon Ross’s career started at the University of Florida, as student where he worked as Data Media Specialist to help create the campus’s backbone network architecture. After graduation, Brandon joined MindSpring. As a Director of Network Engineering at MindSpring, he was responsible for the management of the entire network infrastructure including the backbone architecture, the company-wide network security, and routing protocol architecture. In 2000, Brandon left MindSpring to join NetRail as the EVP of Engineering. He was responsible for the management of all aspects of technology including operations, provisioning, network design and development, and software design and development.

In 2001, Brandon joined Sockeye Networks as the VP of Operations. As the VP of Operations, Brandon made some significant contributions by building an entire Operations department, solving several BGP issues that were required to operate the service and launched 24 hour support line. In 2003, Brandon left Sockeye and went over to Comcast as a Principal IP Engineer, where he designed and implemented 3 VOIP trial networks, After Comcast, Brandon joined Internap, as the Director of Backbone Engineering. He was responsible for leading a team of engineers on several projects including designing and managing large-scale networks, VoIP, and BGP. In 2007, Brandon joined Xiocom as the Director of Network Engineering, where he played an integral role in building and designing the backbone network for the Dominican Republic, from the south coast to north coast.

In June 2010, Brandon joined Torrey Point as a Network Architect. Brandon has a B.S. in Telecommunications from the University of Florida.

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