His specialties include knowledge on routing and switching
technology for large scale networks, from IP, Ethernet, ATM, to SNA. Over the years, he has
worked with all types of IBM/Cisco networking technology, as well as ATM switching technology.
Luca Martini graduated from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, (1992) with a BA in
Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Mannix O??™Connor was the founding Secretary of the IEEE 802.17 Resilient Packet Ring
Working Group. He was also a founding member of the Resilient Packet Ring Alliance whose
mission was to educate the marketplace about the new IEEE protocol. In addition, he served as
co-chair of the Technical Marketing Committee of the Metro Ethernet Forum.
His executive positions include Director of Marketing for Corrigent Systems a 10 Gbps packet
transport company serving carriers with Triple Play, Carrier Ethernet and Multiservice applications.
Prior to that, he was a founding member of Lantern Communications, a company
designing 10 Gbps RPR equipment for carrier network applications. C-Cor purchased Lantern
in 2003 for $20m.
Mr. O??™Connor held positions at MRV Communications (NASDAQ:MRVC) including, VP of
Product Marketing where he created the Fiber Driver line of managed Ethernet access devices
for public networks and also developed some of the first commercially available Ethernet switches
sold under OEM agreement to Intel, Fujitsu, DEC, Ungermann Bass and others.
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