[Nets-seminars] Extra talk this friday (21st May) GS/302 11:00am

[Richard G. Clegg]

Next Generation Access in the UK – An Openreach Perspective

Dr Williamson’s lecture will outline Openreach’s plans for the 
deployment of next generation access networks In the UK. These fibre 
rich networks represent a generational change and a significant new 
investment.  He will outline the structure of the industry and the 
current, copper, access network drawing attention to its strengths and 
limitations. He will explain the motivations for the investment in what 
has been described as a “mixed economy model”, fibre to premises and 
fibre to cabinet (node). He will also describe the “open access”products 
that Openreach is making available for the industry and the potential 
for new end user services which can exploit their capabilities.


Dr George Williamson Brief CV

George Williamson is currently Director of Strategic Network Design at 
Openreach, BT’s fixed line access business. George has 30 years 
experience in telecommunications since joining that field from 
university to work on the development of System X, the digital exchange 
type that still underpins much of the UK fixed telecommunications 
network. Since then George has worked in a wide range of R&D, 
engineering and management roles. In the late 1980s and early 1990s he 
worked in EU programmes such as ESPRIT and RACE on the application of 
advanced IT techniques in networks and network management.  Since then 
has taken leading roles in Network Management, Broadband ISDN and the 
early development of ATM packet networks, Intelligent Networking and the 
deployment of Broadband; and he participated in many of the programmes 
that led or followed the transformation of the UK telecommunications 
industry over the last 3 decades. He is now leading engineering efforts 
on the development of Openreach’s Superfast Fibre Access propositions. 
George holds BSc and PhD degrees from the Universities of Edinburgh and 
Manchester respectively. He is a long standing member of the IEEE where 
he is a member of Communications and Computer Societies and he is a 
Fellow of the IET and a Chartered Engineer.

-- 
Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
http://www.richardclegg.org/