Biography of:

Alan J. Weissberger, Technical Director
Data Communications Technology Inc.
2013 Acacia Court
Santa Clara, CA 95050-3482

aweissberger@sbcglobal.net or
ajwdct@technologist.com
(408) 863 6042 office voice
(408) 863 6099 office fax

As the founder and Technical Director of Data Communications Technology (DCT), a technical consulting firm started in March 1983, Alan J Weissberger specializes in telecommunications standards and their implementation. His clients have included network providers (AT&T, NTT, Pacific Bell, US West, Entel and CTC in Chile, Telkom South Africa, Moroccan PTT, others) , equipment and semiconductor manufacturers (many), and large end users. In 1995 and 1996 Alan was the principal architect for the European Commission's multi-service, multi-country ATM network – the largest private network in Europe (that network has now evolved into Gig Ethernet over CWDM). In 2000-2001, he was Ciena's lead ITU-T delegate, contributing to the standardization of the optical control plane in SG13 and SG15. Alan now represents NEC Corp in several OASIS TCs dealing with Web Services, while also attending the Global Grid Forum and the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF).

Dr. Weissberger has over 37 years of computer and communications engineering and strategic planning experience. He was granted seven patents and has one pending on implementation of SONET/SDH virtual concatenation (filed by start-up Lambda Networks).

Alan has lectured extensively on network and telecom topics – both in public seminars and private workshops at client companies. He is very well known in Europe, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Israel, South America, and South Africa for his seminars and over 100 published papers in IEEE journals and trade publications. Alan was an adjunct professor at Santa Clara University from 1975- 1988, where he established the Graduate EE Telecom curriculum and taught 42 graduate EE classes. Weissberger also presented guest lectures at IIT in Madras. He is a Sr Member of the IEEE (1980)

Weissberger's assessment of xDSL and DWDM technologies were published in 1999 by Price Waterhouse Coopers. Dataquest, IDC, Forrester, and RHK have published Alan's technology summaries. He was a co-author of the John Wiley & Sons book on ATM over ADSL (Jan 2000), working closely with co-lecturer and prime author John Bingham. Together they taught an ATM over xDSL short course at IEEE Infocom 1998 and privately for selected clients from 1997-1999.

DCT was a Principal Member of the ATM Forum from 1993 to Feb 1997. Previously, Alan has actively participated in the Frame Relay Forum, DSL Forum, SONET Interoperability Forum, and OIF, as well as T1X1.5, T1E1.4, T1M1.3, T1S1.5. He has published over 100 technical contributions to these standards bodies and forums – many in the last five years.

Currently, Alan's main focus areas include: Web Services, Grid Computer Networking and architecture, technology assessment for Nex-gen broadband networks, and Network management.