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2009 Thought Leaders Forum

In 2009, OSP^® magazine gathered six industry executives to answer questions based on their views of the relative urgency of OSP-related concerns. Coming from a wide variety of industry perspectives, their answers provide great diversity of thought, and a varied menu of ideas upon which to act. Below are the articles from OSP Thought Leaders 2009. OSP Thought Leaders Forum™ 2009 Articles May 2009, Thought Leaders Forum Questions, Round 1 2009 Thought Leaders Dr. Marcus Weldon, Chief Technology Officer, Wireline Networks Product Division, Alcatel-Lucent Ernie Carey, Senior Vice President-Construction and Engineering, AT&T Minesh Patel, VP, OSP Business Unit, Charles Industries Dr. Bernhard Deutsch, Director of Marketing and Market Development, Corning Cable Systems George Spengler, VP OSP Network & Power Engineering, PAETEC Trent Clausen, Director of OSP Engineering, Qwest Communications
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ALCATEL-LUCENT 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill NJ 07974-0636 www.alcatel-lucent.com	Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is the trusted partner of service providers, enterprises, and governments worldwide, providing solutions that deliver voice, data, and video communication services to end-users. A leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent leverages the unrivalled technical and scientific expertise of Bell Labs, one of the largest innovation powerhouses in the communications industry.
AT&T 2600 Camino Ramon San Ramon CA 94583 www.att.com	AT&T is bringing it all together for our customers, from the revolutionary iPhone to next-generation TV services. For more than a century, we have consistently provided innovative, reliable, high-quality products and services and excellent customer care. Today, our mission is to connect people with their world, everywhere they live and work, and do it better than anyone else.
CHARLES INDUSTRIES, LTD. Charles Center 5600 Apollo Drive Rolling Meadows IL 60008-4049 www.charlesindustries.com	CHARLES INDUSTRIES supplies telecommunications, CATV and utilities markets with a comprehensive line of outside plant environmental protection solutions for copper, fiber, and wireless applications. Charles Fiber Distribution Points™ (CFDP), Pedlock®Pedestals, Fiber Flexibility Pedestals (CFFP), CATV/Broadband Pedestals and Multi-Purpose Housings (CMPH) lead the industry in performance and value for non-metallic buried distribution enclosures. Copper connectivity solutions include AdrenaLine™ DSL Line Conditioners, Smart Coils, and the High-Speed Voice and Data Link™ (HVDL) System: three product lines that help deliver extended-reach DSL to hard-to-reach subscribers.
CORNING CABLE SYSTEMS 800 17th St NW Hickory NC 28601 www.corning.com/cablesystems	CORNING With its 150-year history of innovation, Corning Cable Systems is an industry leader in optical networking products for voice, data, and video network applications. Corning Cable Systems Evolant® Solutions for Carrier Networks provides a comprehensive range of innovative products optimized for FTTx, CATV, and wireless applications with its preconnectorized solutions revolutionizing the way access networks are deployed. From optical cable to hardware and equipment, from engineering support to award-winning customer service, Evolant Solutions make FTTx deployments faster, easier, and more reliable.
PAETEC 600 Willow Brook Office Park Fairport NY 14450 www.paetec.com	PAETEC delivers personalized communications solutions and services to business-class customers in more than 80 percent of the nation’s top 100 metropolitan areas. They are a premier alternative to the ILECs, based on their nationwide footprint, breadth of products, and quality of service. PAETEC’s data and voice products help customers achieve cost-effective solutions.
QWEST COMMUNICATIONS 1801 California St Denver CO 80202 www.qwest.com	QWEST customers coast to coast turn to Qwest’s industry-leading national fiber-optic network and world-class customer service to meet their communications and entertainment needs. For residential customers, Qwest offers a new generation of fiber-optic high-speed Internet service, as well as digital home phone, Verizon Wireless, and DIRECTV services.

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