…customers’ confidence in the solutions we are providing for their networks." Ciena also announced that Joe Berthold has accepted and joined the company as chief, Network Architecture. Berthold spent the last 20 years working at Bellcore and, earlier, at Bell Labs. His most recent assignment was executive…

…/blogger Roy Rubenstein, who used his large rolodex to get insight from a slew of industry experts on the topic.  One of those experts was Joe Berthold, Ciena’s vice president of network architecture, who had the following insight on the costs of lighting up new fiber, and why that may drive…

…the interest that carriers are showing in UNI and E-NNI as well as the confidence that the vendors have in their implementations,” said Joe Berthold, president of the OIF and vice president of network architecture at Ciena. “The success of the demonstration validates the work of the OIF in…

…:00 p.m.: Analyst Viewpoint: Optical Trends in Access George Peabody, The Aberdeen Group * 2:00 to 2:30 p.m.: Evolution of the Optical Network Joe Berthold, Vice President of Architecture and Standards Ciena Corporation * 2:30 to 3:00 p.m.: Service Delivery at the Optical Edge Doug Faber, Director of…

…Todd Patterson, product development leader for Ciena customer Progress Telecom, Steve Alexander, senior vice president and CTO for Ciena and Joseph Berthold, vice president of network architecture for Ciena and president of the Optical Internetworking Forum.