REDWOOD CITY, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 10, 2014) - ASSIA, Inc., a leading solutions company for broadband service providers, today announced that ASSIA CEO and Chairman Dr. John Cioffi will share his insights on addressing and managing access-network technology issues, at The NBN: Rebooted conference in Sydney on November 18, 2014. The Access Technology Issues Panel will discuss the latest developments in access technologies such as FTTP and FTTN, and how these technologies can work with the rebooted NBN. The panel will also explain how the optimal combination of broadband access technologies can benefit the industry, as well as consumers.
Widely known as the "Father of DSL," and an inventor of Vectored VDSL, Dr. Cioffi advocates the economical use of existing copper phone lines to deliver speeds exceeding 100 megabits per second (Mbps) for the NBN. Broadband networks combining fiber to a neighborhood cabinet and vectored VDSL for the last-mile connection to homes already have been deployed in Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom, China, Austria and the United States.
Who: Dr. John Cioffi, CEO and Chairman, ASSIA, Inc.
What: Panel: "Access Technology Issues"
When: Tuesday, November 18, 9:00 a.m. AEDT
Where: The NBN: Rebooted, Swissotel, Sydney
About John M. Cioffi
Dr. John Cioffi is a 35-year veteran of the broadband industry and sports numerous prestigious awards for his contributions to technology and industry. Prior to founding ASSIA in 2003, he served as founder, CTO and vice president of engineering at Amati before its acquisition by Texas Instruments. Dr. Cioffi held a tenured endowed professorship at Stanford University in the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1985 to 2009, where he is now an active Professor Emeritus with limited ongoing research efforts in broadband access. He has published more than 400 papers and holds more than 100 patents. Dr. Cioffi is a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering and an International Fellow of the United Kingdom Royal Society of Engineering. He is a winner of the Economist Computing and Telecommunications Award (2010), the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal (2010), the IEEE Kobayashi Award (2001), and the Marconi Society's Marconi Prize (2006). He currently serves on the board of Alto Beam and on the Marconi Society Board of Trustees. Dr. Cioffi holds a BSEE from the University of Illinois and a PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
About ASSIA, Inc.
ASSIA, Inc. is a strategic and trusted solutions vendor to broadband service providers worldwide. ASSIA solutions enable providers to grow revenues, increase customer satisfaction, improve operational efficiencies, and deliver new multimedia content to the broadband-enabled home. ASSIA has more than 70 million broadband lines under contract with top-tier service providers worldwide and is backed by strategic investors, including AT&T, Mingly China Growth Fund, SFR Development, Sandalwood Partners, Sofinnova Partners, Stanford University, Swisscom Ventures, T-Ventures, and Telefonica. For more information, visit www.assia-inc.com.
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