Mr. Yves Poppe, VSNL International

  Yves Poppe has spent his more than 30 years career in data communications with both manufacturers and telecom carriers.   His   involvement in Next Generation Internet   includes the first transatlantic STM-1 connection between the North-American and European Research and Education networks in 1994 and the first   gigabit level transcontinental wavelength connection in 2001. Representing Teleglobe on the Canarie (Canadian R&E network) Policy Board, Yves supported the   early IPv6 efforts   including the creation of 6TAP in Chicago. Teleglobe became a founding member of the IPv6 Forum and first announced its IPv6 plans at the IPv6 forum in Telluride, Co in March 2000.   Commercial deployment of IPv6 has now started in   Teleglobe's Global IP network..

  Yves Poppe also represents Teleglobe in TERENA,   Internet2 and APAN and participates in the GSM Association IPv6 project.   He   is a frequent presenter on the impact of the telecom recession, the evolution of the internet and the key role of IPv6. His most recent interventions on the IPv6 topic include    IPv6 summits in India,   Abu Dhabi, China and Spain as well as the recent   ITU-T IPv6 workshop in Geneva.