At the upcoming PTC'10 conference in Hawaii, WTA and SSPI will host a half-day workshop, sponsored in part by Globecomm Systems, on January 17th. Sessions and confirmed speakers to date, include:

Keynote: The 100 Gbps Satellite: Opportunities, Risks, Rewards — Speaker: Mark Dankberg, Chairman, ViaSat

Routers at the Teleport Vs. Routers in Space: Which Makes More Sense?

• John Arnold, Director of Sales - Australia, iDirect
• Greg Pelton, General Manager, Internet Routing in Space, Cisco Systems
• Ramesh Ramaswamy, Assistant Vice President, International Marketing, Hughes Network Systems, LLC  

How IP is Revolutionizing Content Distribution – and How Satellite Can Stay Ahead

• Gary Hatch, Chief Executive Officer, ATCi
• Alan Young, Chief Technology Officer, SES World Skies

  Special WTA/SSPI 2010 Workshop Presentation: "Surfing the Cloud:  New Concepts for Content Distribution" — presented by: Steve Yablonski, Senior Vice President, Globecomm Systems

Convergence or Conflict?  Pressures on the Satellite “Commons” — Glenn Katz, President and Chief Operating Officer, Spacenet

For further details, select the graphic above to traipse over to the WTA Web site.