The Internet-Telephony Addressing Board (ITAB) (www.i-tab.org)
announced today that Mr. Ikhlak Sidhu of 3Com Corporation accepted a nomination to
the ITAB Board of Directors. Sidhu is Vice President of the Internet communications
group within 3Com Corporation’s Network Systems Business Unit. He has overall
responsibility for voice communication systems and product lines based on intelligent
client devices. His approach is based on a "power to the user" model, which
places more features and applications under the control of the user. Recently,
Sidhu received 3Com's Inventor of the Year Award for 1999.
Previously, Sidhu spent
four years as the director of 3Com’s advanced technologies research centre where
he worked on architectures, technologies and new services for next generation IP
network access. Technically, he has contributed to over 20 research papers
and over 25 inventions in the areas of image compression, statistical multiplexing
analysis, transport and viability of Internet telephony, performance measurement
of the Internet, forward error correction for real time services over the Internet
and capacity planning for network access.
Sidhu is an accomplished presenter
and session chair and has spoken at numerous conferences around the world including
Networld + Interop, Voice on the Net, International Symposium of Internet Telephony
and The National Communication Forum. He has published several articles and
spoken at University conferences throughout North America.
About ITAB:
ITAB is an international non-profit association that provides an independent, open
and transparent mechanism for defining operational policies for the ".tel" TLD. The
".tel" TLD is a proposed global resource for the IP-Communications industry that
maps standard telephone numbers to Internet addresses. The underlying role
of the ".tel" TLD is to facilitate the smooth convergence of global communications
services between the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and the Internet by
allowing telephone numbers to be used as a common addressing mechanism for both PSTN
and Internet services.