GEYSERS

The TP Group is the largest telecommunications consortium in Central Europe. The pillars of the consortium are Telekomunikacja Polska and PTK Centertel, i.e., the Orange network operator. The TP Group operates fixed-line telephony, mobile telephony, Internet and data transmission markets. It provides services to a total of about 21 million mobile and fixed-line telephony customers. Over 2.3 million customers of the Group have broadband Internet access using the fixed-line or mobile ption. The TP offer includes triple play, i.e., telephone, Internet and television together with video-on-demand within one service, whereas Orange offers mobile television for mobile phones. The TP Group includes: TP Emitel, i.e., the leading operator of the terrestrial radio and television network in Poland; Wirtualna Polska(WP.pl) - one of the most popular and frequently visited Internet portals in Poland; and the Orange Foundation, which performs actions of social welfare, educational and charity nature. The most important programmes of the foundation include: Telefon do Mamy (Phone to Mum), Szko?a bez Przemocy (School free from Violence), D?wi?ki Marze? (Sounds of Dreams) and Edukacja z Internetem TP (Education with TP Internet).

The TP Group is a part of France Telecom, a global telecommunications group.

More information on www.tp.pl.

CVs of key persons

Jaros?aw Kowlaczyk is the manager of IP Networks Engineering Lab in the Core Networks Division at TP R&D department. His work focuses on routing and traffic engineering mechanisms in the IP/MPLS backbone. Recent work includes network transition to support IPv6 protocol. He received his M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications from the Warsaw University of Technology in 2001.

Monika Antoniak-Lewandowska received the M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications from the Warsaw University of Technology in 2004. She is a TP R&D Expert in the Core Network Division of IP Networks Engineering Lab at TP R&D department. She was in the team that has created and launched a IPv6 Tunnel Broker in TP's network, a part of a 6BONE test network. She was involved in a Flow Aware Networking project. Lately, she was working on adaptive routing algorithms.

?ukasz Drzewiecki received the M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from the Warsaw University of Technology in 2003. He is the Senior Specialist in the Core Network Division of IP Networks Engineering Lab at TP R&D department. He was in the team that has created and launched a IPv6 Tunnel Broker in TP's network, a part of a 6BONE test network. He was involved in a Flow Aware Networking project. Lately, he was working on adaptive routing algorithms.