Dr. Juliet Bates is a Principal Consultant within the Professional Services Division of Alcatel Networks, providing design advice on the engineering and traffic management of Broadband Networks. Juliet's specialist areas include fixed and mobile voice access for transmission over ATM, IP and MPLS. 

Juliet has been MSF Technical Committee Vice Chair since April 2004.Chris Gallon is a Senior Network Architect at Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe, working in areas including end-to-end network design for triple play services, UK PSTN interconnect protocols, DSL and Fibre Access Solutions, PSTN evolution and Bandwidth Management.  He has been MSF Protocol and Control Working Group Chair since February 2002.