MPLS, SD & AI Net World Congress 2026

Topics

• Spring & RSVP
• The role of open source organisms
  • OpenDaylight
  • ONF
  • Openstack
• Data center virtualization
  • Wan & virtualization
  • Standardisation
  • NFV environments
  • Ethernet virtual networks
  • Data center interconnection
• Migration scenarii
• Multi-topology
• SDN & NFV
  • MPLS interactions
  • Standardization
  • MEF Dynamic Responsive Ethernet
  • IEEE DCB
  • MPLS and SDN Use cases (BoD - Bandwidth on Demand, VM, DCN applications, SPIT)
  • OpenFlow impact
  • Availability issues
  • Resiliency, Performance and High
• P2mp
  • Protection
  • TE trees
  • Inter-area
  • Re-optimization
  • OAM
• IPv6 deployments
• Domain-wide global labels
• Protection
  • Ingress/egress protection
  • Shared mesh
  • Multi-layer (SRLG)
  • Multi-failure
  • P2MP PW, etc
  • PW endpoint (S-PE)
• PCE
  • Hierarchical PCE
  • Statefull PCE
  • Inter-domain
  • Inter-layer
  • P2MP
• I2RS
  • Security
  • Service chaining
  • Applicability connection/network on-demand
  • I2RS in MBH
  • Service topology
• NVO3
• Dynamic placement of multi-segment PW
• MPLS and Network /Infrastructure Virtualization (Cloud Services)
  • Virtualized Network Architectures
  • Seamless VM mobility
  • Scaling and management of Data Center networks
  • Convergence and Resiliency in Data Center Networks
  • Impact of IPv6 transition to Cloud Services
  • MPLS and Data Center Interconnect (inter-DC, Intra-DC)
  • SP, Cloud Service Providers Case Studies
• End-to-end MPLS
  • Requirements for a common packet transport architecture
  • Unified MPLS
  • Network designs
  • MPLS TP features
  • Migration strategies
  • Scalability issues
  • Control and management plane
• GMPLS and Optical Networking
  • Lambda switching
  • Current standard issues
  • Signalling at the edge between optical access devices/metro DWDM devices
  • Optical VPNs
  • PCE/PCC
  • Applicability of GMPLS in non-optical technology areas
  • GMPLS control plane challenges
  • 100G and beyond
  • Planning and optimization
• MPLS and next generation mobile packet networks
  • Seamless MPLS and mobility
  • MPLS in LTE
  • MPLS synchronization for LTE networks
  • Various options for backhaul
  • Wi-Fi offload
  • Fixed mobile convergence and mobile broadband
  • Lightweight MPLS and Pseudo wire based aggregation
  • Scaling MPLS and Pseudo wires
• Access and Core: Packet Transport Technologies
  • Role of MPLS pseudo-wires in the access
  • Lightweight MPLS to the CE
  • Packet transport in the aggregation infrastructure
  • Role of MPLS in access broadband networks (MPLS to the DSLAM)
  • Technical challenges in packet transport -- performance monitoring, provisioning, QoS, resilience
  • Packet transport in core networks
  • Technologies for overcoming the above challenges
• Service provider`s deployments reports
  • VPLS Multicast Deployment
  • MPLS TP OAM Issues
  • Experience in MPLS Services scalability
  • VPN deployments
  • VPLS vs LAN Emulation: what makes the former more successful than the later
  • Experience in managing MPLS networks
  • Deployment of hierarchical LSPs
  • Experiences with FRR, Diff-Serv aware TE
  • Migrating legacy services to MPLS
  • Operational challenges of running MPLS networks
  • Emulating ATM over MPLS
  • Transition efforts case studies
  • Deployment of MPLS Point-to-multipoint LSPs
  • Deployment of Layer 2 VPNs
  • VPN Multicast Deployment
• Quality of Service and Resiliency
  • Fault tolerance/graceful restart
  • QoS strategies for L2/L3 VPNs
  • Fault isolation and resource partitioning in multi-service MPLS networks
  • MPLS guaranteed bandwidth
• MPLS in the enterprise
  • Deployment experiences
  • Enterprise best-practices
  • Should Enterprise have more control over path their traffic take in Service Provider network?
• Performance Issues
  • Impact of current infrastructure or system limitations
  • Scaling requirements for systems and protocols
  • Fast convergence of MPLS enabled networks
  • Experience in Multicast MPLS deployment performance
• Management and Planning for MPLS
  • Provisioning/monitoring/trouble-shooting
  • Application of policy management to MPLS
  • LSP verification tools/procedures
  • LSP provisioning management
  • Planning tools for designing, modelling, and simulating MPLS-based networks and services
  • SLA verification/monitoring
  • Billing in MPLS networks
  • Network management for MPLS-practices and tools
  • Verifying negotiated SLAs
  • Setting accurate SLAs
  • SLAs for MPLS-based Layer2 VPNs
• Reports from interoperability testing
  • Issues found
  • Lessons learnt
  • Guidance for MPLS development going forward - for standards, vendors, and providers
• Inter-provider and inter-domain case studies
  • Inter-domain and inter-provider VPLS
  • Inter-domain and inter-provider 2547 VPNs
  • Wires
  • Inter-domain and inter-provider pseudo
  • Inter-domain and inter-provider L2 VPNs

Who should Attend

Network Router Specialists, Network Architecture specialists, R&D engineers in Mobile Backhaul, Engineers, Carrier Ethernet development managers, Technical Marketing managers, Heads of Technology and Product Marketing managers for Data Communications.