Topics
- Spring & RSVP
- The role of open source organisms
- 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.
