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Sessions Sessions Thursday, April 17 Service - Provider Track & Enterprise Track 11:00-11:30am Interdomain LDP-BGP VPLS Interworking Amit Shukla, Juniper Networks VPLS has emerged as one of the dominant MPLS applications today. There are two IETF standards to signal VPLS pseudowires, one using LDP and the other one using BGP as the signaling protocol. Large networks may contain multiple VPLS domains, each setup using a different VPLS-signaling protocol. To extend the VPLS service across these multiple domains, the pseudowires created by the different signaling protocols must be stitched together. Thus, an interworking function is required between the two signaling mechanisms. Existing interdomain VPLS signaling mechanisms are inadequate for this task, as they are based on the assumption that all interconnected domains are using the same signaling mechanism. This presentation discusses a new scalable and flexible interdomain VPLS signaling scheme which can be used to interconnect multiple domains running either the same or different VPLS signaling mechanisms. We will show how this LDP-BGP VPLS interworking mechanism can be used to create a large-scale VPLS service by deploying BGP-VPLS signaling in the core and gluing existing smaller-scale LDP-VPLS deployments with no changes to the PEs running LDP-VPLS. Some of the highlights of the solution include: resiliency using BGP-VPLS multi-homing, the ability of the borderrouter providing the interworking function to act as a PE, and use of P2MP LSP within BGP-VPLS domain for efficient flooding and broadcasting. 1:00-1:30pm PBT: How Performance Testing Ensures its Success Neal Roche, VP Product Management, Ixia Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) is one of the fastest growing areas of Carrier Ethernet, recently adopted by major service providers like BT (British Telecommunications) and others who find the promise of a converged network based on Ethernet very appealing. Despite the excitement surrounding this new method of transport, PBT remains a new, fairly uncharted technology concept which must overcome a variety of challenges before wide scale deployment. Comprehensive performance testing throughout the network is one way providers can ensure PBT prevails over the host of operational and interoperability issues prior to rollout. This presentation will cover some of the issues service providers are faced with when testing PBT throughout the network. It will also discuss testing methodologies used to validate crucial factors like scalability, QoS, and overall performance so providers can ensure end users continue to experience a high level of service during the adoption of this exciting new technology. 1:30-2:00pm Ethernet Network Planning - A Multilayer Approach Dr. Sukant K. Mohapatra, Director, Product Management, VPI Systems Ethernet aggregation networks are all the rage, and the market is expected to reach $1 billion by the end of this year. The interaction between network layers create significant complexity, however, and experts say between 70 and 80 percent of Ethernet network failures are caused by failures in the lower layers. Planning teams need to take into account the effect of traffic on each layer, but are discovering that planning reliability and disaster scenarios is tougher than they imagined, as backup resources must be made available at each layer in the hierarchy (e.g. IP, SDH, Optical). This talk examines the issues and challenges in planning carrier grade Ethernet networks with existing and evolving technologies, highlighting the importance of taking a layer approach and conducting multi-layer failure analysis. It will explore the planning dos and don’ts, including how to enable optimal utilization of network infrastructure with high availability and reliability. 11:30-Noon Deployment Architecture, Requirements and Solutions for Multicast over MPLS-based Core Dr. Zafar Ali, Senior Technical Leader, Cisco This presentation presents typical network architecture for deploying triple play services and list network elements for triple play over MPLS based core. It then lists a set of requirements for the MPLS based multicast core. These requirements includes scalability, fast convergence in the core and the edge, content delivery requirements, bandwidth guarantees and QOS needs, Operation and Maintenance aspects, security concerns and high availability requirements like source redundancy, FRR for link/ node failure, FEC algorithms, bandwidth efficiency robustness and flexibility, etc. The presentation then outlines a set of core multicast technologies and their associated deployment models. The technology solutions discussed include Native IP Multicast, Multicast VPN (mVPN) based solution, RSVP TE based P2MP tunnels, Multicast LDP (mLDP) based LSP. The presentation then compares these technology solutions for the MPLS based multicast core against above-mentioned requirements. Thursday, April 17, 2008 - Enterprise Track 8:30-9:15am KEYNOTE: MPLS and VPLS - Deploying Solutions and Not Just Technology Alla Reznik, Group Manager, IP & Ethernet Services, Verizon Business Today enterprises are faced with a myriad of networking options, including Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs, whereby determining which is the best option can be confusing. How do you know which one is right for your organization? Alla Reznik, Group Manager for IP and Ethernet Services, will address what companies should know before they build or buy their next-generation network by highlighting two customers using both Layer 2 and 3 VPN services today from Verizon. The session will provide an opportunity for them to share their key business drivers which led to their ultimate networking solutions. They will also share details as to the upsides and potential pitfalls, and what specific applications may have influenced their decisions. 12:30-1:00pm Linking Current and Nex-Gen Networks to Deliver Triple-Play Services Ali Kafel, VP of Telecommunications, Stratus Technologies Investments in existing infrastructure have limited providers’ ability to build networks that support VoIP and IN service bundling. But a growing number of providers such as Denmark’s Smile Content are building hybrid IP-legacy networks using fault-tolerant signaling gateways as secure, reliable links between current and next-generation technologies. This SIP-based solution enables Smile to implement an IP backbone and broadband access infrastructure to deliver “triple play” services to residential and business customers. Through the Smile Content case study, attendees will learn how they can realize more value from existing investments by offering legacy services to next-generation network (NGN) customers. As the SIP gateway gives companies like Smile the time to fully depreciate legacy investments, the IP network offers the flexibility to develop innovative new next generation subscriber services. Dela TODA Don’t Del ay! REGISTER TOD AY! www.futurenetexpo.com http://www.futurenetexpo.com

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