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Sessions Sessions Thursday, April 17 - Enterprise Track 9:15-9:45am Challenges for Strategic WAN Optimization/WAFS Deployment over MPLS VPNs Frank Lyonnet, VP Product Marketing, Ipanema Technolgies The WAN is critical to the business of modern Enterprises. Despite technological progress such as MPLS and xDSL, WAN bandwidth is a constrained resource and network delay is bound by physical constraints. The need for WAN Optimization Controllers (WOCs) has emerged in the past few years as a way to address application performance hurdles in selected portions of the network. This presentation will cover the challenges of deploying WAN Optimization at a strategic scale over MPLS VPNs. Both the Enterprise and Service Providers standpoints will be addressed and case studies of Enterprises getting benefits of strategic WAN Optimization through their Telco provider will be covered. 11:30-Noon Negotiating and Implementing MPLS Services Gregory Beat, Senior Consultant, Compass While offering a wide range of cost and performance benefits, MPLS presents some formidable management challenges. One is the intrinsic difficulty in defining competitive ‘market’ rates for a new technology. In addition, implementing MPLS in a global enterprise without adequate planning or governance mechanisms can result in serious and unexpected quality and productivity problems. This presentation will examine keys to an effective MPLS negotiation and implementation strategy. Specific issues addressed will include: - Using the RFP process to obtain competitive pricing - Implementing benchmark provisions to enable future adjustments in terms - Prioritizing applications to optimize performance - The need to understand activity within the network “cloud” - Ensuring flexibility to respond to new business requirements 9:45-10:15am Filling Bandwidth Gaps Among SMBs Brett Theiss, Director of Product Management, New Edge Networks Small and midsize enterprises in virtually every industry are aggressively installing private wide area networks. As applications that ride these networks proliferate and become increasingly critical to business continuity, customers require network solutions that fill the gap between DSL and MPLS T1 service levels and price points. Many businesses cannot cost justify next-level investments so they defer buying decisions. However, new service offerings, improved SLAs and customer-centric tools encourage increased bandwidth use and provide stepping-stone investments toward new bandwidth tiers and gaps: T1 to DS-3 to OCx. In this keynote, Brett Theiss, director of product management for New Edge Networks, an EarthLink company, discusses what can and cannot be addressed with a DSL-based platform and the growth opportunity this represents for businesses and service providers alike. 12:30-1:00pm Telepresence Case Study Christophe D. Masiero, Partner & General Manager, Orange Business Services This presentation will provide a case study of a Cisco telepresence solution, discussing network and engineering requirements as well as lessons learned. 1:00-1:30pm Enhancing Application Performance Without More Bandwidth Eric Jeux, CEO, Streamcore, Inc. Sadly, users often notice slow applications before IT does, triggering a string of distracting help desk calls and inhibited productivity – for IT and the end-user between the slow network and the help desk call. But what can IT do to enhance application performance on their networks to pre-empt slow applications (and help desk calls) besides paying for more bandwidth? This discussion will cover broader approaches for enhancing performance beyond mere acceleration or optimization, covering techniques such as automating applications to account for bandwidth availability, prioritizing bandwidth usage according to business need and prioritizing applications competing with other traffic types, all aimed at optimizing the network application performance. 10:30-11:00am Carrier-provided Services for Improving Application Performance Rebecca Wetzel, NetForecast Products to optimize application performance over a wide area network (WAN) are fast becoming main stream. Global enterprises are now familiar with distributed ADS solutions from the likes of Cisco, Riverbed, Juniper and Packeteer - and as their familiarity increases, so does their penchant to purchase these solutions as managed services. Service providers like AT&T, BT Global Services, Orange Business Services, Vanco, and Verizon Business are stepping up to the plate with sophisticated services to measure, control (i.e. protect from degrading under adverse network conditions), and accelerate (i.e. speed up for all users all the time) application performance. This session will describe the current lineup of service provider offerings to measure, control, and accelerate networked applications. It will also outline industry trends and compare and contrast carriers' offerings with those of content delivery network (CDN) providers such as Akamai. 1:30-2:00pm SAN Extension Services - Leveraging Ethernet and MPLS Umesh Kukreja, Nokia Siemens Businesses of all sizes are growing increasingly dependent on information and data to run their operations, and Storage Area Networks (SANs) increasingly are being deployed by enterprises and service providers to interconnect storage devices and application servers. Until recently, interconnections based on DWDM have been the de-facto solution for SAN extensions. However, the cost of the equipment – especially for small and medium capacities – and the need for dedicated optical fiber have limited SAN interconnection to all but the largest enterprises or institutions. This session will explore new developments in storage services in detail, including a case study on Orange Business Services’ i-SAN, and explain how advanced storage offerings allow small/medium and large size enterprises to benefit from the choice of multiple topologies (P2P, M2P or any-to-any) plus rapid site additions/alterations or on-demand bandwidth provisioning. 11:00-11:30am Understanding the Impact of Change for MPLS-based Networks Matt Gowarty, Solutions Marketing Manager, Fluke Networks Many organizations are migrating to IP-based networking, including MPLS, to improve overall application performance through any-to-any connectivity and class of service prioritization. The key features associated with this new transport option should improve performance, however, there will be new issues that can arise. Too often enterprises make a change to improve performance for a critical application but negatively impact other aspects. A successful organization should understand the impact of change for MPLSbased networks. This session will highlight best practices in baselining performance prior to a network change to verify the changes positively impacted performance. If there are new issues that arose such as managing remote locations without IT staff or fine-tuning class of service prioritization, the best practices for monitoring and managing these aspects will also be discussed. 13

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