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Traditional carriers are investing and aggressively shouldering their way into the cloud computing space. Although they expect large revenues from the promising cloud services market, telcos however have the disadvantage of not being IT integrators. Companies are looking for providers that have complex IT skills and can integrate multiple systems. This is a major issue for carriers. But they can claim that they are the best placed to solve the two main drawbacks of cloud architectures: on one side, they tend to reduce administrators' visibility ; on the other side, the reliability of service cannot easily be guaranteed, especially for customers whose operations demand near-perpetual uptime.
In other words, SaaS and IaaS are one thing and networking is another. This is an argument carriers can definitely put on the table facing private cloud offerings like Google/Amazon and others
Cloud is about people, services and
solutions
Indeed, Cloud is not only about platforms, it is about people, services and solutions. While SaaS services will run on a "Platform as a Service" (PaaS), other solutions like digital signage, Desktop as a Service (DaaS) and Connected Home need much more than PaaS, they need servers, devices and a new business model. On the telecoms infrastructure side, there are many industry standards and blueprints on which to build a network, but IT oriented services are driven more by the carrier and their customers.
Achieving Carrier Cloud supposes to visualize and automate cloud service operations. It is also important to virtualize the network and to control the network' s paths and flows dynamically.
During the Carrier Cloud Summit, to be held in Novotel Wellness & Convention Centre Paris Roissy CDG from 19 to 21 June, 2012, project leaders, manufacturers and service developers will address these aspects in detail through up-to-date contributions.
The call for proposals is effective until January 31st, 2012.
The proposals will be analyzed by a scientific committee.
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The following list of topics is not exhaustive and authors may propose other subjects in keeping within the thematic framework.
Cloud Networking
• Network connectivity
• Network protocols
• Data Center Inter-connection
• VM Mobility Support
• Secure connection
• Gateway functions
• Availability
• Performance
• End-user terminals & devices
Compute and storage
• Segmentation of compute and storage
• SaaS, IaaS, POD and MSDC architectures
• Private and public clouds
• Media data centers
• Mobile data centers
Orchestration
• SDN (Software defined networking)
• Application on boarding
• Provisioning and management
• Large scale provisioning of VLANs
• VPNs compute and storage
• Application performance
• Assurance SLA
• OSS/BSS
• Policy
Other
• Data Center operations (IT consulting, Call center and helpdesk)
• Security
• Virtual desktop
• Clients
• Mobility
• Case studies
• Enterprise infrastructures
Abstracts must not exceed one page. They may be submitted in PDF, HTML or Word format by email at: info@upperside.fr or remi.scavenius@wanadoo.fr
Deadline
Deadline for turning in abstracts: March 1, 2012
Feedback from committee members: March 15, 2012
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