LEVEL -1 FORUM
CONFERENCE DAY 3 TRACK 1 | FRIDAY 11 MARCH 2016
SDN FOR CORE NETWORKS SESSION
Test & benchmarking Session
CONFERENCE DAY 3 TRACK 1 | FRIDAY 11 MARCH 2016
| 08.30 | WELCOME AND COFFEE | |
 SESSION CHAIRMANLoa Anderson chair IETF MPLS WG |
SDN FOR CORE NETWORKS SESSION
| 09.00 | Central Office as Data Center (CO DC): Infrastructure Re-farming for Business Transformation | |
 Proposing a solution to make use of the infrastructure in the COs (e.g. space, power, heat dissipation, high speed network connection, security) for DC purpose. Discussing the pros and cons of such an infrastructure re-farming approach vs. building brand new DCs. XiPeng Xiao, CTO Office, Huawei West Europe |
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| 09.20 | Optical Software Defined Networking | |
 Explaining an approach to Optical SDN, the current status of industry standards, and where Optical SDN will add value to customers’ networks, both today and in the future. Introducing the components of Optical SDN and showing how they can allow customers to leverage advanced, software-based architectures, in order to add flexibility and resource optimization to the optical transport. Zeev Draer, Vice President, Strategic Marketing, MRV Communications |
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| 09.40 | Leveraging SDN & Virtualized Routing for Automating Inter-Data Center Packet Services Delivery | |
 Discussing an SDN-based approach for addressing the challenge of inter-data center networking, facilitating an evolution path for the WAN towards new merchant-silicon based platforms with carrier-grade packet fabrics and emerging, programmable packet/optical transport systems. Chris Liou, VP, Network Strategy, Infinera Corp. |
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| 10.00 | SDN for the WAN: Reacting to Real-time Traffic Behaviour | |
 Discussing the use of SDN in the Wide Area Network (WAN) through the use of a centralised real-time traffic-engineering controller. In particular, a model in which the controller reacts to real-time traffic volumes by adjusting the paths taken by LSPs through the network accordingly. This greatly increases the value of a central controller, as it is reacting to actual traffic conditions, rather than just being programmed with static bandwidth requirements. Julian Lucek, Juniper Networks |
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| 10.20 | Transformation to Cost Optimized IP/Optical Transport | |
 Presenting a case study for a large operator which underwent a massive transformation from separate fixed and wireless IP backbones to a converged IP and optical transport to reduce capital spending while still meeting resiliency requirements for the services. The study evaluated the Present Mode of Operations (PMO) and a couple of Future Mode of Operations (FMO) target IP/optical network architectures and technology choices. Ben Tang, Bell Labs, Nokia |
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| 10.40 | COFFEE BREAK | |
 SESSION CHAIRMANRajiv Papneja HUAWEI |
Test & benchmarking Session
| 11.10 | Benchmarking E2E Services in NFV Environments | |
 Presenting test methodologies to validate the functionality and performance of the NFVI, the VNFs and Network services at high scale. Presenting findings from multiple POCs with Tier 1 providers for benchmarking the virtual infrastructure and validating autoscaling. Showcasing examples of the validation of E2E service chains that span physical and NFV networks. Testing techniques that ensure reliability parity of NFV environments with traditional network. Networks will be presented. Rajesh Rajamani, Spirent Communications |
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| 11.30 | Service Provider Transport SDN: Challenges and Solutions | |
 Carsten Rossenhoevel Managing Director EANTC |
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| 11.50 | Benchmarking Open Source SDN Controllers – are they already for carrier grade services? | |
 Attempting to share the evaluation results of various open source SDN controllers and discovering how they live up to the anticipated scaling, performance and reliability requirements. Many of the operators and enterprise users have shown interest in understanding the capabilities of the available open source controllers. Summarizing these findings and sharing the benchmarking test methodology used in such tests. Authors: Rajiv Papneja, HUAWEI, Dean Lee and Kingshuk Mandal, IXIA Dean Lee, IXIA |
| 12.10 | END OF THE CONFERENCE THREE TRACK 1 MPLS SDN | |
| 12.30 | LUNCH |
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