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The third edition of NWA will once again bring together leaders among service providers, network equipment vendors, and providers of network management and operation solutions to discuss industry challenges and opportunities, present new ideas, and share best practices around the topic of network automation.
Automating service provisioning and network configuration is one of several areas for potential improvement. Current approaches to translating service models into configuration changes are overly dependent on manual intervention from experts with detailed knowledge of the network and, where automated systems are used, they often use complex scripting code that is expensive to maintain and slow to adapt to requirements for new product offerings.
Creating New Designs and Workflows
However, it is necessary to widen the scope beyond the operational relevance only of network automation. Customers, once they embrace automation concepts very quickly turn into an enabler for new solutions, architectures and innovations. They actually create entirely new designs and workflows rather than 'just' operating existing ones more efficiently.
Indeed, network automation concepts are not only proposing sequence of command automation. They also push developers to create new designs and architectures.
Another important issue is green automation. Networks are large consumers of energy and it is important for operators to reduce costs and demonstrate an environmentally conscious approach. Network automation plays a critical role in achieving these goals.
What are the latest technologies and approaches that will streamline network operations, increase agility, and reduce costs?
How are carriers planning to leverage these in the short and long-term?
What solutions must network equipment vendors provide to enable network automation?
What new innovations and opportunities are enabled by network automation?
What are the technical issues involved in deploying network automation systems and processes?
What are the new designs and workflows?
Responses will be given during NWA to be held in Novotel Wellness & Convention Centre Paris Roissy CDG from 19 to 21 June, 2012.
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The following list of topics is not exhaustive and authors may propose other subjects in keeping within the thematic framework.
• Network embedded automation
• Performance troubleshooting
• Virtual machine provisioning
• Configuration management
• Service provisioning
• Automation orchestration
• Human-Automation Interaction
• APIs, normalization
• XML actions
• Manual tasks and streamline processes
• Scripts
• Availability, service restoration
• Green automation
• Case studies
• New and innovative applications enabled by network automation
• Market potential
• Solutions and architectures enabled by network automation
• Software components
• Network infrastructure
• Connectivity aspects
• Security issues
• Processing and performance
• Management and planing
• Engineering organizations
• SLAs, flexibility
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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