- Registration and welcome coffee from 08.00
- Exhibition open from 09.00 to 16.00
- Finger Buffet: 12.30
MORNING SESSIONS
Morning ChairmanCarsten Rossenhoevel, Managing Director, EANTC
Carsten Rossenhoevel is Managing Director and Co-Founder of EANTC AG (European Advanced Networking Test Center). Based in Berlin, Germany, EANTC is a test lab specializing in telecommunication technologies and offers vendor-neutral network testing services for manufacturers, service providers, and enterprise customers. In this role, Carsten has over 20 years of experience in telecommunication networks testing and is responsible for EANTC's business development and marketing. His technical areas of expertise include Network Functions Virtualization and transport network solutions.
Building networks with the agility to use the right technology to meet business and operational needs.
David Stokes, Senior Manager Solutions Marketing, Ribbon
David is Senior Manager, Solutions Marketing at Ribbon where he focuses on Ribbon’s IP transport portfolio and IP-enabled solutions for 4G and 5G Mobile Transport, mission-critical industries and defense, homeland security and government. He is an experienced professional with extensive telecommunications knowledge gained from working across all infrastructure technologies including SDH/SONET, Fixed and Wireless Access, IP/MPLS, Carrier Ethernet, PON, Optical Transport and Network Management. Before Ribbon, David held roles in Development, Systems Engineering, Product Strategy and Product Management at a number of companies including Marconi, Fujitsu, Lucent Technologies and Nokia. He brings this proven combination of marketing, technology and product strategy expertise to his current marketing role at Ribbon.
Providing an in-depth look at IP and Optical Convergence in metro networks to meet the transport needs of modern routing applications. Reviewing scenarios where 400ZR produces an optimal network cost versus scenarios where it does not.
James Glover, Director, Product Line Management, Ciena
James Glover is Director of Product Line Management at Ciena. He leads a team focused on IP Strategy and Execution, NOS Evolution for L2/L3 networking and software support for Distributed NFV Infrastructure. James has over 25 years of experience in the networking and telecommunications industries. Prior to Ciena, James worked at Ericsson for 9 years, both in Europe and North America. He has held various positions in the networking space at Redback Networks, HP, and 3COM. He is currently based in San Jose, California.
Looking at the most recent “enablers” (abundant 400GE cooling power and density on routers, coherent 400GE and 800GE pluggables, SDN automation concepts finding their way in both IP and Optical networks, ...) and analyzing how we are making it happen this time.
Bruno De Troch, Director PLM IP and Automation, Nokia
Presenting a new IP Traffic Engineering SDN application that looks at both the IP layer and the optical layer of the network holistically and alleviates congestion at the IP layer.
Cengiz Alaettinoglu, Leader, Architecture and Strategy, Network Control and Planning, Ciena
Cengiz Alaettinoglu is a Ciena Fellow and is responsible for the technical direction and architecture of Ciena’s MCP Applications portfolio. He is currently focused on multi-layer network automation. Before joining Ciena through the Packet Design acquisition in 2018, Cengiz lead development of real-time SDN analytics and orchestration applications which intelligently adapt paths based on changing network conditions, using intent-based policies and real-time analytics. His early experimental work, correlating network performance issues to routing protocol incidents, pioneered the use of analytics in IP network routing. Prior to Packet Design, Cengiz was with USC's Information Sciences Institute where he worked on the Routing Arbiter project. He was co-chair of the IETF's Routing Policy System Working Group, has been published widely, and is a popular presenter at industry events worldwide.
Paul Momtahan, Solution Marketing Director, Infinera
Based in the U.K, Paul is a Solution Marketing Director at Infinera, focusing on next generation optical technology, including Infinera’s 800G per wavelength ICE6 optical engine. Prior to this, Paul held several technical sales, PLM and marketing roles at Coriant, and before that Tellabs, covering at various times metro and long-haul packet-optical, IP/MPLS routing and mobile backhaul. And before that, Paul held product management and marketing positions at UK Ethernet service provider Neos Networks, ATM-specialist FORE Systems and LAN-specialist Madge Networks. Paul has engineering and management degrees from Cambridge University in the UK and Stanford University in the US.
Decomposing the Autonomous Driving Network into a series of pragmatic steps. Starting with the data model-driven management with NETCONF and YANG, combined with model-driven telemetry, but also building upon the IETF Service Assurance for Intent-based Networking framework. Sharing R&D findings on how to solve the Autonomous Driving Network vision.
Benoît Claise, Data Communication Intelligent Operations & Management CTO, Huawei
Benoît Claise,Data Communication Intelligent Operations & Management CTO at Huawei. Areas of passion & expertise include Internet traffic monitoring, accounting, performance, fault, configuration. Benoit's area of focus network automation with YANG as the data model-driven management enabler, and telemetry as a feedback loop to solve the closed loop automation and the Autonomous Driving Network (ADN) challenges.
Demonstrating how Kubernetes, the de-facto standard cloud management system, can address the requirement of having one common paradigm across application and network orchestration.
Hans Vanderstraeten, Product and Team lead Network Orchestration, Nokia
Ongoing trend monitoring of user experience allows operations engineers and even call center staff to pinpoint network problem areas across the entire service path: from the customer LAN through the CSP WAN, and all the way to applications residing in public clouds, providing faster time to resolve, lower CSP OpEx and higher customer satisfaction.
Ilan Tevet, VP Marketing and Business Development, RAD
Seasoned executive with expertise spanning marketing, product, business development and Sales. Over 20 years of leadership, managing the life cycle of networking, SDN/NFV, vCPE, industrial IoT, and cyber security solutions. Experienced in leading go-to-market strategies, planning and execution of global marketing initiatives and business development activities in various B2B vertical markets. An Executive MBA graduate in marketing, business strategy and finance from Tel Aviv University where he also acts as a business mentor. Married, a father of three children and a keen sportsman.
Active performance measurement is an essential method that network operators rely on. Active measurement methods complemented by on-path and model-driven telemetry provide vital information about the state of a network and close the control loop of the network automation. Active measurement methods are particularly critical during service activation.
Greg Mirsky, Technology Specialist Standardization, Ericsson
25+ years’ experience in developing networking solutions and further advancing networking technology. Areas of research: Network resiliency and quality assurance by enhancing fault management and performance monitoring methods; Efficient Segment Routing in IPv6 network; Control and user plane separation in disaggregated networking systems; Network slicing for performance-constrained services. An active contributor to SDOs (IETF, BBF, and MEF): 24 published IETF RFCs; Leader of the Performance, Experience, and Application Testing project stream at BBF; Editor BBF TR-390.2 Performance Measurement from the IP Edge to a Customer Equipment Using STAMP; Co-Editor MEF 66 Service OAM for IP Services; Co-Editor MEF 67 Service Activation Testing for IP Services. An inventor with 10+ granted patents. BS in Physics degree from Latvian University (Riga, Latvia).
Providing a realistic discussion on how to improve network lifecycle efficiency with automation and controllers. Covering use cases for network upgrades, service turn ups, service migration, and using telemetry to automate network capacity augments for IP and optical.
Mike Thompson, VP, Global IP Network Automation Practice Leader, Nokia
Mike Thompson leads Nokia’s global network automation practice focusing on Nokia’s Network Services Platform (NSP) and SDN to help service providers and large enterprise customers improve operational efficiency, productivity, lower MTTR, reduce churn, and accelerate revenue streams. Prior to Nokia, Mike was a leader at Charter Communications in Operations and Engineering. He has held leadership positions at Nokia, Charter, Cisco, BearingPoint, and Verizon. Mike has extensive experience in large scale software, network automation, routing, and optical. Mike has held leadership roles in Engineering, Software Development, Operations, Architecture, Sales, Consulting, and Product Management teams and as a Business Unit General Manager. He has a Master of Science in Information Management and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
Afternoon ChairmanAmir Zmora, CEO & Co-founder, flexiWAN
Amir Zmora is CEO & Co-founder of flexiWAN, the world’s first Open Source SD-WAN & SASE. Before starting flexiWAN, Amir was CEO & Co-founder of SwitchRTC, a Real-time, interactive WebRTC based video CDN and B2B/B2C collaboration solution acquired by YouNow. Among his previous positions, Amir was VP Products & Marketing for the Technology Business Unit of RADVISION, an Avaya company.
In-situ flow information telemetry (IFIT) is a family of passive and hybrid data-plane telemetry technologies defined by IETF including In-situ OAM (IOAM), IOAM Direct Exporting (IOAM-DEX), and Alternate Marking Method (AMM).
These on-path telemetry techniques enable performance measurements on live traffic that are usually more easily understood by customers and provide high accuracy that is not possible to achieve through measurements done by injecting synthetic traffic.
Giuseppe Fioccola, Standard Specialist, Contributor in IETF, ETSI ISG IP6 Secretary
Discussing where and when multi-controller solutions make sense and proposing criteria to determine the preferred allocation of functions across these controllers. Concluding that in most cases, a hybrid approach is optimal, where a single controller provides direct control in some network segments and acts as a hierarchical controller interfacing with domain controllers for other segments.
Yannick Chauvel, EMEA Regional Product Line Manager, Nokia
Yannick Chauvel joined Alcatel in 1997, since then he has been working around Network Management System from system tests, network deployment and pre-sales. Thirteen years ago, he has joined the IP consulting engineering team for the EMEA region with a focus on the 5620 SAM and 5780 DSC (PCRF & DRA). During this time, he has covered most of the network technology domains managed by the 5620 SAM IP/MPLS, Mobile Packet Core, Optics, Microwave, SDN (Nuage) and also NFV. Since the few years, he’s now following the evolution of the NMS and SDN WAN controller with the NSP developed by Nokia Network Automation.
The traditional Ethernet packet loss rate is 0.1%, resulting in a 50% loss of computing power. Lossless uses algorithms such as AI ECN to achieve zero packet loss, high throughput, and low latency.
AI ECN uses the deep reinforcement learning (DRL) technology to adaptively adapt to traffic models and dynamically adjust ECNs. Describing practice cases in fields such as all-flash and HPC.
Xiaolong Zheng, Principal Researcher, Huawei Technologies
Xiaolong Zheng, Principal researcher in Huawei Technologies, received his B.Engr. and PhD degrees from Tsinghua University in 2011 and 2016 respectively. Dr. Zheng has co-authored more than 20 papers, e.g. SIGCOMM. His research interests include congestion control, AI for networking, distributed systems and datacenter networking.