Day Three begins with a joint presentation before splitting into two streams then joining again at 16.15 for the Closing Plenary.
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Day Three: 13th October 2011
08.30 Coffee and Refreshment
Keynote session:
Delivering ROI with Carrier Ethernet
09.10 Opening remarks from the Chair - How to Maximise Your Return on Investment with Carrier Ethernet
• Effectively balancing costs vs revenues
• Defining the growth rate of Carrier Ethernet services
Stefan Stanislawski, Partner, Venture Team, UK
09.20 How to Open Up and Build Carrier Ethernet Markets and Adoption in Lagging Markets
• Using incentives such as certification, awards, international attention to promote Carrier Ethernet
• Co –operation cross the value chain in neutral forums to promote C. E.
Jørn Martin Stuen Slåtten, Marketing Manager, Broadnet , Norway
09.45 Panel Debate: Looking Beyond Europe to New Growth Markets for Carrier Ethernet
• Addressing the needs of emerging and growth markets for Carrier Ethernet: Easter Europe, Russia & CIS, Americas, Middle East & Africa and Asia
Mazen Hayek, Group Director of PR & Commercial, MBC Group
Toby Williams, Product Manager, International Data, Cable & Wireless
Juan Miguel Vicente, Senior Analyst, Telecom Argentina
10.15 MEF Technical Committee: Current and Future CE Developments
• Detailing major areas of MEF work
• Describing relationships with standards development
• organizations
• Inter-relationships of key MEF specifications
• MEF work in progress – overview of major initiatives
Bill Bjorkman, Senior Technical Consultant, Verizon and Co-Chair of Technical Committee, Metro Ethernet Forum
10.40 Exhibitor Trail Draw – your chance to win an Amazon Kindle – hand your card in by conference start on 13th October
Networking Refreshment Break – your chance to visit the exhibition and make new contacts
11.40 Advanced Ethernet Performance Management
• Discussing the Y.1731 performance management feature capabilities
• Discussing the new emerging ITU Ethernet Performance Management standards and providing an overview of the various Ethernet throughput measurement techniques and use cases
Harmen Van Der Linde, Director Product Management, Cisco
12.05 The Competitive Landscape for Carrier Ethernet Services
• Ethernet drivers and market evolution (market drivers and applications of Ethernet.: mobile backhaul, CDN, cloud-enabler, converged corporate service, data centre interconnections, etc)
• What is included in a competitive and fully comprehensive Ethernet portfolio?
• Competitor Landscape Analysis – an analysis of strong Ethernet offerings: drawing on examples from Verizon, Colt, BT Wholesale, Global Crossing, Tata Communications, AT&T, Tinet
• The Global Network Tracker – description of a Current Analysis market tracker that looks at network reach, including MPLS and VPLS coverage, NNIs, DSL and Ethernet access countries, and sharing of some statistics
• How to score differentiation points in a crowded market
Joel Stradling, Principal Analyst, Business Network & IT Services, Current Analysis
12.30 Debating the Business Case for Carrier Ethernet Exchanges?
• What are the challenges and solutions for implementing these exchanges?
• What are the projections for Ethernet Exchange ports and the revenues?
• What are the alternatives? NNI, establishing interconnection agreements carrier to carrier?
• Who does the Carrier Ethernet exchanges pose most benefit to?
Moderator: Adam Janota, Director – Networks, EMEA, , Equinix
Artur Ostrowski, SVP, Head of International Services, GTS Central Europe
Ivan Soldo, VP Sales & Marketing, New Telco
Brett Johnson, VP Business Development, Abovenet
13.00 Networking Lunch – your chance to visit the exhibition and make new contacts
Learn from the technical experts the tools you need to effectively deliver Carrier Ethernet services
Session Chair: A Representative, Metro Ethernet Forum
14.00 LTE Small Cell Backhaul Synchronization
• Overview of synchronization technologies required in LTE deployments
• Deployment scenarios
Manish Gupta, VP Marketing, Symmetricom
Session 6: Ethernet Global Access – Global Ethernet Reach
14.30 Carrier Ethernet Interconnect – Away from Commodity to Necessity
• Ethernet and interconnect / delivering best class of service to corporate end users
• Relating data centres and interconnect to Cloud computing
• Discussing content distribution platform strategies
Wiljan VanDelst, Director – Field Operations, Benelux, Nordics and Southern Europe, Verizon
15.00 Panel Debate: How to Build a Truly Global Ethernet Network?
• Growing the number of carrier interconnects and how to connect the top 25 cities globally?
Karl Ternes, Head of Transport Solutions, Deutsche Telekom ICSS
Wiljan VanDelst, Director – Field Operations, Benelux, Nordics and Southern Europe, Verizon
15.30 Networking Refreshment Break – your chance to visit the exhibition and make new contacts
Session Chair: A Representative, Metro Ethernet Forum
14.00 Delivering Tailored Innovative Service Models for the End Customer
• Discussing what the customers’ needs and wants are from Ethernet and how to deliver this effectively
Andy McEwan, Head of Ethernet & Leased Line Product Management, Virgin Media Business
14.30 Case Study: Delivering Customised Ethernet Solutions Based on Vertical Businesses
• Defining hybrid network solutions and vertically centric solutions based on the requirements of the market
• Delivering a hybrid approach/multi technology customer solution
• How the cloud fits into this model
Torben Brieghel Jensen, Commercial Manager, GlobalConnect
15.00 End-User Customer Focus Panel: What are the End-Users Views and Needs from Carrier Ethernet?
• What are the end-users needs and wants from Carrier Ethernet?
• What are their views of carrier Ethernet?
• What do Service Providers and Carriers need to deliver to the end-user from a Carrier Ethernet service ?
• Discussing the price differential between international Ethernet vs leased lines
Moderator: Nick White, EVP, International Telecommunications Users group( INTUG )
A Representative, BTG –
Torben Brieghel Jensen, Commercial Manager, GlobalConnect
Andy McEwan, Head of Ethernet & Leased Line Product Management, Virgin Media Business
15.30 Networking Refreshment Break – your chance to visit the exhibition and make new contacts
• Understanding MPLS-TP and its Benefits
Jorge Cardoso, Access and Transport Networks, Optimus, Portugal
• MPLS-TP as a Successful Solution for Operators
Confirmed Speaker: Yoshinori Koike, Research Engineer, NTT Labs
Japan
10.10 Standards Update: MPLS-TP – the New Technology for PTN
• MPLS-TP for PTN
• Standards update
• Interoperability
Confirmed Speaker: Huub Van Helvort, Standardisation Expert, ITU-T
10.40 Networking Refreshment Break – your chance to visit the exhibityion and make new contacts
11.40 Operator Case study: Sharing the Lessons Learned from 40G and 100G Deployment Trials
• Insight into recent trial deployments
• Challenges of introducing 100G into networks
• Network architectures towards Tbit/s networks
• Future requirements towards Tbit/s networks
Ralf-Peter Braun, Senior Product Manager, Deutsche Telekom, Germany
12.10 Panel Discussion: Addressing the Need for Speed: 100G and Beyond
• Understanding the drivers for 100G and terabit
• Where and how is 100G likely to be deployed in the network
• What are the main challenges to the deployment of 100G
• Discussing the role of 100G in LTE
• Where does terabit fit into the NGN
• Technology updates
• Limits to future growth and how can these be overcome
• Will 100 GE be an alternative to P-OTN?
• Will P-OTN go to the metro, access and edge or with 100GE will P-OTN only be in the core and not go to the edge?
Oliver Jahreis, Head of DWDM Product Line Manager, Nokia Siemens Networks
Paul Brooks, Member, Ethernet Alliance
Torsten Muth, Board Member, OIF
14.00 Operator Case Study: Exploring the Challenges Involved in Migrating from Legacy Networks towards 40G, 100G and Terabit Networks
• Exploring the architecture considerations for basic network set up
• Planning challenges of the future
• How will 40G/100G and terabit services address end-users requirements
Marcel Rijnders, Director EMEA Managed Networks & Services, Verizon Business
14.30 Outlining the Long-Term Vision of Next Generation Optical Networking
• Explore the implications of 100G and terabit
• Outline key elements of terabit networking
• Explore the challenges involved in network migration towards 100G and terabit
Per Larsson, Senior network Architect, TDC
15.00 Panel Discussion: TNS WRAP-UP SESSION: Challenges and Solutions for Current and Future Transport Networks
• Addressing the challenges involved in meeting the data explosion
• Explore how service providers can keep up network capacity
• Establishing how service providers can develop a cost effective network optimisation strategy to improve QoS
• Debating the benefits of MPLS-TP and where it should be deployed in the network and how to interconnect with IP/MPLS backbone
• Understanding the implication of terabit networking for service providers
Matthias Fricke, Network Development and Evolution, Deutsche Telekom
Yoshinori Koike, Research Engineer, NTT labs, Japan
15.30 Networking Refreshment Break – your chance to visit the exhibityion and make new contacts
16.15 Panel debate: Delivering Next Generation Networks with Carrier Ethernet
• Packet Transport Networks (PTN) technology alternatives
• Carrier Ethernet versus Packet-Optical
• Long term forecasts for IP VPN vs Ethernet?
• How far to take Ethernet and then move to IP?
• Enabling the roll out of 100Gb Ethernet
• How to effectively deliver NGN services that the end-user wants including video conferencing and high quality VoIP in terms of speed and capacity and reach and cost?
Huub Van Helvoort, Standardisation Expert, ITU
Anthony Magee, Representative, Ethernet Alliance
Ranganathan Raghu, Co-Chair of Technical Committee, Metro Ethernet Forum
16.45 Chairs wrap and questions
17.00 End of Conference
