Attend Lightwave's ONE Conference to answer the key questions that will shape your optical networking decisions.
Conference Program:
MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2010
Monday, October 4, 11:00 – 11:45 AM
Enterprise Optical Networks: Carrier Managed, Do it Yourself, or Something in Between
Speaker: Kyle Hollasch
Consulting Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems
As enterprise WAN bandwidth requirements continue their rapid growth, many IT managers are considering the deployment of private, wide area optical networks. Perhaps the single most significant decision that an enterprise must make in procuring an optical network is whether to purchase a managed service from a carrier or to take the construction and operation of the network in-house. This session will explore the decision criteria and tradeoffs between carrier-managed, do-it-yourself, and an emerging hybrid approach where ownership and management responsibilities are divided among the enterprise and various service entities.
Monday, October 4, 11:45 – 12:15 PM
Lunch
Monday, October 4, 12:15 – 1:00 PM
The Role of Optical Networks in Cloud Computing
Speaker: Andres Belloni
Product Manager, Optical Terrestrial Transmission, Carrier Business Group, Alcatel-Lucent
Cloud computing is pushing enterprise IT towards a new “private cloud” model of operation and service providers to offer a new set of “public cloud” services. Clouds are dynamic and require the underlying optical network to quickly adapt to fluctuating bandwidth demands and provide higher degrees of reliability, predictability, and control. Andres Belloni will analyze the changes required in the optical network of private enterprises and public service providers to transition from the traditional data center interconnect towards cloud infrastructures. He also will explore the orchestration required for management applications to handle the network and application workloads brought about by the cloud.
Monday, October 4, 1:15 – 1:45 PM
Low Latency Network Strategies
Speaker: Shawn Morris
Manager of IP Development, NTT America, Inc.
Mr. Morris will discuss the ways that the NTT Global IP Network addresses the issue of latency in its international Tier 1 IP Network. He will discuss the challenges of dealing with trans-oceanic cable sytems and the eternal trade-off between redundancy and low latency.
Monday, October 4, 2:00 – 2:45 PM
Panel: Data Center Interconnection
Panel Leader: Jim Theodoras
ADVA Optical Networking
Panelists:
Svein Karevik
Sr. Network Architect, VMWare
Mike Henson
Chief Security Officer, NoaNet
With the rise of the mega data center, early focus was on server to switch interconnect, cooling, and power issues. As these issues have been mastered, a new area receiving focus is data center interconnect. It turns out that data centers have their own unique transport needs, in addition to typical GMPLS core IP networks features. This interconnection of geographically dispersed data centers has now become an integral part of delivering data center services. This panel will provide real-world examples from data center clients who will discuss their unique optical transport needs.
Monday, October 4, 3:00 – 3:45 PM
Today’s Enterprise Network: Make Yours Modern
Speaker: Assaji Aluwihare
Director and General Manager, Network and Enterprise Test, JDSU
Today's IT networks are increasingly complex, with voice over IP, IP security cameras, presence, and remote applications running over a variety of infrastructures. Complexity that was once confined to the data center is now finding its way closer to the user, causing the front-line IT technician to need to resolve a far greater range of faults than ever before. This presentation will review the broad landscape of necessary test practices for IT organizations that maintain Ethernet/IP LANs. Included will be a review of emerging 40/100 Gigabit Ethernet technologies and standards, and what they may mean to enterprises in the near and long term.
Monday, October 4, 6:15 PM
Welcome Networking Reception
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2010
Tuesday, October 5, 8:00 – 8:30 AM
Continental Breakfast
Tuesday, October 5, 8:30 – 9:15 AM
Optical Connectivity Enables the Green Data Center
Speaker: Doug Coleman
Manger of Technology & Standards, Corning Cable Systems
Green data center initiatives are now in progress to reduce energy consumption, increase energy efficiencies and minimize environmental effects. This presentation will discuss how optical connectivity enhances green data center installations. For example, the use of high-port-density electronics with very low power and cooling requirements will be highlighted. Similarly, optical cable provides bandwidth capabilities that support legacy and future data rate applications without the costs and downtime of retiring and disposing of yet another copper cable plant.
Tuesday, October 5, 9:30 – 10:15 AM
Cabling the Data Center: Best Practices Panel
Speakers:
Rodney Casteel
Technical Manager, CommScope; Chair TIA FOLS
Alfred Flores
Product Manager, Berk-Tek, a Nexans Company; Vice Chair TIA FOLS
Adrian Young
Senior Customer Support Engineer, Fluke Networks
The need to support efficient operations of high-speed data centers poses unique challenges to network managers. This presentation will provide information that can help attendees better evaluate their choices and understand the tradeoffs inherent in their decisions. The speakers will:
- Provide an overview of current data center technology,
- Highlight different standards compliant architectures and the pros and cons of each approach,
- Discuss what fiber types will best support the best migration strategy from data rates of 10 Gbps, to 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps
- Review testing procedures.
Tuesday, October 5, 10:30 – 11:15 AM
Power Over Ethernet and Fiber Networks Are Not Mutually Exclusive
Speaker: Ty Estes
Marketing Communications Director, Omnitron Systems
Power over Ethernet enables remotely powering IP cameras, Wi-Fi access points and building automation systems, but is limited to the distance of UTP cabling. This presentation will introduce the new PoE technologies that enable the integration of PoE and fiber networks, and review both the 802.3af PoE standard and the new 802.3at PoE+ high-power standard. Several PoE and PoE+ network application examples with be presented with tutorials on extending distances to PoE devices with fiber.
Tuesday, October 5, 11:30 – 12:15 PM
Ensuring Enterprise Security in Optical Backhaul Networks
Speaker: Zeev Draer
Vice President of Marketing, MRV Communications
With the abundance of sensitive data being transferred through enterprise networks, ensuring that this data is secure is an important issue. Most enterprises have locked down their LANs inside of their facilities. However fiber-optic backbone networks connecting different sites are still vulnerable. This presentation will discuss some of the key technologies involved in encrypting an optical network, including IPSec in which encryption is completed at Layer 3 and MACSec in which encryption is completed at Layer 2. MACSec is transparent to Layer 3 and higher layer protocols, and works with any type of traffic carried over Ethernet links.
Tuesday, October 5, 12:15 – 1:15 PM
Conference Luncheon
Tuesday, October 5, 1:15 – 2:00 PM
Powering Desk to Desk Dynamic Ethernet Lightpaths
Speaker: Chris Janson
Senior Product Manager, Ciena
Advances in networking technology continue to drive collaboration among geographically disparate enterprise locations. More than just large pipes, high-capacity optical networking controlled by flexible traffic engineering tools enables dynamic Ethernet light paths, ready for immediate use across the globe. Widespread availability of 40G and 100G capacity coupled with powerful enhancements to Ethernet switching combine to offer institutions the rapid connectivity needed for data-intensive cloud computing. This presentation offers an update on 40G and 100G optical networking and discusses how Carrier Ethernet forms the basis for campus connectivity.
Tuesday, October 5, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
International Networking Reception
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2010
Wednesday, October 6, 8:00 – 8:30 AM
Continental Breakfast
Wednesday, October 6, 8:30 – 10:15 AM
Panel: Fiber-Optic Innovations
These three presentations cover emerging technologies and strategies that are challenging preconceptions about optical networks.
8:30 – 9:00 AM
1) Minimizing Network Cost and Complexity with Air-blown Fiber
Speaker :Kurt Templeman
Product Manager for Enterprise Networks, Sumitomo Electric Lightwave
Air-blown fiber technology has resolved many of the limitations and complexities of conventional fiber optic cabling infrastructures, such as high labor costs, limited scalability, slow fiber installation, disruptive construction processes, and limited fiber, bandwidth, and pathway capacity. Despite the benefits of air-blown fiber, some network applications and criteria warrant the deployment of a conventional cabling system.
Cost and time comparisons of real-world applications, based upon actual data, will help network managers make informed choices between the two approaches.
9:00 - 9:30 AM
2) The Considerations, Economics, and Benefits of Passive Optical LANs
Speaker:
Vibhoosh Gupta, Senior Manager, Marketing, Passive Optical LAN Solutions
Motorola, Access Networks Solutions
In order to optimize limited resources, now more than ever, it’s important to consider alternatives to a traditional Ethernet LAN – alternatives that address the current limited resources of the enterprise IT organization while at the same time deliver enhanced capability and ready the network for future growth. This session will take a look at the Passive Optical LAN (POL) architecture, total cost of ownership, when and where the switch to fiber is most cost-effective, and its capability to meet the sophisticated voice, video, and data needs of enterprise users now and far into the future.
9:30 – 10:15 AM
3) Active Optical Cabling
speaker: Christian Urricariet
Director of Product Marketing for High-Speed Optics, Finisar Corporation
Increasing data rates and network complexity are stretching the limits of conventional copper and coax cabling for interconnecting racks within the data center and central office. The use of active optical cabling can simplify network infrastructure, extend reach, and reduce cooling requirements.
Wednesday, October 6, 12:00 – 12:45 PM
Conference Luncheon
Wednesday, October 6, 12:45 – 1:30 PM
Evolved Packet Transport and Enterprise Services
Speaker: Matthew Smith
Acting Head of Network Marketing, IP & Broadband, Ericsson
The term "Evolved Packet Transport" refers to a toolkit of new technologies whose job it is to aid the convergence of packet and optical transport networks. This presentation will focus on the specific drivers of the enterprise segment and differing demands of various verticals in the space. It will relate operator responses to those demands, drawing on real examples of service and network migration. It also will explore new and future operator opportunities for differentiation.
Wednesday, October 6, 1:45 – 2:30 PM
In-service Preventive Maintenance of CWDM Networks
Speaker: André Girard
Senior Member of Technical Staff, EXFO
To cope with huge demand in storage and on-demand delivery of digital content, enterprises need to boost their optical-pipe capacity. Most turn to CWDM and DWDM to scale up and avoid installing new fibers. Whether these enterprises plan to lease this extra capacity or use it themselves, someone has to deal with maintenance. This presentation will address the design and implementation of preventive monitoring on live, CWDM traffic-intensive optical fiber links. The speaker will review the use of optical time-domain reflectometry applied to CWDM networks, discuss in-band and out-of-band testing approaches, and present some practical examples.
Wednesday, October 6, 2:45 – 3:30 PM
Giving Enterprises the Competitive Edge with Advanced FTTB Services
Speaker: Nathan Seybold
Regional Sales Manger - West
Enablence Technologies
The speaker will present the business case for a Fiber-to-the-Business (FTTB) network that supports the delivery of triple-play services. Taking a case study approach, the presentation will explore why and how FTTB can provide businesses with a significant competitive edge in the digital economy. The speakers will look at the broadband services businesses require and how fiber is ideally suited as the future-proof infrastructure over which to deliver these services.
