11.20 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Mark Lum, Independent Consulting Analyst

11.25 OPERATOR KEYNOTE An incumbent carrier’s view of the Next Generation optical transport network

• Highlighting the drivers for the introduction of an NG-OTN based transport platform
• Tracking and placing in context, standardisation activities related to OTN
• Migrating point to point links towards optically meshed topologies
• Addressing the management challenges of supporting the flexible transport platform
• Examining the 100GE Ethernet transport options

Malte Schneiders, Senior Technology Consultant, Deutsche Telekom

11.55 STRATEGY SPOTLIGHT IP Optical Integration – does this meet operators needs?

• What is IP-Optical integration? Can a clear definition be reached?
• What are carriers trying to achieve: Co-ordinated planning, Integrated IP-Optical networks, router bypass or    converged transport platforms
• How does the fundamental design of the network architecture need to be changed?
• Analysing traffic flow on the network in preparation for integration
• Discussing the steps that need to be taken to achieve integration – how can CAPEX be reduced?
• Examining OTN evolution strategy
• Assessing the potential for reuse of the existing fibre plant

Slot 1 – Julien Poirrier, Senior Marketing Manager, European Optical Marketing, Huawei Technologies
Slot 2 – Geoff Bennett, Director of Strategic Marketing,Infinera
Slot 3 – Mark Lum, Independent Consulting Analyst

13.10 LUNCH TECHNOLOGY TABLES

You will have an opportunity to sit on a lunch table with a group of experts in one of the following technology areas and discuss developments over lunch

• IP/WDM architectures and applications
• OTN and GMPLS
• Packet Optical Transport options P-OTN
• Supporting Ethernet services / Optical
• LTE reference architecture
• Next Generation Microwave
• 40G/100G evolution options
• Wholesale Ethernet transport services

14.20 OPERATOR CASE STUDY Highlighting the benefits of planning IP and optical layers together

• Explaining why routers may become a scalability bottleneck
• Using platforms to converge IP/MPLS and WDM to extend/free router capacity
• Considering how far the IP/MPLS cloud should be allowed to extend – should routers be assigned to carry all services – voice, data, video – or should routers be dedicated to individual services?
• What is the impact of choices at the router level on the options for the transmission aggregation layers?

Tad Deriso, President & CEO, Mid Atlantic Broadband Co operative

14.50 OPERATOR CASE STUDY Overcoming the bottleneck in transport created by the massive increase in access node uplinks

• Revealing how access and transmission line rates have been increasing and explaining the impact on the cost of transmission
• Focusing on the access nodes and demonstrating how 10Gbps links are now common and 40Gbps solutions are already being deployed
• Identifying cost-effective solution options for mitigating the increasing cost of backhaul for access nodes – sharing insights into the relative benefits and risks of each approach
• Planning the evolution of the transport infrastructure to prevent bottlenecks and reduce transmission costs to a minimum

Francisco Eusebio, Network Strategist, Portugal Telecom (subject to final confirmation)

15.20 OPERATOR CASE STUDY From carrier’s carrier to Next Generation provider

• Explaining the drivers for the evolution from carrier’s carrier to NGN provider
• Highlighting the importance of the transport network for end users application QoE
• Supporting virtualisation, multimedia, voice and data on the network
• Looking ahead, how can the transport network be exploited to deliver new applications?
• What will the future evolution be?

Jose Manuel Armada, Head of Sales Engineering, Interoute

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