Conference Overview
FutureNet: MPLS, Ethernet and Beyond (formerly MPLScon) addresses the future of communications services from enterprise, service provider, and vendor prospectives. Now in its eighth year, FutureNet continues to evolve from its roots as an event focused strictly on MPLS and related technologies. This year’s FutureNet once again broadens its focus to cover the present and future of enterprise and consumer communications services including MPLS and Ethernet transport services, voice and SIP trunking, evolution of wireless services, video, and network and performance management. In addition, FutureNet explores issues such as network neutrality, service-provider/enterprise demarcation, international challenges, and new triple and quadruple play offerings. FutureNet will continue its focus on both technical and business issues in all of these areas with a target audience of enterprises, service providers, and vendors in the communications services arena.
Transport Architecture & Service Evolution: Enterprise
- Design and architecture best practices
- Deployment scenarios/case studies for multi-vendor MPLS and IP-VPN services
- How to manage service provider relationships including SLA development and setting lines of demarcation
- MPLS vs. IPSec vs. SSL for Enterprise site-to-site connectivity
- Resiliency strategies for enterprise WAN design including best practices for multi-carrier network services
- Ethernet MAN services
- Use of carrier hosting and hotel services
- SIP Trunking
- Impact of P2P and VoIP on enterprise WAN design
- Architectures and management strategies for interactive video
Transport Architecture and Service Evolution: Service Providers
- Design and architecture best practices
- Complexity vs. Simplicity, what balance?
- Enterprise justifications for the use of MPLS/VPLS/Ethernet services
- Example case studies for MPLS/VPLS deployment within enterprise networks
- Management strategies for multi-vendor VPNs
- Strategies/requirements for specific vertical markets (e.g. financial services, manufacturing, etc.)
- Last mile strategies (DSL, Cable, Wireless)
- IPv6
- Network Neutrality
- Impact of P2P on SP network architectures
- PBB / T-MPLS – considerations and best practices for evaluation
- Inter-provider connectivity – opportunities and challenges
- SIP Trunking and VOIP Peering services
- IP Multimedia Subsystem – architecture, services and technologies
- Fixed-Mobile Convergence strategies and best practices
- 3G-4G wireless evolution
- TDM Transport encapsulation (SAToP), (CESoPSN)
Operations and Management - Enterprises
- Enterprise network management for WAN and VPN services
- SLA development and management
- Enterprise routing protocol & address management
- Enterprise management strategies for real-time services
- DNS/DHCP/IPAM resiliency strategies
- WAN optimization (compression, rate shaping, application acceleration and QoS strategies)
- Wide area file systems (WAFS) and impact on WAN architecture and design
- Network and performance management in support of service oriented architecture (SOA)
Operations and Management – Service Providers
- SLA management for MPLS and VPLS services
- Managing service-provider interconnection of MPLS/VPLS services
- Provisioning MPLS/VPLS services
- Emerging trends in traffic engineering management
Real-Time Voice/Video Services
- Strategies for implementing multicast in an MPLS/VPLS environments (service provider/enterprise perspectives)
- Service provider infrastructure for delivery of triple and quadruple-play services
- Infrastructure considerations and enterprise opportunities for SIP trunking services
Security Approaches
- Security considerations for L1 vs. L2 vs. L3 services (enterprise and service provider perspectives)
- Identifying and mitigating security risks of deploying MPLS/VPLS/Ethernet services
- Securing the DNS and managing IP address resources
- Securing SIP trunking and peering services (enterprise and service provider perspectives)
Service Provider Resiliency Strategies
- MPLS/VPLS/Ethernet resiliency approaches
- Strategies for fault-detection in service provider networks
- Building a highly available WAN/MAN service
- Wireless resiliency strategies
VPLS, T-MPLS, BB-TE/801.1Qay, and Ethernet
- Customer selection criteria for Ethernet services
- Ethernet service deployment case studies (service provider & end-user)
- Inter-AS/inter-provider approaches
- Service implementation strategies
- Multicast considerations
- Provider-Based Bridging (PBB) use cases
- Impact of T-MPLS standards development on existing MPLS networks
- Role of VPLS
- L1/L2 transport over Ethernet – strategies and considerations
Wireless Servicess
- WiMax as a last-mile technology
- IMS, FMC and integration with MPLS/VPLS/Ethernet services
- MPLS/VPLS integration with regional area networks (RANs)
