Panel V: Entering the 100G Era
Thursday, March 8, 1-3pm
Moderator:Brandon Collings, Chief Technology Officer, Optical Communications, JDSU, USA
Brandon Collings is responsible for defining and driving the strategic technology roadmap for optical communications solutions at JDSU. In addition, his group operates the Optical Networks Research Lab at JDSU which focuses on understanding transmission system issues, network architecture evolution, system and component performance requirements, and product and network test applications to advance JDSU’s component and subsystem leadership.
Prior to joining JDSU, Brandon helped lead the development of conventional and ROADM optical system architectures for the equipment vendor start-up Internet Photonics. He later held the same role at Ciena where he was also responsible for optical system and transceiver performance specification and characterization in addition to providing technical assistance to marketing and customer support activities.
Prior to Internet Photonics, Brandon was a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Labs, performing research on advanced optical communication network designs and non-linear performance impairments. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University where his graduate research, performed in conjunction with Bell Labs, focused on compact ultrafast laser research.
Panel Description:This Panel will cover the following topics:
- Status of 100G deployments and lessons learned
- Perspective on the value 100G transmission offers
- Perspective on the migration of 100G into other network segments (metro, regional)
- Status of key enabling technologies and potential evolutionary technologies
Speakers:100G Transmission Technology: Where are We, and Where Could We Go
Michel Belanger, Member of Scientific Staff, Ciena, Canada
Currently, all the technologies required to build a second generation of 100G per wavelength systems are in place, both for the Modem and also the line system.; It turns out that these 100G based transport system can be cost effectively delivered with very little compromises with respect to previous generation 10G and 40G systems. This is caused by significant transmission advances in usage of new modulation schemes, new digital processing capabilities and finally very high gain FEC. Banking on these premises, is there, easy to get, technical improvements that can enable improvements on the system economic or technical performances before the industry has to deliver a new generation of transport systems.
Michel P. Belanger obtained B.Eng from Ecole Polytechnique in 1979 and a PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1987 from McGill University. He held R&D positions at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal and at Canadian Marconi. With the National Optics Institute of Canada, he conducted research into the design and application of guided wave optical components and diffractive optical elements. After a brief period at Teleglobe working in submarine system engineering, he joined Northern Telecom (now Ciena Corporation) in 1995 as product manager for DWDM systems. Later, he moved to the optical development group as a member of scientific staff. He is currently leading a group developing deployment strategy for coherent, high capacity, optical systems.
 Reflections and Predictions on the 100G Market
Luc Ceuppens, Vice President of Product Marketing, Platform Systems Division, Juniper Network, USA
As the first 100G products shipped as early as the 3rd quarter of 2010, we take the opportunity to reflect on the last 18 months and evaluate 100G applications, deployments and challenges. With this knowledge of the past we then offer some predictions of what the future might look like.
Luc Ceuppens is responsible for product marketing, technical marketing and competitive intelligence for the Platform Systems Division at Juniper Networks. He has more than 25 years of international experience in sales and marketing of high-tech products and services gained through senior positions with Solectron Corp, StrataLight Communications, Calient Networks, Level 3 Communications and WorldCom (MFS/UUNET).
 100G Deployments Year 3: Current and Future Use Cases
Jean-Paul Faure, Data Center Connection Product Line Manager, Alcatel-Lucent, France
Going into Year 3 of deployments worldwide, 100G has become a widely adopted solution rather than an up-coming market trend. In fact, 100G is currently deployed not only by large tier service providers, but also by smaller ones aiming to decrease operational cost and simplify network management. Critical success factors for commercial 100G solutions will be reviewed. Analyzing typical application cases reveal that most 100G deployments today focus on solving bandwidth exhaust in legacy networks, or are driven by needs for high capacity DCU free greenfield networks. Data Center interconnection at 100Gb/s is another increasing trend, strongly driven today by low latency mirroring that require high transfer capacity. The exponential growth of storage and the increase of cloud computing are fueling Storage Area Networks bandwidth growth and creating new interconnects demands. Consequently, Data Center interconnection will face a tremendous demand for high speed links, while moving from point-to-point to meshed network approach.
Jean-Paul Faure obtained a master degree in physics from university of Paris-XI Orsay, and a PhD. in applied physics from university of Paris-VI in 1998 In 1999, he joined Alcatel Corporate Research Center to work on optical switching technologies and flexible networks. He later joined Alcatel Optics Division contributing to the development of multi-reach transmission platforms and GMPLS applications In 2007, he became Product Line Manager for WDM terrestrial products, with focus on ultra-high bit rate transmission, and was involved in several 100Gb/s market introduction, field trials and customer deployments. He is now acting as Product Line Manager for Data Center interconnection market. Member of Alcatel-Lucent Technical Academy, he received the Bell Labs President's Award in 2010 for its involvement in the 100Gb/s Coherent innovation program and demonstrated business impact. He is author and co-author of 12 patents and several international publications.
 Service Provider Concerns for 40G and 100G Deployments
Bob Feuerstein, Principal Architect Transmission, BT Innovate & Design, USA
The technology flow from 2.5G to 10G WDM systems in service provider networks was a simple and straightforward progression. The evolution to 40G has been slower than first expected, and now 100G is expected to replace and supersede 40G. I will discuss some of the factors that we consider in our evolution planning for beyond 10G WDM systems.
Bob Feuerstein is the Principal Architect for Transmission and Synchronization Systems for BT. He received his PhD in Electrophysics from Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY. He then joined the NSF Optoelectronic Computing Systems Center at the University of Colorado. There he researched optical computing, optical communications and helped build the world’s first stored program fiber optic computer. He taught classes in optoelectronics and optical communications. He worked in congress for one year after receiving an appointment as the IEEE Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow (1998). He worked at Level 3 Communications as a Senior Architect supporting Level 3’s customers and internal optical network design requirements. He joined BT in 2008. He has spoken at dozens of technical and corporate meetings and authored 20+ publications on optical communications, network architecture and design. And he enjoys relaxing on his sailboat, Lightwaves, on Lake Champlain during summer holidays.
 A Carrier's Activity for 100G DWDM Development and Deployment
Masahito Tomizawa, Group Leader, Senior Research Engineer, NTT Network Innovation, Japan
This presentation covers a carrier's activity for 100G DWDM transmission systems. Development of key technologies and efforts for driving industry are also mentioned. From a viewpoint of a carrier, the highest capacity and the longest distance transmission should be used as much as possible to cover the explosion of traffic, therefore, 100G DWDM is needed to be matured more rapidly or even commoditized, which could be enabled by the healthy supply-chain with assuring some interoperability.
Masahito Tomizawa is a senior research engineer, group leader, at NTT Network Innovation Labs. He received M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Waseda University, Tokyo, in 1992 and 2000, respectively. From 2003 to 2004, he was a visiting scientist at MIT. He has been engaged in high-speed optical transmission systems and their deployments, as well as international standardization in ITU-T, and also international carrier-to-carrier collaboration for several years.
 How Do We Accelerate Deployment
Glenn Wellbrock, Director of Backbone Network Architecture, Verizon Business, USA
The simple answer to expanding the 100G application space is lowering the cost. But the tough question is how? This presentation focuses on the technical requirements and opportunities for expanding the 100G footprint in an effort to bring the cost down through high volume. There are some tough tradeoffs to make and the only way to be successful in this endeavor is to have the whole industry focused on the same solution as was done on the long-haul application.
Glenn Wellbrock is the Director of Optical Transport Network Architecture and Design at Verizon, where he is responsible for the development of new technologies for both the metro and long haul transport infrastructure.Previous positions include running the advanced technology lab, establishing evaluation criteria, and setting engineering guidelines for all backbone transport equipment as well as various positions within network operations. In addition to his 20+ years at Verizon (1984-2001 & 2004-present), Glenn was responsible for Product Architecture within the USA focused optical networks group at Marconi and Product Planning at Qplus Networks with a specific focus on developing alternative modulation techniques.
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