Monday, March 5, 2012
8:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Core Networks in 2020

Event type: Workshop

Room number: 403B

Organizer: Dirk van den Borne, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany; Angela Chiu, AT&T Labs, USA


Description:

Within the next decade, state-of-the-art optical transmission technologies will allow us to build the ‘ultimate’ core network, realizing a transmission capacity close to forecasted limits of the fiber infrastructure. At the same time, the emergence of ever more bandwidth intensive applications is a near guarantee that exponent traffic growth will continue unabated.

This is expected to create the need for a very different kind of network optimization, with a particular focus on ‘smart’ networks that dynamically optimize their architecture based on both transmission infrastructure and traffic requirements. How will such smart optical networks look, and how will they cope with the traffic demands of the year 2020?

This workshop aims to address the question of how network architectures will evolve over the next decade, and to identify the key technical challenges that are still required to realize such network architectures.

Speakers: Zeljko Bulut, NSN, USA
Michiaki Hayashi, KDDI Labs, Japan
Andreas Leven, Alcatel-Lucent, Germany
Lynn Nelson, AT&T, USA
Kim Roberts, Ciena, USA
Reg Wilcox, Huawei, USA
Wendy Zhao, Google, USA