This event has been cancelled.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Dynamic Network Services
Event type: Panel
Room number: 515A
Organizer: Inder Monga,
Energy Sciences Network/Lawrence Berkeley Labs, USA
Description: From Utility Computing in the late 90’s to Cloud Computing as the current trend, IT infrastructure is facing a dramatic move from statically provisioned, capital-expensed resources to dynamic, pay-per-use, on-demand resources. NIST states that “On-demand self-service, Broad network Access, Rapid Elasticity, Resource Pooling and Measured Service” are the five essential characteristics of Cloud Computing. CIOs are investigating these requirements and the impact on dynamic network capabilities required in campus networks, data centers and the WAN. In a similar vein, global scientific collaborations and instruments have already created a perfect storm in the world of Research and Education networks, moving them to offer federated, dynamic network services.
The panel will focus on this trend, need for Dynamic Network Services, solutions being proposed and will solicit insightful discussion from the panelists and the audience to broad questions like:
- Bandwidth on Demand has not taken off, is there a reason to adopt it now?
- Will new ecosystems with centralized management like OpenFlow be able to deliver the promise?
- How can dynamic optical technologies like ROADMS drive a new paradigm of building flexible networks?