Conference Day One - Tuesday 15th June

08.30 Registration & Coffee

09.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Alberto Valsecchi, Vice President, Marketing, Communications and Business Solutions, Optics Product Division, Alcatel-Lucent

Plenary sessions

09.10 Analysing current shifts in demands for optical services tracking the ongoing changes in customer requirements
• Discussing today’s fastest growing services, key success factors and market forecasts
• Future evolution of the optical platform to support business expansion and to meet operational performance and cost targets
• What are operators current long term optical demands?
• How can the current optical platform be evolved to support future expansion and to meet performance targets?
Per Larsson, Senior Network Architect, TDC

09.35 Discussing the business benefits of IP & OTN synergy backbone network
• Challenges and trends in backbone network
• Examining the advantages of IP&OTN synergy:
• Optimization of traffic distribution, co-protection, and unified management in backbone network.
• Examining key technologies for IP&OTN synergy backbone network
Senior Representative, Huawei

10.00 Determining the effect that an integrated solution for IP/DWDM networks can have on overall IP services
• Where is the motivation for this deployment coming from?
• Defining the roles of IPoDWDM, MPLS, and OTN technologies
• Managing the integration into existing DWDM and packet networks
• What are the organisation issues encountered so far?
• How to best prepare for a successful and smooth deployment
• What is the current market outlook for the deployment of integrated solutions?
Oliver Jahreis, Head of Product Management, Nokia Siemens Networks

10.25 Breaking the barriers of highly scalable, efficient, integrated WDM & OTN networking
• Examining the challenges that bandwidth explosion is posing for optical network transformation in the metro and backbone
- More capacity, more flexibility, more control
- Simpler operations, less power consumption, tighter integration of network layers
• Introducing the key technology innovations and platforms that can help service providers to win the cost-capacity crunch efficiently, including:
- 100G technology
- Integrated photonic and electronic multi-terabit OTN switching
- Cross layer management and operations
- Zero Touch Photonics
Sam Bucci, Deputy Vice President of the WDM Product Unit for the Optics Product Division, Alcatel-Lucent

10.55 Identifying & mitigating risks associated with building the next generation optical network that balances infrastructure and end user needs
• Evaluating the macro level market requirements that are driving the need for building an NGN
- Where do the risks lie?
- How to mitigate them
• Comparing best practice techniques for differing operator profiles
• Determining best practice for Enterprise service deployment models
• Balancing flexibility between infrastructure & end user requirements
• Discussing how to plan for state of the art 100G optical enterprise architectures
Vinay Rathore, Senior Director, Marketing, Ciena

11.20 Morning Coffee Break

40G and 100G service evolution

11.45 Realization scenarios of 100 Gbit/s systems for incumbent Network operators
• Market evolution and trends, drivers for 100 GbE
• Report on 100G field trials in the network of Deutsche Telekom
• Summarising the requirements of network operators, regarding 100GbE transmission
• Short description of main degrading effects for high speed systems
• Discussion of possible realisation scenarios for 100GbE
Dr-Ing Sascha Vorbeck, Senior Technology Consultant, Deutsche Telekom

12.10 OPERATOR CASE STUDY – BT’s 100Gb/s field trial
• Drivers for 40 and 100Gb/s transmission
• 100Gb/s field trial
Dave Johnson, Core Transport Architecture and Design Manager, BT Design

12.35 PANEL DISCUSSION – Evaluating the next steps on the road to 100G
• What are the current timescales to achieve 100G?
• Should operators deploy 40G first or move straight to 100G? What is the optimal migration strategy?
• Discussing the key business considerations in the move to 40G?
- Modulation schemes
• What is the most economic deployment strategy towards next generation line speeds?
Panellists will include:
Avid Lemus, Product Strategy Director, Opnext
Sam Bucci, Deputy Vice-President of the WDM Product Unit for the Optics Product Division, Alcatel-Lucent
Russ Esmacher, Senior Manager, Product Line Marketing, Optical Transport Business Unit  Cisco                                                                                                                                       Dr Adel Asseh, Co-Founder, Technical Sales, Proximion
Oren Marmur, Vice President, Optical Networking Line of Business, ECI Telecom Ltd

13.00 Networking Lunch

14.10 OIF – The need for speed – 100G and beyond
• Carrier requirements and industry challenges for 100G
• The role of the OIF and its work to help speed the commercial availability of products that will make the transition to 100G economically compelling
• Review of the OIF’s 100G LH DWDM project
• Looking beyond 100G to the next step in optical networking – network application domains, constraints, objectives and technology challenges
Ghani Abbas, Member of the Board, OIF Forum

14.35 OPERATOR CASE STUDY – Sharing plans and deployment options for 40G optical systems
• Where are the current drivers for 40G optical systems coming from?
• Discussing the readiness for deployment of current 40G systems – how do you select the right systems for your network?
• Giving a insight into current challenges of 40G deployment and integration
Randy Nicklas, CTO, XO Communications

15.00 Advanced optical fibres: How fibre innovation can lower network costs and assist transition to 40Gb/s, 100Gb/s and beyond
• Examining how optical fibre innovation can assist in the transition to higher data rates
• Next generation fibre: highlighting trends in long haul optical fibre design
• Reviewing the performance benefits of using next generation fibre in your network
• How next generation fibre can lower your network TCO, at 10Gb/s today and at a higher data rate tomorrow
Dr Claudio Mazzali, Director, New Business and Technology Development, Corning Optical Fiber

15.25 OPERATOR CASE STUDY – Current reality versus future planning of 40G deployments
Wolfgang Hemetzberger, Head of Transport & Core, Telekom Austria

15.50 Afternoon Tea

16.15 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s Ethernet – no longer jumping by 10
• The need for a higher speed Ethernet
• A technology overview
• Driving tomorrow’s applications
• The crystal ball – Is 100Gb/s Ethernet enough?
John D’Ambrosia, Chair, IEEE P802.3ba 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s Ethernet Task Force,
Director, Ethernet-based Standards, CTO Office, Scientist, Components Technology, Force 10 Networks

16.40 100G showcase – Trial updates Progress report – updates on trials and deployments: Building the 100G ecosystem
Following on from the success of last years first 100G showcase, leaders in 100G will once again be invited to share the results of field trials and explain their approach to 4 key elements of 100G networking
• 100G modulation schemes
• Payload mapping
• PMD mitigation techniques
• Multiplexing / processing methods
Moderated by Andrew Schmitt, Directing Analyst, Optical, Infonetics Research

Participants will include:
Lorenzo Ghioni, Senior Product Line Manager, Optical Transport Business Unit, Cisco
Michael Finkenzeller, Strategy and Business Development Manager, Nokia Siemens Networks
Senior Representative, Huawei
Steve Alleston, MHL 3000 Strategic Product Manager, Ericsson

Mike Adams, Vice President Portfolio Strategy, Ciena

18.15 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One followed by the
WDM Networking Drinks Reception