The shift to IP infrastructure is inevitable as carriers seek to reduce operational cost, generate new revenues, and drive profitability. But IP networks are much more challenging than ATM core networks. So, what worked then is not necessarily the best solution now.

Furthermore, services are eroding in price and becoming increasingly more complex. Carriers are evolving from traditional routing to the need to support protocols like MPLS, and enable real-time Class of Service offerings like VoIP. Enterprise customers are demanding Service Level Agreements with measurable performance guarantees - and rightfully so. With the dynamic nature of IP networks, carriers need to be able to understand the performance of their IP network over time - and they also need visibility into how network performance is affecting service delivery. Yet, current solutions measure service performance in isolation, without an understanding of the underlying network.

This session will discuss how carriers can gain visibility into the not only the network, but also into the relationship between infrastructure and services. It will examine how to automatically correlate network performance with service quality in order to efficiently manage bandwidth and services while delivering robust and scalable IP Services.

The audience will learn the benefits of correlating the management of both the services and the underlying network, and specifically how to identify and understand the aspects of an MPLS Service, such as MPLS protocol interactions with BGP and to infer services such as RFC 254bis VPNs. This session will explore how this approach can be used to enable new IP services while reducing the cost of operations.

Bio:
As CEO and Co-founder of West Ridge Networks, Hugh Kelly is responsible for the strategic direction and management of the company.

Prior to founding West Ridge Networks in 2003, Hugh Kelly was senior vice president of marketing and business development for Celox Networks, responsible for product management, product marketing, corporate communications and business development.

Prior to joining Celox Networks, Hugh held executive level sales and marketing positions with a number of successful start-ups and public companies. Most recently he was Vice President, Marketing, for Visual Networks, the market leader in WAN service level management solutions, partnering with leading service providers such as AT&T, MCI WorldCom, Sprint and Bell Atlantic. Prior to Visual Networks, Hugh was Vice President of Marketing for Net2Net, a maker of ATM test equipment and analyzers for service providers.