9:00 – 10:30 am
Opening Session

Chair:
Bijan Jabbari

• Introduction
  Bijan Jabbari, Isocore
• Opening Speech
  Stuart Elby, VP, Network Architecture, Verizon
• Keynote Speech
  Yukio Ito,
  Vice President, Network Design Office,
  NTT Communications
• Invited Talk: Evolution of BGP/MPLS VPN's
  Yakov Rekhter, Juniper Networks

Break & Exhibits
10:30 am – 11:00 am

11:00 am – 12:30 pm
MPLS for Transport Services

Chair:
Daniel Awduche,
Verizon Business

• MPLS-TP: A Transport Profile for MPLS
  Loa Andersson, Acreo AB and IETF
• IETF Activities by the MPLS-TP Design Team
  David Ward, Cisco
• Traffic Aggregation Networks for Enterprise Services Using MPLS-TP
  Yasuhiro Hataya, NTT Communications

Lunch & Exhibits
12:30 – 2:00 pm

2:00 – 3:30 pm
Service Provider’s Deployment of MPLS and Carrier Ethernet

Chair:
Raymond Zhang, BT

• Efficient Multicast Implementation for Ethernet and MPLS based Aggregation Networks
  Nicolai Leymann, Deutsche Telekom
• Segmented Multicast MPLS/BGP VPN's
  Maria Napierala, AT&T Labs
• Architecture and Design of an MPLS-based Network Supporting Triple-Play Services over a BGP and PIM-free Core
  Mazen Khaddam, Cox Communications
• On Traffic Engineering and MPLS for Satellite Networks
  Santanu Ganguly, Swisscom
• Scalability, Resilency, and OAM for MPLS + 802.1ah Solutions
  Luyuan Fang, Cisco, Nabil Bitar, Verizon, Raymond Zhang, BT

Break & Exhibits
3:30 pm– 4:00 pm

4:00 – 5:00 pm
New Development for MPLS

Chair:
Kohei Shiomoto, NTT

• Inter Carrier Interconnect: Attributes for Service Oriented Interconnect: Next Generation?
  Monique Morrow, Cisco
• Next-Generation MVPN Technology and Standards
  Rahul Aggarwal, Juniper Networks
• Should I Migrate My MPLS-TE Network to GMPLS, and If So, How?
  Adrian Farrel, Old Dog Consulting

5:00 – 6:00 pm
Panel: IPv6 Current Development/Deployment

Chair:
Lee Jalali, AT&T

What types of short term and long term IPv6 solutions are being offered to Government Agencies by Service Providers? What is the status of their offerings? Was the OMB June 2008 Mandate the end for IPv6 or is there more to come? How do we get the commercial side interested in IPv6? What are the IPv6 killer apps? These topics will be addressed by key representatives from the largest Service Providers and Government Agency leaders.

Panelists:

• Paul Girardi, AT&T
• Tim Rooney, BT
• Thomas D. Nadeau, BT
• Daniel Awduche, Verizon
• Dave Siegel, Global Crossing
• Tomohiro Otani, KDDI
• Jerry Sobieski, Nordunet
• Everett Dowd, U.S. Department of Transportation

Reception & Exhibits
6:00 – 7:30 pm

9:00 – 10:30 am
Multicast over MPLS and Ethernet

Chair:
Dave McDysan, Verizon

• Invited Talk: MPLS in the Access Network
  George Swallow, Cisco
• Carrying Mission-Critical Multicast and Unicast Traffic Over MPLS Networks
  Julian Lucek, Andre Stiphout, Sean Clarke, Juniper Networks
• Multicast in MPLS: Considerations in Migrating to a Label Switched Multicast Core
  Zafar Ali, IJsbrand Wijnands, John Evans, Cisco
• Multicast and Ethernet Services
  Don Fedyk, Nortel

Break & Exhibits
10:30 am – 11:00 am

11:00 – 12:30 am
Mobile and Wireless Backhauling and MPLS

Chair:
Andy Malis, IP/MPLS Forum and Verizon

• Implementing Wireless Backhauling (WBH) Service Over PWE
  Roman Krzanowski, Verizon
• IP/MPLS Mobile Backhaul Resiliency
  Mark Blumhardt, Alcatel-Lucent
• Role of IP/MPLS in Mobile Backhaul
  Rishi Mehta, Redback Networks
• WiMax Backhaul and Impact on Service Centers
  Esmael Dinan, Sprint XOHM,
  Karthik Muthukrishnan, Alcatel-Lucent
  

Lunch & Exhibits
12:30 – 2:00 pm

2:00 – 3:30 pm
Resiliency and Interworking in Ethernet Services

Chair:
Deborah Brungard, AT&T and IETF

• Pseudowire Redundancy: The Next Evolution
  Luca Martini, Cisco
• Interworking PBB/PLSB with VPLS
  Dave Allan, Nortel
• Delivering Robust VPLS Services
  Florin Balus, Alcatel-Lucent
• E-LAN Service Delivery Using VPLS and 802.1ah
  Sanjay Khanna, Foundry Networks

Break & Exhibits
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

4:00 – 5:00 pm
MPLS and NGN

Chair:
Guy Pujolle
LIP6 & Gingko Networks

• MPLS an enabler in the Core and Edge for True Convergence
  Wesley Kaplow, Qwest Government Services
• Deployment of MPLS in a Seamless MPLS Environment
  Thomas Beckhaus, Deutsche Telekom
• Telecom Italia MPLS/NGN Network
  Simeone Mastropietro, Telecom Italia,
  Hamid Laamouri, WANDL Inc.

5:00 – 6:00 pm
MPLS and Emerging Provider Bridging Technologies

Chair:
Dave McDysan, Verizon

Panelists:

• Azhar Sayeed, Cisco
• Kireeti Kompella, Juniper Networks
• Sunil Khandekar, Alcatel-Lucent
• Howard Green, Ericsson
• Peter Atanasovski, Agilent Technologies
• Sanjay Khanna, Foundry Networks
• Vividh Siddha, IPInfusion Inc.

Exhibits
6:00 – 7:30 pm

9:00 - 10:30 am
Deployment Experience with IP-Optical Networks

Chair:
Naoaki Yamanaka, KEIO

• Packet Transport Technology Assessment Based on Network Topology
  Kenichi Ogaki, KDDI R&D Labs Inc.
• Improving Resiliency Using MPLS in IP Over DWDM (IPoDWDM) Networks
  Ori Gerstel, Cisco
• NTT Diamond Network: Tokyo Metro Area Network with DWDM and OXC
  Shingo Yamada, NTT Communications
• Interoperability Effort for Ubiquitous GMPLS Controlled Optical Networks
  Satoru Okamoto, Keio University
• Layer 1 on Demand - Japan’s First GMPLS Operational Service
  Ichiro Inoue, Kaori Shimizu, Rie Hayashi,
  Kohei Shiomoto, NTT, Shigeo Urushidani, NII

Break & Exhibits
10:30 am – 11:00 am

11:00 - 12:30 pm
Content Delivery Networks

Chair:
Tomohiro Otani,
KDDI R&D Labs

• Emerging CDN (Content Delivery Networks) and Multimedia Services Leveraging IP/MPLS Technology
  Daniel Awduche, Verizon
• MPLS in an IPTV Based World
  Willard Somers, IBM Corp.
• Video Delivery Networks – Architectural Considerations For Transport Over IP/MPLS and Carrier Ethernet
  Shashi Kiran, Cisco
• Video 2.0 - Managing Bandwidth in the Video Age
  Cam Cullen, Allot Communications

Lunch & Exhibits
12:30 – 2:00 pm

2:00 - 3:45 pm
OAM, Resiliency and Performance

Chair:
Sonny Thorelli,
Ericsson

• Automating Operations/Management in MPLS
  Harmen van der Linde, Cisco
• OAM Requirements for the Next Generation Carrier Grade Packet Transport Network: Comparison Between SONET/SDH OAM and Packet OAM
  Kazuo Takagi, NEC
• How to Maximize Network Performance with Minimal Changes through Incremental Traffic Engineering
  Pradeep Singh, Gordon Bolt, OPNET Technologies Inc.
• Convert MPLS Opportunities to Successful Implementations ... Faster and More Accurately
  Ittai Bareket, Netformx Inc.
• PCE-Based Backbone Network Control and Management
  Tomonori Takeda, Ryuta Sugiyama, Eiji Oki, Ichiro Inoue, Kohei Shiomoto, NTT, Kensuke Shindome, Kazuhiro Fujihara, Shin-Ichi Kato, NTT Communications
• Improving MPLS-TE Automation
  Arman Maghbouleh, Jeff Bazar, Cariden,
  Dante Pacella, Verizon Business