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W15C	Wednesday, January 23 · 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Next-Generation Infrastructure In the past, MPLS has been principally used only in the core of IP-based backbone networks for traffic engineering and quality of service. With the increasingly widespread deployment of MPLS in core networks, carriers are looking to extend MPLS into the edge of IP-based networks to provide end-to-end performance guarantees. But even beyond traffic-engineering capabilities, service providers are looking at MPLS as a service enabler at the edge. When MPLS is used within a VPN, service providers can leverage the flexibility and scalability of enterprise networks for better enterprise communications. This session will explore: Evolution of MPLS from a traffic-engineering concept to a VPN technology Enterprise benefits including end-to-end service-level agreements and hosting of new managed services Service providers experience using MPLS as both a traffic-engineering capability and as a service enabler via MPLS VPNs

CHAIRPERSON: David Messina, Senior Product Manager, CoSine Communications, has more than seven years of product-management and general marketing experience in the data-communications industry. Prior to CoSine Communications, Mr. Messina was senior manager of executive initiatives for Nortel Networks and held various senior marketing positions with Bay Networks and Madge Networks. SPEAKERS: Bryan Monaghan, Director of Product Manager, CoSine Communications, has over 15 years of experience in the telecommunications-equipment industry, with a focus on transmission, access and data switching. Marc Lasserre, Director of Solutions Engineering, Riverstone Networks, has more than 10 years of experience in the networking industry. David Marshall, Advisory Engineer, WorldCom, has over 25 years of experience in the networking industry in both the carrier- and enterprise-networks arenas.