IEC @ SUPERCOMM [T14B]

T14B Tuesday, June 3 · 10:45 am - 12:15 pm

Experiences and Issues in Deploying an IP/MPLS Infrastructure
Building the right foundation for your IP/MPLS network can mean the difference between profit and unfortunate limits to your service potential and customer reach. The speakers in this session will walk through technologies and strategies for deploying IP/MPLS infrastructure and value-added services that can result in significant end-user benefits and revenue. They will explore the following key areas while providing best practices and examples based on their experiences successfully deploying IP/MPLS infrastructures and services on national and global scales:

Strategies for leveraging current infrastructures while building an IP/MPLS network with incremental investments
Service-enabling the network edge to support a range of services (e.g., L3 VPNs; high-speed data, voice, and video) and customer requirements
Delivering higher capacities across the network: backbone, network edge, and/or small, medium, and large PoPs
Ways to improve QoS, scalability, reliability, and security
Streamlining cumbersome business engineering processes
Articulating the value-add proposition to your customers and overcoming the challenges in packaging services to customers
Next steps moving forward - the service optimization phase, or life after IP/MPLS deployment
Chairperson
Laura Stiff, Marketing Manager, Routing Technology Group, Cisco Systems, is responsible for marketing Cisco's service-provider high-end and mid-range routing products. Prior to joining the Routing Technology Group, she was responsible for marketing Cisco's ATM+IP products in Cisco's Multiservice Switching business unit.
Speakers
Monique Morrow, Chief Technology Officer and Consulting Engineer, Cisco Systems, has 20 years' experience in IP internetworking that includes design, implementation of complex customer projects, and service development for service providers.
Adrian Smith, Consultant, BTexact Technologies, leads a team responsible for the network design of BT's MPLS UK platform and also provides consultancy to the rest of BT's customers, as well as external customers, on IP and MPLS technologies.
Joseph Fusco, Global Product Manager, Infonet Services Corporation, is responsible for the P&L for Infonet's private IP service business line. He is responsible for defining product strategy and providing supporting research, analysis, and recommendations.