Carriers across the globe are continually looking for innovative ways to rapidly deploy new Ethernet-based services on existing and future networks. This technical session will focus on the developments and interoperability testing recently undertaken by the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) to enable carriers to achieve this, including Ethernet services provisioning across intelligent optical transport networks and associated control plane signaling and routing developments. Specifically, the session examines how Ethernet private line services were successfully tested across a multivendor, multi-domain optical switching network hosted by seven telecom carrier labs.

The results of the OIF demo showed interoperability across different implementations that might exist in a carrier's network and reliability of the service in the face of control plane failures. Participating service providers and vendors will share their experiences, and the session will also look at the OIF future plans in this area.

Lyndon Ong Director, Network Control Architecture, Chief Technology Office Ciena

Dr. Ong joined Ciena in 2001 after working at Nortel, Bay Networks, and Bellcore/Telcordia. He has extensive experience in defining control protocols, including the definition of Signaling System 7 standards for North America. Dr. Ong has also worked on IETF VoIP and signaling transport protocols as well as optical control-plane protocols. In addition to his role at Ciena, he chairs the Signaling Transport WG in IETF, is editor of the OIF E-NNI Signaling 1.0 and Routing 1.0 Implementation Agreements, and was recently elected chair of the OIF Technical Committee.

Giuseppe Ferraris Head of Transport and OPB Innovation Telecom Italia

Mr. Ferraris leads a group responsible for investigating the impact of new technologies on the evolution of the transport network of Telecom Italia. He joined the R&D department of Telecom Italia in 1989 and was involved in the development of Telecom Italia's SDH network, which deals with aspects such as standardization, network design, planning, and management. Mr. Ferraris' current activities are mainly in the areas of ASONs, DWDM, and carrier Ethernet.

Jonathan Sadler Principal Engineer, Transport Products Division Tellabs

With more than 20 years of data communications experience as a protocol implementer, network element designer, carrier network operations manager, and carrier network planner, Mr. Sadler brings a broad set of knowledge and experiences to the design and analysis of carrier network technology. Currently, he is the control plane architect for the Tellabs 7100 DWDM system. Mr. Sadler is the chairman of the Optical Internetworking Forum's Architecture and Signaling Working Group and an active participant in the IETF and ITU. He studied computer science at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Ting Zhang Global Strategic Market Director, Transmission Product Planning Department ZTE

Mr. Zhang joined ZTE in 2003. His main research area and interests are ASONs, SDH networks, DWDM networks, and SANs. He published dozens of research papers on his field and accumulated abundant experience in research, product development, and marketing of optical transmission industry. Mr. Zhang previously worked in Amdahl Corporation as a system engineer and in Cisco Systems as a DWDM system engineer. He has a bachelor's degree in electronics from Beijing University, a master's degree in optoelectronics and electronic device from Beijing Vacuum Electronics Institute, and a second master's degree in electronic and computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.