Date: Tuesday, September 15th, 2015, 6:30 PM
Location: Cadence / Bldg 10, 2655 Seely Ave, San Jose, CA (map)
Speakers: Tom Tofigh, PMTS AT&T and Marc De Leenheer, Scientist and Developer, ON.LAB
Time: 6:30 PM (PT) Networking/Refreshments, 7:00 PM Presentation

Abstract

Service Provider Networks are complex and multi-layer in nature. Today, Provisioning and adding bandwidth requires order of days if not months. Since packet and optical networks are managed independently, each one of them has to be overprovisioned to deal with traffic anomalies and failures. This leads to lack of service agility and is a significant source of capex and opex overhead for the network operator.

This talk provides an overview of multi-layer optimization platform specific to packet-optical SDN (Software-Defined Networking) implementation for Wide Area Networks. Tom & Marc will review multilayer network abstractions performed at ON.LAB, including flexible packet-optical bandwidth sharing and on-demand network applications, such as Bandwidth Calendaring, on demand networks, and traffic engineering options. Tom & Marc will show how a converged SDN Control plane for packet and optical networks can help address many network inefficiencies.

Speaker Bios

Tom Tofigh is currently a Principal Member of Technical Staff in the AT&T’s Domain 2.0 architecture and planning labs. Tom has been responsible for planning and implementation of large-scale telecommunications equipment He has extensive experience that spans across many disciplines including: emerging mobility networks, Switches, enhanced protocols, cross layer design, smart devices, and chip designs. He’s helped introduce a number of products including: innovative solutions for the mobile devices, switches, platforms, and QOS mechanisms. Tom is currently active member of ON.LAB representing AT&T for implementation of open source solutions for SDN/NFV. Tom holds over 30 patents awarded and many more pending.

Marc De Leenheer is the technical lead for IP/optical activities at ON.Lab, where he is part of the core team of ONOS, the first open source distributed network operating system. He is also the maintainer of the OVX network virtualization platform, and oversees its integration into the OpenStack cloud platform. He received the MSc and PhD degrees in computer science from Ghent University, Belgium in 2003 and 2008 respectively. He completed post-doctoral stays at the University of California Davis and Stanford University, where he worked on control software and hardware designs for core and access optical networks. He is the author of over 75 peer-reviewed scientific articles, and developed several software simulation packages for optical networks.

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