ASON/GMPLS Implementations in Field Trials and Carrier Networks

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Chairs:
Hans-Martin Foisel, Deutsche Telekom, Germany
Vishnu Shukla, Verizon, United States

Abstract
The continuous traffic growth, evolution of high bandwidth demanding data applications, the growing customer requests for on-demand network services and the simultaneous growing CAPEX and OPEX constraints have posed challenging deployment issues for today's carriers. Following the mainstream of data and optical network convergence, carriers began to evaluate and introduce intelligent control plane mechanisms and enhanced data over transport mappings in their networks, which enable operational benefits and CAPEX savings in multi-vendor and multi-domain environments. To ensure seamless interworking in such heterogeneous environments, standard based implementations were the only feasible solution. A number of standardisation bodies and forums, among them ITU-T (Automatic Switched Optical Networks/ASON), IETF (Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching/GMPLS) and the Optical Internetworking Forum/OIF (Control plane interfaces: User-Network-Interface/UNI and External Network-Network-Interface/E-NNI), are aiming at making this interoperability happen in a standard compliant way.

This workshop will cover implementations of integrated data and control plane functions based on these emerging ASON/GMPLS standards and specifications in the R&D sector but also in carrier networks.

In the R&D area numerous experimental evaluations were carried out in field trials, demonstrators and test networks around the globe. This workshop is focusing on field trials carried out in Japan and in Europe, e.g. in the GEANT2, NOBEL2, VIOLA, MUPBED projects. All of these field trial implementations were using control plane functions within network domains, but mainly focusing on seamless interworking in multi-domain, heterogeneous network environments based on ASON/GMPLS inter-domain interfaces. The final goal of these activities is gaining first experiences and knowledge, thus preparing for deployment in research and carriers networks.

The final step towards flexible, on-demand, customer needs oriented network service offerings comprises deployment of ASON/GMPLS functions in carrier networks. The workshop will include examples from North America and Europe, highlighting the network and service gain achieved by these ASON/GMPLS functions.

Programme of the Workshop:
(Cannes, 24 Serptember 2006, 09:00 - 13:00 Hrs)

09:00 - 09:15	Welcome and Introduction (pdf) H.-M. Foisel, Deutsche Telekom, Germany
09:15 - 09:40	OPTICAL MESH SERVICE - Service Strategy Capitalizing on Industry Trends (pdf) M. Lazer, AT&T, United States
09:40 - 10:05	ASON/GMPLS Field Tests at Verizon (pdf) V. Shukla, Verizon, United States
10:05 - 10:30	ASON Implementations in Telecom Italia Backbone Network (pdf) P. Pagnan, Telecom Italia, Italy
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:25	Field Trial of Signalling Interworking of Multi-Carrier ASON/GMPLS Network Domains (pdf) S. Okamoto, Keio University/NTT Group, Japan
11:25 - 11:50	NOBEL2 - Large Scale ASON/GMPLS Network Demonstrator (pdf) C. Cavazzoni, Telecom Italia, Italy
11:50 - 12:15	GEANT2/JRA3: Bandwidth on Demand Service Concepts for European Research Networks (pdf) A. Sevasti, GRNET, Greece
12:15 - 12:40	VIOLA - Bandwidth on Demand Services in National Scale Test Network (pdf) C. Rosche, FhG-IMK, Germany
12:40 - 13:00	MUPBED - On-Demand Services in a European Scale ASON/GMPLS Multi-Domain and Multi-Layer Test Network (pdf) J. Späth, ERICSSON, Germany
13:00	End