Corporate Webinar Archive

Internet2 is hosting a series of educational webinars presented by Internet2 Corporate Members.
These archives are provided for your personal use; please note that reuse or redistribution of any material from these webinars requires the permission from the webinar presenter.

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December 3, 2008: Introducing Optical Transport Network (OTN) / G.709
Slides   |   Archived Webcast

The emerging ITU Optical Transport Network standard, G.709 OTN, is the ideal standard on which to deploy a large variety of networks and protocols. These include both legacy TDM connectivity as well as enterprise Ethernet and Storage protocol traffic such as Fibre Channel, ESCON and FICON, as well as special protocols such as video (standard and hi-def). With inherent Layer 1 protection, OAM capabilities and deterministic performance, OTN far surpasses the reliability and manageability of any native Ethernet or Storage dark fiber solutions. The ITU-T standard OTN specifications, including G.709, provide a robust management framework analogous to SONET/SDH. In comparison, OTN can carry a much larger payload and guarantees delivery of the underlying payload with its own performance management data intact. For example, OTN can fully encapsulate a 10 Gbps Ethernet LAN PHY frame and guarantee delivery across multiple OTN networks (in contrast to “10 Gbps” SONET/SDH interfaces that only have an available bandwidth of 9.62 Gbps which are unable to carry a full 10GigE LAN PHY).

Presented by: Steven Surek, Consulting Engineer, Ciena Corporation

Steven Surek is a Consulting Engineer with Ciena Corporation who has almost 30 years experience in the telecommunications industry. He began his career with AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1979 after receiving his MS and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maine. He spent his first 21 years with Bell Laboratories at AT&T and Lucent Technologies working on transmission systems and transmission systems management. In 1999 and 2000 Mr. Surek directly participated in the efforts at Lucent Technologies regarding OTN standardization. Since leaving Lucent Technologies in 2000, Mr. Surek has been employed by Ciena Corporation where he has been directly involved in the development of OTN-based transport systems and ongoing efforts regarding extensions to the current OTN standards.

March 11, 2008: The Shift to Ethernet throughout the Wide Area Network Architecture
Slides   |   Archived Webcast

A shift is underway in Wide Area Networks. For years, SONET/SDH networks brought reliability and manageability to wide area networks. As bandwidth continues to increase and to shift to IP and other data protocols, the inflexibility and inefficiency of SONET topologies has become operationally and economically constraining.

For years Ethernet has brought flexibility, simplicity, high bandwidth and cost-effectiveness to local area networking. New standards and technologies for Ethernet and other network transport technologies can now allow the combination of the best characteristics of both Ethernet and transport layer technologies to enable institutions to build a unified network with performance and efficiency. This will allow the support continuingly increasing bandwidth demands with new IP- and Ethernet-based traffic (e.g. VoIP, Internet video, IPTV, IP-VPNs, MEF ELINE/ELAN) as well as many legacy services (e.g. FR, ATM, T1/E1, T3/E3).

In this webinar, Ciena, anInternet2 Corporate Partner, will provide an overview of technology building blocks that form the basis Ethernet throughout the WAN architecture. The webinar will define the traditional Ethernet functions, identify and position supporting technologies and necessary standards developments, weigh the pros and cons of several emerging technologies to make Ethernet more connection-oriented, and introduce new service architectures and best practices for consideration when implementing Ethernet wide area networks.

NOTE: This presentation contrasts from the previous Ethernet related presentation which was focused on issues around the demarcation device, not end to end architecture.

Presented by: Jeff Wabik, Vice President, Data Architectures, Office of the CTO, Ciena Corporation

Jeff Wabik is currently Vice President, Data Architectures for Ciena Corporation's CTO Office, where he is responsible for the development of data offerings and strategy across the Company's product portfolio.

Prior to joining Ciena, Mr. Wabik served as Chief Architect of the IP Switching Products Group for Lucent's Internetworking Systems. In that role, he was responsible for developing a family of products and technologies to solve the needs of Lucent's IP businesses, including core routing, MPLS, and Voice Over IP applications. Mr. Wabik joined Lucent in 1996 by acquisition of Netstar, where he was a primary architect of the first Multi-Gigabit Switch-Router, the Netstar GigaRouter. Previously, in 1987, Mr. Wabik co-founded MRNet, one of the first U.S. Internet service providers, and served as Executive Director and Chief Technical Officer until 1992.

1/15/2008: Managing Data Center Power & Cooling
Slides

Optimizing the overall power efficiency of the high performance computing centers requires a comprehensive approach that focuses on technologies and strategies to minimize power consumption and maximize power efficiency at every level within the infrastructure, including CPU chips, power supplies, servers, storage devices, and networking equipment. In addition to measures that maximize power efficiency for hardware devices, there are also software strategies, such as server virtualization, that can play a significant role in reducing power consumption.

Presented by: Jeremy Stieglitz, Director of Marketing Force10 Networks

Jeremy Stieglitz has more than 15 years of experience defining new networking and security products and developing market strategies. As the director of marketing at Force10 Networks, he is responsible for the overall strategic, business, and product marketing programs for Force10 Networks high performance switching and routing platforms. Prior to joining Force10, he was a group product manager in the wireless business unit at Cisco. Jeremy has also served in various technical and business roles at Microsoft, Entrust and RSA Data Security. Jeremy is the author or co-author of 12 patents in network security, user authentication and wireless LAN security.

To request permission to reuse or redistribute materials please contact Debbie Montano

9/19/2007: Delivering Intelligent Ethernet Service to the Research and Education Community
Slides

As Ethernet services scale, the requirement for demarcation devices between end users and research and education national backbone networks is key to providing intelligent Ethernet services that support remote testing, monitoring and service level agreements (SLAs). Fred's presentation discussed new standards, technology and operations methodology that many service providers are using to roll out their carrier Ethernet services with an emphasis on Ethernet operations, administration and maintenance (OAM) capabilities, their use in demarcation devices and how they can migrate to the research and education environment.

Presented by: Fred Ellefson, Vice President, Business Development, ADVA Optical Networking

Fred Ellefson, Vice President, Business Development, is a critical contributor to ADVA Optical Networking’s Optical+Ethernet strategy. He joined ADVA upon its October 2005 acquisition of Covaro Networks, a leading vendor of intelligent Ethernet-demarcation products that enabled service providers to offer Ethernet services over various transport technologies. Mr. Ellefson will be the featured speaker at the next presentation of Internet2’s Corporate Webinar series “Delivering Intelligent Ethernet Service to the Research and Education Community.” This webinar takes place on 19 September 2007 at 1:00pm EDT. Throughout his career, Mr. Ellefson has accumulated more than 25 years of experience in marketing and planning next-generation products for converged voice-and-data networks. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University and a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from the University of Alberta.

To request permission to reuse or redistribute materials please contact Brian Savory

7/12/2007: 40GE Optical Transport in the WAN Environment
Webinar Audio Archive, Slides

Dr. Olga Vassilieva of Fujitsu Laboratories of America discussed solutions to transport 40 Gigabits per second (Gbps) and 100 Gbps over hundreds of kilometers in regional and backbone networks. With increasing data rates, the requirements on optical signal-to-noise ratio, chromatic dispersion and polarization mode dispersion are becoming limiting effects. Advanced modulation formats and optical technologies to enable the migration from 10 Gbps to 40 Gbps and higher were also discussed.

Presented by: Olga Vassilieva, Ph.D, Member of the research staff for Fujitsu Labs of America, Inc.

Olga Vassilieva, Ph.D, is a member of the research staff for Fujitsu Labs of America Inc. She specializes in research and development on high bit-rate metropolitan, regional and long haul transmission systems, advanced modulation formats, and dispersion compensation techniques. During a webinar that took place on 12 July 2007, Dr. Vassilieva discussed solutions to transport 40 Gigabits per second (Gbps) and 100 Gbps over hundreds of kilometers in regional and backbone networks. The webinar archive and Dr. Vassilieva's slides are available online. Dr. Vassilieva is a key contributor to the photonic system design of Fujitsu Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) products. Dr. Vassilieva has worked at Fujitsu for seven years and was honored with a Fujitsu business award in 2006 for practical implementation of 40 Gb/s technology. Prior to Fujitsu, Vassilieva performed scientific research at the Institute for High-Energy Physics in Protvino, Russia. She holds a Master of Science in physics from Moscow State University and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas at Dallas. A member of the IEEE/Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS), Vassilieva is the author and co-author of numerous scientific papers and several patent applications related to optical networking.

To request permission to reuse or redistribute materials please contact Olga Vassilieva

 

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