International Forum on
Optical Transport Networks
Thursday 5 th --- Friday 6
th October 2000
San Domenico Palace Hotel,
Taormina, Italy
Day One: Thursday 5 th October 2000
08:30 Registration
OPENING
SESSION
10:00 Welcome Addresses
- Umberto de Julio -- CHAIRMAN AEI
Umberto Scapagnini -- MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
Lorenzo Vita -- UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA
10:30 Keynote Address
- Stefano Pileri &emdash; CHAIRMAN AIIT
11.00 Information Society and
Telecommunications Evolution
- Claudio Carrelli -- EURESCOM
BROADBAND
APPLICATIONS
CHAIR:Stefano Pileri (TELECOM ITALIA)
11:30 Electronic_business, the next waves
- Growth trends: digital market places, access and
bandwith growth
- Technical enablers: high speed, compression, security,
middleware, virtual reality
- New market opportunities: commerce tools, personalization,
Internet appliances
Maurizio Decina -- POLYTECHNIC OF MILAN//CEFRIEL
12:00 Network requirements from multimedia applications
- More bit_rate demanding applications
- More unpredictable bit_rate requirements
- More stringent QoS requirements
Leonardo Chiariglione -- CSELT -- TELECOM ITALIA GROUP
12:30 Lunch Interval
ENABLING
TECHNOLOGIES
CHAIR:Guido Granello
(ALCATEL)
14:00 DWDM systems
- Developments in optical amplification technology Improved
network
dispersion management techniques
- Improved Forward Error Correction (FEC) algorithms
- Pre_wavelength remote managementandoptimisation of individual
transmitter power levels
- Tuneable laser technology
Philippe Morin -- NORTEL NETWORKS
14:30 OADM and OXC systems
- Network functionality of OADM and OXC
- Technological problems and alternatives
- Envisaged evolution and perspectives of new ap_plications
Uwe Fischer -- SIEMENS
15:00 Optical fibres and components
- Facing non_linearities and dispersion effects in optical
fibres
- New fibre development and their applications
- Future development of optical components
- Optical fibres and components market trend
Stefano Grieco -- PIRELLI OPTICALTECHNOLOGIES ITALIA
15:30 Submarine optical systems
- Link design, special fibres and amplifiers
- The market drivers
- Major submarine optical deployments and perspectives
Leigh Frame -- ALCATEL SUBMARINE NETWORKS
16:00 Afternoon Refreshments
NETWORK ARCHITECTURES
CHAIR: Cesare Mossotto (CSELT--TELECOM ITALIA GROUP)
16:30 Optical transport network architectures
- Optical transport network architectures in metro,regional and core
segments
- Opaque and intelligent optical networks
- Towards the simplification of network architectures
- Possible evolution trends: ring vs. meshed topologies
- Giuseppe Ferraris -- CSELT--TELECOM ITALIA GROUP
17:00 Optical networking in multi_client networks
- Possible clients for optical networking: SDH, IP,
ATM, ...
- Functionality of optical transport layers
- Optical transport of overhead information: digital
wrapper and OSC
- Optical transport services: status and perspectives
- Humberto La Roche -- LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES
17:30 Datacom oriented OTN
- Disruptive Technologies Delivering Data over Optical
Networks
- Opportunities for Greenfield Networks
- Voice and Data Comparisons -- Services, Market Values, Traffic Patterns
- Radical NewEconomics of Data Oriented Services
- Evolution of Optical Services
- Stephen Harbour -- CISCO SYSTEM
- 18:00 Optical networking in metropolitan networks
- The market drivers for introducing DWDM in metro
networks
- Comparing DWDM with other capacity en_
- hancing solutions
- Technical challenges of deploying OTN in metropolitan areas
Per O. Andersson -- ERICSSON
18:30 End of Forum Day One
20.30 Conference Dinner
DayTwo: Friday 6 th October 2000
IMPLEMENTATION ASPECTS
CHAIR: Carmelo Basso (ISCTI)
09:00 Management aspects of OTN
- Management alternatives of different network architectures
- Management integration with other network layers
- Protection and restoration in optical transport networks
- Evolution of management: toward full optical transport
intelligent networks
Carlo Tardini &emdash; ALCATEL
09:30 Emerging standards for the Optical Transport Networks
- Why do we need standards for optical networking
- Examining the latest development in the OTN
standardisation in the ITU, ETSI and OIF
- Analysing the part of the standards that apply
to equipment and networks
- How the industry is rising to the challenge of these
standards
- Forecasting future development in standards
Ghani Abbas -- MARCONI COMMUNICATIONS
10:00 Impacts of optical networking
on access network
- Consideration on TLC networks developments
- Optical networking as the link between public and
private networks in the access
- Market overview
Edoardo Cottino &emdash; SIRTI
10:30 Morning Refreshments
PRESENT AND FUTURE SCENARIOS
CHAIR: British Telecom name to be confirmed
11:00 Actual systems and products: a general overview
- North_American and European scenarios
- State of the art for systems and products in field
- State of the art for systems and products in labs
Stephan Teral &emdash; RHK
11:30 Visions and perspectives on
technologies
- Doped fibres vs. semiconductor technology
- Passive component technology: silica on silicon or
what else?
- Limits of DWDM technology and envisaged alternatives
Carlo Giacomo Someda -- UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA
Giovanni Cancellieri -- UNIVERSITY OF ANCONA
12:00 Visions and perspectives on network architectures
- Evolution towards optical packet switching
- Envisaged optical integration of access network segment
Giancarlo De Marchis -- FONDAZIONE UGO BORDONI
12:30 Lunch Interval
FUTURE BROADBAND APPLICATIONS
CHAIR:Maurizio Decina (POLYTECHNIC OF MILAN)
14:00 The new broadband opportunity over a metropolitan
full optical network
- From traditional voice and Internet services to
broadband high quality video Internet: a business model
- A metropolitan full optical network to business and
residential customers
- A full IP technology platform for the delivery of
voice, data, Internet and interactive video
Alberto Trondoli -- E. BISCOM
14.30 Increase carriers business opportunities throughout a country_wide independent backbone network
- The bandwidth explosion
- The emergence of a new model for bandwidth
- A country_wide independent full optical backbone network
- Migrating up the wholesale market value chain
Marco Menesini -- E-VIA
15:00 Afternoon Refreshments
15:30 Panel Session
NETWORK OPERATOR CHOICES: PRESENT AND FUTURE
CHAIR: Claudio Carrelli (EURESCOM)
PANELLIST:
- Stefano Pileri, TELECOM ITALIA
British Telecom name to be confirmed
Alberto de Petris, INFOSTRADA
Franco Grimaldi, WIND
Xavier Maitre, FRANCE TELECOM
Ohad Finkelstein, INTEROUTE
Werner Weippert, Deutsche Telekom
Roberto Begozzi, GLOBAL CROSSING
- How to face legacy aspects in the deployment of
OTN?
- Optical bandwidth offer: what new opportunities and challenges?
- Direct experience: present and future choices
- Peculiarities in the infrastructure deployment
- Which architectural choices for OTN (IP/ATM, IP/DWDM,
...)?
- Leasing of fibres, optical channels, bandwidth: what
is more convenient?
- European scenario: competition of different solutions
17:30 General Conclusions
Salvatore Cardinale -- MINISTER OF
COMMUNICATIONS