Network Programming Promises - GIIEvent · Network Programming Promises The 22nd Edition of the MPLS + SDN + NFV World Congress will take place from 31st March to 3rd April 2020

Network Programming Promises The 22nd Edition of the MPLS + SDN + NFV World Congress will take place from 31st March to 3rd April 2020.

The Congress will once again gather major actors of service providers and enterprises networks evolution.

This year, emphasis is given to network programming (programmability, functions on demand), 5G, SR and Self Healing networks (service assurance, closed loop automation, intent-based). AI and 5G Impact for Networks: Status & Perspectives

Disaggregation, Service Assurance, Self Healing Networks, 5G Network Slicing are at the heart of the 2020 programme.

The 2020 agenda covers the current status of AI and 5G impacts on IP/MPLS networks.

• How SD-WAN and MPLS are complementary technologies?• What are the current encoding options for SR?• What is the impact of 5G and IoT on IP networks?• How far disaggregation must go?• AIOps: evolution or revolution?

These crucial questions, among others, are addressed by the most renewed engineers and visionary people who have made MPLS+SDN+NFV World one of most valuable event to get a comprehensive overview of where the networking industry is heading to.

The Sessions: Disaggregation, Service Assurance, AI, Segment Routing, SD-WAN, 5G Architectures, Network Slicing, AutomationTrack 1 of the conference covers in detail the recent evolutions and perspectives of Segment Routing: comparing the various data-plane encodings and providing a technological comparison between those associated SR encodings.

Also addressed: the SD-WAN phenomenon and the global path to its deployment at scale, including Automation aspects.

Track 2 addresses 5G and its impact on the connectivity network as well as Network Slicing challenges, NFV and IP/Optical integration.

Track 3 explores AI/ML potential for network operations, Reinforcement Learning and Self Healing Networks.A Strong Presence of Service Providers and OTTsAs each year, the agenda benefits from numerous contributions from SPs and OTTs.

Verizon, Orange, Telefonica, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Turk Telekom, SFR, Telecom Argentina, China Mobile, Colt, Line Corporation, Charter, Brazilian National Research Network will describe their current deployments and explain their expectations.

75+ Countries RepresentedWith 1,600+ participants, the 21st edition of MPLS + SDN + NFV World reached the record attendance of last year. This renewed success makes the Paris Congress a unique venue for sharing ideas from across the industry. MPLS + SDN + NFV World remains the place to be for a preview of the next big thing.

55 % of the delegates came from operators and enterprises. With 75 countries represented, the Congress confirmed its growing internationalization.

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TUESDAY 31 MARCH TUTORIALS• Registration and welcome coffee from 07.30• Start of the First Tutorial 10.00• Exhibition open from 08.00 to 19.00• Seated Lunch: 12.30• End of the Tutorials: 18.00

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Broadband Forum Workshop

10.00 The Current State and Future of 5G Transport

Broadband Forum coordinates a deep dive workshop into the current state and future of 5G transport.

Areas covered include:• Update on the state of 5G transport technology and standards deve-

lopment work being down at Broadband Forum• Description of concurrent work in other organizations like IETF, IEEE,

ITU, and others• Market drivers• Architecture considerations• Technologies• Use cases and examples• Network slicing• Fixed/mobile convergence

ETSI Workshop Part I10.00 Network Transformation: Orchestration, Network and Service Management Framework

Describing how ETSI addresses the network transformation challenge being faced and what the core ETSI Technical Bodies are providing to the industry

• Addressing the common framework for management of virtualized network environments as defined by NFV and extended to the distributed edge with public-cloud aspects by MEC.

• Discussing how ENI solutions can be deployed within or across network domains to optimize the processing of data, extract knowledge, and thus enable decision making.

• Demonstrating the work of ZSM in bringing all these and other technologies together into a single automated management framework.

12.30 End of the ETSI Workshop Part I

Part II14.00 Highlights of the Newest OSM Release (OSM Rel SEVEN)Series of live demonstrations on stage of the main functionalities of OSM, with particular focus on the newest functionalities added to the system, such as:

• Cloud-native Network Functions, running on Kubernetes• Real-time monitoring of Network Services• Q&A

18.00 End of the ETSI Workshop Part II

MEF Seminar

Update on the MEF flow and content during the course of the year. Presentation of the decks developed already and updated.

14.00 Developing and Implementing MEF 3.0 ServicesMEF has defined SD-WAN, IP, Carrier Ethernet and Optical Transport services and their attributes as part of the MEF 3.0 framework launched in late 2017. This part of the workshop explains those services and how they are used to create end-to-end orchestrated managed service that span multiple operator and technology domains that include automation at the commercial, business and operational levels.

LSO APIs: Enabling Service Automation Across Multiple Providers & Technology DomainsLSO (Lifecycle Service Orchestration) is a central part of the MEF 3.0 framework that complements SDN and NFV to enable the orchestration of the full lifecycle of MEF-defined services. This part of the workshop explains the underpinning LSO Reference Architecture (MEF 55), the LSO Reference Points (e.g. LSO Sonata and LSO Legato), and the APIs defined at each reference point as well as the SDKs available from MEF to accelerate MEF 3.0 adoption. Certifying Services, Technology and ProfessionalsThis part of the workshop covers the MEF Certification Program including MEF 3.0 certification of services and underlying technology for conformance to MEF standards including the 14 year program of Carrier Ethernet certifica-tion and the recently launched SD-WAN certification program. In addition, an overview is provided of MEF’s 8 year program for certification of professio-nals in the areas of SD-WAN, Carrier Ethernet and SDN/NFV. Accelerating MEF 3.0 Development & Adoption Through Community ActivitiesIn this final section of the workshop, the topics of the MEF 3.0 Proofs of Concept and their importance in accelerating the implementation of MEF 3.0 as well as the LSO Developer Community for software and IT professionals using and contributing to LSO APIs are covered.

18.00 End of the MEF Seminar

ML/DL Tutorial presented by Orange Labs Representants

14.00 ML/DL for Anomaly Detection on Network DataThe tutorial covers end to end machine learning including deep learning techniques applied to Network Data. The goal is to share a methodology that sketches all the steps from raw data transformation and visualization to model generation and application including performance evaluation.

17.00 End of the Tutorial

MORNING CHAIRMANRoy Chua, Founder and Principal at AvidThink

08.30 OPENING SESSIONAI & ML Opps : Service Providers Experiences

8.30

Mike Fratto, Senior Analyst, Applied Infrastructure and Dev Ops, 451 Research

8.50

Imen Grida Ben Yahia, Expert in Future Networks, Orange Labs

9.10

Diego R. Lopez, Chair of ETSI NFV ISG, Co-chair of IRTF’s NFVRG, Senior Technology Expert, Telefonica I+D

09.30 KEYNOTES SESSION9.30

Sunil Khandekar, Founder & CEO, Nuage Networks

9.50

Michael Beesley, CTO, SP Networking, Cisco

10.10

Kireeti Kompella, Juniper Networks

10.30

Jim Guichard, Distinguished Engineer, Huawei

10.50

David Allan, Distinguished Engineer, Ericsson

11.10 Coffee Break / Exhibition / Interop Showcase

11.40 DEBATE

AI Opps: Evolution or Revolution?

MODERATORRoy Chua, Founder and Principal at AvidThink

Kireeti Kompella, Juniper Networks

Imen Grida Ben Yahia, Expert in Future Networks, Orange Labs

Diego R. Lopez, Chair of ETSI NFV ISG, Co-chair of IRTF’s NFVRG, Senior Technology Expert, Telefonica I+D

JP Vasseur, PhD, Head of ML/AI for Networking, Cisco Fellow

Laurent Ciavaglia, Innovation and Standardization Expert, Nokia

12.30 Seated Lunch


WEDNESDAY 1 APRIL MORNING CONFERENCE DAY ONE TRACKS 1+2+3• Registration and welcome coffee from 07.00• Start of the Conference 08.30• Exhibition open from 08.00 to 20.00• Seated Lunch: 12.30• Welcome reception: 19.00

AFTERNOON CHAIRMANRoy Chua, Founder and Principal at AvidThink

SERVICE ASSURANCE SESSION14.00 Service Assurance for Intent-based NetworkingA correctly configured service doesn’t imply that it’s up and running correctly.

A compulsory step toward the end goal of Intent-based Networking is the closed loop automation with telemetry. This new framework combines telemetry to intent, based on the service key performance indicators.

Benoit Claise, Cisco Fellow

14.20 SLA Assurance Based on IPv6/SRv6Describing how APN6 opens network capabilities to applications, so that applications can use IPv6/SRv6 programmability to directly provide identifiers

and imposes requirements for networks. APN6 enables carriers to provide differentiated application-level SLA assurance, especially latency assurance.

Li Zhenbin, Chief IP Standard Representative, Huawei Technologies

14.40 Unleashing the Potential of Edge Compute with Automated, Active AssuranceUnderstanding the Paradigm Shift to Active Service Assurance.

Enabling Programmable Networks.Assuring Low Latency of 5G Services.Unleashing the Potential of Edge Compute in Mobile Backhaul.

Jonas Krogell, CTO, Netrounds

DISAGGREGATION SESSION15.00 Towards a New Disaggregated, Cloud-native Networking ModelWhy is the current Service Provider networking model not sustainable in

both operational and economic terms. How does introducing a new disaggregated, cloud-native networking model inspired by the hyperscale cloud approach, and running on white boxes, meet these challenges.

Speaker from Drivenets

15.20 Network Disaggregation Tolerance LevelOpenness is a very critical component of network disaggregation. Efforts are needed across SDN/NFV architectures, open source and SDOs communities to bring some order to this fragmentation and enable a path to consensus that leads to an achievable interoperability, coherence and consistency across the functional blocks/modules, APIs and interfaces.

Authors: Javier Ger, Telecom Argentina, Francisco Araujo de Carvalho, BT and Rajiv Papneja, Prodapt

Javier Ger, Telecom Argentina

Francisco Araujo de Carvalho, Head of Networks Integration Programme Synergies, BT

15.40 High-light Talk about the 2020 Interoperability Test and Showcase

Carsten Rossenhoevel, Managing Director, EANTC


16.20 Beyond the Universal CPE: Colt Telco Edge CloudProviding an overview of the Stratus project, development and deployment status and overall use cases. Sharing Colt’s strategy on extending the uCPE

capabilities to the far edge moving into edge-native solutions, like Edge Iaas, IoT and 5G applications.

Javier Benitez, Senior Network Architect, Network on Demand, Colt Technology Services

16.40 An Open, Disaggregated Routing System Using Stan-dard Protocols and Management InterfacesPresenting an architecture and design for a scalable routing system that can

be constructed from small, widely available, differentiated systems that leverage standards-based protocols and open, standards-based management interfaces, tools, and patterns.

Chris Martin, Vice President of Customer Engineering, Arista

DC INTERCONNECTION SESSION17.00 Virtual Private Networks for Multi-Tenant Data CentersGiving an update on the IETF standardisation of NVO3. Discussing how and why the community has finally converged on a single standard data plane

encapsulation (GENEVE). But many open issues still remain, including the most efficient way to transport OAM and how to secure each virtual network.

Matthew Bocci, Director, Technology and Standards and IETF NVO3 co-chair, Nokia

17.20 Differentiated TE Transport for Virtual Cloud Networks by Using SDN ControllersDescribing how an SDN Controller for Virtual Cloud Networks interacts with an SDN Controller for the Wide Area Network (WAN). In this way, each

virtual network is provided with the appropriate transport across the WAN, as needed by its particular workloads.

Julian Lucek, Distinguished Systems Engineer, Juniper Networks

17.40 MPLS in a Data Center FabricDescribing MPLS usage in a Data Center Fabric. Discussing control plane used, huge benefits received, how scalability issues have been resolved

because of MPLS. Finally fanny and severe bugs on network equipment encountered.

Alexander Virilin, Head of Network Infrastructure, Yandex Cloud

18.00 End of Conference Day One Tracks 1+2

19.00 Welcome Reception


WEDNESDAY 1 APRIL AFTERNOON CONFERENCE DAY ONE TRACKS 1+2• Exhibition open from 08.00 to 20.00• End of Conference: 18.00• Welcome Réception: 19.00

AFTERNOON CHAIRMANMike Fratto, Senior Analyst, Applied Infrastructure and Dev Ops, 451 Research

ML/AI POTENTIAL FOR NETWORK OPERATION SESSION

14.00 Democratizing ML/AI for Network OperationMachine Learning and Artificial Intelligence is a technology area with lots of potential in network operations, however there is a high entry

barrier for network engineers. As an Industry we have the challenge of making these technologies more broadly available and applicable for network engineers. Explai-ning the approach we propose for this.

Javier Antich Romaguera, Juniper Networks

14.20 Key AI Application Scenarios and Technologies in the Carrier FieldAlways-on services made possible by an intelligent O&M system with

proactive SLA awareness. Service perception and accelera-tion enabled by traffic identification. Improved network utilization through intelligent global optimization. Intelligent network forecast, including traffic and fault forecast.

Xiaofei Wang, Senior Network Solution Architect, Huawei

14.40 Role of AI in IP Transport NetworksAI and machine learning play an integral role in managing the complexity and providing a practical way to orches-trate the 5G transport network.

Antonella Sanguineti, Head of IP Optical, Ericsson

15.00 Overcoming AI Bias and Other Barriers to AI Adoption with Service Performance AnalyticsTo combat AI bias and facilitate AI adoption, CSPs must work with high quality data and the right analytics tools.• Operator AI deployment plans • Types of AI bias • Potential challenges

for virtualized network operators, with some real-world examples • Best practices for overcoming AI bias and other operational AI challenges

Tom Foottit, Senior Director of Product Line Management, Accedian

15.20 IoT Cybersecurity with Natural Language ProcessingPresenting a novel technique for securing large and heterogeneous IoT deployments by leveraging modern Natural Language Processing (NLP)

techniques. How can higher-order networking concepts be modeled? What is a TCP packet? How do packets towards port 53/udp usually look like?

Benoit Lourdelet, Product Management Director, Extreme Networks

15.40 Challenges Related with AI Introduction to CSP Operational ProcessesAI, and ML in particular, are promising significant benefits related with impro-ved operational efficiency of human labor, automation of recurrent tasks and predictive maintenance. However, they require number of pre-requisities to be fulfilled before reaching

real business outcome. Sharing practical experiences gathered during the implementation of AI-based use cases focused on optimization of network & service assurance processes for one of our CSP customers.

Rajmund Zieliński, IAA Product Manager, Comarch


16.30 Network Traffic Classification at Scale Using Machine LearningNetwork traffic needs to be classified for various purposes, for example, business priority, resource consumption pattern, intrusion risk signature and others. Discussing how machine learning tools and techniques can be

applied practically to achieve traffic classification, and how this approach can be designed to scale.

Ananda Sen Gupta, Vice President, Telecommunications Business Unit, Nagarro

USE CASE SESSION16.50 Core Network Intelligence at DTReporting on a comprehensive, dynamically correlated data model of the IP core network topology and traffic, that has been in use at DT for over four

years now. Describing various use cases that draw on this same data model and reporting on performance benefits.

Dr Oliver Holschke, Strategic R&D Projects, Deutsche Telekom Labs

17.10 Predictive Maintenance and Anomaly Detection at Turk TelekomDescribing a project that focus on operational AI for telco networks.

Implementing predictive maintenance and anomaly detection use cases with machine learning algorithms in IP/MPLS domain.

Iren Berk Özalp, Customer Experience and SLA Management Systems Manager, Turk Telekom

17.30 Deployment Scenarios to Augment Network Operations with AI

Addressing deployment challenges that are facing customers when exploring and implementing AI-based solutions for they operations.

Jean-Marc Uzé, VP EMEA, Augtera Networks

17.50 The Key role of MLOps in managing DataLake and Monitoring ML Models Performance at ScaleDiscussing the MLOps aspect of complex ML/AI solutions deployed at scale: how to monitor data (volume, quality and diversity) but also the efficacy of ML

models using various performance metrics. Various real-life examples are discussed.

JP Vasseur, PhD, Head of ML/AI for Networking, Cisco Fellow

18.10 Proactive Network Troubleshooting Using Machine LearningShowing how machine learning helped reduce from thousands of events to a handful of meaningful situations in their mobile backhaul network.

Christian Panu, Expert Operations Engineer, Vodafone

Carsten Collatz, Senior Product Manager, Nokia

18.30 End of Conference Day One Track 3

19.00 Welcome Reception


WEDNESDAY 1 APRIL AFTERNOON AI NET DAY ONE TRACK 3• Exhibition Open From 08.00 To 20.00• End Of Conference: 18.30• Welcome Reception: 19.00


THURSDAY 2 APRIL MORNING CONFERENCE DAY TWO TRACK 1• Registration and welcome coffee from 07.30• Start of the Conference 08.30• Exhibition open from 08.00 to 19.00• Seated Lunch: 12.30

MORNING CHAIRMANBruno Decraene, Orange, Co-Chair of Spring IETF WG

SEGMENT ROUTING REQUIREMENTS & BENEFITS SESSION

08.30 SRv6 Deployment and MigrationIntroducing an incremental deployment of SRv6 and migration to SRv6

network from the existing network reusing the legacy equipment. Discussing the migration to SRv6 in the existing data centers in which VxLAN is used.

Tao Wenqiang, Chief Planing Engineer of IP Products, ZTE

08.50 Implementation of E2E Automation in SRv6 & IPv6 Hybrid Networking Scenarios

Demonstrating how SRv6-based network automation resolves SRv6 deployment issues on the live network, providing E2E SRv6 lifecycle management capabilities.

Kevin Zhang, Senior Marketing Manager, Huawei

09.10 Segment Routing Generation 2020: A Comparison of Segment Routing Data-Plane EncodingsComparing the various data-plane encodings of Segment Routing and providing a technological comparison between those associated Segment

Routing encodings. Discussing the requirements and benefits of Segment Routing in the domain of 5G and the hyper connected world.

Gunter Van de Velde, Global Product Line Manager Routing Technologies, Nokia

09.30 State of Adoption and Technology UpdateInsight into the state of SR adoption and latest deployments (across market segments - Web/OTT, SP and Large Enterprise – and across network domains – Data Center, Aggregation and WAN). Update on cutting-edge

SR use cases (e.g. 5G, SDWAN, SR in the enterprise, SR to the host), on SR implementation in open-source projects (Linux, FD.IO) and on latest interoperability tests.

Clarence Filsfils, Cisco Fellow

09.50Designing Next Generation Network Fabric – with Segment RoutingNetworking industry is facing a transformation which is being fueled by trends like 5G, IOT and exponential network traffic growth. These trends are bringing lots of requirements and challenges to an already complex networ

king world. Exploring how to design an application driven agile, automated and scalable network with segment routing.

Bilal Shahid, Senior Product Line Manager, Juniper Networks

SEGMENT ROUTING DEPLOYMENTS SESSION

10.10 Defining SR-MPLS Network Overlays for Converged Metro and Access Networks Using Flex-AlgoHow to use SR-MPLS transport with Flex-Algo defined custom overlays by application. This allows the MSO to carry delay sensitive traffic such as commercial services with well-defined SLA requirements in an east-west SR

overlay, while continuing to allow best effort traffic to flow across the hub and spoke IGP defined overlay.

Jeff Cook, Principal Engineer, Datacenter Network Architecture, Charter


10.55 SRv6 Data Center NetworkingDiscovering how LINE’s private cloud is leveraging SRv6 to build a multi- tenant network infrastructure. This infrastructure uses OpenStack to instan

tiate virtual machines that are isolated in different tenants thanks to SRv6 Neutron plugin. Giving further insights into the implementation of our SRv6 network architecture.

Hirofumi Ichihara, Software Engineer, LINE Corporation

11.10 Network Fabric with EVPN and Segment Routing in SP Edge DatacenterSegment Routing as unified forwarding plane, and EVPN/L3VPN as a common BGP based control plane for services, greatly help to simplify the design, network operations and natively supports programmability as the

foundation for end-to-end automation. EVPN/SR address well the concerns of these requirements and facilitate the integration of the network fabric in SP Edge Datacenter.

Vi-Thang Truong, SFR

11.25 SRv6 Unified SID Use Case & SolutionUpgrade to SRv6 from SR-MPLS/MPLS.Problems and requirements of SRv6 SRH solution.

Unified-SID Principle.MPLS label U-SID format.Proof of Concept.

Weiqiang Cheng, China Mobile

11.40 IPV6 ROUND TABLE

12.30 Seated Lunch

AFTERNOON CHAIRMANAmir Zmora, CEO & Co-founder, flexiWAN

SD-WAN SESSION14.00 Evolution not RevolutionExploring SD-WAN’s coming of age. Tracking the evolution of the technology

and the market, before offering a best practice business model for service providers’ digital transformation, without disrupting existing services.

Sylvain Quartier, VP of Marketing and Product Strategy, Ekinops

14.20 Software Defined Enterprise : Going Beyond SD-WANExploring the accelerating industry trend of enterprises and service providers migrating from private line services, to overlay SD-WAN based connectivity

services driven by need for multi-cloud access and how a Software Defined Enterprise solution can offer an added level of flexibility and agility.

Tony Sarathchandra, Product Management, Director, Juniper Networks

14.40 Best of Both Worlds: SD-WAN and the Future of the Enterprise WANThe idea that SD-WAN is a replacement for MPLS is a myth. Fundamentally, these are complementary technologies, not competitive ones. Covering how SD-WAN can integrate and interoperate with private MPLS/SR backbones

for cost-effective and scalable transport. Discussing how SD-WAN and SR/MPLS need to evolve so that Enterprise WANs can get the best of both worlds.

Shelly Cadora, Principal Engineer, Cisco

15.00 SD-WAN + 5G SlicingHow can SD-WAN work with 5G to ensure service transmission quality when 5G is used for last-mile access.How 5G slicing + SD-WAN multi-tenant/multi-VPN solution provides differentiated service bearing and works with the transport or core network to

build a complete E2E slicing solution for enterprises.5G + SD-WAN industry use cases: finance and healthcare.

Linda Dunbar, Technical Director, Advanced Technology, Huawei

15.20 Secure SD-Branch Use CaseDescribing the technical requirements of a “Fortune 100” French enterprise to transform their WAN infrastructure and their adopted Secure SD-Branch solution.

Hector Avalos, VP Sales and Business Development, Versa Networks


16.10 Multi-Tenant Enterprise Networking with Microsoft AzureDescribing a service provider who prefers to use an existing cloud computing platform for his enterprise networking services instead of building his own

cloud platform. In this specific use case Microsoft Azure was selected as the cloud computing platform.

Wim Henderickx, Director Network Consulting Engineering, Nokia

16.30 Assuring the Promise of SD-WAN Value and IntegrityShowing how the technology transition underscores the importance of

validating SD-WAN implementations before deployment – for scalability, security, reliability and performance.

Malathi Malla, Director, Products and Technical Marketing, Spirent

16.50 How to Guarantee Performance-Driven SD-WAN Discussing real life Use Cases of Network Function Virtualization where Operators need to deploy SD-WAN and vFirewall / UTM Services to their customers.

Stefano Wosz, Product Marketing Manager, Aethra

17.10 PANEL

SD-WAN vs MPLS : Going Beyond the Debate

MODERATORAmir Zmora, CEO & Co-founder, flexiWAN

Janne Mikola, Product Manager, Telia SD-WAN

Shelly Cadora, Principal Engineer, Cisco

Tony Sarathchandra, Product Management, Director, Juniper Networks

Rajesh Mongia, AVP and Global Head of Hybrid WAN Connectivity Services, Tata Communications

Hector Avalos, VP Sales and Business Development, Versa Networks

18.10 End of Conference Day Two Track 1


THURSDAY 2 APRIL AFTERNOON CONFERENCE DAY TWO TRACK 1

• Exhibition Open From 08.00 To 20.00• End of Conference: 18.10

MORNING CHAIRMANAzhar Sayeed, Chief Architect, Service Provider, Red Hat

5G ARCHITECTURES SESSION08.30Transport Solution for 5G Campus Networks

Presenting the new challenge and opportunity of 5G campus network, and proposing E2E solution to catch the opportunity. Sharing some lessons learned from the pilot projects.

XiPeng Xiao, CTO Office, Huawei Europe

08.50 Lessons learned from the Cloud Native 5G Demo at Kubecon Focusing on the networking challenges faced for core DC, Edge POP and Public cloud connectivity that was involved using SD-WAN, routing issues,

NAT traversal issues and traffic and load balancing issues. Discussing issues associated with MULTUS in Kubernetes.

Azhar Sayeed, Chief Architect, Service Provider, Red Hat

09.10 Security ConsiderationsExploring both the business opportunities as well as the security challenges for the new 5G network and including concrete recommendations about how to go forwards with securing 5G access and core networks.

Albert Lew, Juniper Networks

09.30 5G and MEC: End-to-End Transport Orchestration in Virtual RANsThe new 5G RAN and packet core architectures along with the new service performance envisioned for 5G require new considerations in how the

networks are architected and deployed. Ultra-low latency services may require computing pushed closer to the user to meet application requirements.

Malgorzata Svensson, OSS Expert, Ericsson

09.50 Adaptive Multi-Layer 5G Transport NetworkingDiscussing 5G packet-optical transport evolution that empowers network architects to update and modernize the network assets at their own pace while avoiding vendor lock-in. By consolidating the packet and optical layers

into a single unified solution, from access to metro, network operators can best address new 5G challenges and opportunities via auto-coordinated, adaptive and reliable end-to-end multi-layer network services.

James Glover, Director, Product Line Management, Ciena


10.40 5G Converged SDN TransportRAN evolution impact on transport and Flexible Service placement Scalable

and simplified 5G transport with SRv6 including MEC Stringent 5G Timing and Synchronization requirements Need and use cases for Time Sensitive network and network Slicing requirement.

Waris Sagheer, Principal Engineer, Cisco

11.00 An IP Engineer PerspectiveDescribing the lessons learned when evolving the radio access network from distributed to centralized architectures. Showing how the innovations introduced by 5G impact the IP network requirements.

Paul Meyers, Senior Product Line Manager, Nokia

11.20 5G as a Technology IncubatorOutlining essential technology innovation in 5G and its impact on the connectivity network. Focusing on two key technologies: disaggregation and precise synchronization. The work of relevant open communities such as

TIP DCSG (disaggregated cell site gateway) project is essential for assuring a seamless, demand-driven technology innovation in 5G connectivity networks.

Ulrich Kohn, Technical Marketing Director, ADVA Optical Networking

DDOS SESSION11.40 Collaborative DDoS MitigationDiscussing the initiatives in DDoS in different communities and regions. The

ideas are quite different: from exchanging DDoS attack data to enabling inter-organization DDoS attack signaling.

Kirill Kasavchenko, Principal Security Technologist, Netscout

12.00 Evolving DDoS Security: Towards Self-defending NetworksTo truly evolve the DDoS security for the cloud, 5G, and IoT era,

we need to automate it. Discussing the idea and the approaches to DDoS auto-mitigation, which can help us with setting the stage for self-defending networks of the future.

Stefan Meinders, Product Manager, deepfield Business Unit, Nokia

12.30 Seated Lunch


THURSDAY 2 APRIL MORNING CONFERENCE DAY TWO TRACK 2• Registration and welcome coffee from 07.30• Start of the Conference 08.30• Exhibition open from 08.00 to 19.00• Seated Lunch: 12.30

AFTERNOON CHAIRMANRoland Thienpont, Director IP Product Marketing EMEA, Nokia

NETWORK SLICING SESSION14.00 5G Transport Challenges: End-to-End Network Slicing in a Nutshell

Discussing network slicing architecture based on Segment Routing, which addresses very large scale, limited MSD constraints.

Krzysztof Szarkowicz, Senior Consultant, Service Providers, Juniper Networks

14.20 Intent Based Cross-Domain 5G Slice AutomationBy leveraging well defined domain-level primitives and hierarchically layered automation principles with network-wide commit capabilities, end-to-end slice

provisioning can become fairly cookie-cutter supporting many use-cases and turned quickly into revenue-generating services.

John Mullooly, Distinguished Systems Engineer, Cisco

14.40 A New 5G Transport Network SlicingDescribing Slice+, a control plane which can establish end-to-end slices. Slice+ can also inter-operate with Segment Routing and Flex-Algo protocols.

The data plane of Slice+ can be Flexible Ethernet (FlexE) data plane or SR MPLS data plane or SRv6 data plane.

Greg Mirsky, Senior Pre-research and Standardization Expert, ZTE

15.00 Enabling Network Slicing on IP Transport NetworksGiven that the packet transport network is comprised of multiple technologies each with strengths addressing different parts of the network (access,

aggregation, core) and that it is imperative to leverage what is already deployed, the slicing must work across multiple technologies in a way that seamlessly provides the required level of QoS to the slice application.

Joel Halpern, Fonction, Ericsson


15.50 Automation, Assurance and Optimization of the 5G Transport and Core SlicesNetwork slicing has the potential of enabling operators to address new customer segments with highly personalized 5G services. However, to rip the benefit of 5G, these network slices need to be set up quickly and managed

dynamically to ensure the expected SLAs for the services that can command a premium revenue. Puting transport and core slicing in the overall context of 5G network slicing architecture.

Reza Rokui, Product Manager, Nokia

16.10 Network Slicing for Differentiated SLAsInterconnection and mapping between transport network slices and wireless

network slices in E2E network slicing scenarios. Latest standards development progress and typical application scenarios of SRv6-based transport network slicing.

Dong Jie, Senior IP standard representative, Huawei

16.30 Verizon: Operational Aspects of Slice Management3GPP has specified a split architecture for 5G Radio. The functional entities of the split architecture can be virtualized and placed at different physical

locations of the network to support network slicing, which is one of the key features of 5G. Discussing deployment and operational aspects of slice management at the radio and transport layers to meet the slice SLAs.

Luay Jalil, Fellow, Verizon Wireless

16.50 Zero touch network and Service Management (ZSM) for Maximum Service Agility

Describing an end-to-end architecture and the work the ZSM is currently conducting to enable secure, end-to-end, cross-domain service orchestration and automation.

Nurit Sprecher, ETSI ZSM ISG WG Vice-Chair,

NFV SESSION17.10 A Programmable Network for Optimised Fixed Broadband Service DeliveryIntroducing an architecture that enables greater network programmability through the Control/User-Plane Separation of the Broadband Network

Gateway combined with the introduction of a subscriber traffic Steering / Load Balancing Function at the edge of the network.

Jonathan Newton, Principal Network Architect, Vodafone

17.30 Presenting an Architecture for a vPE Router supporting MPLS and Segment RoutingMoving PE Router functionality to an NFV environment whilst maintaining high performance offers operators considerable benefits both in flexibility and

in cost savings. Presenting the result of recent research that demonstrates vPE router technology capable of throughputs of 20Gbps per CPU core.

Paul Carter, Director of Customer Services, Metaswitch



THURSDAY 2 APRIL AFTERNOON CONFERENCE DAY TWO TRACK 2


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MORNING CHAIRMANJean-Marc Uzé, VP EMEA, Augtera Networks

SMART TELEMETRY/DATA QUALITY SESSION

09.00 How Many Data do we Need to Build a Good Classifier for Network Management?Discussing how we can apply AI techniques to improve IP/MPLS Networks operations and user experience. Applying few-shot learning, meta-learning, and a generative algorithm to different domains of network management;

eNodeB data analysis for quality assurance in mobile network, packet and flow data analysis for Web service identification of encrypted transport connections.

Kohei Shiomoto, Professor, Tokyo City University

09.20 Intent Based AnalyticsTalking about IBA - Intent Based Analytics (smart telemetry) - Analytics that are defined and derived from user intent and used to validate the intended state and are immediately actionable.

This is as opposite to “dump telemetry”, trying to get as much data as possible and then doing nothing with it, since it is too late and lacks context (un-actionable data).

Jeff Tantsura, Head of Networking Strategy, Apstra

09.40 ML/AI to Collect and Correlate Data from your Network and the Internet In order to get a full perspective on one’s network, one must also keep in mind the ‘bigger picture’ of the internet and correlate its big data with the

big data from their own network. Examining the idea behind matching and correlating these data sets and advanced ML/AI techniques that can be used to automate data collection and correlation.

Craig Labovitz, CTO, Deepfield Business Unit, Nokia

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING SESSION10.00 Reinforcement Learning for Telecommunication Network: from Opportunistic Spectrum Access to IoTsIn reinforcement learning, an agent chooses actions in order to maximize the rewards given by a dynamic environment. As the environment is initially unknown, the agent has to interact with it to gather information. Moreover, only the reward of the chosen actions is revealed. That is why the agent

faces the exploration/exploitation dilemma: he has to explore loosely estimated actions in order to build a better estimate, and he would like to maximize his cumulated reward by playing the empirically best actions.

Raphaël Féraud, Research Engineer, Orange Labs


10.50 A Deep Learning System to Accurately Diagnose the Wireline Access NetworksDiscussing deep learning developments to offer an accurate, proactive and network-wide solution to troubleshoot the wireline access networks. Indeed, thanks to various innovative aspects, the system “learns” the key patterns of

defects from routine measurements of the line and pro-acti-vely suggests the cause of the impairment to the technician.

Nicolas Dupuis, Senior Machine Learning Scientist, AI Strategy and Innovation Lead, DMTS, Nokia

11.10 Deployment Scenarios to Augment Network Operations with AIAddressing deployment challenges that are facing customers when exploring and implementing AI-based solutions for they operations, as well as

appropriate approaches. Introducing various options as experienced with customers in the last 18 months in order to better anticipate future deployments.

Prof. Mérouane Debbah, IEEE Fellow, CentraleSupélec, Huawei

11.30 Increasing Network and Service Automation with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Presenting the ZSM architecture and the services it provides to enable and use Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to achieve secure, end-to-end, cross-domain service orchestration and automation.

Nurit Sprecher, ETSI ZSM ISG WG Vice-Chair,

11.50 PANEL

AIOps: How to Start

MODERATORAmy Cameron, Senior Analyst, STL Partners

12.30 Seated Lunch


THURSDAY 2 APRIL MORNING AI NET DAY TWO TRACK 3• Registration and welcome coffee from 07.30• Start of the Conference 09.00• Exhibition open from 08.00 to 19.00• Seated Lunch: 12.30

AFTERNOON CHAIRMANJean-Marc Uzé, VP EMEA, Augtera Networks

SELF HEALING NETWORKS SESSION

14.00 What is Self Healing Enterprise and how to Become One?Talking about how self-healing enterprise, level of self-healing and how auto-nomous IT enables self-healing.

Business benefits of self-healing are elevated digital user experience, optimization of IT resources, and achieve uninterrupted operations for the enterprises.

Paddy Padmanabhan, Founder & CEO, Appnomic Systems

14.30 Self-healing Networks: Software Defined Transport Network AutomationNetwork resources can be efficiently used by steering traffic to meet low latency, high bandwidth and resilience requirements. Highlighting the tenets

of Software Defined Transport Network Automation enabling:• Service-oriented transport provisioning• Intent-driven real-time transport network optimization

Ranga Maddipudi, Product Line Manager, Cisco


15.30 Intent-based Intelligence: Systematic Self-healing NetworkTo support service agility, the network must evolve from a static resource system to a flexible and dynamic system that can meet business objectives. With the global network status control, a closed-loop network can be

automatically built and maintained based on human service intentions to implement intelligent and systematic self-healing networks.

Hu Jun Jie, Chief of Transport Network Marketing Dept., ZTE Corporation

16.00 AI Chips and Intelligent Lossless AlgorithmsEnabling zero packet loss on the Ethernet, unleashing the full computing potential of AI, and realizing the integration of computation, storage, and communication on DCNs:• Congestion-caused packet loss on traditional Ethernet becoming the

bottleneck for improving computing power in the AI era: a packet loss rate of 0.1% resulting in a decrease of 50% in computing power

• AI-based intelligent plane for DCNs, realizing zero packet loss

Xiaofeng Yang, Data Center Network Senior Architect, Huawei



THURSDAY 2 APRIL AFTERNOON AI NET DAY TWO TRACK 3


CHAIRMANAmir Zmora, CEO & Co-founder, flexiWAN

AUTOMATION SESSION

09.00 How Inter-domain Orchestration Can Save the DayDescribing how a hierarchy of domain-specific orchestrators from multiple vendors can make service providers’ and enterprises’ lives easier.

Carsten Rossenhoevel, Managing Director, EANTC

09.20 Latest Progress of the IETF YANG Model and Use CaseIETF YANG model progress (southbound model, northbound model, and mechanism model). Smooth evolution solution for the live network.LxNM used as an example to describe how to map services to resources

and manage cross-domain resources.Relationship between the composite VPN and the LxNM model and application scenarios of the composite VPN.

Qin Wu, Technology Architect, Huawei

09.40 Experience from Ongoing Automation ProjectsAll companies are eager to have continuously deployed and self-healing networks. But how move from our fully-manual managed networks to it ? Presenting an overview on some organizations progress.

Gregory Cauchie, CTO, Italtel

10.00 Network Automation: The Hype vs. RealityDiscussing the critical role that network teams play in automation. Explaining why the current promise (or “hype”) of network automation is centered

around closed-loop automation (a combination of telemetry, analytics, and orchestration) to drive concepts like intent-based networking and run self-healing and scaling networks.

Jonah Kowall, CTO, Kentik

10.20 Automating Operational Network Changes with AIAI can be used to detect network misbehavior, changes in network operational state and determine troubleshooting, remediation and optimiza

tion changes. While several of these network operational changes may initially serve as recommendations to operators, some of them lend themselves well to automation in near term.

Rahul Aggarwal, Founder & CEO, Augtera Networks


11.10 Overview of Configuration Management Tools for Network EngineerConfiguration Management tools are a necessary part of the portfolio for Net/Dev/Ops Engineer. Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt, where should I start? Should

it be agent-based or agent-less? Helping network engineers to become familiar with trending solutions available and providing pros/cons for most popular ones.

Mikhail Korshunov, Technical Markering Engineer, Cisco

11.30 Operationalising Model-Driven NetworksAssuming the theory on model-based programming is known and hence

going beyond the theory and covering experiences with operationalizing model-driven networks with a focus on change-control, telemetry and closed loop automation.

James Cumming, Senior Product Line Manager, Nokia

11.50 Automated IP Network Management throughout the LifecycleLatest development of southbound and northbound models for network slice management.Planning, deployment, SLA visualization, and SLA assurance for network slices.Intelligent O&M and improved reliability for DCNs through technologies such as telemetry and machine learning.

Rapid detection, locating, and rectification of 75 types of typical DCN faults for improved network reliability.

Ouyang Qi, Senior Marketing Engineer and Chief Test Architect, Huawei

12.10 End of Conference Day Three Track 1

12.30 Seated Buffet

15.00 End of the Exhibition


FRIDAY 3 APRIL CONFERENCE DAY THREE TRACK 1• Registration and welcome coffee from 07.30• Start of the Conference 09.00• Exhibition open from 08.00 to 15.00• End of the Conference: 12.10• Seated Buffet: 12.30

CHAIRMANAndy Malis, Distinguished Fellow, BroadBand Forum

IP OPTICAL INTEGRATION SESSION09.00 Rethink your Network : The Intersection of Optical and RoutingDiscussing key advances in digital coherent optics technology, routing

architectures and network programmability that are destined to intersect in a way that will disrupt how networks are built and operated. Exploring the implication of these innovations on different network topologies and reaches.

Emerson Moura, Distinguished Systems Engineer, Cisco

09.20 IP Optical Networking 2.0Showing how the SDN- based solutions have matured to the point where IP/optical integration is achievable in multi- vendor environments. This new

SDN multi-layer coordination capability allows to introduce a future mode of operation that unlocks various cost synergies by leveraging an integrated IP/optical aggregation architec-ture with multi-layer protection and restoration.

Yannick Chauvel, Senior Consulting Engineer, Nokia

09.40 Building the 400G Internet on Merchant Silicon and Open, Coherent Optical TechnologiesExplaining how the 400G and 800G transitions will manifest first in the DC and short haul interconnect build-outs, and then extend to 100-1000km and

beyond, all based on next generation digital coherent optical technology.

Andy Bechtolsheim, Founder, Chief Development Officer and Chairman, Arista Networks


10.30 Traffic Engineering of the Core IP/MPLS in a National Research NetworkRNP, as a Brazilian National Research and Education Network (NREN),

has a responsibility to provide an IP, MPLS and optical infrastructure for education and research that benefits high-performance Internet access to an academic community: benefits, solutions and challenges.

Aluízio Hazin, IP Network Specialist, RNP

EVPN SESSION10.50 Network Service Fabric Eco-system

In SP land, EVPN provides the best answer to sponsor Network Service Fabric Eco-system. Going over that eco-system, how it is built and how services are designed.

Patrice Brissette, Principal Engineer, Cisco

11.10 EVPN-VXLAN Edge Routed DC ArchitecturesExplaining when and why to consider an edge routed versus centrally routed DC fabric architecture, packet walk the control-plane and data plane

(intra-vni vs inter-vni) and explaining how to scale the ethernet virtual ethernet networks in modern enterprise and cloud data center networks.

Michal Styszynski, Technical Marketing Engineer, Juniper Networks

11.30 End of Conference Day Three Track 2

12.30 Seated Buffet

15.00 End of the Exhibition


FRIDAY 3 APRIL CONFERENCE DAY THREE TRACK 2• Registration and welcome coffee from 07.30• Start of the Conference 09.00• Exhibition open from 08.00 to 15.00• End of the Conference: 11.30• Seated Buffet: 12.30

Level 0101 HUAWEI102 JUNIPER NETWORKS103 NOKIA104 CIENA105 128 TECHNOLOGY106 COMARCH201 ERICSSON202 AETHRA203 INFINERA204 KENTIK

205 EKINOPS206 VELOCLOUD, Now Part of VMware207 TAIL-F208 ZTE209 METASWITCH210 ARISTA211 OSI HARDWARE212 IXIA301 RAD302 NETROUNDS

303 INMANTA304 ARRCUS305 LANNER ELECTRONICS306 SPIRENT307 ENEA308 NOVIFLOW309 DRIVENETS310 DELTA ELECTRONICS311 CISCO401 ADVA402 NETCRACKER

403 VERSA NETWORKSTT1 FRINX

Level -1501 AUGTERA NETWORKS502 ADVANTECH503 QNAP504 NETSCOUT

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The Multi-Vendor Interoperability Test The European Advanced Networking Test Center and Upperside Conferences invites all interested vendors to join our public multi-vendor interoperability test and showcase at the MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress 2020.

The conference is the meeting point for everybody in the networking industry, bringing together +1,600 experts from all over the world.

EANTC's multi-vendor interoperability showcase is a well established event beneficial for small and large vendors alike. EANTC as an independent party creates an ecosystem to conduct testing in the most advanced application scenarios addressing service providers’ needs.

We will exhibit a tangible, lab-validated network showcasing mature as well as the latest advances in different technology areas. To address the constantly changing requirements in the industry we propose to integrate new technologies with the SDN-based packet transport network, such as 400GE, 60GHz Microwave, and optical/packet based network orches-tration. We suggest to align the multi-vendor SDN tests with the following topics:

• 5G network evolution• Deeper integration of different transport domains• Data center connectivity and data center interconnection• Network automation and orchestration• Transport security and clock• Synchronization• Virtualized edge and access routing• Data transport technologies

More information: http://www.eantc.de/showcases/2020/mpls.html

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ADVA OPTICALARISTA NETWORKSBISDNCALNEX SOLUTIONSCISCO

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