Donald Eastlake	IETF TRILL Working Group Chair
Paul Unbehagen	Alcatel-Lucent Distinguished Engineer
Uri Cummings	Fulcrum Microsystems
Dinesh G Dutt	Cisco Systems
Moderator:
Paul Congdon	CTO	HP ProCurve

Packet Optical Transport Network is the solution for the fast growing packet traffic being carried on the traditional TDM-based SONET/SDH network. It merges packet routing/switching, wavelength switching, and connection-oriented Ethernet functionalities onto a single device. It allows the convergence of the Layer 1, 2 and 3 networks in order to reduce network costs, and provide more flexible services across the carrier networks. This panel will discuss the driver and benefits of the P-OTP as well as the challenges of the technology from router equipment vendor, transport equipment vendor, and service provider�s perspective.

Enrique Hernandez	Director of Tech. & Standards/Bell Lab Fellow	Alcatel-Lucent
Raghu Ranganathan	Network Architect	Ciena
Mauro Macchi	Sr. Product Line Manager	Juniper Networks
Rick Schell	Sr. Engineer	Verizon Inc.
Moderator:
Ning So	Advisory Engineer	Verizon Inc.

The path towards profitable operation of networks today is paved with emerging premium services with strict requirements to bandwidth, delay, packet loss and resilience. Examples are IPTV, Video on Demand (VoD), Videoconferencing and telemedicine. They all use IP on the packet layer, but they demand reliable underlying transport networks for proper Quality of Experience (QoE). In a telemedicine video streaming application, where a doctor with special expertise remotely acts as second opinion, multi layer resilience is obviously required. In addition, such a service has strict delay bounds, which demands fast recovery or protection switching. Other services like IPTV require multicast transport, and the ability to quickly identify and isolate a faulty situation in a complex multicast architecture can make the difference between profitable or non-profitable operation. The demand for high quality reliable services further increases the complexity when the range of the services extends the local network and multi-domain issues arise. Hence, standardized connection monitoring is required to proactively avoid most errors and to react swiftly to the remaining. Therefore Telecom carriers have spent more than 10 years developing a Next Generation Network concept that will allow them to replace the classical transport network to provide high quality packet transfer. Carrier Ethernet technologies address these challenges by adding transport functionalities including resilience to an MPLS like network architecture.

This tutorial provides a thorough introduction to the Carrier Ethernet technology. In particular, we focus on MPLS-TP and PBB-TE and related Operation, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) functions. Furthermore, we address how Carrier Ethernet technologies can be used in the transport network to provide resilience to the packet layer. Explicit focus is on the multicast situation, where the signalling to identify faults is described. The standards covering the field are presented, and ongoing efforts in different standardization bodies are detailed. Finally, we present illustrative examples and best practises of how Carrier Ethernet can be applied for resilient IPTV transport.

Accompanied with rapidly growing real-time traffic in the Internet, the policy-based routing which can provide variable levels of quality of services becomes more important. For Internet routers to provide different service qualities for each flow, packet classification is an essential prerequisite. Packet classification classifies an incoming packet based on predefined rules so that the packet can be provided with the service defined for the class to which it belongs. In this tutorial, efficient algorithmic approaches for packet classification are comparatively studied. Packet classification algorithms can be classified into different categories depending on their principles: algorithms based on hierarchical approach, algorithms based on range cutting, and algorithms based on individual field search. Using a consistent set of example data, a set of different algorithms is explained in each category with respects to their data structures, characteristics, and performances. Performance of each algorithm is evaluated using pre-defined metrics such as search speed, memory requirement, and table update. Simulation results will be shown for the well known rule database with the sizes of 1000 and 5000 rules created from Classbench. Suggestions are made for the choice of algorithms depending on the number of rules, rule statistics, or implementation flexibility, etc.

Donald Eastlake is Chief Technology Officer for Stellar Switches, Inc., and before that was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Motorola. He is co-chair of the IETF TRILL Working Group. Donald is an author of about 50 IETF RFCs, including the only RFC with "sex" in its title, editor of the TRILL base protocol specification, and an author of a number of other TRILL related Internet Drafts

Paul Unbehagen is an active member of the IEEE 802.1 WG . He also participates in several IETF WGs to include IS-IS, BGP, L2VPN, and IPVPNs and is currently the author of the IP/SPB IETF draft and has several patents in communication protocols such as IS-IS and BGP.
Previously Paul has worked in numerous diverse networking environments. He has had a diverse background working not only in a vendor but also on live networks at a Tier 1 Service Provider, ASP, U.S. Military as well as a few startups. Paul thus has 14 years of deployment, operational, network design and architectural experience in live networks ranging from Enterprise to Carrier. Paul has a B.S in CIS and a B.S. in BA from NC Wesleyan College.

Uri is the Chief Technology Officer at Fulcrum Microsystems. In January 2000, Uri co-founded Fulcrum with Andrew Lines to commercialize their joint research in high performance VLSI design, becoming the founding president and CEO. In April 2001, Uri recruited Bob Nunn, formerly a division GM at Vitesse Semiconductor, to be Fulcrum�s President and CEO, and Uri focused on product development. He managed the company�s first commercial chip development, a multi-gigabit switch chip, as well as an NRE chip for Intel and numerous other validation chips. He now leads the technology and architecture direction at Fulcrum, and contributes to the roadmap of Fulcrum products.

Before Fulcrum, Uri conducted advanced research both in the areas of optical component design and high performance VLSI design. Uri holds 5 issued US Patents from this work. He has a BA Degree in English from Wesleyan University (�94), and a BS (�94), MS (�95), and Ph.D. (�05) Degrees in Electrical Engineering from Caltech. He can be reached at [email protected].

Key architect of new protocols and technologies specifically focused on data center networks. Co-author and a chief contributor to the emerging IETF standard, TRILL, to provide a superior alternative to the current spanning tree protocol. A chief contributor to Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), congestion notification (IEEE's 802.1qau). Have worked at Cisco since May 1997
Have filed more than 40 patents on various topics from improving spanning tree convergence time to VSANs to new data center technologies, almost half of which have been approved by USPTO.

Paul Congdon is Chief Technologist for HP Networking and an HP Fellow, one of the elite HP employees recognized as pioneers in their fields. He is responsible for specifying, architecting and designing HP Networking infrastructure and software products. In his 25 years in the networking industry, he has become widely esteemed as an inventor and leader in driving networking industry standards.
Congdon is the Vice Chairman of the IEEE 802.1 committee and Technical Advisor for the IETF RADIUS Extensions Working Group, and his long-time activities with the IEEE 802 standards efforts involved him in the creation of the Ethernet LAN. He is co-inventor of the commonly used TCP checksum offloading, a program for accelerating the networking performance of TCP/IP within servers. He also architected the method of distributing HP Networking software onto multiple processors, enabling NP Networking switch software to scale between low-cost, single-chip solutions and high-end, multi-modular chassis systems.
After completing internships with IBM, Congdon joined HP in 1985 as a Software Development Engineer responsible for the creation of networking protocols within HP-UX. He expanded his focus to infrastructure architecture issues and has been involved in the design of a wide range of network devices and technologies, including routers, Layer 2/3/4 switches, iSCSI storage devices, SNA, X.25, FDDI, Ethernet, wireless LANs, virtual LANs, link aggregation and access security protocols, including IEEE 802.1X.
Congdon earned Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, and Master of Science degrees in computer science from California State University, Chico. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of California, Davis. He currently holds ten patents related to the networking industry and has several more in process.

Dr. Enrique Hernandez-Valencia is a Director of Technology and Standards and a Bell Labs Fellow at Alcatel-Lucent. He is responsible for product planning and strategy on converged packet/optical transport platforms. Dr. Hernandez-Valencia has over 20 years of experience in the design and development of high-speed communication systems and networks. He has also been active contributor to standardization activities in the ITU-T, IETF, IEEE and MEF technical activities. He currently serves as editor of the MEF General Architecture Framework (MEF4, the MEF Ethernet Service Layer Architecture (MEF12) specifications and the IETF MPLS-TP OAM Framework.

Dr. Raghu Ranganathan currently serves as Network Architect (Office of CTO) at Ciena Corporation. In his twelve years at Ciena, Dr. Ranganathan has worked on Optical and Carrier Ethernet Network and Service Architecture. He also represents Ciena in MEF with active contribution in Technical and Marketing activities.

Mauro Macchi has recently joined Juniper from Pirelli where he was responsible for PLM and R&D of one of its transport groups that focused on optical components and metro/OTN aggregation platforms. Prior to Pirelli Mauro was working at Cisco as a DWDM system architect, led the Cisco 15454 DWDM project and the CRS-1 IPoDWDM integration. During his tenure Mauro has interacted with many transport groups in major Tier1 service providers in US and EMEA. Mauro will be leading the Sangria transport roadmap and network management solution.

Rick Schell is currently a Senior Engineer in Verizon's Global Ethernet Network Planning & Design team. Rick is the lead Engineer for Converged Packet Architecture which includes EVPL (VPWS), VPLS and Ethernet Access. He has over 29 years experience in the telecom industry holding positions ranging from field technician to Technical Instructor, and various Engineering duties including data support, network provisioning and test automation, and data engineering.

Ning So is the Advisory Engineer at Verizon Inc. He serves as the technical lead of the Global Date Network Traffic Planning team that design, plan, and manage multiple Verizon's global data networks. Ning is a frequent contributor to various international telecommunication standards such as Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and International Telecommunications Union - Telecommunications (ITU-T). Ning has more than 14 patent applications with the US Patent Office.

Michael S. Berger is currently Associate Professor at DTU Fotonik within the area of switching and network node design. In his PhD thesis �Architectures of Electro-Optical Packet Switched Networks�, focus was on network- and node architecture for future packet switched networks. During his PhD study, he participated in the IST project DAVID � a project on network and node architectures for optical packet networks. His main contributions were on concept definition, traffic performance and benchmarking. He has been involved in the IST project ESTA (Ethernet at 10 Gigabit and Above), where he examined node and network architectures for very high speed Ethernet switching. Currently, he is involved in COMANCHE and WP leader in the IST projects GIBON (on 100 Gigabit Ethernet), and he is leading a project on next generation IP networks for IPTV partly funded by the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation. He holds a position as board member of the Danish Telecommunication Society IDA-TTS.

Sarah Ruepp obtained a B. Sc. in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the Engineering College of Copenhagen in 2002, and a M.Sc. in Telecommunications from the Technical University of Denmark in 2004. In 2008, she received a PhD degree on the topic of "Dynamic Protection of Optical Networks" at the Networks Area, DTU Fotonik, Technical University of Denmark. She is currently holding an assistant professor position at the same institution. Her research interests include topics related to designing, controlling and modeling of reliable communication networks. Sarah is currently involved in the HIPT project on reliable Carrier Ethernet transport and she is leading the project �The Road to 100 Gigabit Ethernet�, both funded by the Danish Advanced Technology Foundation.

After completing the Master degree, Henrik Wessing worked as research assistant in the Networking Competence Area at Research Center COM (now DTU Fotonik), and in 2001 he began to pursuit his PhD studies on electronic control of optical infrastructures and components. In this project, controlelectronics for controlling devices and network architectures were specified and implemented in FPGAs. In the European IST project DAVID he participated in the development of the experimental demonstrator and, as WP leader in the IST-MUPBED, he coordinated the activities integrating applications with the optical infrastructure. In addition he developed FPGA based control electronics for controlling 10 Gigabit links for a major industrial partner. After completing his Ph.D., Henrik Wessing continued at COM�DTU, now DTU Fotonik, with responsibility for the coordination, maintenance and development of research activities related to the experimental platform. Currently he is also involved in the European ICT project ALPHA coordinating the DTU activities and in the HIPT project as WP leader for demonstration activities.

Hyesook Lim received the B.S. and the M.S. degrees at the Department of Control and Instrumentation Engineering of Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1986 and 1991, respectively. She got the Ph.D. degree at the Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, in 1996. From 1996 to 2000, she had worked as a member of technical staff at Bell Labs in Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ. From 2000 to 2002, she had worked as a hardware engineer for Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA. She is currently an associate professor at the Department of Electronics Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea. Her research interests are router design issues such as IP address lookup, packet classification, and deep packet inspection, and hardware implementation of various network protocols such as TCP/IP and Mobile IPv6.