Session 1: Carrier-Ethernet Design Trends

Bob Wheeler, senior analyst at The Linley Group, presented an overview of market, technology, equipment-design, and silicon trends for designers of Carrier-Ethernet equipment.

Session 2: Applying Emerging Protocols to Carrier Ethernet

This session, moderated by Jag Bolaria, senior analyst at The Linley Group, discussed new and emerging Carrier Ethernet standards and leading-edge implementation examples.

Building Robust MACsec Security into Layer 2 Networking Devices
   Bart Stevens, Director of Product Management, SafeNet

With the adoption of high-speed Ethernet LAN and MAN networks, the growth of data centers and cloud computing, as well as the migration from 10G to 40G and eventually 100G in carrier networks, the need has increased for security solutions that support high-performance, low latency, and simple key management functions, while also addressing compliance requirements. In this talk, SafeNet provided background information on MACsec security technology and address best practices for integrating MACsec into networking equipment, chips, and software. By providing actual examples of MACsec integration in PHYs and switch ASICs, system builders can learn how to select between several architectures and easily add MACsec to existing switch fabrics.

Bounding End-to-End Rate and Delay Jitter
   Raghu Kondapalli, Sr Director of Technology, AppliedMicro

Given the prevalence of real time over-the-top types of services, bounding end-to-end information rate and delay jitter helps improve the quality of experience/service tremendously. Carrier network elements need to transition to an adaptive, reliable, and end-to-end QoS architecture for these services to succeed. In this talk, AppliedMicro discussed new standards such as the 802.1Qat Stream Reservation Protocol and the 802.1Qav Forwarding and Queuing Enhancements for time-sensitive stream pacing. The presentation showed how these standards can be combined with priority- or flow-based congestion control schemes to reduce jitter in carrier networks.

Session 3: The New Packet Transport Network

This session, moderated by Bob Wheeler, examined how Carrier Ethernet can replace legacy transport networks while preserving services.

Challenges in the Migration to Packet Transport Networks
   Liviu Pinchas, Director of Systems Architecture, Wintegra

In this talk, Wintegra discussed the migration from SONET transport to Packet Transport Networks (PTN). In particular, the presentation discussed challenges related to synchronization over packet and OAM. The presentation was centered on the implementation of these functions on Wintegra's new WinPath3 family of network processors.

Support of Legacy TDM Traffic in a Packet-Based Fabric
    Gary Lee, Director of Product Marketing, Fulcrum Microsystems

Time Domain Multiplexed (TDM) frames such as SONET/SDH and OTN have been the medium used to carry critical time sensitive data, providing both guaranteed bandwidth and loss-free delivery. Today, both the nature of the services carried by these networks and the networks themselves are changing. The majority of new services and applications are now packet oriented and delivered using Ethernet frames over packet switched networks, but these networks must evolve to carry legacy TDM services. The objective of this presentation is to show how 10GbE switch solutions can be employed to support both TDM and packet based services with no loss and with guaranteed bandwidth to provide a very cost effective solution.

Session 4: 100Gbps Packet Processing and Switching

This session, moderated by Bob Wheeler, revealed the newest products and solutions for 100Gbps and above line cards including those for 100G Ethernet.

EZchip NP-4: One Hundred Gigabit and Beyond
   Patrick Bisson, VP Technology Applications, EZchip

In this talk, EZchip made its first public presentation of technical details of its NP-4 100Gbps network processor. In addition to describing the device, EZchip highlighted several application examples.

Service Density for Carrier Ethernet Beyond 2010
   Thomas Eklund, VP Marketing and Business Development, Xelerated

This presentation discussed design requirements for next-generation Carrier Ethernet platforms. Service providers' desire to unify broadband and mobile backhaul pushes the need for increased service density. The platforms must provide processing of 100-400Gbps per line card, 40GbE and 100GbE, and include hierarchical TM with ingress and egress buffering to support dense service edge features. Details of the HX family of NPUs for the Carrier Ethernet market were presented for the first time. This new 100Gbps NPU family implements a "line-card-on-a-chip" with integrated traffic management, Ethernet PHYs and MACs, TCAM, and Xelerated's unique dataflow architecture for wirespeed performance.

Carrier Ethernet Technologies in Optical Transport
   Lars A. Pedersen, CTO, TPACK

Ethernet is continuing its inroad into carriers' networks as a service layer, a networking layer, or simply as a link-layer technology. Two important developments are taking place this year: one is the final ratification of the 40Gbps and 100Gbps Ethernet standards in IEEE, the other is a new version of ITU's G.709 recommendation on interfaces to DWDM networks which brings new features in support of packet-based services. In this presentation, TPACK explained how SOFTSILICON approaches can be used to address the challenges of 100Gbps packet switching and establishment of transparent Ethernet connections over Nx10/40/100Gbps DWDM networks.

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