May 25 2010
The media company of UBM TechWeb, Light Reading, has hosted the second conference on Packet-Optical Transport Evolution in partnership with its market research unit, Heavy Reading. The conference was held on May 19, 2010, in New York. The presentation by Sterling Perrin, a senior analyst at Heavy Reading, was attended by about 200 attendees, more than half of them being operators and service providers.
The conference also featured speeches of experts from companies such as Covad, Level3, RCN Metro, Verizon Business, Google, NYSE Euronext, Telus and Reliance Globalcom. Other highlights of the conference were debates, roundtables and panel sessions on the significance of optical network and its role in the success of operators in the advanced network world. A workshop on 100G was conducted at the conference by OIF, featuring AT&T Labs’ presentation.
Perrin commented that the remarkable interest on the Packet-Optical Transport Evolution conference this year from the operators calls for innovation in the industry and the operators demand standardized 100G technology and higher automation in the network to minimize operational costs and manual intervention. He added that the network operators also ask for a network transmission path that does not hinder the legacy services to customers and an integrated control plane to operate between optical and packet layers. Perrin said that they also came to know about the operator’s requirement for a packet-optical innovation that helps to save on opex as well as capex and provide the capacity needed for future services.
Following the success of this conference, Light Reading and Heavy Reading will host a virtual event on Packet-Optical Transport Evolution on July 13, 2010. The event will feature discussions on the role of optical networks in an advanced world of networks. It will also feature keynote speakers, live Q&A, virtual lounge, panel sessions, video presentations and exhibitor booths.