The phenomenal pace of development associated with the Internet has greatly accelerated technological developments in ICT, and at the same time, brought about major shifts in user profiles and traffic trends, radically changing the notion of telecom networks and services. Today, traditional telecom networks and the Internet find themselves at a crossroads. While the Internet provides a superb platform for service innovation, it continues to be plagued by several potential risks, not the least of which is the lack of basic network security, lack of service control by carriers, resource plundering, and parasitic service networks. The telecom industry now finds itself in the position of having to protect its future – seeking technological breakthroughs and defining new directions. Network integration and service integration are inevitable, with both telecom networks and the Internet integrating in the form of the next-generation all-IP network.

Day Two is devoted to exploring next-generation networks, including key ICT trends, IP technologies and architectures, IP service offerings, convergence, broadband applications, and optical networking. Attending Day Two will provide you with a blueprint to understanding the emerging telecom infrastructure, based on all-IP next-generation networks, embracing multimedia and video applications, and relying on the bandwidth abundance of optical networking.

Understanding the Broadband Revolution

• ICT Today – Trends and Drivers
• Embedded Devices
• Intelligent Wearables
• Man-machine Interactions
• Grid Computing
• Realtime Communications

Internet and IP Infrastructures

• Internet Basics
• TCP/IP
• Internet Addressing and Address Resolution
• The Organization of the Internet
• IP QoS
• What’s Next on the Internet
• Web 2.0, Web 3.0, P2P Technologies

IP Services

• The Evolution to IP Services
• IP Telephony, VoIP
• Unified Communications
• Virtual Private Networks
• IPTV
• Future Communications Services Markets
• Triple-play, Quadruple-play and Multi-play Services

Next-generation Networks

• The Broadband Evolution
• Multimedia Networking
• Digital Video
• TV Standards
• Convergence and Broadband Service Requirements
• IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)
• The Multiservice Edge
• Quality of Service
• MPLS Architectures
• Convergence and Broadband Service Requirements

Optical Networking

• Optical Networking Today and Tomorrow
• Optical Networking Elements
• The Optical Edge
• The Optical Core
• Optical Networking Models
• The IP + Optical Control Pane
• Migration to Optical Networking