ATM & SDH/SONET
Today and Beyond 2000
Course Outline


The Business Issues

1.           Broadband Business Drivers
·        Business applications that DEMAND Broadband
·        Customer “pleasing” services
·        Business essentials 101 – Global Speed
2.           Network Strategic Planning = Post Y2K
·        Understanding the difference between Tactics and Strategy
3.           The Need For Multi-Protocol Support
 
4.           Profiting From The ALL-IN-ONE Global Network
 
5.           “Where Zero Meets Infinity”
·        Negligible Cost For Virtually Limitless Bandwidth
·        Gerry Butters President Of Lucent Optical Networking Group
6.           More Speed – Least Cost
·        Billing Systems that cost more than they Bill?
·        Will customers accept variable cost billing
·        How will Operating Support Systems need to change?
·        Can A Telecom Manager Live with a budget they cannot control
·        Fixed price billing – Making it easy for the customer
7.           ATM The Common Glue
·        The customer still is looking for a “cloud” with a standardized access
·        Is ATM this standardized access
·        LAN Emulation
8.           Are You Ready for the Real Telecommunications Revolution
·        Electrons gives way to Photonics

Technology

9.           Why Telecommunications R/Evolution outperforms Computers
 
10.       Understanding Layered Protocols
·        The ISO Seven Layer Model – Your Key to the understanding
·        Physical Layer
·        Link Layer
·        Network Layer
·        Transport Layer
·        Session Layer
·        Presentation Layer
·        Application Layer
11.             De-Facto Network Architecture – 7 Layers in The Real World
·        TCP/IP
·        ATM
·        SDH
12.       Fiber Optics
·        173 Terabits Tomorrow’s unbelievable facts – delivered Today
·        Why a generation of Photonics is measured in Months
·        Bell-Labs The Laser and Dense Wave Division Multiplexing
13.       ATM Overview
·        From Packet Switching to Frame Relay – The technology drivers
·        A view of X.25 layer 2 – the ubiquitous HTML
·        Why HTML limits speed
·        Fixed Length Packets = Cells
·        ATM Physical Layer
·        ATM Link Layer
14.       Is ATM Perfect?
 
15.       ATM Alternatives
 
16.       ATM’s Many Faces
·        Interface
·        Protocol
·        Transport
·        Switching
·        Technology
·        Service
17.       SDH The Complete Picture
·        Understanding SONET and SDH
·        BELLCORE’s Vision
·        Using The 7 Layers for comprehension
·        SDH Physical Layer
·        SDH Link Layer
·        SDH Network Layer
·        SDH Transport Layer
·        SDH Session Layer
·        SDH Presentation Layer
·        SDH Application Layer
18.       The ALL Optical Cross connect
 
 19.       BISDN- A unifying Architecture
 
20.       One Picture Reveals Many Pieces
 
21.       ATM And The Internet
 
22.       ATM And Internetworking
 
23.       IPV6 And ATM
 
24.       LAN Emmulation
 
25.       SNA on ATM
 
26.       IP Voice on  ATM?
 
27.       Do we need IP on ATM?
 
28.       Isn’t TCP the Glue – TCP/IP aren’t married just sleeping together

Applications

29.       Moving The Application Layer Intelligence Out Of The Switches
·        Advantages Of A Stupid Network
·        Why Duplicate Intelligence If It Already Exists At The Ends?
·        TCP/IP – The Ultimate Example Of A Stupid Network
30.       XML The New Presentation Layer
 
31.       WANs And LANs
 
32.       Technologies Competing With ATM
 
33.       The Rise Of The Stupid Network
 
34.       E-Commerce = E-Business
 
35.       Security – Firewalls, Proxies, and VPN
 
36.       Enterprise-Wide Collaboration

Network Management

37.       Managing a Terabit Office
 
38.       Traffic Management
 
39.       Congestion Control
 
40.       Configuration
 
41.       Integrated Bandwidth Manager

Future

42.       Future Trends and Directions
·        Business
·        Regulatory
·        Technical