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