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NETWORK AND TELECOM STRATEGIES TRACK 2005
Wednesday July 13, 2005
Thursday July 14, 2005
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Enterprise Networks: The Evolution Continues
Mobile communications and the convergence of the
voice and data networks continue to be top of
mind for many enterprises. In addition, enterprises
are using the Internet as the corporate WAN, often
implementing multi-carrier WANs, all of which
brings new design and management challenges. And
while new technologies create headlines, running
real networks also requires adaptive organizations
and new processes that reflect the shift towards
service delivery.
The Network and Telecom Strategies (NTS) track
at Catalyst Conference 2005 will continue Burton
Group's industry-leading investigation into enterprise
network infrastructure, and its on-going evolution.
We'll explain why a scalable, intelligent infrastructure
is critical to business success, and how to build
and deploy one to meet current and future needs.
Hear the latest design considerations, the impact
of new and future technologies, and get practical
how-to tips on easing the implementation of IP
communications and quality of service. We'll focus
on advanced networking techniques, showing you
how to implement new technologies without compromising
security or disrupting operations. We will also
discuss the "business of networking"
and how network organizations need to evolve to
meet the challenge of delivering services instead
of just technology. We'll put all of these issues
into a strategic perspective, discussing how you
can implement these technologies and meet your
business needs.
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Network and Telecom Strategies
Track - Wednesday July 13,
2005
WAN Services: Putting the Pieces Together
During the past few years, the network and telecom
industry has undergone a significant transition.
New techniques, capabilities, and services have
emerged. Innovation has continued to flow unabated
through the network technology pipeline, creating
an often-confusing network landscape. With increasing
reliance on the public Internet for enterprise
network transport, issues such as routing, security,
performance management, and remote communications
have become paramount for today's network managers.
During the first half of the first day, we'll
focus on the technologies, products, and services
necessary to establish, maintain, and grow wide
area network communications. We'll examine how
to use the public Internet as the corporate WAN,
manage multi-carrier networks, provide high availability,
and manage remote connectivity.
As we cover these and other topics, you'll gain
a better understanding of the challenges you'll
face as you link employees, customers, and suppliers
across the WAN.
Topics include:
- Interconnecting multiple carrier
services
- Using multiple carrier services
- Concatenating carrier services
to extend geographic coverage
- How to achieve high availability
and performance
- Third-party solutions vs. enterprise
interconnection arrangements
- Impact of routing protocols
- Internet transit QoS guarantees
(or not)
- Internet peering relationships
and their enterprise impact
- Overlay VPN services
- How providers can relieve the
remote access management burden
- Applicability to SOHO and remote
branch environments
Wireless and Mobility: Beyond Wireless
LANs
While 802.11-based wireless LANs has garnered
most of the attention, other important mobile
and wireless technologies will affect the enterprise
in equally significant ways. Mobile carriers have
continued the slow, inexorable deployment of 3G
technologies, for example, progressing beyond
dial-up speeds to higher-speed technologies such
as Evolution Data Optimized (EV-DO) and Universal
Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). Radio
Frequency Identification (RFID) is now of interest
to more than just the retail industry, and could
radically change the symmetry of network data
flows. Mobile devices continue to mature and now
have more capabilities than ever.
During the second half of the first day, we'll
focus on mobile communications, looking at the
technologies, products, and services that will
have an impact on the network infrastructure.
We'll look at mobile services and ways to move
between cellular, WLANs, and wired connections
while maintaining session state. We'll also look
at RFID and describe its potential impact on the
enterprise network. We'll look at the new mobile
devices and discuss how these may eventually become
"the new PC."
As we cover these and other topics, you'll gain
a better understanding of the challenges you'll
face as your employees "go mobile" and
RFID invades the enterprise.
Topics include:
- Multiple Input/Multiple Output
antennas (MIMO)
- Radio resource management
- Roaming between mobile connections
- RFID technologies
- Mobile data services
- GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA
- 1xRTT, EV-DO
- Mobile device capabilities
- Managing mobile devices
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Network and Telecom
Strategies Track - Thursday
July 14, 2005
Management and Operations: Running the
New Network
While they are often lost in the hype that surrounds
new technologies, network management and operations
often determine whether network rollouts succeed
or fail. Consequently, operations and management
must keep pace as network services evolve. Where
management was once focused on physical network
elements, for example, logical elements such as
transactions and voice calls are becoming equally
important, so enterprises must manage them accordingly.
Simply put, managing network service delivery
will become more important than managing network
technologies on the "new" network. Techniques
for measuring Web transactions, Web services,
and Voice over IP (VoIP) calls will replace techniques
for measuring the performance of individual network
elements.
The first half of day two will focus on the technologies,
products, and organizational issues that will
change how enterprises operate and maintain networks.
We'll talk about performance management and how
to ensure high-quality voice services. Given the
rise of Web services and a new generation of applications,
we'll focus on management systems that help pinpoint
the actual cause of an application performance
problem in a complex environment. We'll also discuss
the new network organization and how it must make
the transition from a technology department to
a service organization.
As we cover these and other topics, you'll gain
a better understanding of the challenges you'll
face as your network and its supporting organization
evolves along with the enterprise application
portfolio.
Topics include:
- The evolving network organization
- How to integrate voice and
data personnel
- What happens when network security
is separated from network operations
- How to manage network performance
for Voice over IP
- Quality of Service measurements
- IP address management products
and techniques
- Root-cause analysis
- Locating the real problem when
an application fails
Voice and Real-Time Collaboration: The
Future of Communications
Deploying IP telephony creates both significant
challenges and opportunities. On one hand, operational
concerns such as security and performance management
create challenges that enterprise network architects
must address. On the other hand, however, the
ability to leverage new and emerging public services
may lead to more capabilities at a lower cost.
And the introduction of open-source solutions
for IP telephony call management may provide additional
cost savings.
In short, the convergence of voice, video, instant
messaging, and presence will radically change
the way individuals communicate, both within and
between organizations. The second half of day
two will go beyond the basics of IP telephony
and examine the issues involved in managing IP
telephony services. We'll explore how enterprises
can bypass the public switched telephone network
(PSTN), using public WANs to inter-connect IP
telephony networks from multiple enterprises.
We'll also discuss open source alternatives to
commercially available systems, and the emergence
of the converged communications client.
As we cover these and other topics, you'll gain
a better understanding of how you can leverage
IP telephony in your organization.
Topics include:
- IP telephony security:
Present and future challenges
- Convergence of real-time communications
systems and presence
- Integration of voice with collaborative
applications
- Public IP telephony services
- present and future
- VoIP system interconnectivity
and the role of the PSTN
- Open source solutions for IP
telephony
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