MPLS & ETHERNET WORLD CONGRESS 2009

The Congress owes much of its success to the interoperability platform. The major manufacturers all participate in this platform showcasing service and product interoperability.

The European Advanced Networking Test Center in collaboration with Upper Side will invite industrials to a multi-vendor MPLS & Ethernet interoperability test in January 2009.

The EANTC will evaluate state of the art MPLS & Ethernet architectures and applications in a detailed technical hot-staging.

The test results will be demonstrated in a public showcase during the MPLS & Ethernet World Congress 2009. Service providers will support the preparation of the test plan and participate in the hot-staging and public event.

Participation is open to all vendors of MPLS
routers and switches, traffic emulators and analyzers, provisioning and fault management vendors.

During the 2008 edition , EANTC and the participating vendors showcased a complete mobile backhaul transport network supporting MEF and IP/MPLS Forum defined services.

The interop platform demonstrated device's capabilities in constructing mobile backhaul networks and the ability to interoperate with other leading vendors in the industry.

Mobile application vendors (3GPP, 4G, WiMax) attached their equipment to the backhaul network to demonstrate service interoperability and to enable mobile application demonstrations at the public showcases.

The 10th annual MPLS & Ethernet World Congress attracted more than 1,000 delegates for the first time ever last year. This unprecedented attendance record bears out that MPLS World and the Carrier Ethernet Workshop is THE major rendezvous for the industry worldwide. The organizers of MPLS & Ethernet World 2009 anticipate an increase in attendance of 20% compared to 2008.

Because each year the Congress brings together the most renowned engineers in the industry, their live debate with operators provides for a rich source of information to the hundreds delegates in the audience.

The 2009 agenda will pay particular attention this year to Ethernet and MPLS Transport standards and mechanisms. Video transport, services and mobile backhaul will also be covered in detail.

The proposals have been analyzed and categorized according to their degree of pertinence by the members of the scientific committee.

Upper Side would again like to thank the members of the committee for their commitment and support.

This year, the traditional debate will address access and transport, two of the main issues for both MPLS and Carrier Ethernet infrastructures. As each year, the panel will propose a fruitful confrontation between equipment vendors and service providers.

The third edition of the Carrier Ethernet Workshop will discuss technological and implementation detailed issues in parallel with the traditional MPLS Tutorial addressed by the MFA. The workshop will be addressed by the MEF ambassadors for the standardization process review. Other sessions will welcome vendors for business models and solutions descriptions and carriers for deployment reports.