About the talk:
 

There are two primary components to ISP core network costs. These are the transport network costs and the IP network costs. There is a tendency in industry and academia to consider either of the two in isolation rather than considering the two together. Taking into consideration the total network costs rather than considering each in isolation significantly impacts transport network requirements and IP network architectures. Total network costs are examined using today's technologies over a range of demands from somewhat smaller than most of the US national IP providers and carriers to a scale that represents 5 years or more in the future assuming growth rates of 100% per year. Cost considerations may dictate changes in IP network topology with significant cost savings which in turn have impact on transport requirements. Interface granularity (10 Gb/s, 40 Gb/s, 100 Gb/s) impacts these topology changes and impacts the relative cost effectiveness of IP/MPLS vs transport based restoration techniques. Briefly discussed are potential evolution of the IP and transport topologies enabled by changes in network equipment.

 

About the speaker:
 

Drew Perkins co-founded and serves as CTO for Infinera. Previously, Mr. Perkins was a founder of and served as the CTO for both OnFiber Communications and Lightera Networks. OnFiber developed some of the world's largest metro DWDM networks and recently merged with Qwest Communications. Lightera developed the CoreDirector optical switch and merged with ciena. The CoreDirector is currently deployed at many of the world's tier 1 carriers. Mr. Perkins has also served as Vice Chairman of the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) Technical Committee from its inception through its first year of operation. Mr. Perkins was the principal architect of several TCP/IP, ATM, Ethernet hardware and software products and protocols at FORE Systems, Inc. Throughout his career, Mr. Perkins has participated extensively in standards bodies including the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), IEEE, ATM Forum, OIF and ANSI. Mr. Perkins has 25 years of industry involvement and is well known for authoring the PPP Protocol. Drew earned a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1986.