Message from the Chairs: International Workshop on Optical Networks Control and Management

Abstract

This document outlines considerations for addressing the availability, and hence profitability, of operator networks. Resiliency strategies constitute important factors for attaining high availability: two classes of strategies are compared, namely "pro-active" and "re-active", both of which carrying their characteristic merits and associated costs. An emerging mechanism such as "1+1 packet protection" can effectively help the network operator manage the complexity of its resiliency problem space. Keynote Speaker CV Jean-Lou Dupont is Director of Data Product Strategy for Optical Networks at Marconi Communications in the UK. He is responsible for the market strategies and features related to Marconi's Optical Networks data product portfolio. For 12 years, he has led the design of numerous data products in SONET/SDH transport systems and was founding member of an IP firewall company in the 1990's. Before joining Marconi, he was technical director at an Ethernet product company. Mr. Dupont spent 4 years in the aerospace and computer industries in various technical positions prior to joining the communication industry.