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SDN/MPLS 2014

With focus on SDN, Virtualization, Cloud/Data Center Interconnect, Mobility and Services for Resiliency

SDN/MPLS 2014 International Conference, the 17th Annual International Conference on MPLS and Related Technologies, will be held November 2-5, 2014, in Washington, DC at the Marriott Wardman Park. The Technical Program Committee of SDN/MPLS 2014 is soliciting presentation proposals for the conference. The committee seeks original and unpublished work to continue the tradition initiated by this conference in 1998 of covering cutting-edge topics. Presentations addressing new technologies and operational experience are solicited from network equipment vendors, service providers, the research community, government agencies, and enterprise users.

Please submit your abstracts to cfp2014[at]isocore.com.

In 2014, the overarching themes of the conference will be on Virtualization, SDN, Cloud Interconnect, Data Centers, Mobility, and Services for Resiliency. Please see the following topics (select A – G):

A. Network Function Virtualization (NFV)

Virtualization overlays
Applications of Network function virtualization
Performance impact
Interworking with existing architecture
Operations management: operational considerations and challenges
Orchestration
Open Source Initiatives

B. Software Driven Networks (SDN)

Control versus Data Plane Decoupling Architectural Benefits, Principles, and Uses Cases
Inteligent Control Plane
Service Discovery
Network Topology Instantiation
Application Interface
Interworking with MPLS
Scalability
Transport SDN - applying SDN to the optical transport network
Applications of Stateful Path Computation Element (PCE)
Open Source Initiatives

C. Cloud and Data Centers

Network virtualization underlay/overlay
Cloud Services
Mobility in Cloud
MPLS in support of mobility in cloud computing
Carrier-grade Iaas, Network as a Service (NaaS)
Resiliency mechanisms
IP, MPLS, Ethernet and other networking for Inter-data center connectivity to Cloud
IP, MPLS, Ethernet and other networking for Customer access to Cloud
Service Provider, Customer, Enterprise experiences/case studies with Cloud
Security aspects
Large flow load balancing

D. Mobile and Wireless Packet Infrastructure

Mobile Backhaul Traffic Optimization
Small cell deployment scaling, security, and resiliency
WiFi HotSpot backhaul and support
Machine to Machine (M2M) support
Mobile Access Optimization
Synchronization aspect
Applicability of SDN, NFV and MPLS to Mobile and Wireless Networks

E. DevOps Experience Area

Testing: test tools and certification experience
Case studies, operational experience with NFV, SDN and MPLS
Modeling studies on efficiency improvements achievable with NFV, SDN and MPLS
Automation of large deployments
Manageability of NFV, SDN networks

F. Protocol, Architecture and Emerging Technologies

Architecture and Protocols support for Machine to Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things
Protection, restoration, high-availability and reliability for SDN, NFV and MPLS
MPLS Segment Routing solutions
IPv6 and MPLS in the Enterprise and service provider Arena
Scaling considerations in SDN, NFV and MPLS networks in WAN, intra and inter Data Center uses

G. Network Service Chaining Applications

Operational problem statements
Use cases
Potential solutions

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