Topic of Presentation: Best Practices in Network Planning and Traffic Engineering

Language: English

John Evans Director Technology and Operations, EMEA Cariden Technologies , where he is responsible for ensuring successful deployments of Cariden’s products, and guides product development. Previously, he worked for Cisco as a Distinguished Consulting Engineer within Cisco’s Development Organisation, where he worked on the definition of next generation network and system architectures for Service Providers. Prior to joining Cisco in 1999, John worked for BT where he was responsible for the design and development of large-scale outsourced networks for the financial community.

John’s technology focus spans IP routing and core and edge IP/MPLS technologies, traffic engineering/management, quality of service, policy management and video transport. He authored “Deploying IP and MPLS QOS for Multiservice Networks” (Elsevier, 2007) and has filed a number of patents in his focus technology areas. John has been actively involved in the development, deployment and evolution of Service Provider IP / MPLS architectures for a more than ten years; he is recognized as a leader and innovator in IP / MPLS networking and is a frequent speaker on these subjects at industry fora.

Abstract: This presentation will review current industry best practises for planning and traffic engineering in IP and MPLS networks. Technologies and approaches will be compared, leveraging experience gained and case studies including a number of tier 1 deployments. The subjects covered will include:

• Methods for determining traffic matrices for IP Networks: netFlow, MPLS, estimation, regression, …
• The relationship between SLAs and network planning targets
• Network planning simulation and analysis – working and failure cases
• Traffic Engineering options and approaches: tactical, strategic, MPLS, IGP, …
• Peering planning