WEBINAR: The New Management Challenge for Carrier Ethernet Equipment Vendors, Thursday

If you have trouble viewing this email, click here to view online.

Automated Service Activation - New Management Challenge for Carrier Ethernet Equipment Vendors FREE WEBINAR: Thursday March 31, 2011 1:00 pm ET/ 10:00 am PT The deployment of Carrier Ethernet services is growing rapidly to meet the demand for services like mobile backhaul and leased-line replacement. Networking equipment vendors are exploiting this opportunity with new equipment offerings. However, the capabilities of the management systems needed to provision Carrier Ethernet services and configure networking devices have not kept up with the demands of the industry. Provisioning and activation of Carrier Ethernet services requires multiple configuration changes - both in terms of number of boxes touched and parameters configured per box. The frequency of changes is also high as services are often turned up and torn down and service attributes, like a temporary increase in bandwidth, are changed on the fly. Service providers are expecting their suppliers of networking equipment to deliver automated configuration management systems that can provision services quickly and accurately. Network Equipment Providers are striving to meet these requirements and at the same time bring new solutions to market in less time and with reduced development costs. The speaker will provide insight to maturity and direction of the latest standards, technologies, and architectures available to build service provisioning and activation applications for Carrier Ethernet services and equipment. Product planners will gain insight into industry requirements and impact of standards initiatives. Developers will learn practical ideas together with the benefits of powerful concepts like model-driven configuration management. What Attendees will learn: Industry requirements for automated provisioning and activation of Carrier Ethernet services Best practices for developing provisioning systems for Carrier Ethernet services Status of MEF Service and Device Models Role of SNMP, NETCONF and YANG to enable remote configuration and monitoring of network elements Powerful concepts and architectures including model-driven configuration management Who Should Attend Engineers and Developers of on-device network management or EMS software Product managers responsible for management systems for NEPs or service providers Architects and CTOs Register Now After the presentation, the Webinar will be open for a live Q&A.  Be sure to have your questions ready! PRESENTERS:   Carl Moberg VP of Marketing, Tail-f Systems Carl has held multiple positions at Tail-f Systems including VP of Engineering, COO, and VP of Marketing. He has been actively involved with the company's product strategy and works closely with Tail-f's customers as they design and build new management applications. An active participant in industry standards organizations, Carl is a contributor to work on management standards at the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) and CableLabs. Carl was one of the principal architects of Telia's Internet service platform. This platform was an industry first, supporting a wide variety of access types and application services in an integrated fashion to millions of subscribers.     Patrick Barnard Senior Web Editor, TMC Patrick Barnard is senior web editor for TMCnet. He is former managing editor for Multichannel Merchant magazine, a Penton Media publication focused on all aspects of multichannel marketing. He is also former associate editor for Customer Interaction Solutions magazine, a TMC publication, and also served as assignment editor for TMCnet. Barnard is also former editor of the Darien Times, a community newspaper serving the town of Darien, CT. SPONSORS: REGISTER NOW

This email was distributed by: Technology Marketing Corporation, 800 Connecticut Ave, Norwalk, CT 06854 As a valued reader or attendee of TMC's publications and events, you will occasionally receive carefully-screened offers and free product information via email. If you no longer wish to receive this type of email, please go to http://www.tmcnet.com/enews/subs.aspx?eml=ipat39@gmail.com to adjust your preferences.