Chairs: Hans-Martin Foisel, Deutsche Telekom, Germany; Vishnu Shukla, Verizon, USA

Carrier networks are challenged by continuous traffic growth, the evolution of high bandwidth demanding data applications and increasing customer requests for on-demand network bandwidth services. The goal of introduction of intelligent control plane mechanisms in multi-vendor and multi-domain network environments is two-fold: Simplification of service provisioning and management and the opportunities to introduce new end-to-end bandwidth-on-demand services. The most optimal solution for such services in the current heterogeneous environments is standard based implementations. To ensure this also on practical level, the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF, www.oiforum.com) has organised and carried out several interoperability tests and evaluations of prototype implementations of its Implementation Agreements. This workshop will cover main aspects and results of the OIF Worldwide Interoperability Demonstration 2007, on On-Demand Ethernet Services over multiple ASON/GMPLS Network Domains, with speakers from Asia, North America and Europe.

Closely related to this workshop will be the:

• Live demonstration of the interoperability results and the global test network at the OIF ECOC2007 exhibition, booth 17078
• Lab tours to Deutsche Telekom premises in Berlin, where a more detailed demonstration of the ASON/GMPLS functions of the OIF Worldwide Test Network and the MUPBED (www.ist-mupbed.eu) European scale test network will be shown, replicating the "look and feel" of a real carrier environment.

Programme of the Workshop:

09:00 - 09:05	Welcome and Introduction Hans-Martin Foisel, Deutsche Telekom, Germany
09:05 - 09:35	OIF Worldwide Interoperability Demonstration 2007 - Ethernet On-Demand Services enabled by OIF UNI and E-NNI Functions Jim Jones, Alcatel-Lucent, United States
09:35 - 10:05	OIF Worldwide Interoperability Demonstration 2007 - Results and Findings of the Control Plane Interoperability Test Jonathan Sadler, Tellabs, United States
10:05 - 10:35	OIF Worldwide Interoperability Demonstration 2007 - Consideration from a Carrier's Perspective Vishnu Shukla, Verizon, United States
10:35 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30	GMPLS - Current Status of Standardization Work Tomohiro Otani, KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan
11:30 - 12:00	ASON - Current Status of Standardization Work Georg Lehr, Bernd Zeuner, Deutsche Telekom, Germany
12:00 - 12:30	Application of ASON Multi-Domain Architecture to Internet2 Lyndon Ong, Ciena, United States
12:30 - 13:00	ASON/GMPLS based Interoperability and Interworking Solutions in the European MUPBED Multi-Domain and Multi-Layer Test Network Jan Späth, Ericsson, Germany
13:00	End