Fujitsu Network Communications Inc.

Fujitsu Delivers Wide Range of Telecommunication Topics at NFOEC 2003

Richardson, TX, September 9, 2003 — Eight in-depth technical papers and presentations by 13 telecommunication industry experts from Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc. were selected from a pool of applicants to deliver presentations at the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC) being held at the Orlando County Convention Center from September 7-11, 2003.  Representatives from Fujitsu, the market leader in IT and telecommunications, will cover a variety of topics, ranging from the future of SONET, decreasing carrier expenditures and implementing carrier-class Ethernet services.

Fujitsu will have two presentations in the Network Operations and Management/Ethernet session (D4) at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, September 10 (Room 414C/D).  Don O’Connor, distinguished Ethernet/Data planner, will provide a status report on “Carrier-Class Ethernet OAM,” summarize the current status of Ethernet OAM for service provider applications, and offer a comparison between Ethernet OAM and SONET OAM.

Don Frey, distinguished Ethernet/Data planner, and Francois Moore, manager of product planning, will discuss “Making Ethernet over SONET fit a transport network operations model.” Many carriers deploy or evaluate deployment of Ethernet over SONET (EoS) as a private line offering to enhance their existing service offerings.  This new service must seamlessly integrate into a TDM-centric management infrastructure to overcome potential operational hurdles.  This presentation will review several important technology and operational issues, including Ethernet transparency, PAUSE frames, Performance Management (PM), and alarm and failure propagation.

William Yue, senior product planner, and David Gutierrez, product manager, will present “Digital Video Transport over SONET using GFP and Virtual Concatenation” in the Network Design and Optimization/Video and Data session (B5) at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 10 (Valencia Ballroom B/C).  This timely topic describes the technical details, benefits and applications of transporting digital video over SONET. Yue and Gutierrez will demonstrate how Virtual Concatenation (VCAT), Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (LCAS), and Generic Framing Protocol (GFP) encapsulation can allow Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) and Digital Video Broadcast - Asynchronous Serial Interface (DVB-ASI) signals to be transported over SONET and used effectively to meet new business and revenue challenges.

Daniel Bihon, product planner, and Eric Koopferstock, senior market development manager, will present “Optical Design Considerations for Transparent Re-Configurable Metro DWDM Networks” during the Network Engineering and Deployment/Metro Networks session (C5) at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 10 (Valencia Ballroom A). Bihon and Koopferstock will discuss the challenges of utilizing all?optical components in the design of Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (OADM) nodes.

Ching-Fong Su, Ph.D. of Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc and Sidney Shiba, principal product planner of Fujitsu Network Communications, will present “Control Plane and Management System Integration Scenarios” in the Network Operations and Management/Network Control session (D6) at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 10 (Room 414C/D).  Their presentation will explore how the TMF-814, a.k.a. Multi-Technology Network Management (MTNM) interface, may be upgraded to support Control Plane enabled networks so that management systems can set up and tear down end-to-end connections across hybrid networks (i.e., a mix of Control Plane enabled networks and legacy networks).

Paul Havala, senior manager, will present “A Layered Network Architecture and Implementation for Ethernet Services” in the Network Planning and Architecture/Network Architectures session (A8) at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, September 11 (Valencia Ballroom D).  Havala will offer a fresh way of thinking about scalable Ethernet network architectures and investigate, compare, and illustrate how Layer 2 Ethernet services can be transported using “tunnels” at Layer 1 (EoS), Layer 2 (P-VLANs) or even Layer 3 (MPLS “pseudowires”).  He will draw several significant conclusions and apply those conclusions to introduce a new type of network element – the Ethernet Transport Tunnel Manager (ETTM) – that will allow service providers to cost-effectively extend metro Ethernet services over their core networks.

Sunan Han, Ph.D., principal product planner, and Larry Steinhorst, senior product manager, will present “A Survey and Economic Analysis of Metro High Capacity Central Office Approaches” in the Optical Transport and Switched Systems/Network Economics session (E8) at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, September 10 (Room 414A/B).  This session will address how next-generation SONET ADM (NGADM) products utilize multiple ring terminations, high capacity STS and VT grooming, and multiservice capabilities to deliver significant CAPEX savings for service providers.  These new features have stirred a lot of interest among network operators. Han and Steinhorst plan to share their unbiased economic analysis while examining multiple architectures and applications.

Sam Lisle, director of market development, will present “The Broad (and Surprising?) Future of SONET” in the Optical Transport and Switched Systems/Network Changes session (E9) at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 11 (Room 414A/B).  A few years ago, SONET technology was considered ‘dead in the water’ as carriers and vendors experimented with a variety of packet or frame-based transport approaches in an attempt to better serve growing data transport needs. In his presentation, Lisle will illustrate why SONET has remained as the leading technology for multiservice transport networks and how SONET has evolved to support next-generation service delivery and infrastructure consolidation.  Lisle will share his thoughts on where he believes the future of SONET lies, and why he believes the future of SONET is bright as the appropriate foundation for the breadth of enterprise service delivery and infrastructure consolidation requirements.

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About Fujitsu Network Communications Inc.

Fujitsu Network Communications Inc., a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702), is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and carrier-class telecommunications solutions for the Service Provider and Cable TV market in North America. Supported by smart innovation and deep-rooted research from Fujitsu Labs, Fujitsu is uniquely positioned to deliver fully integrated IT/Telecom solutions for its customers. The company's comprehensive consulting and customer services offer support at any network design, development, deployment and maintenance stage.
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