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Introduction to Strategies for Optical Networks (OPT-140) This session introduces the concept of Optical Networking and surveys the technologies and strategies for determining the correct Optical Network. It provides a foundation for Optical connectivity, components, and applications. This session focuses on technologies such as DWDM & Amplification in relationship to available Fiber plant and topology. It will look at how specific topology and service requirements affect the Optical Network Design. The session also includes a technical introduction of Optical devices and discussion of those components as part of a large design. It is relevant to both enterprises and service providers. This session is for technical individuals who are new to Optical Networking and the challenges involved in determining the correct Optical Solution. Subject recommendations applicable to this session include Fiber Optic Transmission Properties such as Fiber Attenuation, Chromatic and Polarization Dispersion, Fiber Non-linearrites and classification and Optical Devices such as Amplifiers, Lasers and filters. The following sessions cover information you may find useful if you register for this session: OPT-240 Deploying High-Performance Metro Optical Infrastructures, OPT-242 Designing Optical Transport For Metro Ethernet Services and OPT-340 Troubleshooting Metro Optical Networks This session is useful for attendees working in the following areas: Service Providers-Public Networks and Large Enterprise customers either deploying or interested in deploying Optical Networks. Back to top Introduction to Storage Networking Protocols and Technologies (OPT-150) This session introduces the architectural model for storage networking, with specific emphasis on the protocols and technologies used to deploy storage area networks (SANs). It provides a technical description of foundational I/O protocols, such as SCSI, and illustrates the main features of the different available transport options such as Fibre Channel, Internet SCSI (iSCSI ) and Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP ). The session provides the necessary technical background to understand storage networking deployments and applications, but does not cover in-depth deployment scenarios (presented in OPT-251). It presents the basic topologies adopted in the design of SANs, and illustrates some of the methodologies for interconnecting storage networks based on different transport technologies (such as iSCSI and Fibre Channel). The session also describes how to extend the reach of a Fibre Channel SAN over an IP network using FCIP. The following sessions cover information you may find useful if you register for this session: OPT-250 Designing Metro Data Centers with Storage and Optical Technologies, OPT-251 Deploying Storage Networks and OPT-350 Troubleshooting Storage Networks. This session is useful for technical individuals who are interested in understanding the architectural concepts of storage networking protocols in a single, consistent framework. Back to top Deploying High-Performance Metro Optical Infrastructures (OPT-240) While bandwidth has always been the limiting characteristic in any network, the need to offer new revenue-generating Service Provider service offerings and the need to scale Enterprise bandwidth, coupled with advances in the areas of SONET/SDH; direct packet mappings; coarse (CWDM) and dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) are the driving forces behind the deployment of highly scalable and cost-effective Metro Optical infrastructures. This session will introduce Metro architectures based on Next Generation SONET, Metro CWDM, and Metro DWDM. It will then discuss how to achieve greater network performance and lower costs as well as introduce new revenue generating services by reviewing several case studies involving these services. The following sessions cover information you may find useful if you register for this session: OPT-140 Introduction to Strategies for Optical Networks, OPT-242 Designing Optical Transport For Metro Ethernet Services and OPT-340 Troubleshooting Metro Optical Networks. This session is useful for attendees working in the following areas: Service Providers who want to implement new revenue-generating services on their metro optical networks. Back to top Designing an Optical Core Network Utilizing Advanced Photonics (OPT-241) Advancements in photonics technology, combined with continual pressure to reduce cost-per-bit for transport, are driving the architectural evolution of today's optical networks. These technology advancements have enabled the design of more flexible, high-performance, scalable optical networks. This session will review the technologies (forward error correction, raman amplification, and so forth) that have enabled the development of higher-capacity, longer-reach optical networks, and will address their impact on existing and new fiber deployments. The session will subsequently translate these technology enhancements into critical capital and operating expenditure savings to benefit the service provider's bottom line. This discussion will further discuss linear and nonlinear effects of fiber on system performance, and conclude with a case study that illustrates the above points. The following sessions cover information you may find useful if you register for this session: OPT-140 Introduction to Strategies for Optical Networks and OPT-340 Troubleshooting Metro Optical Networks. This session is useful for attendees working in the following areas: Service Providers seeking to maximize their understanding of optical core technologies and the related economic impact of deployments. Back to top Designing Optical Transport For Metro Ethernet Services (OPT-242) This session will cover technologies as they relate to Ethernet transport in the Metro Area and WAN networks. This includes technologies employed for the transport of Ethernet frames over Native Ethernet, SONET, WDM, IP and MPLS transports. In addition, there is work underway within the standards bodies to address Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM), including Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (EPON), native fiber, Long Reach Ethernet (LRE) and Broadband. These topics will include a detailed explanation of how OAM and protection requirement technologies are currently being implemented and explanation of how the future technologies should operate. The following sessions cover information you may find useful if you register for this session: OPT-140 Introduction to Strategies for Optical Networks and OPT-340 Troubleshooting Metro Optical Networks. This session is useful for attendees working in the following areas: Service Providers who wish to design and implement Metro Ethernet services Back to top Deploying DPT/RPR to Provide High Speed Metro IP Infrastructures (OPT-243) This session is intended for users and network designers who are building metro networks and are interested in understanding more about DPT/RPR packet ring technologies and their impact on metro architectures. The session will focus on providing an overview of DPT/RPR including protocol operation, Intelligent Protection Switching (IPS) and fairness algorithm with an overview of how DPT/RPR is deployed in the POP, Metro Regional and access environments. Cisco's Metro IP access network architecture using actual case studies of customer deployments will also be discussed. There will also be an update on the IEEE 802.17 Resilient Packet Ring working group standards effort. The following sessions cover information you may find useful if you register for this session: OPT-140 Introduction to Strategies for Optical Networks and OPT-242 Designing Optical Transport For Metro Ethernet Services. This session will be of interest to Engineers and designers working with Cable MSO Internetworking, Regional Metro IP Transport, Enterprise/Campus MAN, ISP Intra-POP and ISP Exchange Point. Back to top Designing with Storage and Optical Technologies For Metro Data Centers (OPT-250) This session is a detailed discussion on the design and deployment of optical networks and storage technologies used in data center deployments. It first provides a discussion of optical concepts such as amplification and dispersion, what types of problems they present, and solutions to address problems in optical networks. It then presents a detailed discussion of WDM technology and sample optical networks. This information will allow the student to have a solid understanding of the layer 1 technologies that can be used to support storage networks. At that point, the course will discuss different types of metro storage networks and common protocols and applications. The student will understand the specifications and limitations of different types of SAN and NAS networks when they are used over an optical infrastructure. Finally the course will present some examples of data centers that use the technologies discussed in the course. The following sessions cover information you may find useful if you register for this session: OPT-140 Introduction to Strategies for Optical Networks, OPT-241 Designing an Optical Core Network Utilizing Advanced Photonics, OPT-251 Deploying Storage Networks and OPT-350 Troubleshooting Storage Networks. This session is useful for technical staff that are familiar with storage networking protocols and technology and are interested in designing and deploying a metro-area Cisco storage networking solution. Back to top Deploying Storage Networks Using IP Technologies (OPT-251) This session is a detailed discussion on the design and deployment of Cisco storage networks. This session explores in depth a variety of applications leveraging Cisco storage networking and the targeted designs used to implement it. IP access to storage using Internet SCSI (iSCSI) is covered in the context of storage consolidation and backup applications. SAN internetworking using Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) and metro optical dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) is covered in the context of fabric extension, remote replication, and backup applications. Designing Cisco storage networks for high availability is addressed in each application scenario, as is QoS in a converged Cisco AVVID (Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data) network. This session provides the technical background to understand a variety of detailed deployment scenarios. The following sessions cover information you may find useful if you register for this session: OPT-250 Designing with Storage and Optical Technologies For Metro Data Centers and OPT-350 Troubleshooting Storage Networks. This session is useful for technical staff that are familiar with storage networking protocols and technology and are interested in designing and deploying data center and metro-area Cisco storage networking solutions. Back to top Troubleshooting Metro Optical Networks (OPT-340) Today's metro optical networks deliver a variety of services such as Ethernet, storage or more traditional Optical Carrier, level N (OC-N) circuits. Deploying, managing and troubleshooting such networks often boil down to understand and control optical analog signals. This session reviews the basics of optical analog transmission and examines the most common optical troubleshooting/monitoring tools, such as optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR), Spectrum Analyzer, Attenuator, Power Meter, DWDM platform-specific features, along with their applications to debug common optical layer problems. The following sessions cover information you may find useful if you register for this session: OPT-140 Introduction to Strategies for Optical Networks, OPT-240 Deploying High-Performance Metro Optical Infrastructures and OPT-242 Designing Optical Transport For Metro Ethernet Services. This session is useful for attendees working in the following areas: Technical staff that need details on troubleshooting optical transmission tools & techniques. Back to top Troubleshooting Storage Networks (OPT-350) This session will address the technical analysis of Storage Network implementations. The discussions will include working with Fibre Channel services when implementing a Storage Area Network. Cisco SN542X iSCSI router and iSCSI protocol networking concepts will be addressed in-depth. We will discuss GigE technologies as it refers to Storage TCP/IP offload NIC's and GiGE Networking with Storage. Issues implementing iSCSI drivers on many different Host platforms will also be covered. This session will also include case studies addressing configurations and troubleshooting high availability storage networking implementations done with Cisco SN 542X routers. Provided in this session will be the technical aspects for a Cisco CCIE to support IP Storage Networking in the Cisco environment. The following sessions cover information you may find useful if you register for this session: OPT-150 Introduction to Storage Networking Protocols and Technologies, OPT-250 Designing with Storage and Optical Technologies For Metro Data Centers and OPT-251 Deploying Storage Networks. This session is useful for attendees working in the following areas: Service Providers and Enterprise technical staff who need details on configurations and high-availability storage networking implementations. Back to top Advanced Developments in Integrating Data and Optical Networks (OPT-440) The continued growth of IP-based, bandwidth-intensive applications along with the rising need to deliver carrier-class service-level agreements (SLAs), has created an interest in leveraging optical infrastructures for scalability, resiliency, and investment protection. This has increased efforts focused specifically on integrating Ethernet-over-SONET (EoS). To date, these implementations have been proprietary and therefore, have been unable to provide interoperability between products and vendors. Advanced Developments in Integrating Data and Optical Networks include Enhanced QoS, Architectural considerations (.1Q, QinQ, EoMPLS, L2TPv3/UTI), Encapsulation techniques (GFP, X.86), and Transport Optimization mechanisms (RPR, STS Bandwidth Scaling, Virtual Concatenation and LCAS). These advancements are leading the industry towards common delivery of data over SONET/SDH. This session reviews the technical underpinnings of these advanced developments and shows how they contribute to the multi-service network's efficiency, scalability, resiliency and interoperability. The following sessions cover information you may find useful if you register for this session: OPT-140 Introduction to Strategies for Optical Networks, OPT-240 Deploying High-Performance Metro Optical Infrastructures, OPT-241 Designing an Optical Core Network Utilizing Advanced Photonics and OPT-340 Troubleshooting Metro Optical Networks. This session is useful for network designers, architects, and engineers. Back to top
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