The move towards a converged network architecture has brought about a new paradigm for service provisioning and delivery. Moreover, a class of applications which require a variety of quality of service levels from the network have emerged, which need to be provisioned on-demand in the network. The dynamic provisioning of network resources optimally is quite challenging in such an environment.

In this presentation, we will talk about how IP and other services can be provisioned efficiently over a converged packet and optical network infrastructure. We will describe how myriad innovative services can be provisioned over these converged networks to harness the potential of integrated networks, and present techniques for allocating network resources intelligently and optimally based on the needs of the application services.

About the Presenter
Muckai Girish has been with Atoga Systems since 2000. Prior to joining Atoga, he was at SBC Technology Resources, Inc., working on IP and QoS. Before that he was with Cascade Communications in the Network Architecture and Performance Modeling group. He obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Boston University and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.