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Tuesday, April 2nd
8:00-9:00am
Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00 -10:20am
OPEN - SDN / OpenFlow Seminar
Software-Defined Networking and OpenFlow (Part 1 - Introduction)
Session S-11 - Overview
10:20-10:20am
Break
10:40am-Noon
OPEN - SDN / OpenFlow Seminar
Software-Defined Networking and OpenFlow (Part 1 - Introduction cont.)
Session S-12 - Network Architecture
Noon-1:00pm
Lunch (on own)
1:00-3:00pm
OPEN - SDN / OpenFlow Seminar
Software-Defined Networking and OpenFlow (Part 1 - Introduction)
Session S-13 - Open Flow: Past, Present, and Future
3:00-3:15pm
Break
3:15-5:00pm
OPEN - SDN / OpenFlow Seminar
Software-Defined Networking and OpenFlow (Part 1 - Introduction cont.)
Session S-14 - A Reality Check – End User Perspectives Panel
5:00-6:30pm
OPEN - Plenary on High-Speed Test Equipment
Wednesday, April 3rd
 
Emerging Technologies Track
Data Centers Track
Carrier Ethernet Track
OPEN
System Designer Track
Exhibits
8:00-8:30am
Registration & Continental Breakfast
      
8:30-9:40am
Forum 1A
40/100/400 GbE, Part 1
Forum 1B
Ethernet in Data Centers
Session A-101
Ethernet for Carriers Today: Needs and Requirements
OPEN - Session B-101
Design and Development Issues
9:40-9:50am
Break
9:50-10:50am
Forum 1A
40/100/400 GbE, Part 1 (cont.)
 
Forum 1B
Ethernet in Data Centers (cont.)
Session A-102
Carrier Ethernet 2.0: Everything You Need to Know to Develop Successful Products
OPEN - Session B-102
Ethernet and Other Inferfaces
11:00-11:30am
OPEN - Keynote 1
Welcome to the Generation of Open Ethernet
Eyal Waldman, CEO, Mellanox Technologies
11:30am-Noon
OPEN - Keynote 2
Where Are the Opportunities, How Big, and When?
Alan Weckel, VP Enterprise and Data Center Market Research, Dell'Oro Group
Noon-1:00pm
Lunch (in Exhibit area)
Exhibits
Open
Noon-1:30pm
1:30-2:00pm
OPEN - Special Keynote A
The Next 40 Years of Ethernet
Jane Li, Chief Operating Officer, Huawei
 
2:00-2:30pm
OPEN - Keynote 3
Ethernet's Next Step: 400G
John D'Ambrosia, IEEE Next-Generation 802.3 Base-T Study Group/Dell
2:30-3:00pm
David Yen, Sr VP/GM, Cisco Data Center Group
 
Emerging Technologies Track
Data Centers Track
System Acceleration Track
OPEN- Markets/Investors Track
3:10-4:15pm
Forum 1C
40/100/400 GbE, Part 2
Forum 1D
Ethernet and Virtualization
Session A-103
Accelerating Big Data with High-Speed Ethernet
OPEN - Session B-103
Venture Capital Forum
4:15-4:30pm
Break
4:30-5:30pm
Forum 1C
40/100/400 GbE, Part 2 (cont.)
 
Forum 1D
Ethernet and Virtualization (cont.)
Session A-104
TRILL Tutorial
OPEN - Session B-104
Market Research
5:30-7:00pm
OPEN - All Industry Reception (in Exhibit Hall)
Ethernet 40th Anniversary Celebration
Exhibits
Open
5:30-7:00pm
7:00-8:30pm
 
Thursday, April 4th
 
Emerging Technologies Track
Data Centers Track
System Designers Track
OPEN
SDN/OpenFlow Track
Exhibits
8:00-8:30am
Registration & Continental Breakfast
      
8:30-9:45am
Forum 2A
Ethernet and Cloud Computing
Forum 2B
Convergence on Ethernet - Part 1
Session A-201
Lost Packets Can Be Found Again!
Workshop - Software-Defined Networking and OpenFlow (Part 2- Applications)
OPEN - Session S-21
Carrier Networks
9:45-10:00am
Break
10:00-10:50am
Forum 2A
Ethernet and Cloud Computing(cont.)
 
Forum 2B
Convergence on Ethernet - Part 1 (cont.)
Session A-202
Ethernet Security
Workshop - Software-Defined Networking and OpenFlow (Part 2- Applications)
OPEN - Session S-22
Software
11:00-11:30am
OPEN - Keynote 5
Reaping the Benefits of Software Defined Networking
Guido Appenzeller, Big Switch Networks
11:30am-Noon
OPEN - Keynote 6
Sustainable Networking Innovation through Collective Intelligence: Software Defined Networking
Nick Ilyadis, Broadcom
Noon-1:00pm
Lunch (in Exhibit area)
Exhibits
Open
Noon-2pm
1:00-1:30pm
2:00-2:30pm
OPEN - Special Keynote B
Networking in a Virtual Era
Arpit Joshipura, VP Network Product Marketing, Dell
 
 
Emerging Technologies Track
Data Centers Track
System Designer Track
OPEN
SDN/OpenFlow Track
2:40-4:00pm
Forum 2C
Next Generation Power and Cooling
Forum 2D
Convergence on Ethernet Part 2 (cont.)
Session A-203
Developing Top-Performance Ethernet Networks
Workshop - Software-Defined Networking and OpenFlow (Part 2- Applications)
OPEN - Session S-23
Implementations
4:00-4:20pm
Break
4:20-5:30pm
 
OPEN - Session A-204
Future of Ethernet Networks
Workshop - Software-Defined Networking and OpenFlow (Part 2- Applications)
OPEN - S24
Panel on Future of OpenFlow/SDN