See you next year: 26/28 September 2018

The second SD-WAN Summit will take place from the 26^th to 28^th September 2017 in Paris CDG.

The most eminent experts will bring answers to the following questions: What is an SD-WAN service? When a provider can be called « SD-WAN » provider?

As a participant operator puts it: « You can’t replace a network with 43 VRF, 5 classes of QoS, etc. by an IPsec VPN tunnel over the Internet ».

So when it comes to co-existence with MPLS, how do you manage a smooth transition to SD-WAN in different real situations?
How to implement a solution with 2 or more SD-WAN providers?

As stated by another telco : « Using SD-WAN and the Internet is one thing. Achieving performance is another. How do we maintain quality of service? »

The agenda: technological challenges, operators and enterprises case studies, security and management issues

The EANTC Workshop

The conference starts with a workshop addressed by the EANTC. This session covers key SD-WAN design requirements, solution parameters, implementation pitfalls, based on test results and live demo.

Conference technical sessions

Renowned experts will address the main remaining technical challenges:

SD-WAN technical implementation options
Service capabilities and consumption
Application recognition and classification
Performance monitoring and traffic steering
Security and scalability issues
Management and orchestration
Future directions

Panels & round tables: Internet underlay, NaaS, SD-WAN standards

The main panel will tackle the following questions:

Is SD-WAN to become the swiss army knife of the network or just one service among others running on a uCPE device?
Is the internet a viable underlay or must we work on automating Ethernet/MPLS underlay?
Is SD-WAN that next generation service or is it a compromise while Telco’s play catch-up?
Where are Telco’s on the journey to NaaS?
What sort of control are they handing over to the end-customer and what needs to happen to progress this?

Other round tables will address the following subjects:

Management at the edge: Capabilities of SD-WAN devices
SD-WAN security issues

Telco deployment experiences session

What are the organisational challenges for telcos?
What are their main technological challenges and how they are addressed?
Does SD-WAN need a standard? At least, interop between SD-WAN solutions supporting SP off net scenarios?

Hear testimonies from Verizon, Orange, BT, Colt, Telia, Hub One & Exponential E

Enterprises expectations session

As reported by an enterprise representant who will testimony during the conference : « There are so much providers using SD-WAN as a marketing statement while they do not offer a real SD-WAN solution ». Enterprise representants (Interroll, Carrefour) will describe their current deployment challenges in terms of performance, orchestration, VNF implementation, etc.

A special effort will be made to bolster the participation of enterprises. They will be able to exhibit their strategies and expectations by business sector (industry, bank & finance, distribution/transport, etc.).

The Exhibition

#01 Aryaka
#02 Cato Networks
#03 Huawei
#04 Infovista
#05 Aruba Networks
#06 Viptela/Cisco
#07 Citrix
#08 VeloCloud
#09 Silver Peak
#10 128 Technology
#11 Talari Networks
#12 Viprinet
#13 Nuage Networks
#14 Versa Networks
#15 Cradlepoint
#16 Ixia
#17 Riverbed
#18 EANTC
#19 Wipro
#20 Interdata

Public Multi-Vendor Test

The European Advanced Networking Test Center will organize a public multi-vendor test and showcase at the SD-WAN Summit 2017. Together with participating vendors, the EANTC will exhibit what is feasible in SD-WAN today and how service provider and enterprises can benefit from the displayed solution.

Topics covered:

Scalability
Multi-Tenancy Management
User Portal Management
Cloud Migration
Endpoint Configuration
Security
Endpoint and LEP Link Resiliency
Performance Monitoring
Service Chaining & Elasticity

Participants will be able to chose from the range of topics according to their marketing strategy. The tests will be a closed doors event taking place at EANTC’s lab in Berlin or on vendor site.

The solutions will be demonstrated live at the Paris conference. Successful results will be published in a report.

SDx Central Feed

The 2016 edition: more than 280 participants

More than 280 participants attended the first Edition of the SD-WAN Summit in September 2016. This largely successful event confirms that SD-WAN technology holds extremely interesting potential today and in the coming years.

Enterprises, Service Providers, Integrators and equipment Vendors attended the Conference.

Participant profile: more than 50% SPs & Enterprises

A survey of conference-goers shows that service providers (35%) and enterprises (16%) represented more than 50% of the delegates. Consultancy firms and analysts were also in attendance, making up 11% of the participants.