SReXperts Agenda

Registration for the sessions during SReXperts EMEA 2023.

Rome has undoubtedly the most captivating and picturesque squares in the world due to their gigantic wide-open space as well their historical and cultural surroundings. Our winding city walking tour will take guests through Piazza Navona, Piazza della Rotondaand Piazza di Spagna- where your knowledgeable tour guides will explain the history of three classic examples of well-designed spaces that brim with artistic heritage. In 2000 yearsPiazza Navona has become one of the most spectacular urban complexes of Baroque Rome thanks to the work of Bernini who built, at its centre, the fountain of Four Rivers to celebrate the Pamphilyfamily. Piazza della Rotondahouses the most ambitious Roman temple built for the emperor Augustus. The Pantheon has been a religious and sacred centrefor 20 centuries. The dome, one the most famous examples of the Roman building technique, is one of the largest of the town. Piazza di Spagnais the romantic center of the papal Rome houses, with the most famous example of stairs in the world. Just a short walk away, in the square Trinità deiMonti you will experience the wonderous Trevifountain. Three popes contributed to the creation of the most iconic fountain of Rome, at the end of the Virgo Aqueduct.

This 3-hour hands-on workshop covers select functionality and labs that introduce users to the assurance applications. We'll examine the assurance capabilities available in the web-based applications and available to existing NFM-P customers and users without an actual upgrade to NSP (ex: the applications apply to existing NFM-P deployments).

Through practical examples and hands-on exercises, participants will develop their monitoring & troubleshooting skills using a variety of NSP tools and capabilities, including: On-boarding of the assurance web applications Introduction and overview of the network supervision web application Troubleshooting using the fault management web application Isolating problems using the service supervision web application

Do you want to get hands on with SROS? Would you like to participate in the hackathon but feel you may need some extra training before going hands-on. Join us for this speed course to get you fully prepared for the hackathon and learn all the new skills and tools the cool kids use.

Do you want to get hands on with the new SR Linux operating system? Would you like to participate in the hackathon but feel you may need some extra training before going hands-on. Join us for this speed course to get you fully prepared for the hackathon and learn all the new skills and tools the cool kids use.

This 2-hour seminar is intended for network engineers who wish to learn about SR Linux. We will introduce you to SR Linux’s architecture, the programmability and telemetry capabilities of SR Linux that make it particularly well-suited for network automation, and an example application in the concept of the underlay and overlay networks used in a data center.  To reinforce, we will demonstrate how to establish a Layer 2 EVPN service overlay using the SR Linux CLI and a TIG (Telegraf-InfluxDB-Grafana) telemetry application using the SR Linux gNMI programmability interface.  We will also introduce you to the Nokia Data Center Fabric Certification program to help enhance your SR Linux skills.

In this interactive workshop, you will take a deep dive into the world of DDOS attacks and learn how you can effectively protect your network and services against these attacks using the Nokia Deepfield Defender solution combined with the filtering power of Nokia FP4 and FP5 router silicon. Nokia experts will explain every step of the process to safeguard your network and services against these potentially devastating attacks:

• the configuration of protection policies for your network, services and customers
• the 'zero-touch' context-based automated detection of real-life multi-vector DDOS attack samples – with an inside look into how Secure Genome is leveraged
• the automated compilation and installation of granular mitigation filters on Nokia Service Routers to block all DDOS traffic at the network edge – learning how Deepfield Mitigation Engine compiles the most efficient filter list for each type of attack
• and the detailed analysis and reporting of the forwarded and dropped DDOS traffic.

Want your vendor to make personalised software features? Wanting to integrate SR-OS quickly and simply into your organisation? Wanting to secure your future in the networking workplace? Join us for a hands on session to learn how to take charge of SR OS using Python programming to automate, integrate and personalise SR OS and to contribute your own ideas and solutions to move the SR OS community forward. Learn new skills or use those you already have for networking good.

Did you hear about SR Linux and want to take a deeper dive, getting your hands dirty? Curious about how to integrate SRLinux into your automation frameworks? Dying to know what all this streaming telemetry is about? Join us for a practical hands-on session during the hackathon to learn how to take charge of SR Linux’ full programmability power. Learn about Open Source tooling available to automate tasks, manipulate configuration, fetch telemetry and relevant logs or simulate lab environments. No development knowledge is required, all levels are welcome to participate.

Learn how to leverage latest APIs and models to integrate with Nokia NSP more efficiently and take advantage of Workflow Manager to build custom automation use-cases. In this workshop you will learn how to build workflows with Visual Studio Code and to integrate with Git. We will cover the latest updates and best practices as of NSP 23.4. In the second half of the session, you will have the opportunity to build own workflow with support from experts and to share your work with others.

• Power Utilities Telecom Networks - trends and expectations
• ADC-Active/Active multipath for teleprotection, Telecom & Power Profile interworking - customer Experience­
• NSP for Power Utilities - evolution from NFM-P, quick wins to make the software do what you need.­
• Evolution towards Segment Routing - an alternative to RSVP-TE?­
• European Power Utilities Group discussion

Join us for drinks and appetizers in the exhibition and meet with senior Nokia experts, product managers, partners, and your peers and get a sneak peek at the variety of demonstrations prepared for you.

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This session will provide an update on 5G status in general. Main focus of the presentation will be on

1. Network synchronisation where the target sync architecture will be described as well as the usage of latest and future developments will be highlighted and

2. Network slicing which is still in initial stages and some example use cases will be described. 

An update on why and how customers are leveraging NSP for network automation. The session will include examples of automation and network life cycle use cases that our customers are using. The update will discuss how automation leverages intents, workflows, and API’s. Northbound interfaces (NBIs) play a crucial role enabling seamless communication and integration between OSS and tools. In this presentation, we will give insight into the world of NBIs and their impact on DevOps. We will cover the NBI evolution in NSP, as well as explore real-world use cases about how NSP NBIs are being used today for automation.

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This presentation will deal with the options in L2 and L3 vpn’s to steer traffic over the WAN with the required KPI’s in mind. BICS will explain how they put traffic steering in practice.

Get ready to modernize your network operations! This session will dive into the critical importance of evolving your NSP to achieve your automation goals. Discover the current network automation landscape, including the challenges faced with the wide variety of network elements involved, from legacy devices to vendor lock-in. Learn the latest on Nokia’s NSP platform and how it can help bridge the gap between your legacy network and your modern network evolution initiatives. Don't miss this opportunity to start your evolution journey today. 

Our Nokia IP Routing portfolio is being extended to support additional use cases in mission critical enterprise networks. In this session we will zoom in on our latest mission critical and enterprise focused IP/MPLS and industrial Ethernet hardware developments, through the presentation of some typical deployment use cases. 

The session will introduce Clalit Health Care and show the journey we took together to build a next-gen DCI. We will showcase Clalit’s vision for DCI with the concerns they had, and how we provided a solution with our 7750SR and NSP. We will go over the design choices of EVPN and MPLS together with NSP intent-based services. We will finish by explaining how the deployment was expanded and upgraded to become the core of Clalit network for all environments - WAN, DC, and DMZ. 

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In this session we will elaborate on how extending fixed broadband access with 5G can help Bridging the digital divide in the most cost effective way.

Learn how NSP is transforming device configuration, service fulfillment and network service assurance. Enjoy increased flexibility and customization with intent-based service fulfillment and device configuration management, including a new configuration assurance feature to quickly identify and correct misalignments. Discover a comprehensive and integrated solution for real-time supervision of multivendor IP/optical networks with advanced analytics, inventory management, and OAM. Experience enhanced visualization and a highly customizable user journey with unprecedented scale and performance.

How to evolve and create a very flexible and modern Datacenter Network Fabric Interconnection to meet the most critical enterprise chalenges by using Nokia IP & Optics products portfolio with a wide powerful tools for open and standards tools for a better visibility, control, security and automated mission critical Datacenter network.

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An extensive look at multiple network analytics use cases for network planners, engineers and operators.  See how the Analytics suite of applications can make sense of the vast amount of data available in NSP, and present it in intuitive and readily consumable formats for troubleshooting, monitoring, and event-driven automation. Take a look at the advanced machine learning use cases available now, and what is on the horizon.

The NSP (Network Services Platform) is embedding some ready-to-use functions with the goal of simplifying the day-to-day job of the operators. The presentation will go through the configuration aspect with a focus to ensure that the designed configuration is really applied in the network and how to visualize the deviations. These deviations can have a security impact and the presentation will have a view on some nodal security rules. Operational state is also important, and NSP from its dashboard can give quick and simple access to the information. The presentation will go through some of them analytic reporting. Last, the presentation will go through an automation use case using the framework capability, like Service migration from a legacy node to a new one.

The base EVPN technology is now prevalent and has become widely used in Data Centers (along with VXLAN tunnels) and Service Provider networks (along with MPLS and Segment Routing MPLS tunnels). However, new transport technologies such as SRv6, or new Data Center containerized applications are bringing new issues that need to be addressed. How can we leverage the extensibility of EVPN to address these new issues? This session answers that question and looks at the latest Advancements of EVPN in the IETF, in the industry and in the Nokia routers Network Operating Systems, SROS and SR Linux.

Traditional DDoS attacks (amplification, TCP flooding, etc.) continue hitting the networks every day. But there is an emerging threat joining the DDoS game: the exponential adoption of QUIC. While QUIC offers benefits such as improved encryption and reduced latency, it also creates new vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit to launch more powerful DDoS attacks that can circumvent traditional DDoS protection measures. Come and join us to understand the risk and how Nokia Deepfield uses AI/ML and Bigdata in combination with our FP4/FP5 ASICs to implement a scalable and cost-efficient protection within your network against QUIC-based and all other types of DDoS attacks

The evolution of NSP towards a cloud-native architecture will be presented, with the objective to have NSP deployed through commercial off the shelf on-prem container management systems, as a step towards the eventual target of having NSP running on public clouds. This evolution towards cloud-native, together with a model-driven API centric architecture, opens up a new dimension as to how NSP-based network services across the WAN can be consumed by automated systems through the northbound APIs of NSP. New use cases leveraging cloud native computing foundation (CNCF) systems together with NSP will be presented.

Industrial environments are rapidly expanding their connectivity with the goal of improving productivity, margins, agility, and safety but in parallel, we have an increased number of security incidents in this area. At Nokia, we believe you can have both security and performance and that is why embedding Security into our IP Network technology is part of our DNA. In this session, we discover how the Nokia IP Network technology can be leveraged to help you meet your Cyber security requirement in mission-critical and enterprise IP/MPLS networks.

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This session provides an overview of state-of-the-art IP-optical network integration approaches with focus on sustainability. Network evolution use-cases taking advantage of coherent routing are explained.

This presentation discusses various ways in which operators can realize transport slices (e.g. for 5G network slicing) in an IP network. It explains how Nokia’s Transport Slice Controller translates high-level service objectives to the desired network configuration. It discusses the Network Slicing NBI model that is being standardized in the IETF and explains how it can be used to communicate those service objectives to NSP Transport Slice Controller.

Thais session on “Legacy but not dead” is exploring what is legacy, how does it impact network design and what are the key attributes of the services that need to be considered when migrating them to IP/MPLS.

Only 15 minutes from the Marriott Rome Park, the Corte di Arenaro is a typical Roman farmhouse, immersed in a vast pine forest. It dates back to the beginning of the last century, when land reclamation began in the area of Lazio. These new areas were a challenge for many architects, including Michele Busiri Vici, who designed the centre of Arenaro, so called because of the large quantity of sandstone found there. In 1946, the initial project was extended, by one of the most famous Italian architects, Pierluigi Nervi, to the construction of a very unusual hall, really original in terms of form, size and volume: an area of 600 sqm, with a single covering which, without columns, traces a series of circular lines.

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With the talk all about the advances of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning this presentation takes a look at why Automation is still fundamental to providers and some examples of practical implementation.

What does a utility use telecommunications for? Which kind of telecommunication challenges come with managing the electricity grid? How can electricity utilities support telecommunication companies? Iberdrola is a leading utility making use of telecommunication technologies to make the grid smarter. DWDM, IP/MPLS, SDN, LTE and similar technologies are integrated with the grid to better support Society.

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Networks are evolving at an ever-rapid pace with our lives now fully intertwined with the digital world. The nature and sophistication of security threats have also evolved, but have your defenses caught up with it? Nokia operates ethically to deliver secure products and services to meet your security requirements and those of relevant governmental agencies. Learn how Nokia Professional Services can help to  fortify your defenses and securely evolve your network while you focus on the growth and the future of your business.

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Unlock future success by identifying and developing essential skills today. Explore new learning methods and chart your path with our innovative learning and certification programs.

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Have you heard? The industry is moving to model-driven router management. Join us to discover why and what this move can do for your business and see why you should join this great migration.  See model-driven management and automation in action with a self-defining network automation suite that you can take away and use with containerlab. 

Encryption challenge to solve:

-Quantum Safe

-Latency prune or low latency

-Encrypt at any network speed, from 1 Gige to 400 Gige

-Single encryption and authentication algorithm for MAC, MPLS, IP

In the field of networking, the ability to create and deploy network labs is crucial for testing, validating and learning new technologies. Traditional methods of setting up networking labs have often been time-consuming and resource-intensive. However, a new paradigm is emerging, offering a modern approach that simplifies and accelerates lab creation and management. This session aims to introduce the audience to the Containerlab project — a reimagined deployment model for networking labs. Containerlab leverages the power of containerization technology, providing a lightweight and flexible environment to run rich network topologies. The talk will explore the latest developments and advancements in the Containerlab project, highlighting its potential and benefits for networking professionals, researchers, and students alike. It will delve into the underlying principles and concepts behind Containerlab, demonstrating how it can facilitate the creation of reproducible and isolated network labs. 

This session will investigate the key components that form the anatomy of a peering router. The session will provide an overview of how the Nokia 7750 with SROS addresses these components to provide a robust, scalable, and high performance platform to meet this network requirement.

As networks become open and seamless, operators will require innovative automation and deep security to accommodate a broad set of service requirements. While the journey to full automation will likely take years, operators are already benefiting today from fully validated automation solutions developed by Nokia Professional Services. With automation solutions covering the full network lifecycle, from discovery to integration, and with an emphasis on how to build the most secure networks, this session will demonstrate how Nokia Professional Services solutions can deliver results in weeks rather than months.

At Nokia, we believe you can have both purpose and profit and that is why embedding energy efficiency into our IP Network technology is part of our DNA. Join this session to discover how the Nokia IP Network technology can be leveraged to help you meet your sustainability targets and increase profit by utilising industry leading energy savings through our IP products and solutions. Just another way how Nokia is helping the world acting together to solve climate and sustainability challenges.

Is multicast dead as predicted 10 years ago or still alive and kicking? This session will give the answer and outline solutions for live TV over any access network without massive bandwidth requirements.

As a key part of the Nokia Data Center Fabric solution, SR Linux is our open, extensible, and resilient network operating system (NOS). In this session, we will be covering new updates to the software capabilities and hardware options of this next-generation platform.

Hear from both Nuage Networks and Telia on the new features and functionalities of SD-WAN, including the deployment of Nuage over Starlink that takes the technology into low earth orbit. Jeroen Claessens will update you on the new feature set of Nuage SD-WAN, including integrations with SSE and Janne Mikola will explain a new deployment within the Telia group that uses Starlink to connect remote enterprise branches. 

As businesses embrace Private Wireless Networks and Edge Computing in their digital transformation journey, there is a perception that network security has already been addressed by the standards that define it. While 3GPP has done excellent work to secure the numerous interfaces used for communication within a mobile core, there are still steps that should be taken to bring visibility and security to the entire mobile network, including the users and the array of devices operating there.  Palo Alto Networks software Next-Generation Firewalls deployed on Nokia’s industrial edge platform (MXIE) use AI and ML to prevent sophisticated cyber threats in OT and IT environments, without adding physical hardware to the network.  Our collaboration with Nokia enables advanced security on both the IT and OT sides of the network to bring a multi-factor zero trust model to the entire organization.

This session will present a step change in how to accelerate the selection and validation of the best and most secure network solutions. Operators can benefit from pre-validated solution blueprints to ensure best-in-class performance and the right level of security, while eliminating months of planning, testing and validation. Learn how Nokia creates blueprint solutions for use cases, designs, configurations and management systems integration. Furthermore, introducing network test automation in the validation flow ensures a continuous improvement and accelerated implementation of 5G Anyhaul, Telco Cloud, Data Center and ZR400+ solutions.

This presentation illustrates the use of the SR OS Segment Routing toolkit to forward packets of flows to the appropriate multi-domain transport tunnels such as to achieve a set of service-level objectives. This is referred to as intent-based, or sometimes color-aware, networking and the intent is the networking abstract for the service level objectives. The presentation details the various mechanisms available to map each flow to its corresponding intent and how the intent is signaled and enforced between egress PE and ingress PE across a multi-domain network. The presentation highlights the key role Segment Routing MPLS (SR-MPLS) plays in this application and addresses the interworking and transparent enforcement of the intent across SR-MPLS and Segment Routing IPv6 (SRv6) domains with the emerging role of SRv6 in specific use cases.

Network Operations teams are increasingly confronted with challenges in providing agile networks to support demanding business goals. How to deal with the seemingly conflicting goals of agility on one hand and robustness and high availability on the other? This presentation presents the NetOps philosophy to reconcile both ends.

The Nokia Fabric Services System is an intent-based NetOps toolkit that lets you automate your data center network operations to keep pace with new performance and scalability demands while reducing the operational complexity that comes with the emergence of 5G, edge clouds and cloud-based deployments. In this session we will show how this fabric manager can help you stay in control of, and monitor, your SR Linux fabric. We will introduce you to the newly introduced functionality, features and external integrations in our 23.4 release, and what exciting new features lay ahead in the near future.

We have all seen SD-WAN become the de facto technology for Enterprises connecting their branches to the cloud, but can the technology be adapted to enhance the Internet and Cloud connections for the Small and Medium Enterprise market? This session will introduce the concepts around SD-Internet and how it expands the use of SD-WAN to create a new set of secured and intelligent business Internet services.

Evolving to the next generation networks can be done faster, smarter and much more securely with the right toolset, utilizing proven migration processes and best practices. Faced with new business needs driven by rapidly changing socio-economic, geopolitical, and technological factors, as well as changes in end-user requirements and expectations, the need to transform has never been greater. In this session we will demonstrate through real-life use cases how the Nokia migration approach can accelerate successful and secure migration to the future networks.