Isocore Announces Opening and Keynote Speakers and Full Program for MPLS 2008 to Be Held in October in Washington, DC

RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Isocore, the technology validation leader for the next generation networks, services and applications, announced today the program for the 11th annual MPLS International conference. MPLS 2008 will be held October 19 - 22 in Washington, DC.

“such experience exchange prove to be invaluable and typically rare in other technology based conferences.”

The MPLS 2008 Program features in-depth tutorials, technical sessions, invited talks, panel sessions and exhibits. The opening speech will be given by Dr. Stuart Elby, VP of Network Architecture at Verizon and the keynote by Dr. Yukio Ito, VP of Network Design Office at NTT Communications. The key topics to be discussed at MPLS 2008 include MPLS applicability in transport, carrier Ethernet deployments and experience, IPv6 transition, multicast over Ethernet and MPLS, mobile and wireless backhaul, content delivery networks and resiliency & OAM aspects. This will be followed by a public Interop demo on October 23 at Isocore facilities.

“This conference provides a unique opportunity for service providers and vendors to discuss real deployment issues and practical implementations,” said Dr. Raymond Zhang, Director of IP Network Architecture at BT, “such experience exchange prove to be invaluable and typically rare in other technology based conferences.”

The MPLS conference brings service providers, large enterprise and government network community, and networking equipment vendors together. The event is the premier conference on next generation Internet technologies. This series of conferences was begun by help of UUNET in 1998, and has covered leading edge topics on MPLS and its extensions including carrier Ethernet.

Sponsors of this year’s MPLS conference include Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), Juniper Networks (NASDAQ:JNPR), Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE:ALU), Redback Networks (an Ericsson Company (NASDAQ:ERIC)), Foundry Networks (NASDAQ:FDRY), OPNET (NASDAQ:OPNT), Packet Design, Netformx, WANDL, Agilent (NYSE:A), Cariden, Anritsu (PNK: AITUF.PK), NiCT, IP/MPLS Forum, MuDynamics, and Gingko Networks.

For full program and registration please visit: www.isocore.com/mpls2008.