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IT EXPO Keynote: Lucent’s Raymond Pennotti, Ph.D.By TED GLANZER
TMCnet Communications and Broadband Columnist
A hospital tech performing a routine sonogram on an expectant mother notices possible abnormalities in the results; he sends a text message on his UTMS device to a doctor making her rounds on another floor in the hospital.
After examining the sonogram on her UTMS/Wi-Fi device, the doctor, believing that she should confer with a specialist, sends an instant message to a cardiologist, who also reviews the sonogram. The cardiologist notifies the doctor that there is nothing out of the ordinary. The soon-to-be mother walks out of the hospital within an hour of her arrival at the hospital. So went the opening of Lucent Technologies’ Managing Vice President Raymond Pennotti’s keynote presentation -- “Network Transformation” -- at the end of the first day of IT EXPO 2005.
With his hypothetical scenario, Pennotti demonstrated the power and potential of next-generation networks, noting that what would normally take three to five days could be reduced to a fraction of that time.
The remainder of Pennotti’s presentation focused on what it will take to turn today’s networks into the networks of the future.
“I believe in the promise [of next-generation networks], but we have a way to go,” he said.
“Next-generation network transformation is a journey, a journey that will take years for service providers and months to years for enterprises,” Pennotti added.
Pennotti said that most service providers and enterprises have already begun their migration with VoIP, service bundling, enhanced applications and utilizing new network architecture.
To complete the journey, a systematic, comprehensive migration plan must be in place. For enterprises, that plan includes network assessment and preparation, an analysis of network security. Service providers must wrangle with transport/optical migration; network database migration, traffic migration, protocol migration and OS migration.
Service providers will find themselves utilizing hybrid networks for years, Pennotti said.
“To migrate services efficiently without service interruption, each of these dimensions must be addressed as elements of a carefully orchestrated program,” Pennotti advised.
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Ted Glanzer is assistant editor for TMCnet. For more articles by Ted Glanzer, please visit:
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