The Internet is broken: Session-oriented networks are the answer

When:
January 5, 2017 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm America/New York Timezone
2017-01-05T19:00:00-05:00
2017-01-05T21:00:00-05:00
Where:
Verizon Technology Center
60 Sylvan Rd
Waltham, MA 02451
USA

Communications Society

The meeting is preceded by dinner at Bertucci’s, 475 Winter St, Waltham at 5:30 PM.

Recent calls to reinvent the Internet – or start over – are increasing in frequency and volume. We don’t have to look very far to see the problems introduced by network complexity. Even with sophisticated orchestration and coordination, complex systems are inherently inefficient, unstable, and insecure:

• $75B spent on security and still nearly half-a-trillion dollars from data breaches each year [Forbes]
• $1M+ is what it costs a company on average for every network slowdown and outright outage [IHS]
• 50% of cloud implementations suffer business impacting performance issues due to the network [Gartner]

There are big problems with the world’s networks, but solutions currently available today (such as SDN/NFV) are complex in their own right — and merely incremental. The real challenge is that we need to transform the existing infrastructure from the inside without discarding what’s currently deployed.

Twenty-five years ago, the world standardized on the TCP/IP stack and the Internet exploded. However, there has been little innovation in routing since then. Today’s networks are built on the same fundamental protocols put in place decades ago before anyone could envision current demands, never mind what we need for the next few decades.

The solution to tomorrow’s networking challenges require a new perspective – a different way of thinking about routing.

So we’ll ask: what if? What if we reimagine the Internet with a session-oriented approach? Could we then:

• Replace overlays with more secure, stable and agile end-to-end networking at a fraction of the cost and overhead?
• Align services and applications with network sessions?
• Remove middle-boxes and infuse security, load balancing and monitoring functions natively across the network?
• Provide zero trust security and encryption automatically?

Patrick MeLampy, one of the co-founders of 128 Technology, has served as the company’s chief operating officer and director since the company’s inception. With Andrew Ory, Patrick co-founded Acme Packet Inc. and served as its chief technology officer since August 2000. He served as vice president of engineering of Priority Call Management (PCM) since 1989. At PCM, Patrick developed and supported the company’s network telecommunications products and grew the engineering team from two to 75 members. He has developed intellectual property portfolios at PCM, LHS, PCM, and Acme Packet. Patrick earned a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.B.A. from Boston University.

Venue Note: This is our venue at the new Verizon Technology Center Campus in Waltham.

The meeting begins at 7 PM at the new meeting auditorium at the Verizon Technology Center. The address is 60 Sylvan Road, Waltham, MA 02451. The entrance is by the far corner – with the picnic tables out front – and not the tower or the new building. It is most easily reached by the West Street entrance.

Important Note: Verizon Technology Center requests the names of the meeting attendees in advance of the meeting. If you plan to attend, please send a note via e-mail with your name to John Nitzke at RF@ieee.org by Wednesday, January 4th.

The meeting is preceded by dinner at Bertucci’s, 475 Winter St, Waltham at 5:30 PM. The speaker will be joining us at dinner.

Directions to Bertucci’s restaurant in Waltham: Take Exit 27B on I95/128, heading west on Winter Street. After exiting, stay all the way to the right and take the first right turn into the shopping plaza. Please let Bob Malupin know if you plan to attend the dinner at Bertucci’s. Bob can be contacted at Robert.Malupin@VerizonWireless.com.

Directions to Verizon Technology Center (old Verizon Labs location), 60 Sylvan Rd. campus, Waltham, MA 02451: Take Exit 27B on I95/128, heading west on Winter Street. Stay all the way to the right. Verizon Technology Center is 1/2 mile ahead. At the second traffic light, turn left onto WEST ST. and then take the first right (at the Verizon sign) which leads into the Verizon campus. Take the first left. The building and entrance for the meeting are on your right. Note that the entrance to the auditorium area is by the far corner – with the picnic tables out front – and not the tower or the new building.