NEW** ANTS 2007 is now technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society (COMSOC ). ANTS 2007 will be held in the F. C. Kohli Auditorium at IIT Bombay located in Powai Mumbai on December 17, 18, 2007.


NEW** Three exciting Keynotes from Dr Krish Prabhu (CEO of Tellabs) and Mr. Subrahmanyam P (SVP, Wipro) and Dr. Steve Vandris (VP, LSI)


NEW** Over two dozen exciting Invited Speakers from the industry and academia will talk about the latest happenings in networking and telecommunications.


NEW** Cisco, JDSU, LSI, Nokia Siemens, Wipro and NetXen are sponsors of ANTS 2007


NEW** Special service provider MEGA discount on registration! Providers please send an email to provider-registrations@antsconference.org for more details.


NEW** Registration, Hotel Information and Visa links are up. Authors must register by December 10, 2007. Early-bird registration ends December 10, 2007.


NEW*** Domestic students discounted registration rate – USD 40 (Rs 1600).


NEW*** Advance Technical Program now available


OUR SPONSORS



Cisco
 JDSU
 LSI
 Nokia Siemens
 Wipro


NetXen
 IITB


Webcast: The First International Symposium on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS) held in IIT Bombay will be broadcast live via the Internet on December 17, 18 from 8 30 am (3:00 am GMT Dec 17, 10 pm EST, Dec 16) and will also be archived.

The link for this webcast is: http://iitb.wstream.net/cdeep/ .



Scope: Broadband access networks are witnessing a convergence in terms of both technologies and services. Next-generation services demand unified technologies spread across the physical, data-link, and network layers. Integrated platforms have benefits in terms of deployment cost as well as the ability to provision new services. To investigate into these problems at the optical (physical), data link (SONET/SDH/Ethernet/RPR), and the network (MPLS, IP) layers, the First Symposium on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS) 2007 is being organized. A special focus of the symposium in this inaugural year will be on emerging economies - India, China, Brazil, Russia, etc. The symposium will be held in the commercial and entertainment capital of India - Bombay - on December 17-18, 2007. The symposium proposes to be a mix of academia, industry, and service providers, enabling a common meeting point for the confluence and exchange of ideas in the following and related areas:


  • Convergence in Broadband Access Technologies
  • Broadband networks for metro enterprises
  • Storage and grid computing
  • First mile access networks (Passive Optical Networks (PON), Power line Communications  (PLC), and Long reach     Ethernet)
  • Long Reach Broadband Access (PON - WiMax - WiFi convergence)
  • Optical networks
  • Network architectures and protocols
  • Routing, traffic, services over optical networks
  • Metro, access, and core networks
  • Data center and virtualization technologies
  • Protocol layering
  • Protection and restoration - service level agreements (SLA)
  • Futuristic and technologies for emerging economies
  • Equipment provider experiences, Service provider experience planning and future designs
  • Metro Ethernet, PBB, PBT, PBB-TE, MPLS, VPLS, VPNs
  • ITU, OIF, IETF activities


    • Special Issue in Elseviers Optical Switching and Networking Journal: Authors of top papers presented in ANTS would be invited to submit longer versions of the paper for a special issue in Elseviers Optical Switching and Networking Journal.
    Elsevier