With our current economic situation being as it is, most companies have slashed training budgets, and especially the budgets for attending conferences requiring travel have been decimated. Consequently, one of the greatest avenues for continuing education has seen a lot of roadblocks.
Have IT budgets hit bottom yet?
As a partial solution to this problem, Webtorials has continued to partner for seven years with Future-Net to make available for you essentially the entire program. And while just having access to the handouts falls short of the total conference experience, this is a fabulous resource in terms of offering almost 40 sessions, including extensive tutorials.here.
The archives are available
Some of the sessions that we find most interesting are several Carrier Ethernet tutorials. Additionally, as noted in the archives:
“Carrier Ethernet Interconnect: The MEF as the defining body for Carrier Ethernet, presents this new Global Interconnect phase impacting Enterprises, regional and global service providers alike. It brings the cost savings of Carrier Ethernet to Service Provider inter-connection, alignment of services classes, automated management and monitoring, together with simplification and standardization of provisioning, assurance and billing process.
“Role of MPLS in Evolution to 4G: This presentation examines the role of MPLS technology in the evolution to 4G mobile networks, considering the 3GPP LTE mobile architecture as a case study.
“SIP Trunking: Security and Interop Issues, Opportunities and Solutions: SIP trunking rapidly reduces costs by leveraging SIP, eliminating redundant network connections and providing PSTN termination in the local area. Addressing the needs of both service providers and enterprises, this session provides an overview of the issues faced in enterprise deployments – with a focus on security – offer real solutions and discuss the opportunities SIP trunking affords every business.
“IPv6 Security: This talk surveys the threats against IPv6 networks and provides solutions on how to mitigate those. It covers the issues and the current practices for securing an IPv6 network.”
And this sampling just scratches the surface of available materials.
