This is a service-provider oriented panel hosted at NANOG52 in Denver, CO, that I coordinated (with Nina Bargisen of TDC with help from Phil Griston, Cariden, and Timothy Hu, WANDL) and moderated/Chaired. 

The panel involved excellent presentations by Tom Lundstrom (Qwest) and Duke Fisher (Verizon) on how they were using network planning and design tools to effectively handle large-scale design..

1. Capacity Planning Panel
Moderator: Vishal Sharma, Metanoia
Panelists: Duke Fisher, Verizon Business; Arman Maghbouleh, Cariden; Dave Wang, Wandl; Thomas Lundstrom, Qwest
Presentation Date: June 15, 2011, 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Grand Ballroom
Abstract:
The Panel will consist of Capacity Planning tool Users and Vendors.
Vishal Sharma Biography:
Vishal Sharma is a seasonsed international technologist, telecom industry expert, and entrepreneur with 20 years of experience
spanning consulting, industry, academia, labs., and research. He currently serves as a Principal at Metanoia, Inc., a niche Bay-area
consultancy, overseeing it's consulting activities to clients across the telecom ecosystem (spanning chip/semi-conductor companies,
system vendors, operators/carriers, technology houses, and telecom software and tool companies)
Over the last decade and a half, Vishal has been involved in IP network- and IP switch/router- architecture, design, analysis, and
prototyping, and has also directed advanced data network research. His work has spanned the design and architecture of high-speed
switch/routers, the development of advanced switching and QoS schemes for IP-based networks, devising connection and flow-control
protocols for very high-speed networks, network planning and traffic engineering algorithms and best-practices, and the development
and standardization of generalized multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) signaling and routing techniques as a key contributor to 10
issued RFCs. He has 8 issued patents in the areas of MPLS recovery, high-speed router architectures, switch scheduling, optical
routing, and the IP control of multi-layer networks.
He has developed and delivered advanced industry workshops, keynotes, and lectures on IP network design and QoS, IP traffic
engineering practices and principles, modern IP Virtual Private Networks, and Metro/Carrier Ethernet network design best-practices.
Together with his team, he has provided inputs to operator customers on 4 continents, in areas such as network design and planning,
IP services evolution, metro/core network design, & wireless backhaul technologies, and prior customers have included ETSA
Telecom, Australia, AT&T/SBC, MTNL, Reliance, France Telecom/Orange, and Covad, among others. He delivered a well-received
keynote at SANOG9 in Colombo, SriLanka titled "Network Planning and Design: An Art or a Science?".
He serves on the Scientific Committee of the MPLS & Ethernet World Congress, a premier gathering for IP/MPLS practitioners, and
has Chaired it's signature debate for several years, and is on the Committees of FutureNet, iPOP, and a number of international
conferences. He has been a Guest Editor of 4 Feature Topic Issues of the IEEE Communications Mag. (IEEE's most widely-read
journal, going to over 50,000+ professionals) on: OAM in MPLS networks, inter-provider QoS, advances in IP VPNs, and next-
generation Carrier Ethernet transport.
He earned his B. Tech (EE'91) from IIT Kanpur, and MS (Signals & Systems'93), MS (Computer Engineering'93), and Ph.D.
(ECE'97), from UC Santa Barbara.
More details can be found at http://www.metanoia-inc.com/company/our_team.html, and he can be reached at v.sharma@ieee.org.
Duke Fisher Biography:
Duke has worked for Verizon since 1997 and is the lead engineer for their Traffic Engineering team. He works with Verizon's
enterprise networks providing data services to government and corporate customers. Duke's focus is on the network design, modeling,
and traffic engineering of Verizon's global backbone network.

2. Arman Maghbouleh Biography:
Arman Maghbouleh serves as the President of Cariden Technologies where he works with network operators to develop traffic
management solutions. Arman has extensive experience in network design consulting and tools development, including stints at Apple
Computer, Fidelity Investments and Advanced Telecommunications Research Laboratories.
Dave Wang Biography:
Dave Wang is the President and one of the founders of WANDL, Inc., where he has been a major contributor to the design and
development of the product suites through the course of working closely with global Tier 1 Service Providers and Carriers. Prior to
this, he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Bellcore. Dave holds a B.S. in mathematics from National Taiwan University and a
Ph.D. in mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Thomas Lundstrom Biography:
Thomas Lundstrom - Staff Engineer at Qwest Communications
Tom has worked at Qwest Communications (now Century Link) since 2000 and is one of the organization's innovators in backbone
planning and design, traffic forecasting, resiliency assessment, and simulation.
Archived Files:
• Lundstrom-Cap-Plan-Panel-Qwest
• Fisher
• Panel - Capacity Planning Panel
NANOG52 Abstracts
• 0 to IPv6 in 3 months - A customer's view
Steve Benoit, Georgian College of Applied Arts & Tech
• 100 GbE and Beyond
Greg Hankins, Brocade
• APAC Submarine Cables and their impact to IP Backbone Design
Richard Kahn, Pacnet
• Tutorial: Best Practices in Network Planning and Traffic Engineering
Paolo Lucente, KPN International; Arman Maghbouleh, Cariden Technologies, Inc.
• Bufferbloat: "Dark" Buffers in the Internet
James Gettys, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs
• Capacity Planning Panel
Moderator: Vishal Sharma, Metanoia
Panelists: Duke Fisher, Verizon Business; Arman Maghbouleh, Cariden; Dave Wang, Wandl; Thomas Lundstrom, Qwest
• Dawn of the Terabit Age: Scaling Optical Capacity to Meet Internet Demand
Drew Perkins, Infinera
• FCC - The Open Internet Order
Doug Sicker, FCC

3. • Idealized BGPsec: Formally Verifiable BGP
Randy Bush, IIJ
• IPv4 Address Transfers in the NANOG Region
John Curran, ARIN
• Keynote: Mobile Wireless Evolution
Bob Azzi, Sprint
• Keynote: The History of the Internet
Milo Medin, Google Corp.
• Let the Market Drive Deployment: A Strategy for Transitioning to BGP Security
Sharon Goldberg, Boston University; Phillipa Gill, University of Toronto; Michael Schapira, Princeton University
• Measuring Dual Stack Performance
Geoff Huston, APNIC
• NANOG Community Meeting
Moderator: Steve Feldman, CBS Interactive and Chair, NewNOG Board of Directors
• Tutorial: NANOG Newcomers
Mohit Lad, ThousandEyes
• NANOG Newcomers' Breakfast
Sponsor: Google
Moderator: Sonia Sakovich, Sprint-Nextel
• NANOG Newcomers' Debrief
Moderator: Sonia Sakovich, Sprint-Nextel
• NOGLab
Sponsors: A10 Networks, Alcatel-Lucent, ARRIS, and Comcast
• OCN Experience to Handle the Internet Growth and the Future
Chika Yoshimura, NTT Communications and Takeshi Tomochika, NTT Communications
• Opening Remarks
David Meyer, Cisco/UO and Chair, NANOG Program Committee; James Tindall, Alcatel-Lucent
• Research Networks: The Other Internet
Kevin Oberman, ESnet
• Tutorial: RPKI-Based BGP Origin Validation Workshop
Randy Bush, IIJ; Rob Austein, ISC
• Tutorial: RPKI-Based BGP Origin Validation Workshop (continued)
Randy Bush, IIJ; Rob Austein, ISC
• Track: ARMD
Benson Schliesser, Cisco Systems, Inc.
• Track: ISP Security
Moderator: Paul Scanlon, Arbor Network
• Track: Panel on Using AMT Multicast for Resilient, Scalable Content Delivery
Moderator: Timothy O'Keefe, AT&T

4. • Track: Resilient Protocol Application and Deployment Considerations
Muhammad Durrani, Brocade Communications Inc.
• Track: The Carrier Ethernet Exchange
Robert Huey, Equinix, Inc.
• Virtual Subnet: A Scalable Data Center Interconnection Solution
Xiaohu Xu, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
• World IPv6 Day Experiences
Moderator: Phil Roberts, Internet Society
Panelists: Igor Gashinsky, Yahoo!; Patrick Gilmore, Akamai; John Brzozowski, Comcast; Jon Woolwine, Cisco
• Tutorial: You Can't Do That with nslookup: DNS(SEC) Troubleshooting
Michael Sinatra, ESnet
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