MPLS 2003 Conference - Submission Deadline Extended to July 3rd

The MPLS 2003 Conference will be held in Washington D.C. from October=
 26
through October 28. This year=92s conference will include but is not =
limited
to topics such as:

- MPLS as a convergence technology
- MPLS network management and operational issues
- Provisioning and migration strategies
- MPLS in multi-AS networks
- L2 VPNs (pseudo-wire, VPLS, and other)
- L3 VPNs (BGP/MPLS, IPSec interworking, virtual routers, and other)
- Scalability and performance
- Traffic engineering and QoS
- Network processor architectures for next generation applications
- Testing MPLS applications and performance
- Network security
- Disaster recovery
- Reliability and graceful restart techniques
- Optical Integration and challenges

The Program Committee of MPLS 2003 is soliciting presentation proposa=
ls
for this conference. If you wish to suggest a particular topic or a
contribution please send a one page long proposal, including speaker=
=92s
contact details to the attention of the Technical Program Committee a=
t
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> by July 3, 2003 (this will=
 be the
last extension.) See www.mpls2003.com <http://www.mpls2003.com> for m=
ore
details.

The program committee is looking for original and unpublished work to
continue the tradition initiated by this conference in 1998 of coveri=
ng
cutting-edge topics. Presentations from the vendor, service provider =
and
user community are solicited on new technologies and operational
experience.