Speakers: Paolo Lucente, KPN International. Arman Maghbouleh, Cariden Technologies, Inc. This presentation will review current industry best practices for planning and traffic engineering in IP and MPLS networks. Technologies and approaches will be compared, leveraging experience gained and case studies including a number of Tier 1 deployments. The subjects covered will include: - Traffic/demand matrices: Methods for determining traffic matrices for IP/MPLS networks - NetFlow, MPLS, demand estimation, demand deduction - pmacct NetFlow collector - The relationship between SLAs and network planning targets - Network planning simulation and analysis – working and failure cases, what-if scenarios - Traffic Engineering options and approaches: tactical, strategic, MPLS, IGP - IPFRR LFA analysis - Planning IP-over-Optical networks See more at: https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog52/agenda