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CEF Networks Workshop 2006

The workshop has been organized in Prague from May 29th to May 31st, 2006. The main purpose was to exchange experience and support further effort in deployment of the Customer Empowered Networks concept.

Programme and presentations

Monday May 29

10:00	Registration
10:30	Customer Empowered Fiber Networks – CESNET's approach Jan Gruntorad
11:00	Tea and coffee break
11:30	Update on CEF Networks in Slovakia Pavol Horvath, Marian Durkovic, Tibor Weis
12:00	RENATER WDM infrastructure: deployment and usages Franck Simon
12:30	Buffet Lunch
13:30	GRNET3 update Chrysostomos Tziouvaras
14:00	Porta Optica Study project – the academic networks in East Europe Artur Binczewski, Miłosz Przywecki, Maciej Stroiński, Jan Węglarz
14:30	End of Monday presentations Tea and coffee break
15:00	Working groups meetings Presentation room: GN2 research project participants – JRA4 WI2 discussion Other rooms: if asked by May 26th by some participants
18:00	Dinner on riverboat
20:00	End of riverboat trip

Tuesday May 30

10:00	Towards advanced CEF Networks lighting Stanislav Sima, Lada Altmannova
10:30	DWDMlight – lightweight optical links built from multi-vendor equipment Felix Kugler
11:00	Tea and coffee break
11.30	Field and lab experiences with deployment of optical amplifiers and FBGs Josef Vojtech, Miroslav Karasek, Jan Radil
12:00	Supercontinuum generation in HNLF for 40 Gbps muticasting applications Miroslav Karasek, Josef Vojtech, Jan Radil
12:30	Buffet Lunch
13:30	Cross Border Services within the GN2 project Hans Döbbeling
14:00	Extending CEF Networks in the last mile to university residence and home Bill St. Arnaud
14:30	Tea and coffee break
15:00	Multi-vendor and multi-service utilisation of first mile of Czech academic networks Karel Slavicek, Ales Houda, Josef Verich, Vladimir Zahorik
15:30	The national landscape: next-generation and optical national infrastructures in the United States Ana Preston
16:00	End of Tuesday workshop programme

Wednesday May 31

10:00	The Quilt and regional optical networking efforts Hud Croasdale
10:30	NYSERNET, the New York State Education and Research Network Tim Lance
11:00	Tea and coffee break
11:30	OARNET/Third Frontier Network, Ohio's RON Paul Schopis
12:00	Multi-domain DWDM connections for medical applications Milan Sarek, Lada Altmanova
12:30	Buffet Lunch
13:30	Optical Networking for Brazil's Higher Education and Research Community Michael Stanton (videoconference)
14:00	All optical networking Loudon Blair
14:30	Tea and coffee break
15:00	Open discussion
16:00	End of the workshop

Documents

Recommendation of the workshop.

Photographs