Worshop on CEF Networks

The workshop has been organized in Prague from May 25th to May 26th, 2004. The main purpose was to exchange experience and support further effort in deployment of the Customer Empowered Networks concept. 46 participants from 22 countries took part in the workshop.

Programme

Tuesday, May 25th

chairman: Jan Gruntorad

13:00	CESNET's Approach to CustomerEmpowered Network Concept Jan Gruntorad
13:30	Procurement and Lighting of dark fibre Stanislav Sima, Lada Altmanova
14:00	SWITCHlambda – deployment of a dark fiber backbone in Switzerland Felix Kugler
14:30	HEAnet and its steps into fibre land Victor Reijs, Eion Kenny
15:00	tea and coffee break
15:30	Acquisition and deployment of dark fiber within SURFnet Walter van Dijk
16:00	Lighting up dark fiber within SURFnet Erik Radius
16:30	Long Haul Ethernet and grid experiments in Denmark David Simonsen
17:00	IRU-based customer rights to general use of telecom infrastructure with cost based upgrade Olaf Schjelderup
17:30	Open discussion

Wednesday, May 26th

chairman: Stanislav Sima

9:00	Lighting the fibre: to do or not to do Tomaz Kalin
9:30	Dark Fiber's Role in the Creation of a New Networking Environment for Research and Education in the United States Steve Corbato
10:00	Polish Optical Network – PIONIER Artur Binczewski, Michal Przybylski, Maciej Stroinski
10:30	SANET-2: From leased lines to dark fibres Pavol Horvath, Marian Durkovic
11:00	Dark fibre in the Serbian NREN – solutions, plans and activities Pavle Vuletic, Zoran Jovanovic
11:30	buffet lunch
12:00	CAnet 4: Customer Empowered Networking through User Control of Lightpaths* Rene Hatem
12:30	Municipality fibre networks in Greece and the role of GRNET Afrodite Sevasti, Stelios Satzetakis, Yiannis Scopoulis
13:00	Dark Fibre for RCTS: challenges and initial steps Pedro Veiga, Jose Fernandes
13:30	Lessons learnt in a recent public procurement for CEF Istvan Tetenyi
14:00	Open discussion, recommendations from the workshop

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Worshop on CEF Networks

Programme

Tuesday, May 25th

Wednesday, May 26th

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