CEF Networks Workshop 2009

The 5th Customer Empowered Fibre (CEF) Networks workshop will begin in Prague on May 14th, 2009 at 9:00 and will be closed on May 15th, 2009 at 17:00. It immediately follows the Future Internet Conference. Main purpose of this workshop is to exchange experience and support further effort in deployment of the Customer Empowered Networks concept.

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Programme and presentations

Thursday May 14, 2009

9:00 registration
9:45 Opening of the 5th CEF Networks workshop
10:00 CEF Networks Research and Experimentation
Stanislav Sima
10:30 Ultra wide band OPS system and field experiments
Naoya Wada
11:00 tea and coffee break
11:30 Dark fibre testbed JANET Aurora
David Salmon
12:00 Experience with semiCEF rollout for ACOnet
Christian Panigl
12:30 buffet lunch
13:30 Shared Hybrid Networking model, Challenges and opportunities
Kurosh Bozorgebrahimi
14:00 Open DWDM systems deployment
Lada Altmannova
14:30 tea and coffee break
15:00 Open transmission and switching systems (CLfamily)
Jan Radil, Josef Vojtech
15:30 Real time demo: control of CL devices in operation
Miloslav Hula
16:30 end of first day work
19:00 dinner

Friday May 15, 2009

10:00 Proposal for a Figure of Merit of dark fiber links
Roeland Nuijts
10:30 RENATER-5 network: DWDM architecture and usages
Franck Simon
11:00 tea and coffee break
11:30 WSS based pan-nordic optical network
Lars Lange Bjorn
12:00 Acquiring a DWDM-system lessons hard learned
Jan Ferre
12:30 buffet lunch
13:30 ARNES experience with obtaining and lighting dark fibre
Avgust Jauk
14:00 Long duration PMD measurement results for aerial fibre and their implications for 40 Gbps operation
Eoin Kenny
14:30 tea and coffee break
15:00 RedIRIS: Issues to consider when tendering for an Optical Network
Esther Robles Blazquez
15:30 Discussion
16:30 Workshop recommendations
17:00 end of 5th CEF Networks workshop

Registration

Please use the on-line registration form to register for the workshop. The on-line system allows you to:

Registration fees

ParticipantStudent
Early registration (before 30 April) 9050
Late registration (1–13 May) 12070
On-site registration (from 14 May) 150100

The registration fee covers following services:

Venue and logistics

The workshop venue is the Blue and Green rooms in Carolinum, a historic building of Charles university Prague. Carolinum is located in the centre of Old City, the true heart of gothic Prague. History of Carolinum goes back to 14th century when the new-founded Charles university bought and reconstructed the Rotler house to set up the headquarters. Since this time for more than 600 years the rector office is situated here.

[Carolinum photo] [Carolinum photo]

Official address of the workshop venue is Celetna 20, Prague. Some useful information:

Dinner venue

The workshop dinner is organised at the U Karlova mostu restaurant from 20 hours at Thursday May 14th. See the on-line map for instructions how to get there from the conference venue.

Accommodation

GUARANT International has been appointed as the official hotel accommodation agent for the and CEF networks workshop and will handle all related arrangements.

Following hotels are available for the workshop participants at reduced rates:

Hotel Category Price in EUR
single/double		 Zone
Astoria **** 112 / 124 < 5 min
Melantrich *** 81 / 86 (price decreased) < 5 min

The hotels are located within reasonable distance from Carolinum. If you plan to attend also the Future Internet conference, decide the recommended conference hotels.

To make a hotel reservation, use the on-line reservation form. See also booking and payment conditions.

Previous workshops

This is the 5th CEF Networks Workshop. Here you can find presentations, pictures and other materials from previous years:

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