CEF Networks Workshop 2007

The workshop took place in Prague from September 19th to 20th, 2007. It immediately followed the 7th Annual Glogal LambdaGrid Workshop. Main purpose of this workshop was to exchange experience and support further effort in deployment of the Customer Empowered Networks concept.

Programme

This is the workshop programme:

Wednesday September 19, 2007

9:00 registration
9:45 Opening of the 4th CEF Networks workshop
Jan Gruntorad
10:00 Improvements in Customer Empowered Fiber Networks (3 MB)
Stanislav Sima
10:30 SURFnet6 update (6 MB)
Erik-Jan Bos
11:00 tea and coffee break
11:30 The Deployment of Optical Circuits Across AARNet (3 MB)
Alex Reid
12:00 The relationship of the underlying optical network to a hybrid, switched (L2) - packet (L3), network supporting large-scale science (5 MB)
William E. Johnston
12:30 buffet lunch
13:30 ACOnet goes (semi) CEF (0,5 MB)
Christian Panigl
14:00 Lit fibre service (5 MB)
Lada Altmannova
14:30 tea and coffee break
15:00 Innovative devices for dark fibre networks (5 MB)
Jan Radil, Josef Vojtech, Miroslav Karasek
15:30 Optical Networking in Brazil: R&D&I and deployment (10 MB)
Michael Stanton
16:00 Deployment of Hybrid Network Architecture of KREONET in Korea (4 MB)
Kwangjong Cho
16:30 Workshop recommendations - preparation
17:00 end of first day work
19:30 dinner

Thursday September 20, 2007

9:30 Support of the regional research and education networks in the US (0,1 MB)
Hud Croasdale
10:00 Planning for CENIC's Next Optical Network (1 MB)
Dave Reese
10:30 Building a Backbone Network with Community Owned Fiber (4 MB)
Robert Duncan
11:00 tea and coffee break
11:30 TeraFlow Network: An National Research Testbed for Data Intensive Science Based on Dynamic Lightpaths (1 MB)
Joe Mambretti, Robert Grossman
12:00 Dark fiber networks in the Nordic countries (3 MB)
Heino Radmer
12:30 buffet lunch
13:30 Dark fibre infrastructure for Danish Research Network (0,3 MB)
Jan Ferré
14:00 Low cost optical monitoring brought down to earth? (6 MB)
Felix Kugler
14:30 tea and coffee break
15:00 Lightpaths monitoring in SURFnet6 and NetherLight (4 MB)
Ronald van der Pol
15:30 Internet2 Network: Supporting Optical Networkingfor Research and Education in the United States (3 MB)
Christian Todorov
16:00 Workshop recommendations and open discussion
17:00 end of CEF Networks workshop

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Venue and logistics

The workshop venue was Masarykova kolej, Thákurova 1, Prague. See our guide how to get there (PDF, 140 kB) for easier navigation. The venue is easy to reach by public transport – it is located just few minutes of walk from Metro station Dejvická or from the last stop of bus No. 119 going from the airport. The trip from the airport should not take more than 30 minutes.

We prepared an online map providing the reachability instructions, some hotels nearby and the global orientation.

There was a common dinner for all workshop participants included in the registration fee. The dinner was organised at September 19th in the restaurant Hanavsky pavilon. See the dinner map (PDF, 160 kB) for instructions how reach the restaurant.

[How to get there - link to PDF] [Dinner map - link to PDF]

Additional useful information:

Previous workshops

This is the 4th CEF Networks Workshop. Here you can find presentations, pictures and other materials from previous years:

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