http://www.cesnet.cz/ Information about the Czech National Research and Education Network and about research activities of the CESNET association. en http://www.ces.net/doc/press/2010/pr100301.html We host the 5th FEDERICA general assembly in Prague from March 1st to 3rd. FEDERICA is an European project focused on the development and evaluation of novel networking technologies. See our press release for further information. http://www.ces.net/doc/press/2010/pr100226.html The CESNET association was the first to natively interconnect with Google in NIX.CZ peering centre in Prague via IPv6 protocol. More can be found in our press release. mms://server3.streaming.cesnet.cz/cesnet/2010/internet.wmv We celebrated the 18th anniversary of Internet start in the Czech Republic on the beginning of February (this great event happened at February 13th, 1992). Nova TV station concerned with the Internet history in one shot of the Weekend show broadcast on January 11th. Jan Gruntorád and Jiří Peterka participated in the talk – see the recording (in Czech). The same topic was covered by the talk with Tom Kosnar broadcast by Leonardo station of Czech Radio in the Monitor show on February 12th. It is also available to download or stream (in Czech). http://www.ces.net/doc/press/2010/pr100205.html The evaluation of research results achieved in 2009 passed today. The opponency board appreciated the highly professional level of our work and it evaluated the achieved results as excellent with international impact. We published a press release describing this event. http://www.ces.net/doc/press/2010/pr100120.html We will participate in the high-definition transmissions of ophthalmologic surgeries performed during the Live + Video Surgery 2010 meeting of ophthalmologists on January 22. and 23. We will collaborate on the transmission arrangement with the CNC Praha company and the Central Military Hospital in Prague. Deatils are described in our new press release. http://www.ces.net/doc/press/2009/pr091218.html The three-year international Phosphorus project has finished successfully. CESNET participated on its solution from the very beginning - see the press release for detailed description. http://www.ces.net/doc/press/2009/pr091217.html During the CineGrid 2009 workshop we presented the usage of high-speed networks for the team processing of moving image in high definition. The presentation was prepared in collaboration with the Cinepost company. It was based on the CESNET-developed MVTP-4k device which allows real-time transmission of video in 4k resolution. Read more in the press release. http://www.ces.net/doc/press/2009/pr091207.html On Tuesday 1. December, we held an experts' seminar dealing with the issues of IP telephony and videoconferences. Over fifty participants listened to presentations focused on services provided by CESNET, example of IP telefony solution used by the university in Pilsen, security topics and up-to-date technical solutions. More information is provided by our press release. http://www.ces.net/doc/press/2009/pr091204.html CESNET director Jan Gruntorád was elected a member of the executive committee of the GN3 project which develops GÉANT--the European backbone for science, research and education. The ceremonial launch of the project took place on 1 and 2 December in Stockholm. See further details in our press release. http://www.ces.net/netreport/ We deployed new system for CESNET2 backbone traffic load visualisation. In comparision to its predecessor, it provides more detailed and hopefully better arranged data. The measurement and presentation is performed by the G3 system, one of the achievements of our research (see the corresponding research activity). http://www.ces.net/doc/press/2009/pr091116.html We organised a seminar of grid computing focused on the Czech national grid environment named MetaCentrum. It took place in Brno on 12th November. Main purpose of this seminar was to inform current and potential users of high-performance computing about the contemporary status of MetaCentrum and the possibilities which it offers to solve demanding tasks. More detailed information is covered by the press release. http://www.ces.net/doc/press/2009/pr091102.html On 5th and 6th November Prague will host a preparatory meeting of new TERENA Task Force. The main aim of the Task Force Media will be the matters of creation and distribution od multimedia data. Read the press release for additional information. http://www.ces.net/doc/press/2009/pr091026.html We ensure the broadcasting and videoarchiving of the public lectures given during the Science and Technology Week on the beginning of November. More details and the addresses are provided by the press release. http://www.ces.net/doc/press/2009/pr091012.html We installed CRS-1 terabit router to the CESNET2 point of presence in Brno. Backbone nodes in Prague and Brno are now prepared for 40 Gbps interconnection. This improvement doubled the Brno node because the router is installed in new locality. More information is available in the press release. http://www.cesnet.cz/doc/vyrocni-zprava/cesnet-vz-2008-en.pdf We published the 2008 Annual Report describing the most important activites and results of CESNET achieved in last year. The 2008 Annual Report in English is available in the PDF format (file size 3.2 MB). http://www.ces.net/doc/whatisrss.html We created separate RSS channel dedicated to technical reports (http://www.ces.net/tech-rep.xml). It will notify of currently published technical reports describing partial results of our research. http://www.ces.net/doc/press/2009/pr090924.html Joint project of Institute of Intermedia of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague and CESNET named Cave to Cave (C2C) was presented on Tuesday September 22 during the ceremonial opening of new stereo-projection equipped classroom at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of CTU. The C2C project focuses on the high-quality interactive transmission of 3D signal. Read more in our press release. http://www.ces.net/doc/press/2009/pr090922.html In cooperation with the PASNET metropolitan network, we connected the Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Ondrejov at 10 Gbps. This new connectivity enhances the potential of the institute researchers tgo collaborate in international projects. Common press release brings further information. http://www.ces.net/doc/press/2009/pr090903.html Our association partnered the 19th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL) which was held from 31 August to 2 September in Prague. We presented especially results of our Programmable hardware and Monitoring and Optimizing of Performance Characteristics activities - new cards from the COMBOv2 family and a programmable high-speed network monitoring platform. Additional information regarding the conference and our presentation provides our press release. http://www.ces.net/doc/press/2009/pr090715.html The Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport has named the CESNET association as the representative of the National Grid Infrastructure (NGI) in all of the international organizations in which the NGI will be active. It concerns especially the European EGI_DS project. See our press release for further details. http://www.cesnet.cz/doc/2009/networking-studies/ We published the Networking Studies 2009 proceedings. It contains 11 selected and revised technical reports organised in three thematic sections: CESNET2 Network, Network Monitoring and Security, ans Middleware and Applications. 185-page publication is free to download in the PDF format. http://www.cesnet.cz/doc/datagram/ New release of our Datagram bulletin (in Czech) brings articles about our preparatory works towards 40 Gbps backbone, The Future of the Internet: Europe moving forward conference, CEF Networks Workshop 2009 and computer security seminars. http://www.ces.net/doc/press/2009/pr090601.html We organized two professional seminarsi (in Czech) focused on network security issues: Secure Operation of Networks and Services (May 20) and Facilities for CERT/CSIRT-type Teams (May 21). Both seminars helped the administrators of local computer networs and network services to improve the security an to deal with security incidents. Read more in the press release. http://www.ces.net/doc/press/2009/pr090528.html Basic information regarding the 5th CEF Networks Workshop organised by CESNET in Prague from May 14 to 15 and its final conclusions are summarised by our press release. http://www.ces.net/doc/press/2009/pr090521.html The CESNET association has successfully tested the 40 Gbps technology between Prague and Brno during April. We expect to deploy this technology in real operation in the CESNET2 network in 2010. Additional details are provided by our press release. http://www.ces.net/doc/press/2009/pr090520.html We organised E-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) Workshop in Prague on 14 and 15 May. e-IRG is a working group created to specify and recommend optimal utilisation of the pan-European electronic infrastructure. The Prague meeting dealt for example with issues of the data management, e-infrastructure federalisation or e-infrastructure legal aspects. Read further information in the press release. http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/program/10204960826-13.05.2009-12:35-24.html At May 13, the Czech television broadcasted on its news channel CT24 the Milenium programme focused on the future and visions of Internet. This topic was related to the Future of the Internet conference which took place in Prague. Guests of the programme were Jan Gruntorad, the director of CESNET, and Mario Campolargo, the principal scientific officer with the European Commission DG INFSO (Information Society). Video recording is available on the Czech Television site. http://www.ces.net/doc/press/2009/pr090511.html A press conference was held in Prague at May 11 as a part of the Future of the Internet Conference. Main guest of the conference was Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media. See more in our press release. http://www.fi-prague.eu/ The Future of the Internet Conference co-organised by CESNET starts in Prague today. This conference comes under the Czech presidency of the European Union. It focuses on the strategic orientations and trends governing the future societal and economic developments of the Internet and mobile societies. If concerned you may participate on-line. http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/program/10204960826-20.04.2009-11:35-24-milenium.html TV programme Milenium, broadcasted at the Czech news channel CT24 at April 20, focused on CRS-1 router deployed in CESNET2 network. Two CESNET employees performed in the programme Jan Gruntorad, director of CESNET, and Vaclav Novak, CESNET2 network chief designer together with Tomas Kupka, the technical director of Cisco Systems Czech Republic. Video recording is available on the Czech Television site. http://www.ces.net/doc/press/2009/pr090420.html At Thursday April 23, we provide live Internet broadcast of the Heterogenous Media in Education User Experience international conference. The broadcast can be found at prenosy.cesnet.cz. Additional details regarding the conference are included in our press release. http://www.ces.net/ Workshop of CESNET researchers took place in Skalsky Dvur hotel from April 6 to 8. Its major purpose was to exchange information between various working groups and to plan future research and development works. http://www.cesnet.cz/doc/techzpravy/2008/using-flac-encoding/ This technical report describes the cooperation of CESNET and Czech Radio on streaming high audio quality broadcasts over high speed networks. The report describes the FLAC codec used for this purpose and gives a detailed overview of the streaming server. Available clients are also discussed. http://www.cesnet.cz/doc/techzpravy/2008/cave-to-cave/ This report describes a project which aims to transmit video signals between heterogeneous virtual reality devices over a high speed network connection. http://www.cesnet.cz/doc/techzpravy/2008/eduroam-authentication-over-jammed-network/ Current eduroam can use several different transport mechanisms to carry messages of different EAP authentication mechanisms. Any particular combination is susceptible to disruption of the transport network at some level. This paper compares the resistance of some of the commonly used configurations to network disruptions. http://www.cesnet.cz/doc/datagram/ New release of our Datagram bulletin (in Czech) brings articles regarding successful evaluation of our research results achieved in year 2008, spring conferences Future of the Internet Conference and CEF Networks Workshop 2009, news in the CESNET2 network (terabit router and ongoing split of the Prague PoP) and new devices and cards developed by CESNET.