Forskningsnettet

INVITATION:
1st End-to-End Provisioning Workshop - Establishing Lightpaths
When: 1-2 December 2008
Where: Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam
Price: FREE

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Dear colleague,
If you are a campus or research centre network or system administrator or manager, your participation in this event would be very welcome.
NB: If this event is not suitable for you but you know someone for whom it could be useful, please pass this information on to them.
Thank you.

Best regards,

Peter Szegedi
TERENA Project Development Officer
Mailto: szegedi@terena.org

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A recent study* reported that ever more researchers and students of all disciplines require dedicated bandwidth to carry out their work securely and quickly over the network. It also showed that while Gigabit connectivity is provided to many campuses, often only a fraction of that bandwidth reaches the end user. Technical and other factors often cause ‘bottlenecks’ at the level of metropolitan, campus and local infrastructures. In order to set up end-to-end connections, cooperation is necessary between national research and education networking organisations (NRENs), metropolitan, campus and local networks.

The first TERENA Workshop on End-to-End Provisioning will gather together people who can share expertise in establishing real end-to-end connection services. They will help shape the way that end-to-end provisioning is tackled in the future. Please help to spread the word!

The workshop is free to attend and is very easy to reach in the heart of Amsterdam. It will take place over two half-days, requiring only one night’s stay.

For the programme and other relevant information, or to register or sign up for news about future events, please check:
http://www.terena.org/e2e

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FURTHER INFORMATION:

TERENA
TERENA is the Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association – the association in which Europe’s research networking organisations, research institutes, equipment vendors and telecommunications operators can meet, exchange information and experience and collaborate on arange of actibiteis that contribute to the developemnt of european research.

TERENAs website

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*CAMPUS ISSUES
The recent EARNEST foresight study of research and education networking over the next 5-10 years included a sub-study of campus issues.
http://www.terena.org/activities/earnest/docs/20080321-campus-issues.pdf

This and all the EARNEST reports are available from the TERENA Secretariat : secretariat@terena.org

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