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WNY-Partnership
for Regional Internetworking
Agenda
Wednesday, September
19th, 2001
The next
WNY Partnership for Regional
Internetworking meeting will take place from 10:00 AM until noon at 120 Clemens
Hall on the North Campus of the University at Buffalo. Samuel
Clemens Hall is Bldg # 6 on the campus
map. Paid Visitor Parking available in Fronczak Lot B. Coffee and
snacks are being generously provided by Veraview, one of the primary corporate
sponsors of the WNY-HPNVI.
The general presentation
and discussion
focus of the meeting will be regional networks and dark fiber build overviews and issues.
We'll try to clarify our sense of promising solutions to some of the issues
raised during our first meeting: achieving seamless regional internetworking and
eliminating the "Information Taxi-Rides" that empty our pockets and
lose our baggage. Those of you who were not able to attend the first
meeting may want to make a quick pass through the PowerPoint presentation
we used as a basis for discussion.
We will have at least two distinguished remote
on-line guests during the first half of the meeting for questions and
discussions related to regional/national Dark Fiber build activity in both North
America and Europe: Bill St. Arnaud, Senior Director Network Projects at CANARIE
Inc (the Canadian Internet2 corollary) and Bart Kerver with the Innovation
Management Group at SURFNet (another
Internet2 corollary) in the Netherlands.
Bill
St. Arnaud is best known to most of us actively working
with high performance networked video for his editorship and reviews in the CANARIE
NEWS, a must-subscribe listserv (see our Links
& Lists page for how to subscribe) that, among other things, is the best
single source of news and information on Municipal/Regional Dark Fiber build
activity in North America, and possibly the world. He also wrote an
exquisitely good FAQ
on Dark Fiber that we hope you will at least peruse before the meeting.
In fact, his entire on-line Library
collection is well worth adding to your on-line bookshelves. We're
hoping that Bill will be able to give us a snapshot overview of some of the
why's and how's of municipal and regional dark fiber builds along with engaging in any
discussions that may be of interest to you.
Bart
Kerver is a colleague of Egon
Verharen, a familiar
face to those of you who have been active with the WNY-HPNVI. He works
with Egon in the Innovation Management Group at SURFNet in the Netherlands and will provide some brief updates
on Dark Fiber related activities in Europe. While the regulatory,
political and legal cultures may be substantially different, we find, globally,
that we are all drawn by the same benefit potentials and application visions. SURFNet has been a long-standing collaborative partner with us on
virtually all of our major demonstration projects -- most recently our global Extended
Medical Grand Rounds trials.
During the second half of the meeting we hope to
have a presentation by Dr. Donald Jacobs, Associate Dean for Research &
Technologies - Graduate School of Education and Director of The Center
for Applied Technologies in Education (CATE). Dr. Jacobs has been
instrumental in developing videoconferencing based distance learning networks
amongst the public schools in the WNY region. The Regional Community
Network (RCN), a new high performance IP network that includes well over a
hundred new public schools and public benefit institutions is his latest
accomplishment and will be the focus of his presentation to us.
Agenda:
10:00 Introductions & Framing Context (Carol
Kostyniak)
10:15 Municipal & Regional Dark Fiber Builds - Overviews,
Issues, Discussions
Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE
Bart Kerver, SURFNet
Jim Whitlock, UB/WNY-HPNVI (moderator)
11:00 The Regional Community Network -- An overview &
Discussion
Dr. Donald Jacobs, UB/CATE
11:45 Concluding Discussion & Remarks (Carol Kostyniak,
Jim
Whitlock, David Ellis, et al)
- Fall Calendar of Events
- Important On-line Sites & Lists
- WNY-PRI Roster
- WNY-PRI Steering Committee
- WNY-PRI-OPERATIONS Working Group
- WNY-PRI Technical Coordinating Committee
12:00 Close
While working on the arrangements for this meeting, Bill St.
Arnaud passed along the following links and comments. You may also want to
check our links page and that
of the WNY-HPNVI.
Additional resources from Bill St. Arnaud:
1. The CA*net 3 news archives at www.canet3.net
2. The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) is carrying
out a
"Broadband Last Mile" study. There are some
excellent papers on their web
site on different models for building community broadband
networks and
broadband to the home including fiber to the
home. www.cstb.org
3. Another excellent site is the Telecommunications and Policy Institute
at the
University of Texas . This has a list of over 200
communities building fiber
networks. http://www.utexas.edu/research/tipi/
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