Plenary Session
Plenary Session Chair: Jiangping Wu (Vice Chair, APAN)
Keynote Speakers:
8.28(Thu) 16:00 - 16:45 (KST)
Dai Davies (DANTE)
General Manager
Presentation Title: Future Directions in Research Networking
8.28(Thu) 16:45 - 17:30 (KST); 8:45-9:30 (London)
Bill St. Arnaud (CANARIE)
Senior Director Advanced Networks
Presentation Title: Update on CA*net 4
network and User Controlled Lightpaths
Dai Davies has Degrees in Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Cambridge and nearly thirty years of technical and commercial experience in the telecommunications sector working at BT, Deutsche Bundespost Telekom and the UK Department of Trade and Industry.
After graduation, he worked as a development engineer in BT on a variety of telephony switching and signaling systems. In 1980, he moved to Germany to set up a European technical team working on ISDN implementation. Following his return from Germany in 1983, he moved to a more commercial role in the international division of BT, where he headed up the Marketing and Business Development division, having responsibility for the introduction of the voice VPN service, FeatureNET, as well as working on the business case for acquisition of Tymenet and being responsible for the marketing case for Syncordia, which subsequently became Concert. In 1991, he left BT to run a European project based in the Netherlands that was responsible for building Europe's first pan-European research network. This led to the creation of DANTE.
Dai Davies is now General Manager of DANTE. DANTE was established in 1993 by the University Networks in Europe to organise the provision of International Networking services on their behalf. Its current project, GÉANT, will create a world class pan-European networking facility that complements national developments in Europe. DANTE has organised the procurement in cost sharing of pan-European networking over the last ten years.
His outside interests include reading
political biographies, playing the saxophone and travelling.
Presentation
Title:
Future Directions in Research Networking
Sub Title: A Perspective from
Europe
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Abstract: In the last five years, there has been a major change in the pan-European network that interconnects research networks in Europe. The liberalisation of the European telecommunications market has made available, for many countries, very high capacity bit streams at affordable prices. This enabled DANTE to construct the GÉANT network in 2001. GÉANT had more capacity than all of the previous five generations of networks put together. It established the use of 10 Gbps IP networks and developed much improved global connectivity for Europe.
In looking ahead to future developments, the question arises as to whether the GÉANT technical and commercial models are the right way to continue. There are a number of trends that suggest the development of alternative technical and commercial models could be more appropriate than continuing with the tried and trusted traditional approaches. The very high cost of routing equipment, the fact that transmission prices are now close to cost for much of Europe and the emergence of new capacity hungry users are all reasons to question current practice.
This address will reflect on European experience and consider some of the factors that may lead to changes in the approach to research networking.
Bill St. Arnaud is Senior Director
Advanced Networks for CANARIE Inc.,
Canada's Advanced Internet Development Organization. At CANARIE Bill St. Arnaud
has been responsible for the coordination and implementation of Canada's next
generation optical Internet initiative called
CA*net 3 and more recently the world's first customer controlled optical
network CA*net 4.
He was recently featured in a
Time Magazine article as the engineer who is "wiring together advanced
Canadian Science".
Previously Bill St. Arnaud was the
President and founder of a network and software engineering firm called TSA
ProForma Inc. TSA was a LAN/WAN software company that developed wide area
network client/server systems for use primarily in the financial and information
business fields in the Far East and the United States.
Bill St. Arnaud is a frequent guest
speaker at numerous conferences on the Internet and optical networking and is a
regular contributor to several networking magazines. He is a graduate of
Carleton University School of Engineering.
Presentation Title: Update on CA*net 4 network and
User Controlled Lightpaths
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Abstract: In Canada most
universities and many schools have purchased their own dark fiber. These
"customer owned" networks are very popular as it frees the institutions from the
traditional "dollars per megabit" mindset of service providers. The purpose of
the CA*net 4 network is to extend this concept of customer owned networks beyond
dark fiber to wavelengths so that customer can control manage and operate their
own wide area networks just as if it wan an extension of their local dark fiber
network. There are many economic and technical reasons for allowing the
customer to control and manage the network which will be described in the
presentation