IP: HOT Interconnects 7 panel: Will Optical Networking Be The Death of IP?

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>From: Mark Laubach <laubach@inconvenient.net>
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>Greetings!
>
>I am pleased to announce that this year's HOT Interconnects conference will
>be hosting a very special panel on Wednesday, August 18th at 7PM at
>Stanford University.  David Farber will be hosting the topic: Will Optical
>Networking be the Death of IP? Please see below for a summary of the panel
>and an introduction of the panelists.
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>This is the seventh HOT Interconnects conference at Stanford University.
>Witnessing this controversial and entertaining panel will require
>conference registration.  For details, please surf to http://www.hoti.org.
>HOT Interconnects is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical
>Committee on Microprocessors and Microcomputers.
>
>Cheers,
>Mark
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>Panel Topic: Will Optical Networking Be The Death of IP?
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>The future arrival of "all optical" networks with 60 gigabits per wave and
>over 100 waves per fiber raises a number of questions as to the suitability
>of our current network architecture.  As many have mentioned the
>bandwidth/latency relationship (bandwidth way up and the speed of light
>constant) also suggests it may be time to re-examine just what role IP will
>have in the 21st century.  We have gathered a panel who will certainly be
>controversial and maybe even illuminating:
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>Panel Chair:
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>David J. Farber (farber@cis.upenn.edu) is the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor
>of Telecommunication Systems at the University of Pennsylvania holding
>appointments in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering departments
>He was one of the principals in the creation and implementation of CSNet,
>NSFNet, BITNET II, and CREN. He was instrumental in the creation of the
>NSF/DARPA funded Gigabit Network Testbed Initiative and served as the
>Chairman of the Gigabit Testbed Coordinating Committee.  His background
>includes positions at the Bell Labs, the Rand Corp, Xerox Data Systems, UC
>Irvine and the University of Delaware.  He is a member of the US
>Presidential Advisory Committee of Information Technology In addition, he
>is a Fellow of the IEEE and serves on the Board of Directors of both the
>Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Internet Society.  He is the Founder
>and Editor of the influential network newspaper Interesting People with a
>readership of over 25,000.
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>Panelists:
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>Daniel J. Blumenthal (danb@ece.ucsb.edu), Associate Director for the Center
>on Multidisciplinary Optical Switching Technology (MOST) and Associate
>Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the
>University of California - Santa Barbara.  Dr.  Blumenthal heads the
>Optical Communications and Photonic Networks (OCPN) Research.  His current
>research areas are in optical communications, wavelength division
>multiplexing, photonic packet switched and all-optical networks, wavelength
>conversion in semiconductor devices, optical subcarrier multiplexing, and
>multispectral optical information processing.
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>Paul Mockapetris (pvm@Siara.com), internet advocate and startup addict
>(@Home, Software.com, Fiberlan/Cerent) who was a founder of Siara Systems,
>a company that combines the best of SONET, IP, and optics to solve real
>world problems.
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>Norman L. Schryer (nls@research.att.com), Division Manager, Broadband
>Applications Research, AT&T Research Labs, Florham Park, New Jersey.  He is
>a broadband communications evangelist with specific interests in broadband
>distributions systems, including cable television and optical networks.
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>Jonathan M. Smith (jms@central.cis.upenn.edu), Professor in the Penn CIS
>Department, and his research is centered on advanced communication and
>computer networking systems.  Jonathan was previously at Bell Telephone
>Laboratories and Bellcore, where he focused on UNIX internals, tools and
>distributed computing technology.  He was also a member of a technology
>transfer team on computer security.  At Penn, he has worked on advanced
>communications systems such as gigabit networks, on which he has written
>extensively and has several U.S. patents.  His current research interest is
>programmable network infrastructures: "Protocol Boosters" provide a
>methodology for using such infrastructures and "SwitchWare" is an idealized
>programmable infrastructure.