Meeting to Focus on Emerging Technologies, Campus Networking, and Network Performance Measurement

The Winter 2010 Joint Techs meeting, an international conference of network engineers, will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, January 31 to February 4, 2010, and hosted by the University of Utah. Since 1998, the Joint Techs conference, co-sponsored by the ESnet Site Coordinating Committee (ESCC) and Internet2, has brought together networking experts from around the world to share their know-how, present innovative strategies and work toward common solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing research and education networks.

The Winter 2010 Joint Techs agenda – posted this week - will focus on three important areas: emerging technologies, performance measurement and monitoring, and campus networking.

The Emerging Technologies track will feature various components of the National Science Foundation’s GENI project, as well as other network testbed projects, new bulk data transfer tools, identity management topics and cloud services for campuses and laboratories.

The Performance Measurement and Monitoring track will cover multi-domain, end-to-end network measurement projects and tools—both IP-based, and circuit-based—and include discussions on a wide range of measurement and monitoring tools and use cases, as well as best practices in application, network and device performance tuning and diagnosis. User experience and secure access will also be addressed.

In the Campus Networking track, topics include IPv6 deployment, DNSSEC deployments (both federally-mandated and other), IP Multicast, Voice over IP, quality of service for voice, video and other types of real-time communications, wireless networking, network and application security and other special network infrastructure needs.

Representatives from the NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure will present an update on the Foundations's strategic directions in advanced networking and associated research techologies for 2010. The conference will also present a range of tutorials, high-performance networking technology demonstrations and industry updates.

As usual, Lightning Talks - under 5-minute presentations on any topic of interest to the presenter - will be solicited at the start of the event.  In addition, participants are being invited to tour the renowned University of Utah Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute, an internationally recognized leader in visualization, scientific computing and image analysis.

Registration is open. January 8, 2010 is the deadline for early registration discounts and hotel reservations. Click HERE to register. 

Please visit the Joint Techs website for registration or any information regarding the meeting. <http://events.internet2.edu/2010/jt-slc/>