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Date: Thursday, August 16,
2007
Time:
7:00
to 9:00 pm
Location:
AT&T Laboratories (formerly SBC)
9505 Arboretum Blvd.
Austin, TX 78759
Topic:
Internet 2
Speaker: Dan
Updegrove, Special Assistant to the VP, IT at UT - Austin
Abstract:
Internet2 is both a national,
high-performance backbone network
serving the research and education community and the non-profit
organization of U.S. universities and technology companies that manages
this network. This summer the organization has deployed a
next-generation
infrastructure based on ten 10-Gbps wavelengths, with one wave
dedicated
to production IP services and a second for shared access to dynamic
wave
services. A founding objective of Internet2 was to develop and deploy
advanced Internet technologies and applications that would migrate to
the
commercial Internet. Fifteen Texas universities are primary members of
Internet2, and numerous other institutions in the state connect to the
network. Internet2 is currently engaged in negotiations to merge with
National LambdaRail (NLR), another non-profit that operates an advanced
national R&E network that serves 24 Texas
universities.
Speaker
Bio:
Daniel
Updegrove, special assistant to the VP for IT at UT
Austin, is a founder and advisor to Internet2, and Vice Chair of the
Board of National LambdaRail. He also serves on the
Internet2-NLR
Merger Planning Team. He has over 30 years experience in IT, including
management, software development, and research, and has lectured widely
on networking and other IT topics in the U.S. and abroad.
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