IEE
Institution of Electrical Engineers
IEEE ComSoc TCGN
IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Gigabit Networking

Colloquium: Towards Gigabit Networking

Colloquium organised by IEE Professional Groups
C3 (Information systems and networks) and
E7 (Telecommunication networks and services)
in association with the
IEE North Western Centre
with technical co-sponsorship by the
IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Gigabit Networking

to be held at
Manchester Royal Infirmary
Phase 2 Lecture Theatre, Phase 2 Block
The Manchester Postgraduate Health Sciences Centre
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9WL, UK

Tuesday, 21 May 1996

Provisional Programme

9.30 - Registration and coffee
Chairman: N Linge (University of Salford) <N.Linge@eee.salford.ac.uk>
10.00 - Introduction and welcome
10.10 - Keynote address:
J P G Sterbenz (GTE Labs and Chair of IEEE ComSoc TCGN, USA) <jpgs@ieee.org>
11.00 - IEEE 802.12 gigabit LAN
D. Cunningham (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, UK)
11.30 - Current state of ATM and the availability of higher bandwidth products:
H Kjellin (K-Net, UK)
12.00 - The impact of gigabit networking and why stop there?:
Professor D Parsons (University of Sheffield, UK)
12.30 - Discussion session
13.00 - Lunch
14.30 - SuperJanet - birth and development:
J Sharp (UKERNA, UK)
15.00 - Convergence of the internet and ATM:
Professor J Crowcroft (University College London, UK)**
15.30 - Tea
16.00 - BT Laboratories' futures testbed:
J Barnes (BT Laboratories, UK)**
16.30 - Discussion session
17.00 - Close
** the speaker for this presentation will be based at the University College London and will deliver their presentation via the SuperJanet network using K-Nets CellStack Videoconferencing system.

The IEE is not, as a body, responsible for the views or opinions expressed by individual authors or speakers.

The IEE has a voluntary Continuing Professional Development (CPD) scheme. Events are assigned a CPD unit value and is identified as either technical (T) or non-technical (N). This Colloquium qualifies as a CPD activity and its unit value is 2.5 T

PLEASE NOTE THAT REGISTRATION IS NOT AVAILABLE IN THE DAY OF THE EVENT.

Scope of the Event

As the demand for ever increasing bandwidth intensifies, networks operating at gigabit rates are becoming a reality. This Colloquium will consider whether ATM based networks truly represent a generalised solution; the status of current and future ATM technology and associated network design; how existing networks, such as the Internet, will converge with ATM; the impact on end station performance and the new services made possible by such very high speed networks. The Colloquium will also feature live video presentations using the SuperJanet network.

Further details can be obtained from
The Secretary, LS(D)CA, IEE, Savoy Place, London, WCR 0BL
+44 171 240 1871 Ext: 2206
Claire Coleshill <CColeshill@iee.org.uk>

Text and HTML versions of this programme are located at http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/pub/ieee-tcgn/conference/iee96/program.{ html|txt

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		  Colloquium on Tuesday, 21 May 1996

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