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, UK Tuesday, 21 May, 1996 PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME 9.30 Registration and coffee Chairman: N Linge (University of Salford) 10.00 Introduction and welcome 10.10 Keynote address: J P G Sterbenz (GTE Labs and Chair of IEEE ComSoc TCGN, USA) 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. 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