High Performance Networking as Sign of its Time

by Arie van Praag (CERN/IT)

Wednesday 9 May 2001, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

IT Auditorium (CERN)

After an historical introduction about what people saw as high performance message communication in their time, a far more technical part follows that compares the three 10 Gbit/s network technologies that exist or emerge. Some remarks will be made concerning the understanding of network storage.

About the speaker

Arie van Praag has been working on High Performance networking since 1989. He has made major contributions to the standardisation process of a 10 Gbit/s Network, including the input from research at CERN, and. He was specially involved in the standardisation of a fibre optics standard for GSN and conversion standards for Gigabit ethernet, Scheduled Transfer, and SONET/SDH. He is a member of the 'board of directors' of the 'High Performance Networking Forum' HNF and chairman of HNF-Europe.

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Organiser(s): L. Pregernig, IT/CE

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