[CAnet - news] Customer Empowered Fiber Networks Workshop

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{I highly recommend this workshop for any organization considering acquiring
their own fiber network - whether it is business, hospital, university or
school district.  Always lots of useful information on the issues of
managing and acquiring your own fiber. You should look at last year's
presentations for some good examples --BSA]

Customer Empowered Fibre Networks workshop 
May 29-31th, 2006 in Prague - announcement



72 participants came to Prague from 26 countries world-wide to listen to
more than 30 presentations describing the state-of-the-art and perspectives
of the Customer Empowered Fibre (CEF) Networks concept in May 2005, based on
success of the first CEF Networks workshop in May 2004.
It was demonstrated in several presentations that the CEF Network concept is
already successfully implemented on the national level in many countries and
cross-border fibre connection of CEF networks is viable concept.
Participants had important discussion about future development, about
principles of network design and also recommended holding further workshops
oriented to international research cooperation on CEF networks design and
implementation. CESNET now announces the third CEF networks workshop.

 

Workshop on Customer Empowered Fibre (CEF) Networks 2006 will begin on May
29th, 2006 at 10:00 and will be closed on May 31th, 2006 at 16:00. The first
part will be dedicated to continent-wide, nation-wide, regional and
metropolitan CEF Networks and its cross-border connections. The second part
will be dedicated to research cooperation of Research and Education Networks
(REN, i.e. NRENs in Europe, RONs in US, etc.) with industry and fibre
providers and to equipment for CEF networks prepared now by vendors.

Participation on this workshop is open for lecturers and REN staff up to
limit given by logistic constraints. Participation of other experts is
possible, if agreed by CESNET in advance. Registration fee is 70 EUR to
cover part of logistics costs and refreshment. Registration is possible by
sending mail to Lenka Zapletalova ( [email protected] ), registration
acceptance will be send back up with payment instruction.

 

CESNET have accommodation recommendation for participants. Reference to
hotels will be given in registration acceptance mail.

 

We hope that many participants of last year workshop will give lecture on
advances in your CEF network. Nevertheless, we are searching for other
active partners, which could exchange information about CEF-networks
projects, deployment and experience with us and with other participants of
this workshop. We very appreciate lectures of non-European participants for
wider information exchange. Lecturers from vendors are expected to present
research and development results and directions of company and avoid
commercial-style speech. We encourage participation of photonic vendors.


We hope each speaker will be able to hold 20 minutes presentation (30
minutes including discussion), which will specify results from management or
technical point of view, or both. 

 

To be more explicit, such presentation could contain some of following
topics:

- information concerning dark fibre deployment or at least procurement in
your REN (we would appreciate specification, if this lines are planned,
contracted, delivered, or have experimental traffic or production traffic)
- experimental dark fibre deployment in RENs
- how to achieve National fibre footprint
- connection of REN PoPs Near over Border (NoB) by dark fibre
- experience with long distance dark fibres for RENs
- design kits of transmission equipment and solutions for CEF-networks
design
- experience with operational lines, results from line testing or links to
information on emerging transmission technology, if possible
- discussion of preferred next steps of CEF-development (for example
collaboration on testing of transmission equipments, etc.)
- cooperation of municipalities, local education authorities, health
institutions and regional authorities with RENs or universities in
CEF-design and deployment 
- funding for fibre IRU (available only in some countries)
- experiences with dark fibre procurement
- national fibre footprint is a basement of CEF network
- next step in bottom-up CEF network design is transmission system
- advanced transmission systems for long-distance fibre lines (multiple long
span etc.)

- feasibility of PC WAN CEF networks
- design of customer transmission equipment for CEF-networks (including
multi-wavelength)
- equipment for pure-optical networks,  networks without  OEO conversion
inside

- IC for OEO conversion, low cost regenerators for multiple wavelengths


- continental-wide lambdas implemented by RENs

- what is the foreseeable future in CEF-networks?
- others topics important for CEF-networks design and deployment


If  you are able to offer presentation concerning some of above topics,
please send mail to Stanislav Sima ([email protected]) with author(s) name(s)
and presentation title before April 24th, 2006. After that date we will
confirm acceptation of presentation to authors.


Presentations from previous CEF Networks workshop are available on
http://www.ces.net/doc/seminars/20050516/.



Finally, please feel free to send this announcement to other REN staff and
to vendors supporting CEF networks deployment. Thanks for your help.


With best regards

 

                                       Jan Gruntorad
Stanislav Sima



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