IP: Sweden's proposed program for open access fiber to the home

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> > For more information on this item please visit the CANARIE CA*net 3 Optical
> > Internet program web site at http://www.canet3.net
> > -------------------------------------------
> >
> > We are pleased to announce that Peter Lothberg, one of the original "net
> > heads" as described by Wired Magazine will be speaking at CANARIE's 5th
> > annual advanced networks workshop on Sweden's ICT Commission's proposed
> > initiative to deploy open access dark fiber to every house in Sweden used
> > for round-the-year living.
> >
> > For more information:
> >
> > www.canet3.net
> > www.canarie.ca
> >
> >
> > The Swedish ICT Commission is appointed by the Swedish Government as its
> > advisory body in the field of Information Technology. The Commissions
> > overall assignment is to analyse the impact of Information Technology on
> > the Swedish society and promote the spread of information about the new
> > opportunities and problems in the Information Society. The Commission
> > actively monitor, initiate and support the development  and use of
> > Information Technology.
> >
> > The Commission consists of nine members appointed by the government and led
> > by the Minister of Industry and Commerce, Mr
> > Bj­rn Rosengren. The work of the ICT Commission is being conducted in the
> > context of a number and variety of projects, often in collaboration with
> > various agents. For the working fields which are most interesting and
> > strategically important in the long term, the Commission has set up a number
> > of Observatories, as they are called. These Observatories operate in
> > networks with an accumulation of competence for each of the fields
> > concerned. One of these observatories is the Observatory for
> > ICT-infrastructure. The observatory have a vision: Within 5 years, a minimum
> > of 5 Mbit/s to everyone in the entire Sweden, to a
> > maximum cost of about 500 SEK using a combination open access dark fiber and
> > municipal conduit.
> >
> > The major recent information release by the Dept of Industry is in English
> > on http://naring.regeringen.se/index.htm. Click on the English Summary to
> > obtain a 52k PDF document.
> >
> >
> > CANARIE's 5th Advanced Networks Workshop
> >
> > FROM INFORMATION HIGHWAY TO INFORMATION MAIN STREET!
> > November 29 and 30, 1999
> > Metropolitan Toronto Convention Centre
> > 255 Front Street West
> > Toronto, Ontario - Canada
> >
> >
> >
> > CANARIE, Canada's Advanced Internet Development Organization, is pleased to
> > announce its 5th Annual Advanced Networks Workshop.
> >
> > This year's theme,  "From Information Highway to Information Main Street"
> > focuses on the technologies, applications and services required for Optical
> > Internets in backbone and municipal networks and for delivering Gigabit
> > Internet to the school and home. There will be presentations from
> > international experts who are already in the process of deploying optical
> > Internets and high speed municipal and education networks.
> >
> >
> > Topics will include
> > ===================
> >
> > - Low cost dark fiber and Gigabit Internet networks for schools and
> > universities.
> > - New applications in video distribution over high speed networks.
> > - Recent trends in low cost optical Internet technology.
> > - The latest developments in international Internet research networks.
> > - The latest developments on CANARIE's CA*net 3 optical Internet network
> >
> >
> >
> > Attendance will be limited to 500 registrants, so register now using our
> > SECURE electronic form www.canarie.ca. Registration fee will be $250 plus
> > GST, payable by Master Card, Visa or American Express.
> >
> > NOTE:  RESERVED HOTEL ROOMS WILL DISAPPEAR NOV 5
> >
> > Speakers and Topics
> > ===================
> >
> > Peter Lothberg of Sweden will talk about talk about the new proposed
> > initiative in Sweden to
> > deploy open access dark fiber to every house in Sweden used for
> > round-the-year living.
> >
> > Gary Finley of Netera will describe the new province wide CWDM and Gigabit
> > Ethernet network that will be deployed in Alberta early in 2000 connecting
> > universities and research institutes in Calgary, Edmonton, Banff and Red
> > Deer
> >
> > Roch Lachapelle of Le Conseil scolaire catholique du Nouvel-Ontario and
> > Darren Richer of Regional Cablesystems will talk about the new Gigabit
> > Internet to the school program for schools in and around the Sudbury area.
> >
> > Bjorn Roos of the Stockholm education department will talk about the program
> > to connect every school in Stockholm with Gigabit Ethernet.
> >
> > Dennis Schweikhardt, Manager of Technology Infrastructure, Spokane School
> > district will talk about his experiences in deploying a Gigabit Ethernet
> > dark fibre network in Spokane's school district.
> >
> > Denis Ramsay of the Commission scolaire des Bois-Francs in Victoriaville
> > will give a presentation on his experiences of building a dark fibre network
> > for his school board.
> >
> > Robert Proulx RISQ will discuss the costs and processes school boards and
> > research networks can use to deploy their own dark fibre networks.
> >
> > David Richardson of University of Washington will give a talk on their
> > recent demonstrations of delivering HDTV over an Internet network
> >
> > Jan Donio of TVO will give a talk on "repurposing video" to develop rights
> > free video content for distance education programs.
> >
> > Terry Dalton will give a talk on NRC's real world experiences of using dark
> > fiber for WAN and LAN networks as well as describe the importance of CA*net
> > 3 to the National BioInformatics Program
> >
> > Javad Boroumand of the NSF will talk about the latest developments in high
> > performance networks in the US to support research and the future of the
> > vBNS.
> >
> > Dr. Sang H. Kyong of KAIST will talk about the Korean developments on their
> > information superhighway.
> >
> > Mari Maeda, Program Manager, DARPA will give a presentation on the latest
> > developments in the DARPA US optical research networks such as BOSSNET,
> > NTON, etc.
> >
> > Steve Wallace of the Abilene Network Operations Center will talk about the
> > latest developments on the Internet 2/Abilene network and Indiana
> > University's plans to connect up 3 remote campuses with dark fibre across
> > the state.
> >
> > Dr. Joel Mambretti, Director, International Center for Internet Research
> > will talk about the latest developments at the iCAIR. Dr. Mambretti will
> > also talk about initiatives to provide advanced information infrastructures
> > and networking services to wider communities such as Evanston, Chicago and
> > the State of Illinois.
> >
> > Dr. Tom De Fanti, Director, Electronic Visulization Laboratory at the
> > University of Illinois at Chicago will talk about The EMERGE QoS Testbed and
> > STAR TAP. The US Department of Energy Next Generation Internet initiative
> > has funded the EMERGE project, a QoS overlay on the MREN Network. EMERGE
> > aims to provide application-driven differentiated services to five premier
> > midwest universities through the Ameritech Chicago switch. STAR TAP, the
> > international meet point for high-performance research networks, will be
> > augmented with a diffserv-capable router to enable international QoS
> > experiments with these five universities.
> >
> > John C. Collins of Duke University/North Carolina Network Initiative will
> > discuss NCNIís experience in deploying DWDM from Nortel and Lucent within a
> > 6 node environment.
> >
> > Dr. Edward Brash, Department of Physics at the U of Regina will speak about
> > his large-scale remote data collection via advanced networks in Canada and
> > the US.
> >
> > Zack Settel, Chair Music Technology, McGill University and Chair Networked
> > Audio Systems, Audio Engineering Society will present the results of their
> > experiments in "Music, Audio and Advanced Networks" with specific reference
> > to a project recently completed that linked McGill with NYU using CA*net 2
> > and the vBNS network for high resolution audio transmission and recording.
> >
> > Peter Sutcliffe, President, Meissa Inc. will address the issue of Internet
> > Music Delivery ñ Moving Beyond MP3 to high quality music delivery over
> > Gigabit networks.
> >
> > Lon Berquist of the Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute will
> > talk about the latest developments by a number of municipalities in the
> > United States who are deploying their own fibre networks.
> >
> > Robin Eckermann, Project Manager, ACTEW will describe Canberra's pilot and
> > proposed roll out of a network that provides competitive equal access to
> > service providers using fibre and VDSL technology.
> >
> > David Isenberg of isen.com will speak about how future networks will present
> > a single, clean interface to its users to become the transport component of
> > an application, much as the disk is its storage component. This allows huge
> > innovation around the edges of the network.
> >
> > Dr. Pierre Boulanger,Research Officer Visual Information Technology, NRC
> > will give a general overview of virtualized reality and Ross Gillette ñ MD
> > Robotics will give a demonstration of the Interactive Intelligent Remote
> > Operations project (IIRO).
> >
> > Dr Son Vuong of UBC will describe the proposed new Global Information
> > Systems and Software Technology (GISST) NCE program that will carry out
> > research in next generation Internet networks and applications using the
> > CA*net 3 network
> >
> > Richard Leon of INGenius will talk about a new innovative way of delivering
> > audio over high speed networks
> >
> >
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> > CANARIE
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> > +1 613 785-0426
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> > Bill St. Arnaud
> > Senior Director Network Projects
> > CANARIE
> > bill.st.arnaud () canarie ca
> > +1 613 785-0426

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David Farber
The Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems
University of Pennsylvania
Home Page: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~farber
Email: farber () cis upenn edu

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