IP: HOT Interconnects 7 panel: Will Optical Networking Be The Death of IP?

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

> From: Mark Laubach <laubach () inconvenient net>
>
> Greetings!
>
> I am pleased to announce that this year's HOT Interconnects conference will
> be hosting a very special panel on Wednesday, August 18th at 7PM at
> Stanford University.  David Farber will be hosting the topic: Will Optical
> Networking be the Death of IP? Please see below for a summary of the panel
> and an introduction of the panelists.
>
> This is the seventh HOT Interconnects conference at Stanford University.
> Witnessing this controversial and entertaining panel will require
> conference registration.  For details, please surf to http://www.hoti.org.
> HOT Interconnects is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical
> Committee on Microprocessors and Microcomputers.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
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>
> Panel Topic: Will Optical Networking Be The Death of IP?
>
> The future arrival of "all optical" networks with 60 gigabits per wave and
> over 100 waves per fiber raises a number of questions as to the suitability
> of our current network architecture.  As many have mentioned the
> bandwidth/latency relationship (bandwidth way up and the speed of light
> constant) also suggests it may be time to re-examine just what role IP will
> have in the 21st century.  We have gathered a panel who will certainly be
> controversial and maybe even illuminating:
>
> Panel Chair:
>
> David J. Farber (farber () cis upenn edu) is the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor
> of Telecommunication Systems at the University of Pennsylvania holding
> appointments in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering departments
> He was one of the principals in the creation and implementation of CSNet,
> NSFNet, BITNET II, and CREN. He was instrumental in the creation of the
> NSF/DARPA funded Gigabit Network Testbed Initiative and served as the
> Chairman of the Gigabit Testbed Coordinating Committee.  His background
> includes positions at the Bell Labs, the Rand Corp, Xerox Data Systems, UC
> Irvine and the University of Delaware.  He is a member of the US
> Presidential Advisory Committee of Information Technology In addition, he
> is a Fellow of the IEEE and serves on the Board of Directors of both the
> Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Internet Society.  He is the Founder
> and Editor of the influential network newspaper Interesting People with a
> readership of over 25,000.
>
> Panelists:
>
> Daniel J. Blumenthal (danb () ece ucsb edu), Associate Director for the Center
> on Multidisciplinary Optical Switching Technology (MOST) and Associate
> Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the
> University of California - Santa Barbara.  Dr.  Blumenthal heads the
> Optical Communications and Photonic Networks (OCPN) Research.  His current
> research areas are in optical communications, wavelength division
> multiplexing, photonic packet switched and all-optical networks, wavelength
> conversion in semiconductor devices, optical subcarrier multiplexing, and
> multispectral optical information processing.
>
> Paul Mockapetris (pvm () Siara com), internet advocate and startup addict
> (@Home, Software.com, Fiberlan/Cerent) who was a founder of Siara Systems,
> a company that combines the best of SONET, IP, and optics to solve real
> world problems.
>
> Norman L. Schryer (nls () research att com), Division Manager, Broadband
> Applications Research, AT&T Research Labs, Florham Park, New Jersey.  He is
> a broadband communications evangelist with specific interests in broadband
> distributions systems, including cable television and optical networks.
>
> Jonathan M. Smith (jms () central cis upenn edu), Professor in the Penn CIS
> Department, and his research is centered on advanced communication and
> computer networking systems.  Jonathan was previously at Bell Telephone
> Laboratories and Bellcore, where he focused on UNIX internals, tools and
> distributed computing technology.  He was also a member of a technology
> transfer team on computer security.  At Penn, he has worked on advanced
> communications systems such as gigabit networks, on which he has written
> extensively and has several U.S. patents.  His current research interest is
> programmable network infrastructures: "Protocol Boosters" provide a
> methodology for using such infrastructures and "SwitchWare" is an idealized
> programmable infrastructure.