From joe.breen at utah.edu Tue Sep 4 13:12:05 2012 From: joe.breen at utah.edu (Joe Breen) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 13:12:05 -0600 Subject: [tforum] HP Networking 100Gig and OpenFlow/SDN discussion In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: All, Just a reminder that this meeting has moved to 10:00am-12:00pm on Wed Sep 5 in the INSCC. --Joe On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Joe Breen wrote: > All, > > Due to unforeseen events, this meeting time has changed to 10:00am-12:00pm > on Wed September 5. Hopefully, all those who planned to attend will still > be able. All are welcome. --Joe > > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Joe Breen wrote: > >> All, >> >> CHPC and the campus NOC are continuing to host some network vendor >> roadmap discussions regarding 100Gig and OpenFlow. Thanks to those that >> participated in the previous Dell/Force10 discussion regarding 100Gig and >> OpenFlow/Software Defined Networking (SDN). The next vendor that will >> be presenting is HP Networking (http://www.hp.com/) >> on Tue. September 4 from 1pm-3pm at INSCC Rm 407. The topics are >> specifically covering 100Gigabit support, OpenFlow, BGP Null Routing >> with IPv6, general support of IPv6 for all network aspects and other >> network topics germane to the vendor platform. These discussions are for >> information purposes and focus around the University performance/science >> DMZ*. Anyone that would like to join these discussions, please let me >> know. >> >> If anyone has specific feature or functionality questions, please let me >> know. >> >> >> >> * Definition: Performance/Science Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) - segment of >> backbone that allows for different security, performance, amortization, >> and network flow characteristics. The ideas come from Dept of Energy andnational labs - >> http://fasterdata.es.net/fasterdata/science-dmz/ The National Science >> Foundation and other government funding agencies are backing these ideas >> with real dollars in order to enable the research communities to >> effectively collaborate and move large data sets and unique network >> flows. > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.uen.org/pipermail/tforum/attachments/20120904/302767bb/attachment-0001.html From joe.breen at utah.edu Fri Sep 14 16:54:46 2012 From: joe.breen at utah.edu (Joe Breen) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:54:46 -0600 Subject: [tforum] Fwd: The Benefits of R&E Connectivity for Primary and High Schools In-Reply-To: <48E558DF375F2E4FAD4F6D32408E771626390A6D@BL2PRD0410MB386.namprd04.prod.outlook.com> References: <48E558DF375F2E4FAD4F6D32408E771626390A6D@BL2PRD0410MB386.namprd04.prod.outlook.com> Message-ID: Something of possible interest for those that follow the Research and Education networks and collaborations with Primary and High Schools ( and among those groups)... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Larry Gallery Date: Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:24 AM Subject: The Benefits of R&E Connectivity for Primary and High Schools To: Rene Carver , Carmalita Seitz , Mike Sylofski , Amy Spath , "Weber, Jeanne" , "Moore, Ellen" , " Doreen_Pietrantoni at boces.monroe.edu" , "k20advise at internet2.edu" , " catharine.ogilvie at orion.on.ca" , " joshua.tucker at orion.on.ca" , " WynnAnne.Sibbald at canarie.ca" , " shupej at upstate.edu" , "Mary Michalenko ( MichaleM at upstate.edu)" , "claudia.cordova at redclara.net" , "lwong at icoe.org" , "Dr. Amy Perry-DelCorvo" , Amy Perry-DelCorvo < aperry at nyscate.org>, "jdc57 at georgetown.edu" , " lwilliamson at merit.edu" , "kari.sauer at sendit.nodak.edu" , "colleen.wintsmith at ckln.org" < colleen.wintsmith at ckln.org>, "masinfo at innova-red.net" < masinfo at innova-red.net>, "cudi at cudi.edu.mx" , " yfjin at math.ac.cn" Cc: Tom Fryer , "Mina Patel (mina at vcfl.net)" < mina at vcfl.net> Dear Colleagues:**** ** ** *The Benefits of R&E Connectivity for Primary and High Schools* In numerous countries around the world, connectivity for primary and/or high schools is provided, directly or indirectly, by Research and Education Networks. By using R&E connectivity, the ability of classroom teachers and their students to interact with other schools and classes around the world is greatly enhanced, by providing them with the reliability and bandwidth required by collaboration tools such as videoconferencing. In addition, the inclusion of Internet2 based applications that involve remote instrumentation, the transfer of large data sets, remote visualization and more can only be optimized over R&E networks.**** ** ** Bringing students together in such methods can help break down cultural barriers and bring about greater understanding among youngsters of other peoples around the world.**** ** ** *The Difficulties for Schools of Finding Project Partners around the World* For teachers wishing to set up an e-exchange with another school elsewhere in the world, it is not easy to find potential project partners. Often, the ability to find a suitable class depends on the teacher already having a connection, or even a little bit of luck. **** ** ** *A Solution?* Over the past few months, the European R&E Network, G?ANT, the New York State R&E Network, NYSERNet, and Internet2 have been looking at this issue with a question as to whether there is a one-stop platform which would make it easier for teachers to find other teachers interested in collaborating. Two potential solutions have been found:**** ? www.etwinning.net: a schools platform funded by the European Commission with tools to aid collaborations. At present, this site is limited to Europe.**** ? CAPspace: a platform which provides the ability to search for potential project partners with an alert system by e-mail to inform members of projects they may be interested in. This platform is open to schools all over the world.**** In addition, JANET is exploring possibilities of collaboration with the British Council.**** ** ** *Discussion of the Proposed Platforms and How to Promote Them* We would like to invite anyone with an interest in enabling school teachers to identify project partners around the world to a discussion about these platforms, and what we can do to promote these tools and thereby contribute to making a global schools village.**** ** ** We would therefore like to invite you to a discussion by VC on:**** ? Thursday, 20th September 2012 at 16:00 CEST (10:00 EDT/15:00GMT).**** ** ** If you are interested in participating, please reply ASAP to Tom Fryer, International Relations, DANTE, Tom.Fryer at dante.net and he will be in touch about VC connection details and the agenda. If you do not have access to VC facilities, JANET will provide a desktop download so that you can still participate in the VC. It will also be possible to call into the VC by telephone.**** ** ** *We would also be very happy for you to forward this e-mail to any other relevant organizations or individuals in your country would might be interested in this discussion.* **** ** ** Please note, if you are unable to participate but are interested in this area, please let us know and we will inform you of the meeting?s conclusions after the event. If preferred, it may also be possible to arrange a second VC with those not able to participate in the first meeting, to share our conclusions.**** ** ** We hope that this will be of interest to you and look forward to hearing from you. **** ** ** Best regards,**** Tom Fryer **** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.uen.org/pipermail/tforum/attachments/20120914/d9b04e21/attachment.html From joe.breen at utah.edu Sat Sep 22 21:44:29 2012 From: joe.breen at utah.edu (Joe Breen) Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 21:44:29 -0600 Subject: [tforum] Fwd: Cellular data rate results In-Reply-To: References:

Message-ID: FYI, for those following the performance of broadband and cellular broadband... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jim Warner Date: Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 12:47 PM Subject: Re: Cellular data rate results To: performance-wg at internet2.edu Thursday was the deadline for posting comments to the FCC's plan for the next broadband survey, GN 12-228. On topic of my note from last month, a more complete report on the cell phone network performance work was posted by the California Public Utilities Commission as an appendix to their submission. The link to the report is: http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7022018165 We took their data points and put them into GoogleEarth KML format to give a different look at the data. http://people.ucsc.edu/~warner/cell-survey Finally, the FCC announced that there will be a national performance measurement project: http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-announces-measuring-mobile-america-program On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Jim Warner wrote: > At the Jt-Techs Performance-wg July 16 meeting, we heard from Dr. Byun > from CSUMB about the cellular data performance measurement project. > > At that time, the results of the first measurement cycle in California had > not yet been released. > > The results were presented recently. The slide deck can be found at: > > > http://www.tellusventure.com/downloads/casf/CPUC_Mobile_Broadband_Testing_14Aug2012.pdf > > Note that in California, the state public utilities commission has defined > 6 Mb/s down and 1.5 Mb/s up as "served." "Underserved" is anything that is > more than ISDN -- better than dial-up -- but less than "served." > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.uen.org/pipermail/tforum/attachments/20120922/5a9d2641/attachment.html