Programme

Thursday, November 9th, 2006
08:30   Registration
09:15 09:30 Opening Address
Tom Boland, Chief Executive Officer, Higher Education Authority
09:30 10:15 HEAnet Update: Services, Schools, Supercomputers and SFP's
John Boland, HEAnet
(Presentation)
10:15 11:00 National Backbone Extension: Rolling out Multisite Gigabit connections over Fibre Optics
Mike Norris, HEAnet
Brian Boyle, HEAnet
James Healey, DCU
(Presentation) (Video)
11:00 11:30 Coffee / tea break
  Main auditorium
McCurdy 1&2
Room A
MaGinnes Suite 1&2
Workshop
MaGinnes Suite 3
11:30 12:00 Network Monitoring-Lifting the Lid on the NOC
Ann Harding, HEAnet
(Presentation) (Video)
VoIP implementation in NUIG
Pat Dempsey, NUIG
(Presentation)
12:00 12:30 The Grid Computing Infrastructure in Ireland and Abroad
John Walsh, TCD
(Presentation)
VoIP in context
Dr Niall O'Reilly, UCD
(Presentation)
12:30 14:00 Buffet Lunch
14:00 14:30 Securing Schools: Firewalling and Filtering on the Schools Broadband Network
Liam Kennedy, HEAnet
(Presentation)
Breakthrough in UK Academic Network
Rolly Trice, UKERNA
(Presentation)
BGP Workshop
Flexible and Unified Access Routing Protocol

Daniel Lete, Orla McGann, HEAnet (Places restricted to 16) Laptop required
14:30 15:00 Child Safety and Security on the Internet
Paul Durrant, ISPAI
(Presentation)
Bandwidth on Demand
Dave Wilson, HEAnet
(Presentation)
15:00 15:30 eduroam - Roam in a Day
Louis Twomey, HEAnet
(Presentation)
Delivering Advanced Connectivity to Ireland's IoTs
Owen Byrne, HEAnet
(Presentation)
15:30 16:00 Coffee / tea break
16:00 16.20 National Digital Learning Repository
Dr Vinny Wade,TCD
(Presentation)
Campus- Wide Wireless Implementations
Aidan McGrath, WIT
Paul Jones, TCD
Followed by: Discussion and Experiences Forum
(Presentation)
16.20 17:00 Who needs a Supercomputer anyway?
Dr Jim Greer, Tyndall Institute
(Presentation)
17:15 18:15 BOFs:
BOF#1: WiFi Security,Louis Twomey, HEAnet
BOF#2: Network Management Approaches, Ann Harding, Cormac Ó Cianáin, HEAnet
BOF#3: TBA
19:15 20:00 Pre-Dinner Reception
20:00 Gala Dinner
Sponsored by Lan Communications
Friday, November 10th, 2006
09:30 10:15 Opening Plenary: Delivering IPTV and the Triple Play to students: Challenges and Opportunities
Bill Dodds, PurDigtial
(Presentation)
  Main auditorium
McCurdy 1&2
Room A
MaGinnes Suite 1&2
Workshop
MaGinnes Suite 3
10:15 10:45 Campus Network Accession - Authentication and Controlling Student Laptops
Brian O'Hora, TCD
(Presentation)
HEAnet's relocation: Moving the Network and Services
Brian Nisbet, HEAnet
(Presentation)
BGP Workshop: Flexible and Unified Access Routing Protocol
Daniel Lete, Orla McGann, HEAnet (Places restricted to 16) Laptop required
10:45 11:15 Coffee / tea break
11:15 11:45 Building a New City Centre Campus: Issues and Opportunities
Dr Paul Horan and David Scott, DIT
(Presentation)
Podcasting: The Power of the spoken word- Podcasting in Higher Education
Dr Henry O'Keeffe, UCC
(Presentation)
11:45 12:15 The need for network visibility as we move to performance based routing
Mike Mc Grath, Crannog Solutions
(Presentation)
Federated Searching, personalisation and an introduction to e-Knowledge
John Costello, NUIG
(Presentation)
12:15 13:00 Closing Plenary:Master Classes, Performance and Music enabled by Advanced Networking
Ann Doyle, Internet 2
(Presentation) (Video)
13:00 13:15 Close and departure
(opt. Buffet Lunch)