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Programme

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(Updated 26/03/2010)

Wednesday 31st March
 
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast  – Hotels
   
  Plenary Session         Lecture Theatre B, University Place
Chair                          Roland Trice, JANET(UK)                        
   
09:00 The World Wide Web of Glass: The Past, Present and Future of fibre optics
David Richardson, University of Southampton
   
09:45 DNS Security
Cricket Liu, Infoblox
   
10:30 Refreshments and Exhibition – Exhibition Area
   
11:15 – 12:30 Parallel Sessions
   
Lecture Theatre B - Session 2a - Network Access
Chair - Josh Howlett, JANET(UK)                        
   
  11:15 - JANET Network Access
Mark O’Leary, JANET(UK)
   
  11:40 - Portable WLANs - Networking for off-the-grid locations
Trevor Collins, Open University
   
  12:05 - Wimax vs LTE
Duncan Wall, UK Broadband Ltd
   
Lecture Theatre A - Session2b - Campus Networking
Chair - Henry Hughes, JANET(UK)
   
  11:15 - Socket: IPAM, Network Management & Visualisation with Google Earth
Michael Jorgenson, Cardiff University
   
  11:40 - A distributed, robust network architecture built on an ensemble of open-source firewall routers
Simon Boggis, Queen Mary University of London
   
  12:05 - DNS Servers, the More the Merrier
Alexander Clouter, School of African and Oriental Studies
   
Room 2.220 - Session 2c - Network Engineering
Chair - Rina Samani, JANET(UK)
   
  11:15 - IP Multicast, Embrace the challenge?
Paul Catchpole, University of Warwick
   
  11:40 - Making network resilience resilient
Mark Charlton, University of Warwick
   
  12:05 - Making your 3 tier network reconverge in (2) seconds
Paul Brennan and Peter North, University of Coventry
   
Room 1.219 - Session 2d - Exhibitor Session C
   
  11:15 - The impact of structured cabling selection on energy efficiency and power consumption
Glynn Phillips, Nexans UK Ltd
   
  11:55 - How Using IP Technology over a fibre network is cost and time effective for universities
Andrew Carr, H2O Networks
   
Room 1.218 - Session 2e - Exhibitor Session D
   
  11:15 - Barracuda Networks
   
  11:55 - Reducing the carbon footprint of your network infrastructure
Clive Allen, HP ProCurve Networking
   
   
12:30 Lunch - Marquee
Refreshments and Exhibition – Exhibition Area
   
  Plenary Session         Lecture Theatre B, University Place
Chair                          Jeremy Sharp, JANET(UK)               
   
14:00 Networks and the Law: 2010
Andrew Cormack, JANET(UK)
   
14:45 IPV6 / IPV4 Debate
Tim Chown, University of Southampton
John Linn, ABMAN
   
15:30 Refreshments and Exhibition – Exhibition Area
   
16:15 – 17:30 Parallel Sessions
   
Lecture Theatre B - Session 3a - A Changing World
Chair - Rina Samani, JANET(UK)                        
   
  16:15 - Universities in a network world, or how to stop worrying and learn to love the Internet
Nick Skelton, University of Bristol
   
  16:40 - Herding Cats in South Staffordshire
Peter Harrison, South Staffordshire College
   
  17:05 - campusM Mobile Architecture
Hugh Griffiths, oMbiel
   
Lecture Theatre A - Session 3b -
Chair - David Richardson, JANET(UK)
   
  16:15 - Reducing DNS Caching (or "How low can we go?")
Saleem Bhatti, University of St. Andrews
   
  16:40 - Wireless Standards/Developments
Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks
   
  17:05 - Control Plane Developments
Warren Matthews, JANET(UK)
   
Room 2.220 - Session 3c - Access Management
Chair - Mark Tysom, JANET(UK)
   
  16:15 - JANET Roaming Futures
Alan Buxey, Loughborough University
   
  16:40 - Access Management Futures
Josh Howlett, JANET(UK)
   
  17:05 - JANET Roaming deployment for Networkshop
Mike Richardson, University of Manchester
   
Room 1.219 - Session 3d - Exhibitor Session E
   
  16:15 - Realtime Protocol Based Proactive Protection Against Malware Infections in Windows Networks
David Robinson, Norman Data
   
  16:50 - Unified Communications in a Visual Environment
John Martin, TANDBERG and Richard Middleton, Direct Visual
   
Room 1.218 - Session3e - Exhibitor Session F
   
  16:15 - Infection Control - An integrated approach to network security
Rick LeClerc, Bradford Networks and Andrew Brimson, Khipu Networks
   
  16:50 - The Physical layer - a Vital system component or just an inconvenient necessity?
Mike Collins, Molex Premise Networks
   
   
17:45 – 18:30              Birds of a Feather Sessions
   
  Birds of a Feather :D - Lecture Theatre A
  IPv6, Rina Samani, JANET(UK)
   
  Birds of a Feather :E - Room 1.219        
   
  Birds of a Feather :F - Room 1.218 
   
18:30 Finish
   
19:00 Coach pickup from Premier Inn Central to The Monastery in Gorton
   
19:30  Drinks Reception – The Monastery
   
20:00 Conference Dinner
   
22:00 After Dinner Speaker ; Lenny Henry
   
23:00 Coaches depart for Premier Inn Central