10:00 - 10:30

Registration and refreshments

10:30 - 10:45

Welcome and Introduction

Jeremy Sharp, JANET(UK)

10:45 - 11:15

Requirements for an advanced optical infrastructure from an NREN perspective

David Salmon, JANET(UK)

11:15 - 11:45

Requirements for an advanced optical infrastructure from a telecommunications provider perspective

Nigel Baker, NEOS Networks Limited

11.45 - 12:15

High rate transmission – a review of 100G

 

Mark Gibbon, Nortel Networks

12:15 - 13:15

 

Buffet lunch

13:15 - 13:45

State-of-the-art optical networking

David Boyle, Ciena

13:45 - 14:15

Network provisioning in optical networks

Eduard Escalona, University of Essex

14:15 - 14:30

Refreshments

14:30 - 15:00

Fault finding and trouble shooting on optical networks

John Colton, Lucidos

15:00 - 15:30

New technologies for optical networks

Alwyn Seeds, University College London

15:30

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