The Works of DANTE - Issue 5

Conference celebrates CESNET’s 10 year anniversary

 CESNET’s international conference will be held in Prague from 6th- 8th March, and marks the ten year anniversary of CESNET’s foundation. Topics covered at the conference include optical networking, IPv6, network monitoring, Grids, middleware developments and network applications.

DANTE’s Loukik Kudarimoti will be part of a team presenting a paper titled "Bridging Network Monitoring and the Grid." It analyses the requirements of important Grid middleware components such as job scheduling and data transport, and proposes a set of services for the publishing, discovery and gathering of information about network performance and framework capabilities.

 The CESNET association was established on 6th March 1996 by universities, colleges and the Czech Academy of Sciences with the aim of building and developing the national broadband computer network for science, research and education. It quickly established itself as a leading organisation in the Czech Republic, and at an international level. CESNET specialists are involved in international research projects targeting networking and communication technologies and they also participate in Grid and network application-related projects.

Currently, CESNET is building and developing the CESNET2 national gigabit research network, based predominantly on optical technology, and is also developing a national Grid infrastructure. CESNET is the representative of the Czech Republic in the GÉANT2 project, and will benefit from dark fibre links to Germany and Slovakia, as well as a 10 Gbps connection to Poland. 

Further information about event is available on the website at www.ces.net/conference06