The Works of DANTE - Issue 5

First GÉANT2 Technical Workshop held in Cambridge

 The first ever GÉANT2 technical workshop was held in Cambridge on 9-13 January 2006. The week-long event brought together network users and engineers from the project’s partners to participate in development workshops and cross-topic discussions. More than 180 participants from all over Europe attended the workshop.

   "GÉANT2 is a huge project with ambitious aims, and its many participants are spread across the continent. The event provided a forum for information exchange and discussion across the project and the NREN partners.  The aim was to ensure maximum benefit is derived from the project’s various activities by targeting them in the most appropriate directions and benefiting from cross-fertilisation opportunities." said Roberto Sabatino, GÉANT2’s Chief Technical Officer, "It is also important that all project partners are aware of what is happening throughout the GÉANT2 project, and how the tools and services developed in each activity may benefit all the NRENs and their users."

A number of "Meet the NRENs" events were held, which allowed each activity leader to present their activity’s achievements and outline future developments to an NREN audience, with the aim of increasing uptake and rollout of these services. Toby Rodwell, who presented on behalf of the PACE activity (Performance and Allocated Capacity for End Users) said "One of the aims of our session was to bring the PERT (Performance Enhancement and Response Team) to a wider audience, and to increase uptake of the service among the NREN partners. The immediate response was positive, and we believe the coming months will see an increase in the number of cases reported to the PERT and an expansion of the PERT’s virtual team."

The second GÉANT2 Technical Workshop will be held in June 2006.

Send us your photos!

If you attended the first Technical Workshop and have any photos for the website please send them to prm@dante.org.uk