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By Prof. Raj
Jain TOPIC: " OPTICAL NETWORKING WITH IP OVER DWDM: RECENT ADVANCES, TRENDS, AND ISSUES" DATE : December 19th (Wednesday), 2001 Registration: Limited seats,
registration on first come first served basis. ABSTRACT: With the successful deployments of dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) in telecommunications networks, capacity of optical fibers has grown to multi-terabits per second. This has lead the industry to look for ways to find novel ways for transport and switching at high-speed. Currently, optical networking industry, like most networking technologies, is suffering from an economic downturn. Is there a future for optical networking? This is the starting point for this talk, which also includes discussions of issues that are being debated in the industry. In particular, the issues of traffic growth slowdown, Ethernet vs SONET, ring vs mesh topologies, will be discussed. New technological developments providing even more capacity increase in fiber will also be presented. Changes are being proposed in the Internet Protocol (IP) to be able to support high-speed switching in DWDM networks. These changes and related issues will be explained.
About the Speaker: Prof. Raj Jain Prof. Raj Jain is a Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Nayna Networks, Inc - an optical systems company in Milpitas, CA. He is currently on a leave of absence from Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, where he is a Professor of Computer and Information Sciences. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of ACM, and is on the Editorial Boards of Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, Computer Communications (UK), Journal of High Speed Networks (USA), and Mobile Networks and Applications. In the past, he was also on the Editorial Board of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networks, was an ACM Lecturer, and an IEEE Distinguished Visitor. He is currently a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communications Society. Raj Jain is on the Board of Technical Advisors to EdgeNet Communications Corporation, Burlingame, CA, Corona Networks, Inc., Milpitas, CA, Chip Engines, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, Teradiant Networks, San Jose, CA, Tivre Networks, San Jose, CA, Irvine Networks, Irvine, CA, Beacon Telco, Boston, MA, and on the Board of Research Advisors to iBEAM Broadcasting Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA. Previously, he was also on the Board of Advisors to Nexabit Networks, Westboro, MA, which was acquired by Lucent Corporation and to Amber Networks, Fremont, CA, which was acquired by Nokia. He is also a consultant to several networking companies. Based on his active participation in the computer industry, Dr. Jain was awarded 1999 Silicon India Leadership Awards for Excellence and Promise in Business and Technology. Raj Jain received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass, M.E. in Automation from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, and a B. E. (Electrical) from APS University, Rewa, India. He is the author of ``Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis,'' winner of 1991 ``Best Advanced How-to Book, Systems'' award from Computer Press Association and ``FDDI Handbook: High-Speed Networking with Fiber and Other Media'' published in 1994 by Addison Wesley. |
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