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NGI Distinguished Lecture Series Hosts Bill Anderson and Janet Jackel

released June 21, 2000

The Alliance Center for Collaboration, Education, Science and Software (ACCESS) in Arlington, VA, will host the next Next Generation Internet (NGI) Distinguished Lecturer Series event on Friday, June 23 at 1 p.m. CST (2 p.m. EST). The webcast lecture will feature Bill Anderson and Janet Jackel of Telcordia Technologies. Anderson is the director of the optical networking systems engineering research group at Telcordia.

Their talk, titled "Optical Networking for the NGI," will discuss optical networking as a solution for the explosive growth in demand for bandwidth through the world. They will review the technologies that make optical networking possible, as well as the attributes that make it valuable.

Space is limited at the live conference site; those interested in attending should RSVP as soon as possible to ngi-seminar-rsvp@isi.edu. For information on the multicast and webcast, see http://www.ngi-supernet.org/conferences.html.

The lecture series is sponsored by DARPA and the NGI program.

 

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