Your Network. Your Input. Our Future.
Presentations from the 2010 National LambdaRail (NLR) All Hands Meeting are available for download below. Select video clips will be added shortly.
2010 NLR All Hands Meeting
May 11-12, Indianapolis
IUPUI Campus Center
Room CE-405
Agenda
May 11, 2010
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | ||||||||||||
| 1:00 PM | Welcome Glenn Ricart, President and CEO Wendy Huntoon, Chief Technology Officer |
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| 1:30 PM | Keynote Steve Midgley, Education Director, National Broadband Plan, Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
What to Expect on the Road to National Broadband [ Slides  PDF - 1.98 MB ]As Education Director at the FCC, Steve Midgley was responsible for the education section of the National Broadband Plan, submitted to Congress in March. Steve will share an insider's insights into the plan's significance for higher education and research, open issues, what we can expect to happen when and potential roles for research and education networks. |
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| 2:15 PM | The NLR Platform and Advanced Services: Technical Updates and Discussion Session Moderator: Grover Browning, Director, Engineering and Operations
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| 3:45 PM | Coffee Break | ||||||||||||
| 4:15 PM | The Latest from NLR's CEO and CTO Glenn Ricart and Wendy Huntoon Hear about NLR's current strategy, technology vision and state of the business. [ Slides PDF - 2.33 MB ] |
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| 5:00 PM | Walk to Global Research Network Operations Center (GRNOC) | ||||||||||||
| 5:30 PM | Tour, GRNOC | ||||||||||||
| 6:00-8:00 PM | Reception, GRNOC |
May 12, 2010
| 7:30 AM | Breakfast | |||||||||
| 8:30 AM | Keynote Lori Sorenson, Chief Operating Officer, Department of Central Management Services, Bureau of Communications and Computer Services, State of Illinois
The Illinois Century Network Perspective: Equipping our States and Communities with Broadband and the Resulting Synergies with R&E [ Slides PDF - 2.83 MB ] Lori Sorenson oversees the administration and technology strategy for the Illinois Century Network, which connects over 8,000 schools, libraries, healthcare providers, museums, municipalities and state agencies throughout Illinois and serves more than 2 million citizens every day with high-speed access to video, data and audio communications. Lori will speak on the successes and lessons learned about broadband-enabling state and local government and community anchor institutions, the model Illinois has adopted and why – and the resulting impact. Also addressed will be how the assets and expertise of a research and education network like NLR could support the Illinois Century Network in their objectives and the mutual synergies and shared opportunities ahead of us. |
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| 9:15 AM | The NLR Platform and Advanced Services: Technical Updates and Discussion Session Moderator: Grover Browning, Director, Engineering and Operations
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| 10:30 AM | Coffee Break | |||||||||
| 11:00 AM | A Panel of Distinguished NLR Members and Users: What's Next for Research and Education Networks? Setting the Direction for NLR's Layer 1, 2 and 3 Services Hear how leading technology visionaries among NLR's members see research and education networks evolving, and corresponding implications for RONs, NLR and our users.
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| 1:30 PM | Wrap-up and Close Glenn Ricart |
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| 2:00 PM | Meeting Concludes |
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