This year’s TERENA Networking Conference concluded today, Thursday 24 May, with a coded invitation for attendees to visit TNC in Maastricht, Netherlands, from 3-6 June 2013.

Kees Neggers of the Dutch research and education network SURFnet presented a short film highlighting the city’s attractions, and participants of TNC2012 received a chocolate emblazoned with a QR code linking to information about next year’s conference.

Jorge Somavilla of the University of Madrid has won the prize for best student poster at this year’s TERENA Networking Conference (TNC2012), awarded by Cisco Systems and the Internet Society, the co-sponsors of student participation. The winning poster, about "Virtual Networks over Linux (VNX)" describes a framework for creating a virtual network within a single computer and using that to simulate infrastructure operations. All posters displayed at TNC2012 can be viewed online at: https://tnc2012.terena.org/core/poster/list.

The other student posters that were selected for presentation at TNC2012 were also highly commended by the team of judges, which included representatives from the sponsor organisations, TERENA and the TNC2012 programme committee. Karen O'Donoghue, Research Analyst for Networks and Trust with Internet Society, said, "there was a wide range of topics in a number of interesting areas, showing well presented and carefully thought out work". Chris Lonvick, Director of Consulting Engineering with Cisco, explained that "most of them relate to research and provide new thoughts and results applying to real-world situations."

TERENA is pleased to announce that all participants at the TERENA Networking Conference 2012 have been offered free-of-charge use of Vidyo Inc.'s telepresence solution during the coming 12 months. Vidyo is providing this opportunity as a demonstration of its support to the research and education networking community.

Vidyo has made this offer during the 2012 TERENA Networking Conference, TNC2012, running 21-24 May in Reykjavik, Iceland. Vidyo is a sponsor of TNC2012 and is providing remote participants with the ability to join in via the Vidyo video communications and collaboration solution.

Postgraduate students met leading figures from TERENA, Cisco and the Internet Society at the 2012 TERENA Networking Conference (TNC2012) on Tuesday 22 May. Cisco provided sponsorship for student participation for the fourth consecutive year, with the Internet Society joining as a co-sponsor for the first time. This allowed selected European students from all fields related to research networking to attend the conference free of charge, giving them access to experts from across Europe who have gathered at TNC2012 in Reykjavik, Iceland. All posters were displayed this week at TNC2012 and can be viewed online.

The first of a series of short videos from the TERENA Networking Conference (TNC2012) is now available on the 'TERENATube' www.youtube.com/user/terenatube and the ‘Social’ web page http://www.terena.org/social.

The videos are being created by a team of students who are completing their Master degrees in Journalism and Mass Communication within the School of Social Sciences at the University of Iceland. Helga Mjöll Stefánsdóttir, Guðmundur Heiðar Helgason, and Benedikt Grétarsson worked in cooperation with TERENA Communications and RHnet, the Icelandic research and education networking organisation, to arrange interviews and record footage for the TNC2012 reports.

This year's TERENA Networking Conference (TNC2012) begins today, Monday 21 May. Live streaming (from https://tnc2012.terena.org) is due to begin at 14:00 UTC (16:00 CEST) when the opening plenary presentation is given by Hilmar Petursson of CCP GAMES, Iceland, who will share experiences from managing the massive 400,000 person multiplayer game EVE-Online.

More than 500 people are attending the conference, which also features online presentation materials for those who cannot be there in person.

NRENum.net, the number mapping service for academia that facilitates VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and videoconferencing dialling, has become a global service. Within the past month, National Research and Education Network (NREN) organisations from Latin America and Australia have joined European participants in the service, taking the total number to 16 countries from three continents.

NRENum.net is also now recognised as a viable solution for seamless dialling interconnection between multiple technologies whether or not the standard system, the “Golden ENUM Tree”, using ENUM (E.164 Number Mapping) technology, is available.

Key members of the research networking community are ‘reporting’ on this year’s TERENA Networking Conference, providing their expert insight and comments in the form of blogs, tweets and photos. This TNC2012-related content is aggregated from different social media sites in the TERENA 'Social' page - http://www.terena.org/social/.

Whether attending the conference in person or participating remotely, you can join the TNC online conversation:

The final deadline for registration for the TERENA Networking Conference 2012 (TNC2012) and co-located meetings is quickly approaching. TNC2012 will take place in Reykjavik, Iceland from 21-24 May 2012. Online registration for TNC2012 closes at midnight CET on Friday, 11 May 2012.

Online registration can be done by using a downloadable form (pdf) and costs € 550. Desk registration at the conference venue will still be possible and costs € 600. Information about all registration options and what the fees cover is available on https://tnc2012.terena.org/web/participate/register. Information about hotels in Reykjavik, costs and how to book is available via https://tnc2012.terena.org/web/venue/hotels.

There are different ways you can get involved at the TERENA Networking Conference (TNC2012) from 21-24 May 2012 in Reykjavik, Iceland. In addition to attending the conference, and 'networking with networkers' from across Europe and the world, participants can also share their ideas by giving a lightning talk or presenting a poster.