The news service by and for the Research and Education Networking Community in Europe
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.
eduroam®, the ground-breaking secure roaming connectivity service has passed a major milestone: since its inception 10 years ago eduroam has now spread to over 50 countries globally, with more than 5,000 locations in Europe alone where researchers, students and teachers with eduroam credentials can securely access the Internet while away from their home institution.
A celebration of eduroam’s ten-year anniversary took place during the 2012 TERENA Networking Conference (TNC2012), with special recognition for the role of Klaas Wierenga who had the original idea for eduroam while employed at SURFnet, the Dutch National Research and Education Network (NREN) organisation. The anniversary is 30 May 2012.
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.
Recent IPv6 statistics from the RIPE NCC show an accelerated uptake of IPv6 in Norway, both in terms of the number of allocated prefixes, and visible announcements in the routing system. Some have incorrectly interpreted this to mean that over 50% of the end users in Norway now have access to IPv6. End user IPv6 capability measurements being undertaken by APNIC suggests end user access to IPv6 remains low in Norway, as in other economies.
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.
The German National Research and Education Network (DFN) is about to relaunch its research network X-WiN: by the end of 2012 all dark fibres in X-WiN will be equipped with multi-terabit technology.
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.