ADVISORY/RPR Alliance Chair Love to Present New Metro Ring Technology at Opticon 2001.News/Assignment Editors & High-Tech Writers ADVISORY...for Tuesday (Aug. 14) Opticon 2001 SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2001 The Resilient Packet Ring See RPR. Alliance, an industry advocacy group promoting the standardization of resilient packet ring (RPR (Resilient Packet Ring) A packet-based protocol that provides fault tolerance and statistical multiplexing for the metropolitan and national SONET and Ethernet networks of the carriers. ) technology, today announced that chair Robert Love For the American Revolutionary War soldier, see . Robert Matthew Love (born September 25, 1981) is an American author, speaker, and open source software developer. will participate in an RPR panel at Opticon 2001 in San Jose this week. RPR is a new highly scalable Layer 2 technology that addresses the bandwidth limitations resulting from growing data traffic in carrier networks. As part of the panel, Love will present, "Resilient Packet Ring: Creating the `Ring Switch' Revolution," at 3:15 p.m. on August 14. Love will provide an overview of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. RPR 802.17 Working Group standards effort and discuss its benefits to metropolitan area network (MAN) carriers and service providers.
What: Metro Track: Resilient Packet Rings Panel
Where: Opticon 2001, San Jose McEnery Convention
Center, 408 S. Almaden Avenue
When: Tuesday, August 14, 3:15 p.m.
Chair: Mary Jander, Senior Editor, LightReading
Participants: Robert Love, Chair of the RPR Alliance and Vice
Chair of the IEEE 802.17 Working Group
Graeme Fraser, Vice President and General
Manager of Cisco's Metro IP Business Unit
Gary Southwell, Senior Director of Optical
Networking for Nortel Networks
Nader Vijeh, Founder and Senior Vice President
of R&D at Lantern Communications
Conference Dates: Monday, August 13, through Thursday, August 16
Sponsors: Business Communications Review and LightReading
Link: www.bcr.com/opticon
About the Resilient Packet Ring Alliance The RPR Alliance, founded in January 2001, is an industry advocacy group committed to the development of an RPR technology standard for the networking industry. The Alliance will promote the adoption of an RPR standard for LANs, MANs, and WANs by educating the networking industry about RPR technology and the benefits of an IEEE standard and encouraging multi-vendor interoperability. Principal members of the RPR Alliance include Alcatel, Alidian Networks, AuroraNetics, Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Corrigent Systems, Cyras Systems, Dynarc, Lantern Communications, Luminous Networks, Mindspeed Technologies, Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony , Riverstone Networks, and Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation. Avaya Communication, Huawei Tech Co., and NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Corporation are participating member in the Alliance. For more information on the Alliance, see www.RPRAlliance.com. |
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