Programme

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Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

(Updated 13/04/2010)

Tuesday 30th March
10:00 – 13:30	Registration – Foyer, University Place Refreshments and Exhibition – Ground Floor, University Place
12:30	Lunch - Marquee
	Plenary Session          Lecture Theatre B, University Place Chair                          Shirley Wood, JANET(UK)
13:45	Welcome Paul Harness, Director of IT Services, The University of Manchester
14:00	JANET Update Tim Kidd and Jeremy Sharp, JANET(UK)
14:45	The Use of Networks in the Polar Regions David Blake, British Antarctic Survey
15:30	Refreshments and Exhibition – Exhibition Area
16:15 – 17:30	Parallel Sessions – University Place
Lecture Theatre B - Session 1a - Optical Networking Chair - David Salmon,JANET(UK)
	16:15 -  An overview of the main technologies behind optical communications Periklis Petropoulos, University of Southampton
	16:45 - Migrating to a Packet Optical Network Thomas Sims, Verizon
	17:05 - Optical fibre infrastructure, the Lancaster way Paul Boyd, University of Lancaster
Lecture Theatre A - Session 1b - A Secure World Chair - Mark O’Leary, JANET(UK)
	16:15 - Waking up securely: A story of Wake on LAN and 802.1x Alec Edworthy, Loughborough University
	16:40 - Understanding Server Certificate Validation and 802.1x Update Kevin Koster, Cloudpath Networks
	17:05 - Challenges for wide scale 802.1x deployment James Hooper, University of Bristol
Room 2.220 - Session 1c - Voice / Video Chair - Roger Bolam, JANET(UK)
	16:15 - Videoconference Update Roger Bolam and Tim Boundy, JANET(UK)
	16:40 - The View in Ultra High Definition Ade Fewings, C.A.S.T. Limited
	17:05 - Asterisk for the Enterprise Dave Reeve, Canterbury Christ Church University
Room 1.219 - Session 1d - Exhibitor Session A
	16:15 - DNS: Best Practice Paul Roberts, Tuscany Networks
	16:50 - IP Address Management on hardware and VM, the best of both worlds Simon Lowery, IP Performance/BlueCat Networks
Room 1.218 - Session 1e - Exhibitor Session B
	16:15 - BEYOND ETHERNET: Finding the Role for Wireless at The University of Manchester Robert Fenstermacher, Aruba Networks
	16:50 - IF-MAP Chris Marrison, Infoblox
17:45 – 18:30              Birds of a Feather Sessions
	Birds of a Feather :A - Lecture Theatre A
	Birds of a Feather :B - Room 1.219 Chair: Steve Hogger, JANET(UK) International Networking
	Birds of a Feather :C - Room 1.218
	Chair: James Davies, JANET(UK) CSIRT
17:30 - 18:30	Wine Reception and Exhibition – Exhibition Area
18:30 – 20:00	Dinner – Marquee
20:00 – 22:30	Birds of a Feather Sessions – Premier Inn Central, off Bar Area in the Touchbase Meetings Centre
	Developing common open source tools such as RTG, NAGIOS, and NetDISCO for network monitoring Alan Buxey, Loughborough University
	ResNet meeting Lee Stott, University of Manchester
	The ResNET Birds of a Feather Sessions (BOFs) will provide attendees with an opportunity to discuss networking issues in an informal, after hours, atmosphere.  This session is not intended for formal presentations, and certainly not for vendor product presentations, but rather as a forum for discussions of "unsolved problems" and ³shared experiences².  The ResNet BOFs is open to all University staff working and supporting Halls of Residences networks installations and associated services. The following are a list of topics for discussion and debate if you¹re interested in attending and discussing these topics please send me a email and I will compile a suitable agenda and attendee list. Blue Sky's - What will the future bring  What plans, strategies does you institution have for the future? Do you have  plans underway for big changes, or are you doing something new that takes  your services to the cutting edge? Share your plans and successes. Topics might include: outsourcing services, developing new IT partnerships for  delivering service, deploying  new technologies, new support models, redefining Service Level Agreements, creating new 'pay for service' models, identity management, wireless initiatives, and television/telephone services in the residence halls. Education and Learning   How are your Residential networks enhancing the learning opportunities or implementing new learning technologies for students at your institution, such as  academic partnerships, providing learning technologies in residences, residential learning communities, mobile learning technologies and social networking. Support Share your innovative ideas and operational successes (or failures) with your colleagues. Staffing  of residential services support, knowledge management, support issue solutions, evaluating your services and/or staff, drop-in service delivery, telephone support processes, help desk procedures, staff training, computer lab management, and more! Security Share your solutions for security, including dealing with virus and spyware invasions and intrusion detection/prevention. Educate your peers on the policies and technologies you have put in place to guide your clients in the area of virus protection, copyright infringement, privacy, encryption, packetshaping, smartphone policies, wireless policies, and group policies on public lab computers. Cool Tools   Share your ups and downs of the technologies and tools your utilising be them home grown or purchased.  Think of the topics above and what tools your using be them smartphone apps, websites and  software deployment. Leadership and Management What management or leadership approaches work in your residential network support? What project management, planning processes, hiring policies, committees, mentoring, partnerships, leadership training, strategic planning, budgets, document management, effective communications, and staff development. Sustainability In keeping with the sustainability theme of the conference, we are very interested in incorporating presentations that focus on sustainability initiatives within the IT sector. If you are doing anything with things like Thin Clients, Print Management