reminder: AG @ BU demo 3/16

[Michael Krugman]

Thanks for your note Jennifer. A few more details:

At 2:34 PM -0500 3/15/0, you wrote:
>NoX is the group
>responsible for the Aggregation Point in Boston which will connect BU to
>Abilene in the near future.

BU connected to the NoX-AP (AKA GigaPoP) at OC-12 & Abilene at OC-3 10/99.
NoX participants currently committed to connections to the NoX-AP and I2
are BU, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, Tufts, the University of New Hampshire,
the University of Vermont, Dartmouth College, and the University of Maine.
Tufts & Umaine recently connected to I2 via the NoX-AP; several other
institutional connections are imminent. We also have service providers
connected to the AP, including Qwest, Bell Atlantic, MediaOne, & RCN.

>I don't have a list of participants, but the NoX web site is brief and
>well worth reading if you're going to participate in the demo.

NoX attendees typically include:

Celeste Finison, Boston College
Michael Krugman, Boston University
Charles von Lichtenberg, Boston University
George Loftus, Brown University
Oke Lundin, Brown University
Steve Campbell, Dartmouth College
Leo Donnelly, Harvard University
Doug Green, University of New Hampshire
Jeff Schiller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Blank-Edelman, Northeastern University
Wilson Dillaway, Tufts University
Gerry Dube, University of Maine
Peter Gutierrez, University of Massachusetts
Chris Misra, University of Massachusetts
Michael Shaughnessy, University of Rhode Island
Jeremy George, Yale University
Joseph Paolillo, Yale University

This is a technically oriented group responsible for campus network
infrastructure, services, and operations. I expect they'll be interested in
the nuts-and-bolts of the AG, including components, costs, and support.
Some of them will [hopefully] bring this concept home to their campuses and
possibly build AG facilities there.

>(Last week we had
>problems and only managed to pull off the demo as beautifully as we did
>because the participants arrived 20 minutes late.)

I'll try to manage the schedule more closely this round, but you know the
old saw about herding cats...  :)

Thanks all and see you tomorrow. Michael

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At 2:34 PM -0500 3/15/0, Jennifer Teig von Hoffman wrote:
>Hello all - -
>
>Below is detailed information about tomorrow's demo for the NoX meeting
>at BU. Bob Olson and Bill Nickless have both agreed to attend; we would
>also appreciate participation from ACCESS-DC if possible, and anyone else
>who's available to join us.
>
>Last week's demo went great! Many thanks to everybody who participated.
>
>- Jennifer
>
>****************************
>
>DATE/TIME:
>Thursday, 3/16, 11:00 AM Eastern Time - - we need you to arrive AT LEAST
>30 minutes early for testing! This is very important. (Last week we had
>problems and only managed to pull off the demo as beautifully as we did
>because the participants arrived 20 minutes late.)
>
>GENERAL:
>Be on the MUD!! And if at all possible, try to have multicast working at
>your site. I'd really really really like to avoid the bridge for this
>one. Really.
>
>AGENDA:
>* What the AG is and how we use it at BU (Jennifer Teig von Hoffman) -
>  5-10 min
>
>* Introduction of BU and remote staff - 5 min
>  - I will ask everyone to give 20-second explanation of what their
>    use/relation is to the AG (ie, you set up the networking, you installed
>    the node, you use it for meetings, etc.)
>
>* The Technology of the Access Grid (Bob Olson) - 5-10 min
>
>* Questions/Answers - 5-10 min
>  - I'll encourage the audience to address their questions directly to
>    anybody on the AG or at BU. I'd like them to get a real sense of the
>    group-to-group collaboration. Please jump in to answer questions you've
>    got the answers to.
>
>
>BACKGROUND ON PARTICIPANTS:
>I have been told that NoX is in many ways similar to SoX. NoX is the group
>responsible for the Aggregation Point in Boston which will connect BU to
>Abilene in the near future. This is a very technical group of people, so
>we need to be prepared for relatively complex technical questions (perhaps
>more fun than those time-to-market questions, eh?).
>
>I don't have a list of participants, but the NoX web site is brief and
>well worth reading if you're going to participate in the demo. The most
>descriptive page is at:
>
>http://www.nox.org/NoXPrimer7-99.htm