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Life at the Edge:
Research and Practice in Corporate/Campus Networks
Description
This
summit brings together experts in academia and
industry to discuss the problems facing the
designers and managers of enterprise networks. Also,
for the first time, we will sponsor a number of
graduate students to attend the summit as a way to
encourage research in this area as well as to
provide them an opportunity to get technical
feedback on their ideas from some of thought leaders
in this space.
The
summit will be structured as an academic event -
consisting of presentations, panel, and working group
sessions as well as a poster and demo session. In our experience, this
format allows for a high-degree of interactivity
between participants as well as opportunities to dig
deeply into specific topic areas.
Among the goals of this summit is to produce:
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A
list of the hard problems facing enterprise
network IT staffs. We will take a stab at a
research agenda that separates out the issues
with near-term solutions from ones that
require research or new approaches
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A
description of the campus/enterprise network
scenarios that IT managers will have to support
& build up over the next 3-5 years.
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A
list of the distinguishing characteristics of
enterprise networks
Our hope is that, at the end of this
meeting, all participants will have a much better
understanding of the problems and will have made
connections to other researchers and operators
working on these issues.
Although this summit is by invitation
only, all presentations, position papers, and videos of
talks and panels will be available for download on this
web site shortly after the meeting is over.
The 2005 summit was on
Self-Managing Networks
The 2004 summit was on
Mesh
Networks
Location
The summit will be held at the
Salish
Lodge & Spa nestled in the foothills of the Cascade
Mountains 30 miles east of Seattle. In addition to a
spa, Salish offers three notable restaurants and
immaculate guestrooms. Lodge guests can hear the roar of
Snoqualmie Falls as whitewater tumbles over granite
cliffs nearly 300 feet into the emerald river canyon
below. They can venture down the pine tree-lined trail
by day and let the crackling personal wood-burning
fireplace soothe their sleep by night. The Snoqualmie
Tribe considered Snoqualmie Falls a spiritual place of
great power. Today Snoqualmie Falls is the second most
visited tourist destination in Washington State.
Organizers
Victor Bahl, David A. Maltz, Ming
Zhang -- Microsoft Research
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