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TF-TANT: A joint activity between TERENA and
DANTE |
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The Joint DANTE/TERENA Task Force TF-TANT
The Quantum Test Programme
(QTP) has the objective of testing and validating new technologies, products and
services with a view to introducing them into the operational TEN-155 service at
some future date. The purpose of this page is to summarise and publish the
developments of the QTP. To make the QTP a success, as many people from the
European research community as well as the Quantum project partners should get
involved.
A joint DANTE/TERENA Task Force carries out the experiments of the QTP
using the Managed Bandwidth Service (MBS) of Quantum. Experimentation under the
label of QTP is co-ordinated by DANTE as part of the Quantum project which is
ultimately controlled by the Quantum Consortium.
Additional work items under the control of the Task Force will be included to
cover both longer term developments and new networking techniques which might
not effect backbone services, but primarily the access networks.
An updated draft version of the group's Terms of Reference can be found here.
This policy statement
was endorsed by the Quantum Policy Comite regarding the management of the
Quantum Test Programme to be run by the joint task force.
TF-TANT is looking for co-operation with providers of services and equipment.
This announcement
was sent to the TF-TANT mailing list on 24/2/1999. Feel free to forward it to
interested parties!
Administrivia
- Interim
report on the results of the Quantum Test Programme, 3/11/1999
- The final report (June 2000) and its peer review are now available:
- Minutes of past meetings
- Minutes
of the WG-LLT meeting, Dresden, DE, 4/10/1998
- Minutes
of the 1st TF-TANT meeting, Cambridge, UK, 5-6/11/1998
- Minutes
of the 2nd TF-TANT meeting, Amsterdam, NL, 25-26/1/1999
- Minutes
of the 3rd TF-TANT meeting, Athens, GR, 29-30/3/1999
- Minutes
of the 4th TF-TANT meeting, Bologna, IT, 17-18/6/1999
- Minutes
of the 5th TF-TANT meeting, Frankfurt 30/9/99
On the 1 October a
Workshop with the Quantum Policy Committee was held, the presentations given
are available here.
The minutes
of the workshop.
- Minutes of
the 6th TF-TANT meeting, Madrid, ES, 25-26/11/1999
- Minutes of
the 7th TF-TANT meeting, Geneva, CH, 3-4/2/2000
- Minutes
of the 8th TF-TANT meeting, Ljubljana, SI, 17-18/4/2000
- Minutes of
the 9th TF-TANT meeting, Dublin, IE, 13-14/7/2000
- Minutes of
the 10th TF-TANT meeting, Vienna, AT, 5-6/10/2000
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- Mailing list: The TF-TANT mailing list is hosted by TERENA. You can
subscribe to it by submitting this form.
- List archive: TERENA maintains an archive of the TF-TANT
mailing list.
- Contact
information of participating organisations
Vendor Co-operation
TF-TANT seeks the co-operation with suppliers of
services and equipment in order to carry out the work items below. An announcement
has been sent to the group's list earlier. The presentations given during the
3rd TF-TANT meeting in Athens can be found here.
Work Items
The following work items are fully specified. Where
appropriate, they contain a list of parties committed to participate, the
requirements in terms of equipment and networking services and a description of
the experiments to be carried out. These activities already started or will
start as soon as the experiment requirements can be met.
- Differentiated
Services - Leader: Tiziana Ferrari
- RSVP to ATM SVC
Mapping - Leader: Tiziana Ferrari
- QoS
Monitoring - Leader: Tiziana Ferrari,
Roberto Sabatino
- MPLS - Leader: Herve Prigent
- IP over
ATM - Leader: Roberto Sabatino
- Flow-based Monitoring
Analysis - Leader: Simon Leinen
- IP Version 6 - Leader:
Simon Nybroe
- ATM
Signalling - Leader: Jan Novak
The
following work items are not yet fully specified. Volunteers to lead the
activity were identified and interest to participate expressed. Please get in
touch with the experiment leader, if you want to contribute to the
specifications.
- Multicasting
(IP and ATM) - Leader: Robert
Stoy
- Policy Control (IP
and ATM) - Leader: Leon
Gommans
- Route Monitoring -
Leader: Simon
Leinen
Fields of interest for further study and for information
exchange:
- VPNs -
Leader: Victor Reijs
- WDM -
Leader: Victor Reijs
- SDH Concatenation
Issues (STM-1 vs STM-4c) - Leader: Victor Reijs
Quite a few of above work packages are based on work carried out in
the now finished task force TF-TEN.
It's web pages on http://www.dante.net/tf-ten are no longer
maintained, but still contain material with some relevance for our group.
Contact: nep@dante.org.uk
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Last update: Thursday,
07-Dec-2000 11:17:34 GMT