The sixth GARR Technical Workshop, "FROM THE NETWORK TO THE USER: WHEN THE USER BECOMES AN ACTIVE NODE OF THE NETWORK," will take place in the Aula Magna of the Rectorate Building at Sapienza University of Rome from Wednesday, November 16 to Friday, November 18, 2005.
The central theme of the sixth GARR Workshop (WS6) is the provision of end-to-end services. High-performance applications used by the academic and research communities, both nationally and internationally, as well as increasingly widespread applications such as videoconferencing, e-learning, and teleworking, require guaranteed end-to-end service quality. This can only be achieved through a flexible, versatile, and adequately capable transport infrastructure, coupled with a local network infrastructure that extends these features to the end user.
The main topics of this workshop will focus on access and local network technologies capable of supporting the most advanced network services and ensuring application performance.
During the workshop, the current status of the GARR network and its interconnections with other research networks at the European and global levels will be presented. The evolution of the network will also be discussed, highlighting its hybrid architecture, which combines circuit and packet switching. This architecture enables the configuration of virtual private networks (VPNs) and dedicated paths (including lambda-based paths), facilitating the delivery of end-to-end services.
