Speaking at the recent Commerce Commission's 'Broadband at a crossroads' conference, Donald Clark gave an insight into the next generation of KAREN - towards a hybrid optical / packet network.

Held 26-27 February 2009, this event investigated the market implications and opportunities of next generation networks. The conference is part of the Commerce Commission’s Next Generation Networks (NGN) study.

Optical networking - NRENs are leading the way

National research and education networks around the globe like KAREN are leading the way in implementing the next generation of high performance networking - dynamic optical networks. Donald talks about these developments, their implications for commercial networking and plans for the implementation of optical networking on KAREN.

Beyond IP - dynamic optical networks (pdf, 1.8MB)

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