Columbia Workshop on Telecommunications

Open Binding Architectures for Building Networking Middleware

Monday, October 23, 1995, Columbia University, New York, NY

Symposium Chairperson: Aurel A. Lazar, COMET Group

Location: The workshop will take place in the auditorium of the Schapiro Research Building on the Morning-side Campus of Columbia University at 530 West 120th Street, between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway. The workshops attendance is limited to 100 participants.

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Program

8:15 am

Coffee

8:50-9:00 am

Welcoming Remarks

9:00- 9:45 am

Real-Time Support for Middleware

Speaker: Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, Lancaster

9:45-10:30 am

What's Hard about ATM Signalling?

Speaker: Chuck Kalmanek, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill

10:30-11:00 am

Break

11:00-11:45 pm

An Open Networking Architecture for the Coming Info-Communication Infrastructure

Speaker: Kenichi Kitami, NTT, Tokyo

11:45-12:30 am

Novel Control of ATM Networks

Speaker: Raphael Rom, Sun Microsystems, Mountain View

12:30-2:00 pm

A Demonstration of the xbind Open Signalling Architecture on NYNET

Lunch Break

2:00-2:45 pm

Standard Signalling Protocols Building Blocks or Barriers to Open Network Services Offerings

Speaker: Paul A. Stirpe, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, Hawthorne

2:45-3:30 pm

On and Above an Open Binding Architecture: Some Reflections on Issues and Implications

Speaker: Weiguo Wang, Institute of Systems Science, Singapore

3:30-4:00 pm

Break

4:00-5:00pm

Panel Discussion: The Impact of an Open Control Architecture on Vendors, Service Providers and Users

Chair: Aurel A. Lazar

Panelists: Sid Ahuja (AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel), Robert Cole (HP Labs, Bristol), Jon Crowcroft (UCL, London), Laurence A. Crutcher (Teknekron, New York), Steve Weinstein (NEC, Princeton).

5:00-5:10 pm

Workshop Closing Remarks

For further information please send email to workshop@ctr.columbia.edu