DICONET NEWS

• The Future Networks 6th FP7 Concertation Meeting - registration - 10/11/2010
  The Future Networks 6th FP7 Concertation Meeting, will take place in Brussels from 18 to 20 October 2010. Registration to be made before October 11, 2010.
• GreenTouch Workshop on energy efficiency issues co-located with ECOC 2010 Conference - 9/21/2010
  GreenTouch is a consortium of leading Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry, academic and non-governmental research experts dedicated to fundamentally transforming communications and data networks, including the Internet, and significantly reducing the carbon footprint of ICT devices, platforms and networks. Its mission is to deliver by 2015 the architecture, specifications and roadmap - and demonstrate key components - needed to increase network energy efficiency by a factor of 1000 from current levels in telecom networks. The GreenTouch (GT) Consortium is organizing a workshop with the goal to increase the awareness about its initiative to improve energy efficiencyand reduce the carbon footprint of ICT devices, platforms and networks. This workshop will have an emphasis on core optical networks, will be held on Tuesday, September 21st (11:00am - 13:30pm) and will be collocated with the ECOC 2010 Conference in Turin, Italy. The workshop format will consist of presentations about GreenTouch and its activities (by the chairs of the "GT Technical Committee", the "Applications & Trends Committee", the "Network Committee" and the chairs of the working groups on "Core Networks") and will be followed by a panel discussion to address the question "in what ways can optics be used to create the largest increase in network energy efficiency?"
• Ireland’s eircom announces broadband open access FTTH trials - 6/28/2010
  Ireland national carrier eircom has announced two large scale, open access broadband fiber to the home (FTTH) trials for up to 10,000 residential and business customers in communities in Wexford town and Sandyford, County Dublin. (From "Lightwaveonline")
• LTE Will Reshape Entire AT&T Network - 6/23/2010
  Long Term Evolution (LTE) deployment is prompting AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) to rethink its network architecture, and could lead to changes in the way Ethernet is deployed. (From "Lightreading.com" by Carol Wilson)
• Verizon's second field trial of 10 Gbps XG-PON FTTP affirms FiOS network design - 6/23/2010
  Verizon has completed a field trial of a second XG-PON fiber-optic distribution system connecting a FiOS customer location with 10 gigabits per second downstream to the home and 2.5 Gbps upstream. The test demonstrates the capability of Verizon's FiOS network to accommodate new and emerging video services and the growing demand for streaming video content and other bandwidth-intensive applications. (From "lightwaveonline")
• ICC 2010: Extended date for Paper Submission - 5/23/2010
  Extended date for Paper Submission on 28th Sept 2009
• RNDM 2010 - 5/15/2010
  The deadline for paper submission to RNDM 2010, 2nd International Workshop on Reliable Network Design and Modeling is May 15, 2010
• ACCESS 2010 - Call for papers, tutorials, panels - 4/20/2010
  The First International Conferences on Access Networks,Services and Technologies, event to be organised on September 20-25, 2010 in Valencia, Spain
• Commerce announces continued demand for funding to bring broadband to more Americans - 4/8/2010
  The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has received 867 applications requesting $11 billion in funding for proposed broadband projects reaching across the United States. (From "Lightwaveonline")
• Survey Hundreds of Local Telecoms Already Upgrading to Gigabit-Enabled Fiber Networks - 4/3/2010
  Hundreds of small independent telecoms, broadband service providers, municipalities and cable television companies have brought gigabit-enabled, all-fiber service to a total of more than 1.4 million North American homes - about a quarter of all fiber to the home connections on the continent - according to a report released today by the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council. (From "Ftthcouncil.org")
• Call for papers - ICTON 2010 - 3/31/2010
  The Conference,concentrated on the applications of transparent and all-optical technologies in telecommunications, computing and novel applications is edditiong its call for paper; deadline for submission: March 31, 2010
• DICONET postdeadline paper at OFC 2010 accepted! - 3/23/2010
  It is a pleasure to announce that our OFC postdeadline paper entitled "Experimental Demonstration of Centralized and Distributed Impairment-Aware Control Plane Schemes for Dynamic Transparent Optical Networks" has been accepted.
• NOC-OC&I 2010 - abstract regitration - 3/15/2010
  The combined event Networks and Optical Communications (NOC)& Optical Cabling and Infrastructure (OC&I) has opened its abstract registration with an online paper submission fixed at March 31st 2010
• BROADNETS 2010 - Call for Papers - 2/19/2010
  BROADNETS 2010 conference will focus on broadband communications, networks, and systems and will covers the entire gamut of next generation networks, communications systems, applications and services. Important Dates Workshop/tutorial proposal: February 19th , 2010 Paper Submission: March 5th, 2010 Acceptance Notification: May 21st, 2010 Camera-ready: June 25th, 2010 Author registration: June 25th, 2010
• Call for Paper - CTTE - 2/15/2010
  CTTE edit a call for papers related to presentation of original fundamental techno-economic concepts and applications in the field of telecom, media and Internet. Important dates: Full paper submission: February 15th, 2010 Acceptance notification: April 15th, 2010 Final paper submission: May 15th, 2010
• EURASIP - Call for Paper - 2/1/2010
  Call for Papers in EURASIP (Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking) Special Issue on Signal Processing-assisted Protocols and Algorithms for Cooperating Objects and Wireless Sensor Networks Imprtant dates: Manuscript Due: February 1, 2010 First Round of Reviews: May 1, 2010 Publication Date: August 1, 2010