Events

Porta Optica Study Final Review will take place on 10^th of July 2007 in Vilnus, Lithuania.

Porta Optica Study final workshop "GEANT2 Eastern Extension" was held in Poznan on 18th April 2007.The workshop was directed to top managers of NRENs, the representatives of their funding bodies, national policy makers and regulators. The program of the workshop covered technical, financial, legal and organizational aspects of fiber deployment in the Eastern Europe as well as managerial and sustainability aspects of fiber network operation.
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Porta Optica Study General Assembly final meeting was held in Poznan on 17th April 2007.
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Significant impact of GN2, SEEFIRE, SILK/OCCASION and Porta Optica Study projects on the future of collaborative research in Europe was widely discussed during IST Event 2006 Networking Session in Helsinki.
More information can be found at the IST website

• Introduction (5’)
• "The Porta Optica Study project", Artur Binczewski(PSNC), Jacek Gajewski (CEENet), Milosz Przywecki (PSNC), Maciej Stroinski(PSNC), Wojciech Sronek(PSNC), Piotr Turowicz(PSNC), Jan Weglarz (PSNC) (15’)
• "The impact of SEEFIRE and SEEREN2 on research networking in southeast Europe", Valentino Cavalli (TERENA), Yannis Mitsos (GRNET) (15’)
• "The SILK/OCCASION project", Peter Kirstein, UCL (15’)
• "The GEANT2 project", Hans Doebbeling, DANTE (15’)
• Discussion (25’)

Exhibition INFOBALT'2006 is dedicated to ITT technologies, e-services and electronics and is the most important and biggest annual event in the field of IT in Lithuania. The seminar "PORTA OPTICA STUDY and LITNET network development perspectives" was organized during this exhibition (on 19th of October, 2006).
Representatives of the national and local government, potential network users (scientific institutions, universities) were invited. Telecommunication companies, dark fibre owners attended the seminar. Participants were introduced with Porta Optica Study project, its goals, activities and current results. LITNET network development perspectives were discussed.

Porta Optica Study workshop, addressed to user communities and policy makers from Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine, provided general information about situation of National Research and Education Networks in Eastern Europe, the recent Black Sea Initiative and Odessa-Poti undersea cable, problems related to inadequate access to high-speed networks and possible solutions of these problems. Talks were given by speakers from international organizations (DANTE, CEENet), academic networks (PIONIER, URAN, UARNet, CESNET, GRENA ) and major Ukrainian operators.
Presentations from the workshop:

• Eastern GÉANT2 Extension - H. Döbbeling DANTE
• Porta Optica - Feasibility Study of OPTICAL GATEWAY to Eastern Europe - J. Gajewski (CEENet), O. Kubichka (URAN)
• Black Sea Initiative - R. Kvatadze (GRENA, CEENet), J.Gajewski (CEENet)
• BSOpen (Odessa - Poti) Initiative - Oleh Bobovnikov (Novatel Ukraine)
• Experience with Cross Border Fibre connection in Europe and with advanced optical devices deployments - S. Sima
• Pionier - the Polish road to optical Internet - A. Binczewski (PSNC), S. Starzak (Lodz Computer Center), M. Stroinski (PSNC), Jan Weglarz (PSNC)
• URAN and fibre MANs in Ukraine - M. Dombrougov (URAN)
• UARNet and western cross border - I. Protsykevich (UARNet)
• Cooperation of commercial operators with NRENs (DATAGROUP)

One of the main mission of the International ICFA Workshop is to develop approaches to reduce or eliminate the Digital Divide in Eastern Europe, Russia, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Africa and to help ensure that the basic requirements for global collaboration are met in the field of data-intensive Grid computing, inter-regional connectivity and Grid enabled analysis for high energy physics.

At the meeting the main objectives of the Porta Optica Study project was presented for about 50 participants that represent the most important scientific ventures especially related to Grid application development in Eastern Europe.

Registration for Porta Optica Study General Assembly meeting (09-10.10.2006, National Technical University of Ukraine "Kiev Politechnical Institue", 57 Peremogy Ave., Kiev, Ukraine) is already opened. Please login, choose "Meeting registration" from "Private zone" menu, fill up form and submit.

Porta Optica Study project local training event was organized on 30th of August, 2006 in Dubingiai (Lithuania), where annual conference "LITNET activities and development" was held. Trainings were oriented to the technical staff and user community of public institutions, such as Lithuanian science organizations, high or higher education facilities, etc. The conference was attended by representatives from the suppliers of equipment and connectivity to LITNET as well. During trainings results of Porta Optica Study project were presented as well as optical network implementation in Lithuania and technical information about optical network technologies. Attendees of the training session were also informed about the possibility to take part in regional practical training in Riga. 67 registered participants including representatives from science and business organizations were attending the training session.

Porta Optica Study kick-off meeting organized by Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Centre was held in Poznan on 8-10th of February 2006, one week after official launch of the project.