APAN Network Performance Workshop: Tokyo, Japan

Agenda -- Prerequisites -- Presentations -- Workshop Locations

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22-23 January 2006
Tokyo, Japan


The increasing reliance on network connectivity in all aspects of campus activities is resulting in increased pressure on support staff to quickly resolve network problems. Through participation in performance measurement networks, GigaPoP engineers, campus engineers and end-users can now work together to resolve end-to-end performance problems. The measurement infrastructure is most effectively leveraged when all paths within the network and servers on the edge support on-demand testing beacons. This workshop brings together representatives from various APAN networks to maximize these networking efforts.

This workshop was made possible through the combined efforts of APAN, Internet2, and TransPAC2 as part of the 21st APAN meeting in Tokyo. There were approximately 25 people in attendance, including representatives from Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, and the US. Material was presented by experts in security, measurement, high-performance networking, and the medical application space (remote surgery). It is critical for groups such as these to work together to achieve the long-term goal of a global interoperable measurement environment.

After this workshop, participants will have placed measurement beacons on their campus and learned to use related tests and tools, thereby reducing the time required to identify, locate and resolve many of the most common network performance issues by readily isolating the problem.

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Meeting Information:

• Agenda
  This hands-on workshop is scheduled for January 22 (from 9am - 5:30 pm) and 23 (from 11:00 am - 5 pm) at the APAN 21 Meeting in Tokyo Japan (See the APAN agenda for the workshop room and the site in general for logistics). The agenda is available here.
    
• Presentations
  Links to presentations from the workshop will be available here.


• Documentation
  A copy of the business case [Word] provided in the Workshop materials is available. See also the Binder Materials page for links to each of the cookbooks and case studies.