Monday, January 21, 2008

NTT America Supports Further IPv6 Development and Migration

from: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080115/nytu100.html?.v=101
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NTT America Supports Further IPv6 Development and Migration
Tuesday January 15, 1:37 pm ET


IPv6 Migration Issues Discussed at PTC 2008 Panel

NEW YORK, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- NTT America, a wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, today announced the company's continuous support of commercial IPv6 technology development and implementation. Affirming NTT America's position, NTT Communications presented its foresight and expertise on commercial IPv6 technology development and implementation at the 30th Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC), held January 13-16, 2008 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

10 network papers that changed the world

from SIGCOMM CCR Volume 37, number 5, Oct 2007.
by George Varghese, UCSD


1.R.Metcalfe and D.Boggs, "Ethernet: distributed packet switching for local computer networks", Communications of the ACM, v.19 n.7, p.395-404, July 1976.
2.J.Slatzer, D.Clark, and K.Pogran. "Why a Ring?" IEEE seventh data communications symposium, Oct 1981, pp.211-217.
3.A.G.Fraser, "Towards a universal data transport system", IEEE journal on selected areas in communication, SAC-1,5, Nov 1983.
4.R.Perlman "An algorithm for distributed computation of a spanning tree in a extended LAN", proceedings of the 9th symposium on data communications, v.20, n.7, 1985, pp.44-52.
5.R.Perlman, "Fault tolerant broadcast of routing information", Computer networks vol.7, 1983, pp.395-405.
6.Y.Dalal and R.Metcalfe, "Reverse path forwarding of broadcast packets", Communications of the ACM, c.21, n.12, Dec 1978, pp.1040-1048.
7.R.Tomlinson, "Selecting sequence numbers", Proceedings of the ACM Sigcomm/SigOPS interprocess communication workshop, Santa Monica, CA, March 24, 1975.
8.Richard W Watson, "Timer based mechanism in reliable transport protocol connection management", Computer networks 5, 1981, pp.47-56.
9.A.Birrell and B.Nelson, "Implementating Remote Procedure Calls", ACM transactions on computer systems, vol.2, no.1, Oct 1984, p.39-58.
10.N.Kronenberg, H.Levy, and W.Strecker, "VAX clusters: A closely-coupled distributed system", ACM transactions on Computer systems, vol.4, no.2, May 1986, pp.130-146.