Canberra, Monday 22 April 2002

The Internet must evolve, but what will the new Internet look like?

Dr Markus Buchhorn, Project Officer, Information Infrastructure Services at the Australian National University, who is at the forefront of Australian Internet research, will give a lecture that will focus on some of the next-generation services and applications that are being developed at the ANU tomorrow.

The Internet has grown from activities in the academic community to communicate research quickly and effectively into a massive "commodity" commercial network reaching around the globe. Although the Internet started out to be the best way to communicate research and education, it has now become too congested and inflexible to do that job effectively.

Dr Buchhorn believes that due to the its ineffectiveness, deploying new or experimental services, trialling advanced applications, collaborating through video and audio, and transporting huge quantities of data effectively and rapidly, has become impossible on the current Commodity Internet.

"In response to this, the research and education community around the world has embarked on a new round of network development, building new and dedicated networks to support their needs."

"There are exciting opportunities for Australia's researchers and educators to be a part of the new emerging network and networking revolution," Dr Buchhorn said.

The lecture, to be held by the National Institute of Engineering and Information Sciences (NIEIS), ANU, will explain the physical infrastructure that is being built in Australia and other countries around the world, how they interconnect, and where the network technologies are heading.

Dr Buchhorn currently works in the Division of Information, Communications Services, ANU as Project Officer for a variety of activities, the Director of the User Community Area of the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network consortium, and the Grid Services and User Community coordinator for GrangeNet in Australia.

When: Tuesday 23rd April 2002, 3.00pm to 4.00pm.
Where: Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Research School of Chemistry, Building 35, Science Road, ANU. http://studyat.anu.edu.au/map/index.asp

For more information please contact:
Heather Slater, Coordinator, National Institute of Engineering and
Information Sciences (NIEIS), ANU.
Email: heather.slater@anu.edu.au Phone: 02 6125 6601 Fax: 02 6125 8824
Genevieve Turville Phone: 02 6125 5575 or 0416 249 245

No 47/2002

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