Computer Networking: Recent Developments, Trends, and Issues

This Keynote lecture covers the following topics:

• Competitive Local Exchange Carriers vs Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers
• Trend: Back to ILECs
• Life Cycles of Technologies
• Hype Cycles of Technologies
• Industry Growth
• Top 10 Developments of 2004
• Optical vs Electrical Switching
• Ethernet: 1G vs 10G Designs
• Metro: Ethernet vs SONET
• SONET/SDH vs Ethernet
• SONET/SDH vs Ethernet: Remedies
• Enterprise vs Carrier Ethernet
• Networking and Religion
• RPR: Key Features
• Networking: Failures vs Successes
• Requirements for Success
• Laws of Networking Evolution
• Access Networks
• Ethernet to the First Mile (EFM)
• EPON vs GPON
• Mobility
• Wireless Issues
• Sensor Networks
• Top Networking Research Topics
• Recent Funding Opportunities

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