It's week 4 already, and what better event to come along to than our talk on terabit networking?

Terabit Networking ==================

Speaker: Simon Chatterjee Thursday 6th November, 20:00 Worcester College

What sits behind the familiar Ethernet port or ADSL modem, that somehow connects a planet exchanging over 350 petabytes a day? After a century dominated by the telephone, all global networks today are changing to be based on Internet-inspired technology. At their heart are devices that can cost millions of pounds, and require cutting-edge custom silicon, optics, and millions of lines of software.

This talk is an accessible introduction to large-scale networking today, from both real-world and computer science perspectives.

The presenter is CTO of Ensoft Ltd, whose experience includes helping bringing the Guinness Book of Records' "World's Highest Capacity Internet Router" into existence.

I hope you can come along; we'll also be eating out with the speaker at Zizzi's beforehand (at around 18:30), so if you'd like to come along to that, please email me so I can get some idea of numbers.

Apologies for the somewhat late announcement, but we had a room booking issue. On that note, if you think you can get your college/department to get us rooms for free on Wednesday/Thursday nights, do get in touch - it's nice to vary venues, as well as make sure we don't have to announce things late.

Andrew