Leading Internet Companies Discuss New QoS Forum
November 4, 1998
CAMPBELL, Calif.-- Planning Meeting to Stress Industry Education and Need for Accelerated Deployment of QoS Technologies in Public and Private IP Networks
Stardust Forums announced today that it will host an open meeting for the leading Internet vendors and Service Providers to discuss the creation of an industry-wide Quality of Service (QoS) Forum. The meeting will take place at the iBAND conference, 8:00pm on Mon. Nov. 16th at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, Calif.
New QoS protocols and standards such as RSVP and DIFFSERV are emerging from standards bodies and being incorporated in routers, switches, edge devices and operating systems. These technologies provide fine-grain control over application use of bandwidth in IP networks. They are critical enablers of multimedia-intensive Internet applications such as Internet telephony. For ISP's, they enable new and enhanced classes of service and guarantees to be rolled out to customers. The QoS Forum is expected to help educate the industry on the products, services and business opportunities enabled by this new class of Internet technologies. It will facilitate interoperability testing and accelerate the deployment of QoS solutions.
"Enterprise and ISP networks need more intelligence. They need to support the guaranteed quality of service levels required for next-generation Internet applications," said Martin Hall, chief technology officer at Stardust Forums. "The creation of a QoS Forum will enable participating companies to collaborate on creating and educating the market in a coherent way. It will propel new QoS-enabled products and services onto center stage and accelerate the acceptance of IP Telephony and other latency-sensitive applications. The market's understanding and willingness to deploy QoS will be a watershed moment in the history of the Internet."
Some of the companies expected to send representatives to this meeting include 3Com, Cisco Systems, IP Highway, Orchestream, Ukiah Software, IBM and Fujitsu.
The meeting is expected to attract participants from all areas of networking, including large equipment vendors, small start-ups, and ISPs. The BOF meeting is open to all conference attendees. Participants are expected to discuss such topics as:
-- Which technologies and standards in which OSI layers should the
forum embrace?
-- What hurdles stand in the way of widespread adoption of QoS
products and services?
iBAND is the first in-depth, technical conference on new Internet bandwidth technologies and the opportunities they create in enterprise and ISP networks. The conference will cover Switching, IP Multicast, QoS, ToS, CoS, Integrated Services, SLAs, Voice over IP, DSL, Satellite, Caching, Gigabit Ethernet and more. Judy Estrin, CTO of Cisco systems will give the keynote presentation on "Internet Generation -- Bandwidth Drivers", discussing business trends and their technology implications for networking in the Internet Generation. Dr. Daniel Pitt of Nortel, will be speaking on important network attributes such as robustness, recoverability, and performance, and balancing them with topics such as Quality of Service, Multicasting, Traffic Management, and Service Level Agreements. Yoel Gat, Founder and CEO of Gilat will give a presentation on "Extra-terrestrial Bandwidth: Bandwidth in the Sky". James Watt of Newbridge Networks will be keynoting on "Bandwidth Management and Arbitrating in the Next Millenium". Fred Baker, IETF Chairman, Yoram Bernet of Microsoft, Brian Carpenter of IBM, Jonathan Rosenberg of Lucent and other industry notables will also give presentations. To register for the conference or obtain more information, visit the Stardust website: www.stardust.com.
About Stardust Forums
Stardust Forums is a specialist provider of information, events and collaborative initiatives focused on emerging Internet technologies. Our initiatives enable frontier markets. Our conferences are in-depth technical forums focused on the latest Internet technologies and their pioneers. Our unparalleled, in-depth information resources enable you to make informed decisions about how to plan for, implement and use the next generation of Internet technologies. Founded in 1995, Stardust is a privately-held company headquartered in Campbell, Calif. with offices in Europe. Stardust is the home of the iBAND Conference on Bandwidth Management, The IP Multicast Summit, Stardust WinSock Labs, the IP Multicast Initiative and the Internet Multicast Channel. Stardust can be reached by phone at 408/879-8080, or by fax at 408/879-8081. The Stardust Forums web address is www.stardust.com.
EDITOR'S NOTE: For more information on Internet Bandwidth Management, read the Stardust Forums' white paper, available as a downloadable PDF file from: stardust.com
CONTACT: Stardust Forums | Marty Bickford, 408/879-8080 | martinb@stardust.com | or | DRB Partners | Jeff Snodgrass, 408/943-0515 | jeff@drbmar.com |
