The Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology
sponsors and supports the Madrid IPv6 Forum Conference
The
Madrid Global IPv6 Summit, the first Technological Event of the 21st
century, will take place in Madrid, at S. Lorenzo de El Escorial, from
January 29th to February 1st 2001. It’s sponsored by the
Ministry of Science and Technology, as well as by some international
corporations, such as: 3Com, 6Wind, Cisco Systems, Compaq,
Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, Nokia, Nortel Networks, novaGnet
systems, Ola Internet and Sun Microsystems. All of them will
set up a display of their products in a special place next to lecture room.
“The
event, thought to introduce this new protocol, is also endorsed by 3GPP, ANIEL
(Spanish Electronics and Telecommunications Industries Association), CMT
(Spanish Government Telecom Market Commission), ES-NIC (ES-Network
Information Center), ETSI, INECO (Spanish Public Consortium for
Transport Related Engineering), ISOC (Internet Society), RedIRIS
(Spanish Academic & Research Network), Telefónica, UMTS Forum,
Carlos III University of Madrid, UPC (Technical University of
Catalonia), DIT-UPM (Department of Telematic Systems Engineering -
Technical University of Madrid), and WCAI (Wireless Communications
Association International), and will offer a full range of lectures, given
by international experts on 3G y UMTS, top executives dealing with the
development of IPv6 products and services, national and international
researchers, actual users of IPv6 (like defense and air traffic control), and
managers of pilot projects from Universities and Telco’s, from all over the
world” according to Jordi Palet, Co-Chair of the Education, Promotion and
Public Relations Working Group and founding member of IPv6 Forum and Product
Manager of Consulintel, manager and organizer of the event.
“Also
included in the program, there is a Tutorial, in which those users that already
have some IPv4 knowledge, will be able to acquire a deeper expertise of the new
protocol”.
All
talks will be translated simultaneously Spanish/English and English/Spanish, and
there will be also some extra activities which will enable everybody to meet and
discuss with some IPv6 experts in this field.
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