International Network Meetings

The LOFAR international network meetings are held to give the networking engineers a forum to discuss problems and planning for the network connections for LOFAR. Here, network includes such topics as:

• 10 Gb/s fiber connections to stations, Groningen, archive centers, etc.
• network protocols
• switch issues
• VLANs
• data rates
• archive data transfer

and so on.

The next meeting will take place sometime in 2009 Dec or 2010 Jan. A Doodle will be sent out to the usual suspects around the end of October, or early November, and an announcement will be placed here as well. Check back.

• 2009 February 04 Groningen
• 2009 April 29 (?) Groningen
• 2009 September 14 Frankfurt Airport