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- N-1-1-100.07 Interop, by Dan Lynch, <dlynch@interop.com>
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- In 1992 there will be two INTEROP Conferences instead of one. The
- first of them will be held in Washington, DC from 18-22 May. The
- second will be held in San Francisco, CA from 26-30 October.
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- The focus for the Spring Conference in Washington is on the "Business
- of Internetworking". While the technology that enables
- internetworking is certainly important and constantly evolving, the
- business opportunities and challenges are critical to the successful
- deployment by all end users.
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- Two major speakers address these business areas. Mitch Kapor, as
- President of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, will address the
- public policy issues surrounding the establishment of commercial
- internetworking. Mitch is especially concerned that this new
- capability be made accessible to as many persons as possible and that
- users of it are protected by intelligent extensions of the US
- Constitution and Bill of Rights.
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- Dixon Doll, General Partner of Accel Partners, a venture capital firm,
- will describe the fears, hopes, dreams and schemes of those who step
- up to the opportunity to provide products and services in this new
- internetworking age. While as users, we all want to have the
- cheapest, fastest, most reliable stuff we can, it is also in our
- interest to have suppliers who are competent, innovative, stable and
- responsive. How is that balance met?
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- The 45 Conference sessions will be broken into two main clusters:
- Deployment (or Tools for Today) and Technology (or Ideas for
- Tomorrow). 34 Tutorials will be offered on Monday-Tuesday and 7 of
- them will also be offered on Thursday-Friday due to strong expressions
- of demand for this format from previous attendees.
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- The cooperative demonstrations of vendor offerings will center on
- SMDS, Frame Relay, Network Management, FDDI, X.400 Messaging, Token
- Ring and ONC/NFS.
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- For more information you may reach us in the following ways:
- info@interop.com, 1-800-INTEROP, 1-415-941-3399 or fax to
- 1-415-949-1779.
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