[afnog] Afnog 2005 - Call for Proposals

[Secka-Jah Isatou]

AfNOG 2005 Call for presentations 
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The African Network Operators' Group (AfNOG) will hold its 6th meeting April , 2005, in Maputo Mozambique. AfNOG's Sixth meeting, AfNOG 2005 ( www.afnog.org ) and AfriNIC meeting ( www.afrinic.net ) will be held from 25th - 27th April 2005 respectively. 

AfNOG conferences provide a forum for the coordination and dissemination of technical information related to backbone/enterprise networking technologies and operational practices. Meetings are held once a year in different African countries following a 5 day training workshop. The meetings are informal, with an emphasis on relevance to current and future African backbone engineering practices. The last AFNOG conference in Dakar drew over 150 participants, mainly consisting of network engineering staff from national service providers, and members of the research and education community. 

AFNOG invites presentations on backbone engineering, coordination, and research topics. Presentations should highlight issues relating to technology already deployed or soon to be deployed in core Internet backbones and exchange points. Abstracts should include a concise summary of findings to be presented in the talk. 

Network operators are invited to present case studies detailing their experiences with network planning and design, protocol implementation, provisioning, useful tools, traffic engineering, problems solved. 

Other Suggested Areas of interest 

Voip solutions and deployment 
Rural connectivity solutions 
Managing and growing an ISP business 
QOS on a wireless network 
Convergence the "African perspective" 
Internet Governance

How to Present We ask that the following be sent to afnog-presentations at afnog.org 

speaker/presenter name and affiliation, 
email address and phone number, 
the desired area of focus, 
an abstract of no more than 200 words, and 
permission to reproduce your presentation, including permission to 
Post it on the AfNOG website.

Deadlines

Submission deadline:  7th march 2005
Notification by:  14th march 2005
Send requests to: afnog-presentations at afnog.org

The Program Committee also welcomes suggestions/recommendations for panels, tutorials, speakers, and other presentation topics.