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Network engineering attracts interest

The other two theme areas had better results. Professor Suruagy, a member of the Program Committee of the III WRNP2, analyzed proposals in the field of network engineering and claimed that "the most important point was not seeing the results, but,above all, discussing what can be done in a cooperative way nationwide."

In fact, some projects attracted several researchers. Two studies presented by RNP's technicians, for instance, had their electronic addresses made public upon request.

RNP's IPv6 project was presented by Marcel Faria, from RNP's Engineering and Operation Center (CEO). Since 1997 RNP has been doing research about IPv6 protocol, the successor of the currently used IPv4 in the role of a protocol of basic routing functions of packages in the Internet, having even created the BR6Bone, a virtual IPv6 backbone. The creation of a pilot of IPv6 service with some native connections is in the project's agenda. The project list is ipv6@rnp.br and guidelines concerning its subscription can be found on the page http://www.6bone.rnp.br/lista-ipv6.html.

Another study that drew the audience's attention was "RNP2: Multicast Pilot," presented by Adenilson Raniery, another technician at RNP's CEO. The aim of this project is to implement a network infrastructure to support multicast transmissions in all RNP2 backbone. For futher information send a e-mail to: multicast-info@rnp.br.

In addition to the aforementioned projects, the audience learned about studies involving the use of service quality on ATM networks, network management and traffic measurement.

RNP's Engineering and Operation Center also develops studies on QoS. People who work on this project answer at the e-mail qos-info@rnp.br

[RNP, 06.08.2001]