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              Vancouver Linux Users Group
               http://www.vanlug.bc.ca/

                  April 2001 Meeting

           BCIT's Internet Engineering Lab 

                  Eric Byres, P.Eng. 
                  BCIT (Burnaby, BC) 

       Location: BCIT, Bldg SE6 - Telus Theatre 

       Monday, 23 April 2001       7:30-9:00 pm 

Admission is free of charge and open to all members of the community. 

In May 2001, the British Columbia Insitute of Technology will open the
Internet Engineering Lab, Canada's first layer 2 and 3 network research
lab open to both academic and commercial IT communities. In this talk,
Eric Byres will discuss the design of the lab and the technologies
available in the lab to researchers, particularly in the area of traffic
generation.  He will also preview some of the upcoming research projects
in the area of quality of Service (QoS) and network security. 

About the Speaker: 

Eric J. Byres, P.Eng. is research manager of the Internet Engineering
Lab at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. He is also a
faculty member in BCIT's School of Electrical and Electronic
Technology.  For the past 14 years he has specialized in data
communications systems in industrial environments, focusing on
industrial Ethernet research and network security design.  

Eric was a founding member of the ISA TECH/EXPO Networking and
Fieldbuses steering committee and is the Chair of the ISA Industrial
Ethernet Conference. He is a board member of the Industrial Automation
Open Networking Association and is on the EIA/TIA TR42.9 committee
developing industrial communications cabling standards. In 1999, he was
the winner of the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Pulp and Paper Industrial
Applications Conference for his paper "Designing Secure Networks for
Process Control". 


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Dave Michelson             
dmichelson@ieee.org