====== 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.


===== Next Meeting =====

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.


===== Previous Meetings =====

  * 2009 February 04  Groningen
  * 2009 April 29 (?)  Groningen
  * 2009 September 14  [[public:meetings:network:2009SepFrankfurt|Frankfurt Airport]]