From: "Owen Hartnett" Subject: MacTechGroup Meeting Wednesday Mar 1 Room 149 Date: Friday, February 24, 2006 10:40 AM MacTechGrp Meeting Wednesday Mar 1 2005 7-9PM Room 149 Bldg E51 MIT Sloan School *** Note: we are in room 149 through May Peter Sichel from Sustainable Softworks Does your VOIP phone sound worse than your cell phone? Peter Sichel, Chief Engineer of Sustainable Softworks will talk about his work on TCP/ IP bandwidth management. As TCP/IP utilization approaches the network capacity, performance can suffer due to TCP/IPs per connection congestion avoidance mechanisms. This talk will describe the technology behind Packet Shaping and QoS (Quality of Service) drawing on the speakers own experience developing bandwidth management tools. ************************ NOTE ROOM INFORMATION ************************ We'll be in 149 for the rest of the semester. We will meet there unless it's locked, then try other rooms in this order: (315, 325, 335, etc.) ************************ You can get a map showing building E51 at The MacTechGrp always meets the first Wednesday of the month. (Sometimes I screw up the date of the notice, but it's always the first Wednesday) You can get more information on the MacTechGrp (and currently out of date meeting information) at http://www.codewell.com/mactechgrp To contact the unindicted co-conspirator irresponsible for this group, email owen@ids.net _______________________________________________ mail sent to Submit@blu.org