Date: Sep 09/30/10 10:42 PM Subject: [BNUG News] *** October 5th BNUG Monthly Meeting *** From: "Dale Heron" ** Please note that we will be meeting at our normal meeting location in Microsoft’s offices at 201 Jones Road, Waltham, MA **** Boston Network Users Group Monthly General Meeting THIS MONTH: Current WAN Technologies -------------------------------------------------------------- Please join BNUG on October 5th for a presentation on “WAN Technologies” given by Joey Chia from NTT Communications (www.us.ntt.com ). Joey will be discussing current WAN technologies including MPLS, VPLS and the emergence of Ethernet globally. BIO: Joey Chia is a Senior Network Engineer that has been working on Solution Development with NTT for nearly a decade. About NTT: Ranked 31st overall on the list of Fortune Global 500 companies with nearly $100 billion in operating revenues, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) is one of the world’s largest information and communi­cations service providers. NTT’s service capabilities include fixed lines and mobile communications as well as Internet and systems integration services. With more than 100 years of communications experience and nearly 200,000 dedicated professionals worldwide, NTT has a long history of innovation. NTT Communications covers more than 150 countries worldwide with the most extensive coverage in the Asia-Pacific region. Our strong Asia-Pacific layer 1 network provides redundancy with double triangles connecting major Asian cities and a ladder network to link Japan, the US and Europe. Diverse network paths with auto re-route capability in layer 2 networks guarantee quality and performance. To support rapid growth in Internet traffic, NTT Communications has been continuously upgrading its Global Tier-1 IP backbone with increased bandwidth and direct connections to major ISPs in Asia, the U.S., Europe and Oceania. The network currently boasts the industry's largest dedicated Trans-Pacific Internet bandwidth managed under one single policy with industry leading SLAs. - - - Please join us on Tuesday, October 5th at 6:30PM where we will be meeting at Microsoft’s offices on 201 Jones Road, Waltham, MA 02451. * Refreshments are served from 6:30 pm. Meeting starts at 7:00pm with the technical presentation concluding at 9:00 pm. * BNUG monthly meetings, membership and refreshments are always FREE and you are not required to be a member to attend. If you wish to join BNUG, are interested in more information, or need directions to BNUG's meeting place please visit the BNUG web site at: Web Site: http://www.bnug.org/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2377167&trk=hb_side_g Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/group.php?gid=111329032215557 * FUTURE MEETINGS Here is a tentative schedule of what's being planned for future BNUG meetings: November 2 : TBD, given by ColoSpace (www.colospace.com The LANtern Online is now available at http://bnug.blogspot.com/ * To opt out of this monthly e-mail reminder or change your BNUG e-mail preferences, go to: ______________________________________________ BNUG mailing list BNUG@bgaddict.com http://bgaddict.com/mailman/listinfo/bnug