Tim Lance, President and Chairman, NYSERNet

Thursday, October 26, 2006, 8:30 – 9:30 a.m.

Over the past four or five years, the academic community has deployed optical networks so vastly greater in capacity that they not only enable quantitative differences in applications of the network, but qualitative changes. With deployment of fiber in New York, creation of a major international peering point there, and a statewide optical infrastructure, NYSERNet has been at the forefront of deploying optical networks. Mr. Lance will discuss the assets New York has in place, and open the floor to discussion on this dawning age of new applications of the network and the host of ethical, legal, and regulatory issues that could arise.