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[Greg Wood <>]

Micah Beck, Research Associate Professor of Computer Science at the
University of Tennessee and lead investigator in the Internet 
Distributed Infrastructure (I2-DSI) project, will be the guest expert 
for a live, interactive TechTalk webcast from the Corporation for 
Research and Educational Networking (CREN) on September 20, 2001 at 4pm 
Eastern time. The topic of the event will be "Content Delivery Networks: 
 (CDNs): How They Work and How They're Used."  It will be oriented 
towards helping academic IT professionals to understand what CDNs are, 
what relevance they have to delivery of commodity content in their 
networks, and also to help them understand how CDNs and I2-DSI can 
support the education and research missions of their.  Background 
materials for the event as well as links to the live and archived audio 
can be found at
http://www.cren.net/know/techtalk/events/contentdelivery.html

The I2-DSI is a research and development project that originated within 
the Internet2 Network Storage Working Group, obtained early support from
Internet2 and its corporate members, and is now funded by a grant from 
the Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research Division of the 
National Science Foundation's Computing and Information Science and 
Engineering Directorate.  The I2-DSI project activities span research 
contributions, involvement in industry standards bodies, promulgating 
open source software, experimental and pre-production deployment of 
server infrastructure, and it's industry collaborations have given rise 
to a startup company based on technology developed within the project. 
More information on the project can be found at:
http://dsi.internet2.edu/

CREN is a non-profit, member organization of over 220 universities,
colleges, and research organizations governed by a 12-member Board of
Trustees. CREN's mission is to support higher education and research
organizations with strategic IT knowledge services and communication tools.

Contact:
Greg Wood
Internet2

+1-202-331-5360


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