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- preparing for releases of perfSONAR-Buoy, which facilitates data collection over OWAMP and DWCTLBWCTL. perfSONAR-Buoy has been used at Internet2 over the past couple of years, but has not been publicly available. There will be a test release in December in RPM format to support DWCTL BWCTL only. A full release is planned for January.
- OWAMP and DWCTL BWCTL releases are coming up. These are primarily bug fix releases.
- The group is doing some project planning, and looking ahead and setting goals for the next six months to a year. Input is requested.
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Cisco has a donated teleprecense system at UCLA. UC Berkeley also received a telepresence donation from Cisco but implementation has not occurred. There are a few reservations about Cisco's structure in the telepresense area. However, if member campuses are requesting Cisco certification then perhaps the Performance Group should look into it. (There was some doubt in the group that Cisco really has any interest in certifying R&E networks in general - they seem to prefer referring users to dedicated T3/DS3 lines from AT&T in the California region over leveraging CENIC for example.)
Jeff noted that the standards Cisco seems to be requiring performance Cisco likely needs for their certification do should not appear be difficult to achieve. However, the standards certification would need to be across the Internet2 network and also across other regional and university networks to where the telepresence sites are. Therefore it would involve deploying more performance nodes out to locations. (And, it is not clear yet specifically what metrics Cisco will require.)
Jeff suggested that perhaps if we establish a goal of publishing our performance profile, then that will give us more leverage. Also, being able to profile what an environment looks like in terms of performance might also have other benefits, including helping with the BCP task force efforts.
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