The Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference is Australia's foremost gathering of the ICT research community and plays an important role in providing networking opportunities for the current and next generation of ICT researchers, technologists and managers. This year's conference features a day devoted to the opportunities and challenges of widespread rollout of broadband in Australia. 

We were delighted that in 2008 Adelaide hosted ATNAC for the first time. The theme for the conference, Information Networking - Enhancing Change in the Global Community, emphasised the role that telecommunications can, and should, play in building a better world. Networking has advanced rapidly over recent years with tremendous advances in speed in wireless and wired technologies. Use of the internet has evolved from passive reception of information to active creation of content. Education and medicine are being delivered at a distance, improving the opportunities and well-being of people in remote communities. There still remain, however, significant challenges ahead, especially in areas such as security, privacy, services to remote areas, and seamless connectivity across wireless technologies. 

Researchers, technologists and management met to discuss new ideas and debate future trends in information networking in a stimulating and informal environment. Over 120 people attended ATNAC 2008, representing 24 countries.

ATNAC 2008 was held at the National Wine Centre of Australia in Adelaide. The National Wine Centre is just a short stroll from the Adelaide's acclaimed restaurant and night life, and only a one and a half hour drive from Australia's premiere winemaking districts in the Barossa Valley and McLaren Vale. 

Broadband Outlook Day

Featuring Australian and International Leaders in Broadband Delivery, Technology and Research 

Monday December 8 2008

In 2008 we created a new initiative, focussed on the current hot topic of the Australian telecommunications industry, the National Broadband Network.  

With the National Broadband Network tenders submitted on November 26,2008, the ATNAC Broadband Day provided a timely opportunity to hear from and meet industry leaders and analysts. The ATNAC Broadband Day included: 

• Outstanding speakers including
  • Prof Andrew Odlyzko of the University of Minnesota, Internet Evolution and misleading networking myths
  • Dr Leith Campbell, Principal Consultant of Ovum Consulting, The Australian National Broadband Network
  • Simon Hackett, Internode Managing Director, Broadband Futures The National Broadband Network. A video of Simon's presentation may be found at http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/videos/atnac08/
  • Stefan Keller-Tuberg, Alcatel-Lucent, Next Generation Broadband part of the critical infrastructure and
  • Robin Simpson of Gartner Australasia Australia's Broadband Future IT and Demographic Trends
• A panel session featuring the keynote speakers, facilitated by Leith Campbell 
• Technical research and development presentations focussed on the next generation of broadband technologies 

ATNAC also featured a splendid array of plenary sessions, including:

• Michael Boland, Cisco, Where the *!$# is my network?
• Geoff Huston, APNIC, Beyond the IPv4 Internet
• Shaun Amy, CSIRO, Using MultiGigabit Networks to Transform Radio Astronomy

We thank the plenary speakers for allowing us to reproduce their presentations here.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the sponsors of ATNAC 2008

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