Ottawa, Ontario, January 26, 2004

The National Capital Institute of Telecommunications (NCIT) and the Network Computing and Control Technologies Laboratory announced that they will demonstrate today leading edge technology in the area of Dynamic Services Control over Optical Ethernet Networks, at this year's Internet 2 JointTech Workshop in Honolulu, Hawaii.

"This type of platform is essential if we want to see applications like tele-medicine and tele-robotics realized. It can guarantee service even on a network heavily loaded with best effort traffic as it provides the level of control needed to ensure the proper delivery of the above type of applications," says Dr. Dan Ionescu, Professor at the University of Ottawa and Director of the Network Computing and Control Technologies Laboratory.

The demonstration will prove that in a network environment the delivery of services with guaranteed quality of service (QoS) parameters is feasible only in the presence of a dynamic service control platform. On the NCIT*net, NCIT's advanced research network, with dynamic services control provided by the Network Services Control Platform, the performance of applications will be guaranteed, in accordance with the assigned Quality of Service parameters. The need for enhanced service control is a mandatory technical requirement to support the widespread adoption of new data communication services. This demonstration aims to prove that service providers and network operators can leverage leading-edge services control systems to effectively deliver next generation, cross layer services over existing data networks.

"Without the strong collaboration of academia institutions and the opportunity to experiment over a live network, such a breakthrough in technology would not have been possible. The NCIT played a pivotal role in making this happen", added Dr. Ionescu.

The demonstration to be conducted at 5pm EST on January 26th will illustrate a live multi-vendor broadband demonstration broadcast by videoconference to Hawaii from Ottawa. The technological advances, developed in Ottawa, include a demonstration of dynamic control of connectivity and Class of Service (CoS) over the NCIT*net, an advanced research and production network based on Ethernet-over-DWDM technology. The applications used in the demonstration are video-conferencing and video-on-demand where multiple video streams compete for bandwidth with 100% best-effort traffic.

The demonstration is conducted in partnership with the University of Ottawa's Network Computing and Control Technologies Laboratory (NCCT), Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC), Broadband Applications and Demonstration Laboratory (BADLAB), Canarie's Advanced Research and Development Network Operation Centre (ARDNOC) and the Internet 2.