From ghunt at NRAO.EDU Tue Aug 7 10:09:39 2001 From: ghunt at NRAO.EDU (Gareth Hunt) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 10:09:39 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [comm]Reminder - Meeting shortly Message-ID: <200108071409.KAA22501@polaris.cv.nrao.edu> [Reminder] Guys, I haven't been around to call the network coordination meetings for the last month or so (and even sporadically before then). However, there has been a lot of (if you'll excuse the pun) network activity in the last month or so. There are probably overlapping efforts that haven't been discussed. Meeting Tues, 7 Aug 2001 at 1030EDT, 0830MDT, 0730MST preliminary agenda: The first two should be brief. If we don't finish the agenda, we can always continue the following week. 1. LANs Radio Ethernet hubs (AOC and CV) GB LAN status 2. Phones VoIP and SOC/CV phone service Long distance service changes (GB, TUC) 3. EVLA & ALMA VLA inter-antenna networking proposals VLA site networking AOC networking 4. Video upgrades 5. WAN efforts VLBA real-time EVLA phase II 6. Other Cheers, Gareth. From ghunt at NRAO.EDU Tue Aug 14 09:33:00 2001 From: ghunt at NRAO.EDU (Gareth Hunt) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 09:33:00 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [comm]Reminder - Meeting Message-ID: <200108141333.JAA17801@polaris.cv.nrao.edu> Guys, I was afraid that I would not be able to make the time today, but it seems that I will be available. I hope this notice is not too late. We continue with the agenda from last week. My apologies for lack of minutes. Meeting Tues, 14 Aug 2001 at 1030EDT, 0830MDT, 0730MST. Cheers, Gareth. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Agenda 1. LANs Radio Ethernet hubs (AOC and CV) GB LAN status 2. Phones VoIP and SOC/CV phone service Long distance service changes (GB, TUC) 3. EVLA & ALMA VLA inter-antenna networking proposals VLA site networking AOC networking 4. Video upgrades 5. WAN efforts VLBA real-time EVLA phase II 6. Other From ghunt at NRAO.EDU Tue Aug 21 10:16:55 2001 From: ghunt at NRAO.EDU (Gareth Hunt) Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:16:55 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [comm]No meeting today Message-ID: <200108211416.KAA10983@polaris.cv.nrao.edu> Guys, I had intended to call a meeting for this morning to continue the discussions we started two weeks ago. As Mick reminded me last week, I have to call the meeting ahead of time so that he can make the early time in the summer. I had wanted to continue, and to have James talk about the recent decisions about the EVLA "real-time" networking. However, in the last couple of days other ideas have surfaced which may cause us to change those decisions. In the EVLA it is still early days, of course. Many ideas are still being floated. However, many of the design decisions must be taken before Dec '01, when a review of the overall design of the EVLA will occur. Cheers, Gareth. From rmilner at aoc.nrao.edu Fri Aug 24 10:46:29 2001 From: rmilner at aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 08:46:29 -0600 Subject: [comm]Cisco business reorganization Message-ID: <3B8668C5.EC2F5F18@aoc.nrao.edu> Excerpted from the InformationWeek online daily digest. May not make any visible difference to us, just FYI ... Ruth. ------------ ** Cisco Reveals Major Reorganization Cisco Systems revealed Thursday a restructuring geared to speed up product development and improve the efficiency of its engineering organization. The move also involves major management changes, a new business structure, and a shuffling of executive assignments. Under the new structure, Cisco will centralize its engineering and marketing departments. In turn, the engineering practice will focus on 11 key technologies, which include Internet switching and services, network management, storage, voice, and wireless. The company will abandon its existing three-part business structure, which focused on businesses-enterprise, service providers, and commercial markets. The reorganization affects a number of execs. Kevin Kennedy, formerly senior VP of the service-provider business line, will leave the company. Mario Mazzola, formerly senior VP of the new-business-ventures group, will be chief development officer, overseeing the 11 new technology groups and reporting directly to CEO John Chambers. James Richardson, formerly senior VP of the enterprise line, will serve as chief marketing officer. Ron Ricci, VP of market positioning, says the requirements of Cisco's customers have blurred as their objectives have become more similar, and therefore it didn't make sense to proceed with decentralized engineering. Ricci says engineering teams that had occasionally found themselves working on parallel but unrelated projects will work as a single team. "It's a huge cultural change," he says, adding that the restructuring should significantly speed product development. Joel Conover, senior analyst with Current Analysis, says he's somewhat surprised by the move to centralize engineering. Conover says rival Nortel Networks Corp. has been undergoing similar changes, but has not disclosed them. He says that, ultimately, Cisco is trying to reverse disappointing financials. "I think this is a financially-driven activity," Conover says. "I don't think there's going to be a big effect on customers." - David M. Ewalt and Tony Kontzer