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		       B O S T O N   U N I V E R S I T Y
				       
			  Computer Science Department
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			      ACM Student Chapter
				       
				       
				       
		     S P E C I A L     C O L L O Q U I U M
				       
			  Thursday October 21, 1993
				       
				    7:30pm
			    (Tea served at 7:15pm)
				       
				SED Auditorium
			   (605 Commonwealth Avenue)

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		   High Speed Networking: Issues and Trends
				       
				       
				   Raj Jain
			    Digital Equipment Corp
			      Littleton, MA 01460
				       
				       
				   ABSTRACT

The talk  begins   with a discussion    of major  industry trends   in computer
networking.  Ensuring  that  the users  benefit   from the  high  speed  of the
networks involves several  other related disciplines.   These will be reviewed.
A simple rule of thumb that helps decide numerous issues  in the design of high
speed networks  will  be presented.   A   common misunderstanding about  future
traffic pattern  will   be discussed.  Limited  electronic   bandwidth has lead
researchers to investigate  all-optical  networking.  Current research  in this
area will be highlighted.

				   Biography

Raj Jain is a Senior Consulting Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation where
he  has  been involved in  performance  modeling and  analysis  of a  number of
computer   systems and networks including  VAX  clusters, DECnet, Ethernet, and
FDDI.  He received a  Ph.  D.  degree  from Harvard University  in 1978 and has
taught graduate courses in performance  analysis at Massachusetts Institute  of
Technology.  He  is the Vice-Chair  of ACM SIGCOMM  and serves on the editorial
boards of IEEE Transactions on  Networking, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems,
Computer  Communications (UK),  and  the Journal of  High   Speed Networks.  He
received "The Best  How-To Book -  Systems"  Computer Press Award  for his 1991
book "The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis" published by Wiley, New
York.

He has authored  numerous papers on networking performance,  is an ACM Lecturer
and an  IEEE Distinguished  Visitor.   His next book entitled  ``FDDI Handbook:
High Speed Networking using Fiber  and Other Media''   is being published  this
year by Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass.

Dr.  Jain is a Fellow of IEEE.


Host: Prof. Azer Bestavros and the BU student chapter of the ACM



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