Unigroup's September '96 Meeting Announcement

Topic:

High Speed Networking Technologies

Speaker:

Art Tolda of Hewlett Packard

Date:

Thursday, September 19, 1996

Location:

Chase/Chemical Bank

55 Water Street, South Tower

13th Floor Conference Rooms B + C

Time:

6:00 - 6:30 PM Registration

6:45 - 9:30 PM Main Presentation

Art Tolda of Hewlett Packard will be discussing high-speed networking technologies and their business drivers and differentiators.

Do you understand the implications of ATM? of Switching LANs? And other new developments in high speed networking? At this meeting Mr. Tolda will tell us about the important changes now developing in the LAN/WAN area. His presentation will present an overview of networking technology covering the following topics:

• Network Evolution
  • Where are we?
  • How did we get here?
  • Traffic management topologies and technologies.
• Switching Taxonomies
  • Classifications of different types of switches,
  • Where they are used.
• Emerging Network Technologies
  • The pluses and minuses of each.
  • Virtual LANs
• Evolution and Migration Strategies to the new technologies.

Art Tolda's Bio:

Art is a Senior Information Architect for HP's Financial Services Solution Center. Art has been active in designing information integration solutions, and enterprise-wide and local area networks for 18 years. Before joining HP, Art has held numerous technical research, development and teaching positions.

Art is a practitioner of the process of integrated information solution design and implementation and has applied the process for our clients to provide solutions for their strategic needs. These solutions are based on industry standards and open systems tailored for each individual client. Solution strategies take into account an organization's goals, critical success factors, business needs, information and product requirements. These solutions have been implemented in a variety of businesses including: finance, legal, health care, sales and service, and manufacturing. Art assists clients in developing an integration strategy and a migration path to an Open Systems environment. Additionally, Art is a developer and implementor of standards based network and systems management solutions.

Some of Art's network solutions for his customers are:

• A 3000 user Security Access Network for a major financial institution.
• A 1000 node Hospital Campus Network capable of supporting real-time, diagnostic quality medical images, at any location via ATM, to be expanded to a state-wide implementation.
• A 900 node Hospital Campus Network capable of supporting imaging at 100 Mbps throughout the facility easily upgradeable to new advances in networking such as Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), and with connections to remote clinics.
• A multi-state Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) based client-server high access network for Citicorp's Cash Management Division including the correction of Citicorp's global networking standards.
• A 2000 node imaging network for SASM&F's, the worlds largest dollar-volume law firm, New York Office (a true 40 Mbps throughput backbone) as well as their six other offices throughout the United States that is fully ATM, FDDI, and 100VG compliant.
• Multiple high bandwidth Ethernet networks for IBM's Fishkill, NY manufacturing site, one of which supports 2.3 Gbps of traffic per day.
• A Broadband network for a Kraft General Foods cereal manufacturing plant.
• A spread spectrum RF based wireless Ethernet network for a Kraft General Foods sandwich meat plant.

At the request of Columbia University, Art developed and teaches high level courses in the "Theory of Network Design" (Art has been teaching this course since 1992), and "The Theory of Standards Based Network and Systems Management" (since 1994).

Please join us for this meeting, you won't want to miss it!

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