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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK JULY 1996 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. UNIGROUP'S JULY '96 GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
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When: Thursday, July 25th, 1996 ** Special Date: 4th Thursday **
Where: Chemical Bank
55 Water Street (enter at Old Slip)
South Tower, 13th Floor Conference Rooms B + C (follow the signs)
Time: 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Registration
6:45 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation:
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Topic: Switching LANs, VLANs and ELANs
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Speakers: Debby Goldman and John Garrison from Xylan (http://www.xylan.com)
Main Presentation:
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As many of our members know, there is a revolution brewing in LAN
technology. Now that everyone has a PC powerful enough to process graphics,
the old 10MB Ethernet LAN, which once looked like a high-speed data highway,
is looking more like the LIE on a Sunday afternoon trip back from the
Hamptons. Bandwidth is the issue, and there's only so much to go around.
One of the current approaches to breaking the bandwidth bottleneck involves
the use of high-speed switches operating at the MAC, OSI layer 2 level.
These "switches," implemented in hardware, are used to establish parallel
paths between LAN users. This approach has the capability of multiplying
available bandwidth by an order of magnitude. It also offers the
opportunity of implementing a Virtual LAN (VLAN), where membership is
defined by functional affiliation rather than physical location.
Our speakers for this month's meeting are Debby Goldman and John Garrison
from Xylan Corporation, a young firm headquartered in Calabasas, California.
Xylan is a leading provider of high-bandwidth switching systems that enhance
the performance of existing LAN's and facilitate migration to next
generation networking technologies such as ATM. Our speakers, in their talk
"VLANs don't work... Unless...," will deal with these topics, among others:
- What exactly is a VLAN?
- What is an ELAN?
- How do they differ?
- What are the benefits of VLANs to business users, LAN administrators,
and managers?
- Getting there -- a migration strategy to move from hierarchical
router-centric LANs to flat, switch-centric LANs.
In addition to presenting their talk and answering questions, Debby and
John will be giving away copies of Xylan's new publication, "The Switching
Book". This is a very informative, 183-page large-format glossy book that
covers the general topic of LAN switches and related technologies. No one
who is involved with networking -- either directly or indirectly -- who
wants to understand the new technology should miss this presentation!
Debby Goldman is the N.Y. Territory Manager for Xylan, and has been selling
inter-networking solutions in N.Y.C. for seven years. Before that, she
managed an inter-networking group for Manufacturer's Hanover, and worked as
an independent consultant for AT&T, Johnson & Johnson, Bell Labs, and
DoubleDay Publishing. John Garrison is a Systems Engineer for Xylan.
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Directions: 55 Water Street is between Water Street & Front Streets
at Old Slip... about 7 blocks south of Fulton St. and
the South Street Seaport.
Take 4 train to Bowling Green & Walk Due East;
Take 2/3 trains to Wall Street, Walk East to Water St.
then walk South 5 blocks;
Take M/J trains to Broad St., Walk East to Water St.;
Take N/R trains to Whitehall St., Walk North East to Water St.
There is parking on the street and there is a lot right
in the building, entrance on Old Slip.
Room Location Specifics:
Enter the building at Old Slip. To get to the South
Tower of the complex, you enter the building at Old
Slip at the "North Tower" doors. This entrance is
is immediately to the right of the main entrance,
towards Water Street. Go past the guard's desk
(mentioning you are heading for Unigroup) to the
elevator bank and go to the 13th floor.
When you get to the 13th floor, follow the signs leading
you to the meeting room.
The signs will lead you from the elevator, through a set
of doors, then past the cafeteria. If the entrance
doors near the elevator on the 13th floor are locked
(may happen after 6pm), call the security desk using the
available telephone, and they will radio the guard on
the 13th floor to let you in. After the cafeteria, you
see another "lobby" area. Walk past the cash machines,
make a left and look for a sign marking the meeting room.
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Fee Schedule:
Yearly Membership: $ 50.00
Single Meeting: $ 20.00
Student Yearly Membership: $ 20.00
Student Single Meeting: $ 5.00
==> UniForum/Unigroup Joint Yearly Membership $125.00
Cash, Check, American Express.
==> Unigroup is the Greater NYC Regional Area Affiliate
of UniForum - an International Unix Users Group.
Our Joint Membership Program gives you FULL membership
in both organizations for a discounted price.
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Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
Please tell your friends about Unigroup!
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2. OBJECT EXPO & JAVA EXPO IN NEW YORK
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Object Expo '96 and Java Expo '96 will be in New York City at the New York
Hilton Hotel & Towers (53rd St and 6th Avenue) on August 6th - 8th.
Unigroup has obtained complimentary passes for these shows and we will be
handing them out at our July '96 meeting. Check out http://www.sigs.com for
further details on these shows.
Keep an eye out for announcements about Unix Expo '96 which is coming to
N.Y.C. on October 8th-10th at the Javits Center. Unigroup will be obtaining
passes for this show and should be handing them out at our September meeting.
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3. UNIGROUP INFORMATION
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Unigroup is one of the oldest and largest Unix User's Groups serving the
Greater New York City Regional Area since the early 1980s. Unigroup is
not-for-profit, vendor-neutral and member funded. Unigroup holds regular
and special event meetings throughout the year on technical topics relating
to Unix and the Unix User Community. Unigroup is also the Greater NYC
Regional Area Affiliate of UniForum - an International Unix Users Group.
Thanks to Chemical Bank, Unigroup holds regular meetings planned for
the Third THURSDAY of Odd Months at Chemical Bank, 55 Water Street, NYC.
Planned meeting dates are: 7/25 (4th Thurs), 9/19, UnixExpo, 11/21...
Watch for our Special Event meetings at the various trade shows in NYC.
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To renew your dues, pay your yearly membership or for general information,
contact Unigroup of NY by USmail:
Unigroup of New York, Inc., G.P.O. Box 1931, New York, NY 10116-1931
For further information or to get on the Unigroup Electronic Mail Mailing List
send an EMail message to:
unilist@unigroup.org or uunet!unigroup.org!unilist
To contact the Board of Directors of Unigroup, send an EMail message to:
uniboard@unigroup.org
To contact the Newsletter Editor, send an EMail message to:
editor@unigroup.org
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4. FUTURE MEETING TOPICS
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Unigroup is currently working on filling our 1996 meeting schedule.
We currently have the following topics in mind:
- Switching Technology - Debby Goldman of Xylan - Jul '96
- ATM/High Speed Networking - Art Tolda of Hewlett Packard - Sep '96
- Unix Technology - SCO - Unix Expo - Oct '96
- JAVA
- Linux
- Domain Name System (DNS)
- High Speed Networking
- Internet Servers
- Privacy and Encryption (including PGP)
- Multimedia Enhanced EMail - MIME/Metamail
- Publically Available Unix Tools
- Unix Administration Tools: crash & fsdb
- Kerberos
- Object Oriented Databases
- Fault Tolerant Unix
PLEASE let us know immediately if you:
- Can give us a presentation on one of these topics
- Know of a speaker for one of the these topics
- Have another topic you think we should address
- Can help us plan one or more meetings - be a meeting coordinator.
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5. NEWSLETTER
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Unigroup's printed newsletter is sent out to people on our U.S. Mail mailing
list. The newsletter contains information such as meeting announcements,
technical and non-technical articles and recent UNIX security advisories.
Ross Ziskind is the editor of the Unigroup newsletter. Keep an eye out for
the next issue.
To keep the newsletter going, the two biggest problems to overcome are:
a) Volunteers to see that it gets out
b) Content material
If you have any ideas or can help contribute to our newsletter, please make
them known at our meetings and/or let us know by EMail. If you know anyone
who has experience in sending out a newsletter, we can always use some good
advice. Ross can be reached via email to editor@unigroup.org.
We are also looking for an individual who can take over most of the
editorial work for the newsletter as our current editor's time has become
extremely scarce. All interested parties please notify us immediately.
Thanks.
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I hope to see you all at Unigroup's July 1996 meeting...
-Rob Weiner
Unigroup Executive Director
unilist@unigroup.org
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