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I am currently back in Trieste, with my good friends Marco and Carlo, and this time the topic is Bandwidth Optimization. More info here: ICTP-SDU: Lowbandwidth Optimization Techniques<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve given lectures and had lab sessions on Traffic Shaping, and Bandwidth Monitoring, as well as some very basic linux firewalling stuff.<\/p>\n

There’s about 40 colleagues here from all over sub-saharan africa, as well as Bolivia, Cuba, India, Rumania and probably a lot of countries i have missed. <\/p>\n

There are some amazing participants, and some brilliant lecturors here. <\/p>\n

Richard Stubbs from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, is a fountain of wisdom on overall strategies fro managing bandwidth in a large university setting (12,000 students) with way too little bandwidth (about 18 Mbit\/s).<\/p>\n

Olatunde Abiona, from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, adds another experienced voice to the fray, and is another new acquaintance for me to add to my growing list of gifted tehnology trainers. <\/p>\n

Duane Wessels is just teaching a class on Web proxying with Squid, and for those of you who don’t know who Duane is, take a look here<\/a>. Duane is the original author of Squid, which in turn is the most widely used web proxy anywhere. He also wrote one of the definitive guides on webcaching<\/a>, and he happens to be a great teacher too.<\/p>\n

Les Cottrell from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, was here until this morning, and he is an authority on ultra-high bandwidth applications, as well as being one of the brains behind the pingEr<\/a> project, which measures latency over time to as many universities as possible, and uses it to estimate the quality of connections around the world. <\/p>\n

Of course this is just a small sample of the great people that have made it to Trieste. Many of the lectures are on-line in QuickTime format here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In any case, This is the first ICT workshop I’ve done since coming back from Africa Source 2<\/a> last winter, and it’s a timely reminder of how much i’ve missed this type of work.<\/p>\n

Let me just repeat this here for future reference. Just in case, i end up forgetting…<\/p>\n

I love to teach at technology workshops, especially when some of the participants are from the developing world and have developing world problems. It is what I do well, it is my passion, and in this world I have found some of the most intelligent, fascinating and fun friends a person could ever ask for.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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