Service Télématique
et Communication
Les Nouveaux Chemins de la Connaissance
Newsletter
The New Paths of Knowledge
Service Télématique
et Communication
Les Nouveaux Chemins de la Connaissance
Newsletter
The New Paths of Knowledge
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| Here is another issue packed
with information on our new and on-going projects. We are getting
used to the fact that the summer is NOT a quiet season!
And yet our very latest and hottest news are not reported in this number: we are just about to enter a big new project, with a large number of partners, in the scope of the European Commission TEN-TELECOM programme, in the domain of voice over IP... You will have to wait until January to know more about it! And also about a brand new contract we are finalizing with ALCATEL ... Meanwhile, we report about new activities with ASCOM, BANKSYS, CISCO, ComTech, DIGITAL and more! See you next year,
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Our range of social events now goes from working breakfast to lamb-roasting garden party ... (and we were even able to enjoy a sunny afternoon in the middle of July 98, in Belgium!)  |
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Denis AUQUIER, Frédéric BRAS, Ehsan CHIRAZI, Atika COHEN, Marc DE PRETER, Jean-Pierre FLORISOONE, Secretariat:
Other regular collaborators:
Contact:
Rosette VANDENBROUCKE
World Wide Web Address:
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| The BOLD project (Belgium
On Line Directories) was designed to enable people to get general information
on Belgian libraries via the Web. The user can search for libraries according
to various criteria such as library names, city names, … Information made
available on each library includes access facilities, opening hours, which
types of books the library contains, services provided, staff coordinates,
and more. The classification (more than three hundred terms) used to classify
the information provided in libraries can also be used as a search criteria.
Last year during the first design phase, the project defined the data formats,
the technology (Web and LDAP) and the way to manage all the information.
The acquisition work (i.e. getting libraries to register in the server)
was a new challenge for this phase and today we are proud to announce that
we can count more that one hundred libraries in our database. With the
new academic year we hope to greatly increase this amount.
Another job during this second phase was to migrate the server on a new dedicated machine to improve the capabilities and performance. This work was not only to transfer the data but particularly to improve the automatic processing. The new server will be operational very soon to better serve you. To obtain more information on the project, the web address is http://bold.belnet.be
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TELEPORT BRUSSELS is a training and demonstration
center for telematics applications.
It aims to promote the access to new technologies of telecommunications among the Brussels SMEs. It organises conferences and training courses very regularly on subjects such as: PABXs, mobile phone, telebanking and various Internet applications. Find the very new TELEPORT BRUSSELS web site at: http://www.teleport-brussels.be
Yet another new member of the Group, Vincent VAN
LIER, has joined us during the summer.
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Following on the right tracks |
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After the successful completion of the SCIMITAR project, a follow-on contract has been signed between the European Commission (DGXIII/C-Telematics for Research) and the same partners, TERENA and ULB. See the web site WWW.TERENA.NL.
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The Proceedings (in French) of a symposium
organized last year by Professors
C. DOUTRELEPONT, P. VAN BINST and L. WILKIN, on “Rights, Liberty and Networks” have been published in early 1997 |
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| Let us first recall that the SARMENT
Project is devoted to simulation in networks. Since our first account,
we have received three pieces of good news and worked a lot.
to order: http://www.gbhap-us.com/abi/phy
/walrand.htm
First, an article has been published in a book entitled "Network Performance
Modeling and Simulation", edited by par Jean Walrand, Kallol Bagchi and
W. Zobrist, collection Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1998, (ISBN
90-5699-596-0) under the title "Reusability Techniques for Building a Simulation
Environment and Modeling Communication Systems".
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On November 17, the annual symposium organized by the Belgian ATM Platform will take place at the IBM International Education Centre outside Brussels, on the theme "Broadband and Internet". The day will be opened by Minister Lebrun, a number of contributed papers will be presented and an exhibition is organized. The response to the call for papers and demonstrations is already a good indication of the quality of the forthcoming programme. Information from http://www.atmplatform.be
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ULB/STC is conducting a study
for Banksys aiming at reviewing security aspects within the Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM) protocol (essentially where security mechanisms exist
and where they lack).
The study also involves an overview of IPsec and SNMP security.
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This fall sees the launch of the "BTA Tea Parties", a new series of
conferences taking place at the end of the afternoon at the Brussels Teleport,
organized by BTA and covering a range of subjects relative to telematics
developments and all the new aspects of Telework. Invited speakers
come both from the academic and industrial worlds.
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Belgacom has contracted Service Télématique et Communication to implement a TMN (Telecommunication Management Network) application, based on specifications made by the Eurescom P708 working group. The goal of this application is to validate a MIB (Management Information Base) destined to increase cooperation between PNOs (Public Network Operators), in order to allow foreign clients to request a connection with a particular quality of service, through the PNOs networks, in a fully automated way. The MIB is already specified, and test cases are now being written. To support the application, some intermediary projects have already been implemented. |
Status on Project for Telematics-European Industry Standards Support |
| TEISS is a European project of the Telematics Application Programme in which ULB/STC participates and which was already presented in a previous release of our Newsletter. The project is now smoothly going on. 40 projects have been selected within the Telematics Applications Programme. Based on a questionnaire previously set up in the TEISS project, we are now in the process of interviewing representatives of the 40 selected projects in order to determine where standardization could better meet the needs of those projects (ie their relative domains). |
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| Under a contract with Digital, ULB/STC has
realized the design of a full and generic X400/EDI Gateway for a big Digital
customer in the banking world. The gateway system will enable the
customer to exchange any type of EDI messages with partners over their
X400 connections and must therefore be generic and powerful enough to meet
all kinds of requirements depending on the EDI applications involved.
Having realized the design, ULB/STC is now developing the system.
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| Our EuroDemo room did not find the summer months as quiet as could
be expected.
Several upgrades to the equipment and network infrastructure took place over the last months:
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