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IMC TOKYO2008



About ShowNet

Count Down to the Reality

Are you ready for it? Technology runs. No time for any rest.

“ShowNet” has always been a comprehensive demonstration of Interop Tokyo since its very first holding in 1994.

As many of Interop fan knows the naming “Interop” originates from [InterOperability] and THIS IS indeed what ShowNet is composed of. You will see various and wide range of interacted equipments and services selected and gathered from Interop Tokyo’s exhibitors.

Giving a special prominence to its contents, ShowNet presents a brand-new theme of the hottest issues every year. This year, ShowNet presents “Count Down to the Reality”; Deployment of IP as typified by Digital Broadcastings, migration of IPv4 to IPv6, security issues…Servers and personal computers are giving up its role to anywhere-anytime devices as technology’s ideal concept is shifting its phase to the reality. Accessibility and connectivity is no longer an inside-the-office monopoly in the very near future. A huge makeover is right there waiting for a countdown. Now the technologies sprint alongside the reality. What we need is not a paper work or a desktop idea but real time demonstrations, verification of movement and above all to see what it was to be “an idea” become “the reality”. Be a witness of it. Watch an in-action service architecture demonstration at the largest scale in the industry.

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ShowNet Backbone & Externals

ShowNet Backbone

Under the theme of “Count Down to the Reality”, this year’s ShowNet brings you an operating network from a multi-angle aspect such as network virtualization, private usage on IPv4, transition period of IPv6 migration, security issues and more. ShowNet’s solid 10Gbps-ensured backbone is the one to fulfill the network’s progressing demands.

ShowNet Backbone

※Click the image to enlarge(Connectivity image is of April 21st 2008)

ShowNet External

ShowNet is NOT an insubstantial demonstration. It HAS an actual connection of surprising 112Gbps in total, the super wide band. Data center is connected to IPv4 and IPv6 internet using each IXs by 1Gbps to 10Gbps lines.

ShowNet External

※Click the image to enlarge(Connectivity image is of April 21st 2008)

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ShowNet Hands-on Session is now taking a place!

Comprehending the technology’s new standard from within

Internet technology is ever-intensifying and those undercover issues are becoming more significant. Multicast, IPv6, Network Security and any other frontier technologies has become a practical new standard at fields though it is true that many of complicated instructions and case studies do not answer mere A-Z to us.

ShowNet hands-on is composed by the industry’s leading specialists, NOC members who constitute ShowNet structure. This finely-programmed session guides you to understand the full scale technology from within. Off course the NOC team members themselves will conduct you to the world of ShowNet!

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