This evening, students at Ecole Polytechnique organize “Point Gamma 2017” – a gigantic party for students and others, with music, entertainment, – and, according to the flyer, something special this year…. I cannot help but wonder if this is related to a class I teach (and, taught, just this Friday) entitled “Cybersecurity – the Hacker… Read More »
We’re doing pretty much everything electronically at Ecole Polytechnique these days, having over the past couple of years introduced electronic signatures on traditional paperworks (Convention de Stages, for example …) But, the other day, I actually got a physical letter, addressed to me. The reasons above makes this is a “blast from the past” in and by… Read More »
The always entertaining Martin Levy from Cloudflare entertained and thrilled the participants in the Cisco-Polytechnique symposium about how he didn’t get what the big deal about. IP4-to-IPv6 transitioning was: they’d done so, with no ill effects, and urged the audience to follow on. This year, Martin was equally provocative….see below … Yup, DNS is broken… Read More »
Glenn Deen from NBCU gave a fantastic lecture on “Glass to glass IPv6” just before the lunch break – from idea if transforming a media production chain to IPv6, through prototyping, and to standardization push, from a content provider, Fascinating stuff.
Sören Kjellin, CTO, ChyronHego, wrapping up on IP Transformation in Media Production.
Next up, Charles Lesoil, head of video engineering at Canal+, gives a fascinating talk “Canal Factory: IP Network powered Media Production Center”.
The first talk of today is “Recent lessons from Broadcast IP deployments: A Grass Valley perspective” by Mark Hilton, Infrastructure Products VP, Grass Valley.
Mark Townsley (Cisco and Ecole Polytechnique) and Guillaume Sauvage de Saint Marc (Cisco) kicking off Day 2 of the symposium, with Guiaume giving a light talk about shapeshifting….err, #shifthappens