diff --git a/events.xml b/events.xml index b275e11..fed571c 100644 --- a/events.xml +++ b/events.xml @@ -38,15 +38,48 @@ + title="Tech Talk: Google Fiber Internet: The Messy Bits"> -

The CSC and Google will be holding a joint tech talk. Talk title and - abstract details coming soon. +

+ Google Fiber's Internet service offers 1000 Mbps internet to a few cities: + that's 100x faster than a typical home connection. The problem with going + so fast is it moves the bottleneck around: for the first time, your Internet + link may be faster than your computer, your wifi, or even your home LAN. +

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+ Our speaker, Avery Pennarun, will share some not-very-secret secrets from + the team creating GFiber's open source router firmware, including some + discussion of wifi, marketing truthiness, the laws of physics, something + about coaxial cables, embedded ARM processors, queuing theory, signal + processing, hardware design, and kernel driver optimization. If you're lucky, + he may also rant about poor garbage collector implementations. Also, there + will be at least one slide containing one of those swooshy circle-and-arrow + lifecycle diagrams, we promise.

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The CSC and Google will be holding a joint tech talk. Talk title and - abstract details coming soon. +

+ Google Fiber's Internet service offers 1000 Mbps internet to a few cities: + that's 100x faster than a typical home connection. The problem with going + so fast is it moves the bottleneck around: for the first time, your Internet + link may be faster than your computer, your wifi, or even your home LAN. +

+

+ Our speaker, Avery Pennarun, will share some not-very-secret secrets from + the team creating GFiber's open source router firmware, including some + discussion of wifi, marketing truthiness, the laws of physics, something + about coaxial cables, embedded ARM processors, queuing theory, signal + processing, hardware design, and kernel driver optimization. If you're lucky, + he may also rant about poor garbage collector implementations. Also, there + will be at least one slide containing one of those swooshy circle-and-arrow + lifecycle diagrams, we promise. +

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+ About Avery Pennarun
+ Avery graduated from the University of Waterloo in Computer Engineering, + started some startups and some open source projects, and now works at Google + Fiber on a small team building super fast wifi routers, TV settop boxes, and + the firmware that runs on them. He lives in New York.