Dear GHPN'ers, (Apologies for multiple copies. Appreciated if you can forward to potentially interested persons) !!!!EXTENDED DEADLINE!!!! * Submission new ** strict ** deadline of one page summary: February 25 Monday 17:00 ET (22:00 UTC/GMT), 2008 4th International Conference on IP + Optical Network (iPOP 2008) will be held on June 5-6 at NTT Musashino R&D Center in Tokyo, Japan. If you wish to submit a topic for consideration, please send an Extended Abstracts of a 400 words and a maximum of 1 page, including figures and diagrams, speaker's name, affiliation, and contact information are requested by 25 February 2008 to the Technical Program Committee at ipop2008-CFP@pilab.jp. The topics of the conference will include, but not limited to, the following: * GMPLS/ASON technologies * GMPLS Network management, OA&M * Multi-layer network (MLN) / Multi-region network (MRN) * Path Configuration Element (PCE), Traffic engineering * Inter-area/Inter-AS network * L1VPN, Bandwidth on Demand, and Photonic Grid * Wavelength Switched Optical Networks (WSON), Routing wavelength assignment, Impairment management * GMPLS-controlled Ethernet Label Switching (GELS) and related Ethernet transport technologies * Application with high-bandwidth demand * Testbed, field trial Submission new ** strict ** deadline of one page summary: February 25, 2008 Notification of acceptance: March 28, 2008 Submission deadline of final presentation slides: April 18, 2008 See Call for Presentations details at http://pilab.jp/ipop2008/proposals/cfp.html Best regards, -Soichiro Araki Organization Committee Co-Chair, iPOP 2008 http://www.ipop2008.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Soichiro ARAKI System Platforms Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation E-mail: s-araki@cj.jp.nec.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~