How did Interop begin and what is Interop all about? Well, did you
know that many of the internetworking protocols were planned and
standardized at Interop?
The Internet Activities Board (IAB) and DARPA held a TCP/IP vendors
workshop in August 1986. The purpose of the workshop was to bring
together the designers of the TCP/IP protocol suite with the
implementors of those protocols in the commercial marketplace. In
doing so they would review the current protocols and plan future
extensions. The workshop was attended by experts from the research
community who discussed the current status of ARPANET and DDN's
MILNET, future directions of research, gateway issues, and
migration to ISO standards.
TCP/IP Interoperability Conferences were held in 1987 and 1988 too.
By 1989 this came to be known simply as the Interop Conference, and
it was held in San Jose for the next three years. In the following
years Interop was held in other US cities and in 1994 it came to be
known as Networld+Interop. Then the conference was held in Berlin,
Tokyo, Paris, London, Sydney, Brisbane, Athens, Singapore, Sao
Paulo and Frankfurt (apart from its occurrence in various US
states).
Interop has become the meeting place for the global business
technology community; it is now conducted every year in Las Vegas,
New York, Tokyo and Mumbai (introduced in October 2009).
Interop hosts a large technology expo with major technology IT
vendors showing their latest offerings. It is also supported by
standards organizations such as MAIT, SNIA, Wi-Fi Alliance, CSI,
ISODA, ISPAI, OSPAI and the EC-Council. In addition, there is a
conference with four tracks on all three days. The conference
begins with keynotes each day and there are plenary sessions such
as power panels too. In addition there are theme based sessions
covering topics such as cloud computing/SaaS, data center,
virtualization, open source, efficient enterprise, green IT,
business intelligence, enterprise 2.0, mobility, security,
collaboration, and technology in healthcare.
So go ahead and choose whatever you want to relish at Interop. Also
catch the very latest in business technology in the Expo area.
Interop-Mumbai will be held at the Bombay Exhibition Center between
September 28 – 30, 2010. To confirm your
participation at Interop log on to www.interop.in