Olivier Martin
Mr Olivier Martin
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"State of the Internet & Challenges ahead"
After a fairly extensive review of the state of the Commercial and Research & Education Internet, the problematic behind the, still hypothetic, IPv4 to IPv6 migration will be examined in detail. A short review of the ongoing efforts to re-design the Internet in a clean-slate approach will then be made.
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Biography
Olivier Martin received an M.Sc. degree in EE from École Supérieure d'Électricité (Supélec), Paris, France in 1962. He joined CERN in 1971, held various positions in the Software Group of the Data Handling Division, and then moved to the Communications Group of the Computing & Networks Division in 1984, where he has been Head of the External Networking Section from 1989 until 2004.
Olivier Martin has been one of the main initiators of the CERN Internet Exchange Point (CIXP), an Internet history landmark that has been built at CERN from 1989 using standard Ethernet switching technology and serving both academic and commercial Internet Service Providers. Following the de-regulation of the European Telecom industry back in 1996, the CIXP became one of the first "carrier neutral" Internet Exchange Points (IXP) in the world.
During his time as head of the external networks, Olivier Martin supervised the growth of CERN's external communication facilities from 2*9.6 kbit/second circuits to CEA Saclay, near Paris, and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxford to several 10Gbit/seconds circuits to Europe and the USA, making CERN one of the largest Telecom "hubs" in the world.
From 2002 till first quarter 2004, Olivier Martin was the manager of the European Union DataTAG project (Research and Technological Development for a DATA TransAtlantic Grid). It is in the framework of this project that numerous new Internet2 landspeed records have been successfully established in close cooperation with CALTECH, the California Institute of Technology) for both IPv4 and IPv6.