{"id":3048,"date":"2018-03-25T15:57:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T19:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/?p=3048"},"modified":"2023-07-21T14:45:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T18:45:50","slug":"amlight-sdn-and-automation-at-terena-networking-conference-tnc17-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/?p=3048","title":{"rendered":"West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN) Conference 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1040px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Dr. Julio Ibarra participated at the WACREN 2018 Conference in Lom\u00e9, Togo on 15-16 March 2018, which focused on catalyzing quality higher education and research.<\/p>\n<p>The main theme of the conference is: &#8220;WACREN \u2013 Unleashing Potentials&#8221;, with the following sub-themes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advanced Network Technologies and Services (SDN, Cloud services, mobility services, NOCaaS, \u2026)<\/li>\n<li>Building and Strengthening User Communities (research communities, librarians, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>NREN Business Models and Use Cases \u2013 Experiences Around the World<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The conference is organized in a special context: the rollout of the WACREN network, with the promise of dramatically changing\u00a0the IT landscape in higher education and research in the region.<\/p>\n<p>For the conference program <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.wacren.net\/event\/59\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3048"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5491,"href":"https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions\/5491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}