10th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
November 12-15, 2002
at
École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications
Paris, France
Conference venue
The
10th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
will take place at ENST:
École Nationale Supérieure des
Télécommunications
- Paris.
Full address: ENST - 46, Rue Barrault 75013
Paris - France.
Metro Station: Corvisart
( Area
map) (
Picture of the entrance of ENST) (Pictures taken in the
vicinity of ENST)
Travel information
There are two international airports that serve Paris:
Orly (ORY) and Charles de Gaulle (CDG). Both airports
are equivalent to get to the conference site. Flights schedule to Paris
can be consulted at Yahoo
travel pages - Paris. Paris has
also also many train connections to major european cities. Train schedules
can be consulted at the SNCF (French
railway compagny) web server.
How to reach to ENST from Paris airports
ENST is
within ten minutes walk from the "CORVISART" metro station
(on line 6). In Paris the metro and
the suburban commuter (RER) are interconnected; you can travel from one system
to the other with the same ticket. However, while any trip on the metro system
costs one ticket, the price of the trip on the RER system depends on the
distance covered. More about metro and bus transportation in Paris
can be found in RATP (Paris metro company)
and PARIS pages sites.
Orly Airport (ORY) is about 20 minutes south of Paris
and Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG)
is about 40 minutes northeast. To get from
these airports to ENST you may proceed as follows:
From Charles de Gaulle Airport:
- Depending on your Terminal
of arrival (1 or 2), you may walk to the RER (train) station or you may
need to take a free bus shuttle.
- Buy an RER ticket to Paris-section-urbaine (metro ticket
included).
- Take the RER B. Get off at
station "DENFERT-ROCHEREAU", then take metro line 6, towards
"NATION", and get off at "CORVISART" station.
- ENST is within 10 minutes
walk from there (see map).
- The RER trip between the airport and Paris ENST takes about an hour.
Taxi from Charles de Gaulle to ENST is about 40 Euro on the meter (there may
be some small additional charge for luggage).
From Orly airport:
Take the ORLYBUS (about 7 Euro) towards
"DENFERT-ROCHEREAU",
get off at "RENE COTY"
station. Then it's a 10 minutes walk to ENST.
Taxi from Orly to ENST is about 25 Euro
on the meter (there may be some small additional
charge for luggage).
Tourist information
ENST is located in the southern part of Paris,
in the Butte aux Cailles
("hill of quails") district. Butte
aux Cailles is one of the old quarters and the
third highest hill in Paris. The
area has a village
atmosphere with a pedestrian quarter and many pubs
and restaurants.
Some pictures of the
area.
You may consult Yahoo
travel pages - Paris.
and PARIS pages sites.
Weather
Check for current weather conditions in Paris
at yahoo weather forecast site - Paris:
(Fahrenheit) or (Celsius).
Currency
One USD is roughly equivalent to 1 Euro. You may use a currency conversion tool to check the
equivalences between the Euro and your own currency.
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