Vision
To bring together professionals and practitioners from the academia, industry and government functionaries from around the world, with a view to sharing knowledge and experience in the field of ICT for global partnerships and collaborations aiding economic growth to support peace and prosperity in the world.

High Speed Internet, is driven by global optical networks utilizing various photonic- and network- technologies, Lambda Grid, fiber-optic, wireless/optical-wireless as enabling technologies for IT and Telecom from the architectural, security, signal transport and application perspectives. The workshop and symposium will span over three days of technical and visionary presentations as well as workshops and testbed experiences; and will include keynote addresses and various plenary sessions on various focus areas consistent with the theme and objectives. The major objective of this 5th International Symposium is to bring together participating US, Malaysian, and the world-wide researchers, educators, students, and industry professionals for collaborations. HONET 2008 thematic focus is high-speed internet, e-government, network security and the enabling technologies.