If forecasting is truly an art and not a science, then I guess I am more Volta then Van Gogh.

Having sent a final communiqué out to the customers and partners who had registered for the New Network Technical Forum on the 17 October informing them that the weather was set fair for this week, I arrived in Barcelona on Monday 24 October to the heaviest day of rainfall the city had seen for many, many years...

So, having put my slightly damp toga away now, it’s time to share some reflections on this week’s event (if you are wondering what a toga has to do this all of this, please read the blog ‘The New Network Technical Forum 2011 – Architecting the network for the next decade’ and if you look hard enough, really hard enough, there are some comments in there masquerading as humour).