The DIGITAL CITY 2005
Technologies for a City: Wimax and WiFi

The Digital City Forum is a Silicon Valley initiative that will
organize a series of 8 events to review the position of the different
parties involved in the United States as well as one special event on
what is happening abroad.

The first event gave us an insightful perspective of several
connected cities, Milpitas, Lompoc, San Carlos and Palo Alto in
regards to their deployment of wireless access (WIFI) and other form
of broadband access.
The second event provided us with a better understanding of Fiber To
The Home (FTTH) infrastructure in the context of a "TRIPLE
PLAY" from
the point of view of equipment manufacturer, broadband service
provider and a real case deployment.
The third session was focused on deployment of broadband technologies
in connected cities and metropolis outside United States. We have
looked at the drivers behind new communication infrastructure,
economics and lessons learned across the world.

On September 29th, we will be hosting our Fourth event: Technologies
for a City.

Today, cities and territories are no longer relying exclusively on
telecom and cable operators to offer high speed Internet at an
affordable price and with good quality of service for everybody.
Since its early days, WiFi has often been considered as inadequate
for outdoor coverage. Now, WiFi Mesh technologies and WiMax have
shown widespread wireless broadband is possible with cost effective
infrastructures. Cities and communities are setting up wireless
broadband networks as an alternative or a complement to the existing
last mile infrastructure. Today, Mesh networks vendors offer
different solutions responding to different needs in the field.

This session will focus on presenting and discussing different
architecture options in Mesh networks, how they satisfy different
demands, how they address the requirements in terms of coverage,
speed, flexibility, management and cost

As a reminder, this Fourth event is part of a larger program that
will help us understand the different aspects of the `4 WAYS PLAY`
(Video, Telephony, Mobile and Internet access) that is going to hit
us in the future coming from the next generation service providers
being telecom service providers, cable companies, cities or new
entrants.

We hope you will enjoy this program and let us know if you want to
participate in its organization. You may also forward this invitation
to people you know who could be interested.

Our Sponsors:

ProximityMail, Bozca, Socket Communications, Pillsbury,
SiliconFrench, WCA, Anza and Cites-Numeriques

Special Thanks:
Thanks to Socket Communication for their wireless products and for
sponsoring this meeting event!

Prizes:
Our lottery prize will be an SDIO Wireless LAN Card from Socket
Communications.

When:
Thursday September 29th, 6:30PM to 9PM

Program:
6:30PM registration and networking
7PM: Panel and speakers presentation
8:30: Q&A

Where:
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
2475 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA 94304

Map and Direction:
http://www.pillsburywinthrop.com/locations/office.asp?
directions=1&officeid=000058491444


Registration and Cost:
No registration is required but come early to make sure you have a
seat. You can also register on Digital City Forum (it is free) and
say you are coming in the Polls section. It will give us an idea of
how many people we will have.
To help better communicate and be informed of our future events, you
can register right now to our mailing list in sending an email to
digitalcityforum-subscribe@yahoogroups.com in the recipient.

Drinks will be provided. Cost: $10 by cash only. Make sure to have
the exact change.