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.

Panelists include:

François Le, Vice-President of Carrier and International Sales at
Tropos
Francois Le brings over 19 years of networking industry sales and
marketing experience to Tropos Networks. Previously, Le was Vice
President of Worldwide Sales for Aperto Networks, a supplier of WiMAX-
class broadband wireless equipment, where he extended the customer
base into more than 50 countries. Before Aperto, Mr. Le was Director
of Product Marketing and Business Development for WAN access products
at 3Com Corporation. He came to 3Com via its acquisition of OnStream
Networks, where he led marketing and sales of ATM access solutions to
U.S. and international carriers. Earlier, Mr. Le was Vice President
of International Sales with Multipoint Networks and held executive
sales positions at NET. Mr. Le holds an engineering diploma from the
National Institute of Applied Sciences in Lyon, France and an MBA
from Stanford University.

Phil Belanger,Vice-President Marketing at Belair Networks
Phil has more than 25 years of experience in R&D and marketing for
companies in the network systems industry. One of the founders of the
Wi-Fi Alliance, Phil served as chairman from the organization's
inception in August of 1999 through March of 2001. Phil was one of
the authors of the DFWMAC protocol, which was selected as the
foundation for the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol standard. Prior to
joining BelAir, Phil served as Vivato's Vice-President of Marketing
and was Vice-President of Marketing and Vice-President of Wireless
Business Development at Wayport. Phil held various executive
positions at Aironet from 1995 through 1999 where he was instrumental
in the Aironet IPO and eventual sale of the company to Cisco Systems.
Prior to Aironet, Phil was Vice-President of wireless development at
Xircom Inc., where he was responsible for engineering and product
marketing for wireless LAN and wireless wide-area network (WAN)
products. Earlier in his career, Phil was general manager of
communications products at Adaptec, Inc. and director of the network
architecture group at Corvus Systems.

Ozzie Diaz, Vice-President of International Sales and Business
Development at Firetide
Mr. Diaz has nearly 20 years of experience directing customer-focused
teams for major technology companies. He has led sales, partnerships,
global technical consulting, and line-of-business marketing around
the world for companies such as Cisco Systems, Motorola, Rockwell
International, Baxter Healthcare, Bivio Networks (which he co-
founded), and AirFlow Networks. Mr. Diaz holds a BS degree in
computer science from Northeastern Illinois University and an MS in
telecommunications management from Southern Methodist University.

Moderator:

Alain Baritault, Editor in Chief at Cités Numériques
Alain Baritault has been based in The Silicon Valley for more than 15
years as a journalist and columnist covering technology and business.
He recently launched a magazine named "Cités Numériques" for elected
people and technology decision makers in the French Municipalities,
Territories and Government. Since 2000, he has been the US
correspondent for "L'informaticien", a monthly magagzine for MIS
manager and developers in France. Prior to this, Alain has been the
technology correspondent in the US for La Tribune, and the permanent
correspondent for Compatible PC Mag, SVM and 01 Informatique. He also
published in many magazines, newspaper or TV channels in France.
Along with his press activities, he has been an analyst and
consultant for french companies, organizations or goverments, focused
on emerging technologies as wireless technologies and all
technologies related to mobility. Previously he has been Editor of
several French computer magazines as Decision Informatique…. He hold
an MBA and is post graduate (DEA) from University Paris 9 Dauphine.

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.