Hi, all,
Our Program team had put in tremendous effort to put up this first
tutorial proposed by Wen-Pai. I got an email from Thomas Su,
indicating that our efforts had helped him getting his new job.
Normally, for technical people, changing job some time is very
difficult. Why, because your old skill sets are no longer useful to
new industry. It is not easy to learn new skills while you are busy
with delivering your current job demands. Career development and
training are not supported by most companies. I get a response saying
that the price is still too high. We hope your company will be able
to let you expense this tutorial event. We had tried very hard to
provide IEEE certificate but there are lots requirement needs to meet
in order to get that certificate. However, we will provide a
certificate to you, but not IEEE one. This is the first one and we
will continue working very hard to offer many other topics as in
depth format tutorials in the future. If we get less than twenty
people, we may no longer support this efforts. On the other hand, if
we get 50 people, we may cut our future price. It is simple math.
This event cost us around $1000. Thanks to Fenwick and West for not
charging us for the venue. If we get 50 people, we can drive our
price down to around $20. We need to have all tutorial documentation
history to prove to IEEE the quality of our tutorial meet their
requirement so that we can get official IEEE certificate to our
participants. At this moment, your support for this tutorial event
become most critical to us. If you can not come, please pass the word
for us. Hope to see you there.
Best regards,
-Henry Lu
SVCWireless Program Director
CSIX Board Director

Hi Henry,
Good job.  I have really benefited from the last wireless conf.  It
helped me to prepare for job interview.
Good luck.
Thomas Su

SVCWireless and IEEE ComSoc Wireless Security Tutorial

Date:  June 23th, 2007 (Saturday)
Time: 8:30am ~ 1:00pm
Venue: Fenwick & West LLP, 801 California Street, Mountain View, CA
94041
Tel: 650-988-8500
Fee: SVCWireless or IEEE member: $50.
Non-Member: $80.
On-Site: Add $20.
(Continental breakfast and coffee break are included)

RSVP:
rsvp@... with the following subject line: "6/23: Your
Name, SVCWireless, IEEE member or non-member"

Abstract:

SVCWireless and IEEE ComSoc have invited three industry experts to
provide their expertise and insights into how Wireless Security
technologies are being implemented in current and future WiFi and
WiMAX networks.

Traditionally, Network Security focuses on Authentication,
Authorization and Data Integrity. Do they still apply for latest
wireless technologies and networks? What kinds of security methods
and procedures are being deployed in the latest Wireless standards
and why?  Wireless Design Engineers, Application Engineers, Technical
Marking professionals and whoever want to learn wireless would find
answers to these important questions through the tutorial.

Agenda:
8:30 – 9:00 AM
       Registration (Continental breakfast and coffee provided)
9:00 – 10:15 AM
1)      The Wireless Security Big Picture- Dr. James Kempf, DoCoMo
Labs USA
•Introduction of Security and Network Architecture
•Introduction Cryptographic Algorithms and Authentication
10:20 – 11:35 AM
2)             WiFi Security – Mr. Matthew Gast, Trapeze Inc.
•User based Security on Wireless Network.
•Protocols used for Link Layer Security in IEEE 802 network including
802.1x, EAP and RADIUS
11:40 – 12:55 AM
3)      WiMAX Security – Mr.David Johnston, Intel
•The problems of wireless security facing 802.16/WiMAX
•The structure of the security protocol in 802.16/WiMAX
•The division of roles between 802.16 and WiMAX specifications

Please go to www.svcwireless.org for detail information.
Contact and More information:
James Lam, james.lam@...
Jenny Oshima, jenny.oshima@...

Speaker Biographies:

Dr. James Kempf has been active in systems and software research,
with occasional dips into product development in Silicon Valley since
1983. Prior to his current position, Dr. Kempf had worked at Sun
Microsystems for 13 years, where he was involved in a variety of
research projects among them in 1994 a prototype of a SPARC-based
tablet computer with early 802.11 supports. Dr. Kempf is active in a
variety of standards organizations and industry forums, including
chairing the Mobile Wireless Internet Forum (MWIF) IP in the RAN
working group. In 1998, Dr. Kempf became active in the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF), and from 2002 through 2004 served on
the Internet Architecture Board. Dr. Kempf has chaired three working
groups at IETF, including the Secure NEighbor Discovery (SEND)
working group, which developed a protocol to secure IPv6 against the
equivalent of ARP spoofing. In addition to SEND, Dr. Kempf has been
involved in security research at DoCoMo Labs USA on location privacy
and address authorization for multi-host addresses such as multicast
addresses. Dr. Kempf's research interests include wireless Internet
security, advanced routing algorithms, and new Internet
architectures.

Mr. Matthew Gast is the Principal Engineer of Strategic Technology at
Trapeze Networks, where he works on the development of open wireless
network standards and their application to the Trapeze architecture.
He is a voting member of the IEEE 802.11 working group, and serves as
Secretary of 802.11 Task Group U on interworking with external
networks. Matthew's most recent book, 802.11 Wireless Networks: The
Definitive Guide (O'Reilly Media), now in its second edition, is the
top selling reference work in the field and has been translated into
six languages. He is also the vice chair of the Wi-Fi Alliance's
security marketing task group.  In 2007, Matthew founded the OpenSEA
Alliance; a group organized to support the development of open-source
network security solutions, and currently serves on its board of
directors and as the organization's corporate secretary. Mr. Gast is
also an active participant in the Wireless LAN Security Initiative at
the Interop Labs (iLabs).

Mr. David Johnston is a wireless security architect at Intel
Corporation in
Hillsboro Oregon. He is actively involved in the development of the
802.16 and WiMax standards and has a 17 year background in the
development of wireless communication systems. He was involved in the
development of the 802.11i and 802.16e PKMv2 security standards and he
has served as chair of IEEE 802.21.

Investorfest 2007

2nd Annual Technology Venture Conference

April 16-17, Davis, CA

Call for Submissions from Entrepreneurs

TechCoire is accepting presentations/executive summaries for its 2nd annual Investorfest program to be held on April 16-17 at Davis, CA. The program will be kicked off by a keynote by Vint Cerf, VP and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, and also widely known as the 'father of the internet' with a talk on "Internet: The next ten years and beyond"  

Over 20 leading investors focused on IT and Communications including Garage Technology Ventures, DFJ, Storm Ventures, American River Ventures, Panorama Capital, Outlook Ventures and Cisco Ventures have already confirmed and represent over $5B under management.

To apply, you should be an entrepreneur seeking funding of $500K-$5M for your seed or early stage business in software, hardware, semiconductor, telecom, mobility, digital healthcare, networking or internet. You will need to send in your executive summary and/or investor presentation to be considered for this conference. Only a total of ten companies will be selected to present at the conference. As a presenter, you will not only get a chance to present to the panel of investors, but also get plenty of time during the event to network with the investors.

Click here to learn more about the event and to register as a presenter or attendee. 

Submission Deadline: April 6, 2007

Event Agenda

• April 16 : 4-8 PM: Power Networking, Showcase, Dinner, Hosted Wine Reception 
• April 17 : 8:30AM - 5 PM: Fund-raising presentations (Open to presenters and attendees) 
  

For more information, please visit www.investorfest2007.com

--- In digitalcityforum@yahoogroups.com, Peter Allen <pma94301@...>
wrote:
>
> Many cities have considered SCADA as a prime motivator for building
a digital city.  Every city that has a municipal utility currently
has some form of SCADA in place, though usually through wireless.
Engineers realize that this method is faulty in some emergencies like
a large transformer created an EMP, but it is effective for daily use.
>
>   Some cities (ex: Palo Alto) even have considered the notion that
SCADA, as well as other muni services, would in itself justify the
creation of a muni information utility.  Creating such a network
could then provide room for 'the big three' services as gravy
revenue, creating a 'first mile network'.
>

Interesting!

I am highly experienced in Technology R&D and have a strong civic
service background. It just seems to be an area where lots of new
ideas can emerge. Do you have a reference for documentation these
ideas?

I was considering new applications rather then replacing old
applications. This is an example off of the top of my head. The low
cost of the terminal hardware may allow real time tracking of mass
transit systems such as buses where this wasn't practical before. Not
only can managers have a current situation understanding but other
perks can creep in. For example, riders can be alerted automatically
when the buss is within a cretin time frame of arriving at a
particular stop or if there is a problem. This would be something
that may be cost prohibitive without the network. This is not a
critical service that can't be lost in a disaster.

Your point is a good one though. Perhaps standard recommendations
should be developed to help leaders decide what type of
communications should not rely on a city wide network.

Bruce

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A "digital city" will allow for low cost data acquisition and control
systems (e.g. SCADA). This could allow for real real time monitoring
and control of many civic functions. Has anyone been looking into
ideas in this area.

Thanks,
Bruce

fyi.

Date: Aug 14, 2006 6:06 AM
Subject: Google Code Jam 2006: Programmers Worldwide Invited to
Participate in Google's Fourth Annual Global Coding Competition;
Registration opens August 14th; Finals to Be Held in Google's New
York City Engineering Office on October 27th, 2006

Google Inc., (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced today that registration is now
open for Google Code Jam 2006. Google's annual online coding
competition presents participants with a series of challenges that
they must use their programming skills and creativity to solve.
Programmers ready to match their skills against the world's best can
register at http://www.google.com/codejam2006. The top 100
contestants win an all expenses paid trip to New York City to
compete in the finals at Google's New York Engineering Office.

"The Google Code Jam is an incredible opportunity for the most
talented and fastest computer scientists in the world to come
together and compete on an international stage," said Alan Eustace,
senior vice president, Engineering, Google Inc. "Google is proud to
support these amazing coders as they take on some of the world's
most challenging programming problems, and we're pleased to have the
chance to introduce them to our research and development offices
around the world."

This year marks the first year the finals will be held in New York
City. "Google New York is very excited to be hosting Google Code Jam
2006," said Craig Nevill-Manning, director, Engineering New York,
Google Inc. "It's an incredible opportunity to introduce the best of
the programming world to our New York Engineering office in downtown
Manhattan and demonstrate the incredible diversity of experiences
that Google offers engineers all over the world. If you can make it
in Code Jam here, you can make it anywhere!"

In addition to the trip to Google's New York Engineering Office,
finalists will also divide $155,000 in prize money:



        Grand Prize:             $10,000
        2nd - 10th place:        $5,000 each
        11th - 25th place:       $2,500 each
        26th - 50th place:       $1,000 each
        51st - 100th place:      $750 each



Registration for Google Code Jam closes September 5, and the
qualifying round begins on the same day.

Last year, more than 14,500 competitors from 32 countries took part
in the Google Code Jam, and Marek Cygan of Poland took home the
grand prize. The Google Code Jam is powered by TopCoder(R), the
leader in online programming competition, skills assessment, and
competitive software development. More information about Google Code
Jam 2006 can be found at http://www.google.com/codejam2006.

About Google Inc.

Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people
around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by
Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is
a top web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted
advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable
results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users.
Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout
the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit
www.google.com.

Google is a registered trademark of Google Inc. All other company
and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with
which they are associated.

SOURCE: Google Inc.

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The DIGITAL CITY 2005
Carrier's strategy and roadmaps

In today's fast evolution of networking technologies, carriers are
facing a day-to-day dilemma trying to adopt and deploy a sustainable
and easily upgradeable solution for the next decades. With the
convergence of data, video and telephony services as well as the
emergence of more and more sophisticated wireless and wired network
systems, carriers need to quickly find an answer to remain
competitive and profitable. In this panel, professionals from the
industry will try to help us understand the challenges and bring us
their view on carrier's strategies and equipment vendor's product
roadmaps.


Panelists include:

Ursula Oester, Swisscom
Ursula Oesterle has a Masters degree in physics from the ETH in
Switzerland and a PhD in photonics. After her PhD she perused her
research at EPFL in Switzerland and joined a spin-off in 1996. After
a business course at IMD, she joined Swisscom Innovations in Bern in
2001 working for the CTO. Beginning of 2003 she moved to the USA to
run the Swisscom Office in Silicon Valley.

Claas Heise, Deutsche Telekom & T-Venture Representative
Claas Heise joined T-Venture in 2001 as an investment professional. T-
Venture is the corporate venture capital arm of Deutsche Telekom
group, which also includes T-Mobile. Since 2002, Claas is based at T-
Venture's U.S. subsidiary. As the Managing Director of T-Venture of
America, he is responsible for U.S. portfolio companies, new deal
flow and projects, the relationships with U.S. venture capital
companies, and for managing T-Venture's partnership with TeleSoft
Partners. Claas has been involved with investments in The Fantastic
Corporation (IPO), Trivnet, Eyematic, NetByTel, eMotion and BelAir
Networks. Before joining T-Venture, Claas was Director of Product and
OEM Partnerships for TRAIAN Internet Products, and Product /
Marketing / Business Unit Manager for Business Television and
Internet - TV convergence, Deutsche Telekom. Claas received a Ph.D.
in Plasma Physics from the University of Hanover. He received an
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship and worked with a NASA
grant at Harvard University Center for Astrophysics, and is a former
Harvard faculty member and Harvard Fellow. Claas is a member of the
VC-Angel Roundtable, Chairperson for the German-American Business
Association of California, a member of the Steering Committee of the
Service Provider Investment Forum, an Advisory board member for Cal-
IT (The State of California-sponsored conference that each year
presents the most promising California High-Tech companies to
Europe), and an Advisory Board member for the Golden Capital Network.

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. The fourth event
discussed on different architecture options in Mesh networks and how
they satisfy different demands to cover Cities.

As a reminder, this fifth 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.

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

Prizes:
Our lottery prize will be a Socket USB Bluetooth Adapter Card from
Socket Communications.

When:
Tuesday November 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:
Cost: $10 by cash only. Make sure to have the exact change. 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.
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The DIGITAL CITY 2005
Carrier's strategy and roadmaps

In today's fast evolution of networking technologies, carriers are
facing a day-to-day dilemma trying to adopt and deploy a sustainable
and easily upgradeable solution for the next decades. With the
convergence of data, video and telephony services as well as the
emergence of more and more sophisticated wireless and wired network
systems, carriers need to quickly find an answer to remain
competitive and profitable. In this panel, professionals from the
industry will try to help us understand the challenges and bring us
their view on carrier's strategies and equipment vendor's product
roadmaps.

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. The fourth event
discussed on different architecture options in Mesh networks and how
they satisfy different demands to cover Cities.

As a reminder, this fifth 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: Swisscom, SinTel and T-Mobile

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

Prizes:
Our lottery prize will be a Socket USB Bluetooth Adapter Card from
Socket Communications.

When:
Tuesday November 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:
Cost: $10 by cash only. Make sure to have the exact change. 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.

Wine and cheeses will be served.

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.

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.

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
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-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas.Schmid1@... [mailto:Andreas.Schmid1@...]

Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 7:34 AM
To: danielchatelain@...
Subject: FW: [CAnet - news] Broadband reality check


Interesting reports - maybe for the digital city community...

Andreas


> -----Original Message-----
> From: news-bounces@...
> [mailto:news-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Bill St.Arnaud
> Sent: Freitag, 12. August 2005 06:12
> To: news@...
> Subject: [CAnet - news] Broadband reality check
>
> For more information on this item please visit the CANARIE
> CA*net 4 Optical Internet program web site at
> http://www.canarie.ca/canet4/library/list.html
> -------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>  [Here are 2 different perspectives on the state of broadband
> in the US. But the analysis and conclusions can be applied to
> most other countries in the world.  These debates on
> broadband penetration remind me of the fear mongering 20
> years ago when North America was far behind the rest of the
> world in terms of deployment of videotext.  France, at that
> time, seemed to be way ahead with its national Minitel
> system, while in US it was chaos with no coordinated
> strategy.  But despite the appearance of chaos, in the bowels
> of a number US universities some boffins were working on
> something called the Internet...as they say the rest is history.
>
> I remain a firm believer that the private sector remains the
> best vehicle for deployment of broadband with facilities
> based competition. The government's only role should be to
> ensure a competitive, level playing field and funding
> research in the next generation of technologies and their
> applications.
>
> But ensuring competition does not mean hobbling the
> incumbents with regulation. I support the recent decision to
> remove open access requirements on DSL.  This has already
> resulted in some new creative solutions in the US where
> companies like Earthlink and AOL are partnering with
> municipalities to independently deploy broadband.
>
> In my personal opinion, municipal governments can play a
> critical role in the deployment of broadband (and earn
> valuable revenue), while at the same time not violating any
> regulations on right of ways or compete with private sector,
> by building, on a non-exclusive basis, conduit and
> condominium dark fiber networks open to all.  Deregulation, I
> believe, will accelerate these new innovative approaches.
>
> I always point to the Montreal CSEVM municipal conduit
> networks as a good model of this type of approach, which has
> won one high praise from competitors and incumbents alike.
> End of editorial - BSA]
>
> [Thanks to Jere Retzer for this pointer from a posting on
> Gordon Cook's Arch-econ list -- BSA]
>
> I recommend this paper:
> http://aei-brookings.org/admin/authorpdfs/page.php?id=1161
>
> I think it is consistent with my view that the ways to
> stimulate broadband penetration are: (1) lower the costs
> (notably franchise and right-of-way
> costs/obstacles) [see my note above - BSA]; (2) increase the
> anticipated ROI (related to #1 but also includes encouraging
> connections from a demand perspective via eduaction,
> communities of interest, applications); (3) increase
> competition (by anyone including if necessary government),
> which has the effect of creating an opportunity cost of NOT
> taking action (if company A is serving 10 markets and have
> substantial competition in five they are likely to invest
> more in those five; if they can hold revenues with no
> investment they might also not invest at all): and (4) reduce
> the price to the consumer (including competition and reduced
> costs to the providers as well as reduced taxes on the
> service to the consumer - our US taxes on telecom services
> including universal service charges are quite high) will
> naturally stimulate consumer demand, "take rate" and
> therefore penetration.
> Where I think UNE fouled things up is that the ILECs
> perceived that by investing in broadband infrastructure they
> helped the competition so that they were better off not
> deploying or slowly deploying DSL to avoid feeding the CLECs.
> One question I have is how do you encourage "open" IP
> services so that you can have local ISPs as envisioned in
> Brand X without discouraging access providers from investing?
> All of this begs the question of what is the best use of
> universal service funds?
>
> [From posting by Dwayne Hendricks on Dave Farber's IPer list -- BSA]
>
>
>      Free Press, the Consumer Federation of America and
> Consumers Union released a report today detailing the ways in
> which the FCC's recent positive assessment of US broadband
> penetration is misleading and glosses over serious problems
> behind an ever-widening digital divide.
>
>      The three groups have called on Congress to take notice
> of alarming trends and enact clear policies that will free
> the broadband market from domination by a handful of large
> cable and telecommunications companies. Their recommendations
> include ensuring open access to all high-speed communications
> networks, removing restrictions on public entities that seek
> to offer broadband services to consumers, and opening up more
> of the broadcast spectrum for wireless Internet applications.
>
>      A full copy of the report, Broadband Reality Check, is available
> at:
>      <http://www.freepress.net/docs/broadband_report.pdf>
>
> Among the findings:
>
> .        The FCC overstates broadband penetration rates. The FCC
> report considers a ZIP code covered by broadband service if
> just one person subscribes. No consideration is given to
> price, speed or availability of that connection throughout the area.
>
> .        The FCC misrepresents exactly how many connections
> are "high-
> speed." The FCC defines "high-speed" as 200 kilobits per
> second, barely enough to receive low-quality streaming video
> and far below what other countries consider to be a
> high-speed connection.
>
> .        The United States remains 16th in the world in broadband
> penetration per capita. The United States also ranks 16th in
> terms of broadband growth rates, suggesting our world ranking
> won't improve any time soon. On a per megabit basis, U.S.
> consumers pay 10 to 25 times more than broadband users in Japan.
>
> .        Despite FCC claims, digital divide persists and is growing
> wider. Broadband adoption is largely dependent on
> socio-economic status. In addition, broadband penetration in
> urban and suburban in areas is double that of rural areas.
>
> .        Reports of a broadband "price war" are misleading. Analysis
> of "low-priced" introductory offers by companies like SBC and
> Comcast reveal them to be little more than bait-and-switch gimmicks.
>
> .        The FCC ignores the lack of competition in the broadband
> market. Cable and DSL providers control almost 98 percent of
> the residential and small-business broadband market. Yet the
> FCC recently eliminated "open access" requirements for DSL
> companies to lease their lines, rules that fostered the only
> true competition in the broadband market.
> Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com>
>
>
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