Panels
Panel 1: Achieving Rural Broadband Ubiquitous Availability
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| François D. Ménard | Project Manager, Xit Telecommunications Inc. (Service Provider), Canada |
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| Robert Proulx | P.Eng, Xittel Telecommunications Inc. (Service Provider), Canada |
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| Gérald Chouinard | Program Manager, Rural and Remote Broadband Access,
Industry Canada Communications Research Center, Canada
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| Robert Forget | Vecima Networks (Equipment Manufacturer), Canada |
Topics:
- When DSL and Cable Modems cannot break the business case, what about Wireless?
- Can satellite broadband access truly be an option?
- Public private partnerships to enable highly cost effective deployments.
- Wi-Fi versus Wi-Max? What about Broadband over UHF? The dilemma about owning spectrum.
Panel 2: Customer Driven Broadband Access Delivery: What the network operators should do today to make money more rapidly and assure to be competitive in 5 years, 10 years and more…
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| Francois Blouin | Manager, High Performance Multimedia, Office of the CTO, Nortel Networks, Ottawa, Canada |
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| Bill St-Arnault | Chief Research Officer, CANARIE, Ottawa, Canada |
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| Christine Tremblay | Professor, École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Canada |
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| Nicholas Gagnon | Business Development Manager, Access Networks at EXFO, Québec City, Canada |
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This panel will provide an overview of the principal transmission technologies available to network operators, and review the actual and future bandwidth requirements to deliver multiple services over Internet protocol (Transmission of IPTV/video, voice/VoIP, high-speed Internet, multiplayer gaming).