Announcing WCA’s Operator Training & Certification Program With TESSCO Technologies
Scott McClure, Product Business Unit Manager, Wireless Broadband & Networking, TESSCO Technologies, Chairman, WCA Training & Certification Committee & WCA Director
Robert Burke, Product Business Unit Leader, Training Services, TESSCO Technologies

See also separate listings in the WCA Co-located Meetings index below for two in-depth tutorials on WiMAX and LTE Technology & Network Design offered by WCA in cooperation with CelPlan Technologies, Inc.
 

10:00-11:00

WiMAX Solutions For 5GHz License Exempt Bands
Manish Gupta, Vice President, Marketing & Alliances, Aperto Networks
 

LMDS Coalition Status Update, Next Steps Towards Business Plan
Paul J. Sinderbrand, WCA Counsel & Partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer or Bryan Tramont, Partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer & Former FCC Chief of Staff
Lisa Youngers, Director - Federal Regulatory Affairs, XO Communications/Nextlink Wireless Inc. & Managing Member, WCA LMDS Coalition
 

WiMAX In Latin America
Jorge Piedrahita, Director, Omnivision (Venezuela)
Thomas Jasny, Vice President for Wireless Broadband Networks, Samsung Telecommunications America, Introduction
 

Advancing  Health Care & Education With Broadband
Dr. Patrick J. Gossman, Deputy CIO, Wayne State University & Former Chairman, National Educational Broadband Services Association
Dr. Weston E. Vivian, President, Vivian & Associates, Former Member, U.S. Congress, Former Professor, University of Michigan & Member, Michigan’s Washtenaw County “Wireless Washtenaw”  Business Plan Committee
 

Health Care & Education Keynote
The Hon. John Conyers (D-MI), Chairman, U.S. House Judiciary Committee
 

State of Wireless Broadband: Policy Review In the Year Ahead
Gregory Rohde, Executive Director, E9-1-1 Institute, President & Founder, e-Copernicus & Former NTIA Administrator & Assistant U.S. Secretary of Commerce

 

Next Steps For Migrating The Communications Industry To Green Technology
J.S. (Jake) MacLeod, Principle Vice President, CTO and Bechtel Fellow, Bechtel Communications, Moderator
Dr. Robert F.  Brammer, Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Northrop Grumman Information Technology
John O’Farrell, Senior Vice President, Business Development, Silver Spring Networks
 

Green Technology Keynote
U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA), Chairman, House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality
 

Enabling Flexible-Use Bands To Work As Intended (Part 1)
Dr. William Webb, Head of Research & Development, United Kingdom Office of Communications (OFCOM)
Julius P. Knapp, Chief, Office of Engineering & Technology, FCC
Monsignor Michael J. Dempsey, Ph.D., Director of Pastoral Communications, Archdiocese of Brooklyn, NY and Chairman, Catholic Television Network
 

WCA Rural Broadband Committee
(Attendance restricted to Committee Members Only)
Kelley Dunne, CEO, DigitalBridge Communications, WCA Director & Chairman, WCA Rural Broadband Committee
Jason Lazar, Vice President, Corporate Development, Key-On CommunicationsWCA Rural Broadband Committee Vendor Luncheon (12:15-13:30)
(By invitation only. Bulfinch/Latrobe)
Hosted by:

Plated Luncheon
Hosted by:Wireless Success By Enabling Eco-System Technologies
Dr. Rajendra Singh, Chairman & CEO, Telcom Ventures

Industry Service Award Presentation by WCA President Andrew Kreig to
WCA Engineering Committee Chairman Harry W. Perlow, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Sprint Nextel & WCA Best Practices Committee Co-Chair
 

Enabling Flexible-Use Bands To Work As Intended (Part 3: Eco-System Perspectives)
Harry W. Perlow, DMTS, Sprint Nextel &  WCA Best Practices Committee Co-Chair, Co-Moderator
George W. Harter, Director, Wireless Engineering, Clearwire & WCA Best Practices Committee Co-Chair, Co-Moderator
Dr. Milind M. Buddhikot, Member of Technical Staff (MTS), Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent Technologies
Graham Celine, Senior Director, Product Line Management, Azimuth Systems
Dr. Robert Kubik, Director, Telecom Relations Global, Motorola & Vice-Chair WiMAX Forum Regulatory Group, WiMAX Forum Regulatory Group
James O’Connor, Senior Director, Technical Marketing, NextWave Wireless
Reza Arefi, Director, Spectrum Policy and Wireless Standards, Intel Corp.
 

Public Safety Government Roundtable
Robert Le Grande, President & CEO, LeGrande Technical & Social Services, Founder, Spectrum Coalition for Public Safety& Former Interim CTO, Government of the District of Columbia, Moderator
Vivek Kundra, Chief Technology Officer, Government of the District of Columbia
Aneesh Chopra, Secretary of Technology, Commonwealth of Virginia

Preparing For America’s New Broadband Public Safety Network
Mark S. Adams, Chief Architect Networks & Communications & WCA Executive Committee Member Northrop Grumman Information Technology
Randy Jenkins, Director of Marketing and Business Development, North America, Harris Stratex Networks
Andy Smith, Vice President, Public Safety, NextWave Network Products

Next Steps In Preparing For America’s New Broadband Public Safety Network
William Maheu, Senior Director, Business Development, Qualcomm Government Technologies, Moderator
Chief Charles L. Werner, EFO/CFO, Fire Chief, City of Charlottesville, VA & Communications Committee Member, International,  SAFECOM Executive Committee Chair
Jim Laccabue, Director of Sales, Proximetry

Morgan Wright, Global Industry Solutions Manager, Public Safety and Homeland Security, Cisco Systems

 

WCA’s WiMAX Technology & Network Design Tutorial By CelPlan Technologies, Inc.This course addresses the needs of engineers and managers who need to understand in-depth WiMAX technology and its network design.  The focus is on the latest revision of the standard, which is IEEE 802.16e-2005, corrigendum 2 and task group 802.16m.  The course starts with an overview of WiMAX and the IEEE 802.16 family of standards.  Then follows a detailed description of the technology techniques, including e2e architecture, permutations (PUSC, FUSC), and MIMO techniques.  Next, a WiMAX Network design will be covered, starting from service and traffic definition and then moving to the calculation of network Key Performance Indicators (KPI).

Price: US $2,910 per student before April 4.  Later: US$3,500 per student.  Duration: 3 days (Monday to Wednesday)
Registration: E-mail to training@celplan.com.  Call for information: 703-259-4036
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WCA’s LTE Technology & Network Design Tutorial By CelPlan Technologies, Inc.This course addresses the needs of everyone who needs to understand the technology and concepts of Long Term Evolution (LTE) as the future 4G standard of 3GPP.  After an overview of 4G standards the course introduces the requirements of LTE, provides insight to the most relevant changes to L1/L2/L3 and the network architecture of E-UTRAN to UMTS, HSDPA, and HSUPA.  It is followed by a detailed description of the e2e architecture and MIMO techniques.  Next, an LTE Network design will be covered, starting from service and traffic definition and moving to the calculation of network Key Performance Indicators (KPI).

Price: US $1,940 per student before April 4.  Later: US$2,300 per student. Duration: 2 days
Registration: E-mail to training@celplan.com.   Call for information: 703-259-4036
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2008 WCA Voices United Golf Classic
As part of WCA 2008, WCA will host this year’s edition of the Voices United Classic benefit children with hearing loss in cooperation with the A. G. Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, and the Blue Ridge Center for Speech & Hearing.  Delete: WCA to Host Golf Event at WCA 2008 to Benefit Children with Hearing Loss through AG Bell and Blue Ridge Speech & Hearing. 

Registration will be $195.  For event registration and sponsorship details go to http://agbellwca.golfreg.com/
    

BRS/EBS/MMDS Operators Committee Dinner, 7:30 p.m., Monday, April 21 (Offsite, TBA).  Chair: Joel Brick, Sioux Valley Wireless (South Dakota).  Eligibility: Only full-time employees of WCA member carriers with operating systems in the BRS/EBS/MMDS bands. WCA Liaison:  Deputy Committee Chair Leigh Ann Spellman, Gryphon Wireless.

WCA’s LTE Technology & Network Design Tutorial by CelPlan Technologies, 9:45 a.m. (Cabin John) (Two days).  Eligibility:  $2,300 per student.  Email Information: info@celplan.com. Phone information: 703.259-4036.

Rural Broadband Committee, 11:30 a.m. (Constitution C).  Chair: Kelley Dunne, DigitalBridge Communications (Virginia).  Eligibility: Employees of WCA members with a focus on rural broadband deployments.  WCA Staff Liaison:  Meredith Cicerchia.

* Rural Broadband Committee Vendor Luncheon, 12:15 p.m. (Latrobe).  Eligibility: Invitation only.  Liaison: Kelley Dunne, DigitalBridge Communications (Virginia). 

2008 WCA Voices United Golf Classic, 8:30 a.m. Tee-Off (Lansdowne Golf Club, Leesburg, VA).  WCA will again host this year’s edition of the Voices United Classic to benefit children with hearing loss in cooperation with the A. G. Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, and the Blue Ridge Center for Speech & Hearing.  Registration: $195.  WCA Liaison: Regina Whitley.  Golf Registration & Details.

Group Dinner for Engineering Subcommittee On Best Practices For Flexible Use Bands, 7:30 (BLT Steakhouse).  Eligibility: Subcommittee members only.  Co-Chairs: George W. Harter, Clearwire & Harry W. Perlow, Sprint Nextel.  WCA Staff Liaison:  Meredith Cicerchia.