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Year 2004 WCA Meetings

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·        January 2004- View Synopsis

who's hot and who's not

  • Guy Kawasaki  (Garage Technology Ventures), Moderator
  • Neeraj Bharadwaj (Apax Partners)
  • Rex Dwyer (Firsthand Funds)
  • John Gardner (Nokia Venture Partner)
  • Dale Pfau (CIBC World Markets)
  • Eric Zimits (Granite Ventures)

·        February 2004 - View Synopsis

Tropos Networks presentation
Narasimha Chari, Co- Founder and Chief Architect of Tropos Networks, present "A Cellular Wi-Fi Mesh Network for Broadband Data" Mr. Chari will describe a network architecture that combines the best features of cellular and Wi-Fi technologies with mesh networking protocols to create high capacity, uniform coverage networks for metro-scale applications.

TZero Technologies .pdf
Rajeev Krishnamoorthy, founder and CTO of TZero Technologies, will present "Ultra Wideband - the coming wave". Last year the FCC established a new allocation of 7.5 GHz of bandwidth for very low-power, ultra wideband (UWB) communications.



·        March 2004 - View Synopsis

3rd World Wireless Installations

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Deploying a wireless network in India ( Anand Tawker, Hewlett- Packard)

-Profitable Deployment of Wireless Internet in Third World Countries by Les Laky, CTO of New Access International
Les_Lakey_Mar04.ppt

Stu Jeffery on San Jose Hot Spot presentation



·        April 2004 - View Synopsis

Wireless Security

Aruba Wireless Networks, by Randy Chou
aruba_securitytalk.pdf
-There is no such thing as a trusted network: wireless security in the enterprise. With change comes challenges, wireless in the enterprise is exponentially more difficult than in the home.

Wireless Security for the "Average Joe" by Cliff Skolnick, a co-founder of BAWG
home_wlan_security.pdf
-In this presentation, Mr Skolnick, will address the safety issues that individuals need to consider when using Wi-Fi at home or in a public hot spot.



·        May 2004 - View Synopsis

"The Future of Location-Based Services"

• Linda Standen, Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President, @Road
@Road presentation

• Kamil Garjski, VP Eng., Qualcom
Qualcomm.pdf

• Ashul Pande, Director, Wireless Segment SiRF Technologies Inc
SiRF Presentation



·        June 2004 - View Synopsis

"End-to-End Wireless From the Handset to the Backbone"

The first of two seminars created and produced in collaboration with the RevGen Group to discuss the very large topic of "End-to-End Wireless: From Handset to the Backbone." 


·        July 2004 - View Synopsis

Whither WiMAX?, by Intel's Margaret LaBrecque, President, WiMAX Forum
Wimax presentation .pdf (9mb)

WCellular/ WiFi Convergence: Enabling the next growth phase in the mobile industry, by Ken Kolderup, VP Mktg, Kineto Wireless
 
Kineto_july04.pdf


·        August 2004 - View Synopsis

Andy Seybold's Fearless Wireless Predictions
View presentation


·        September 2004 - View Synopsis

How're the big boys doing? An investro panel discusses publicly traded wireless companies.


·        October 2004 - View Synopsis

The Future of wireless R&D: a moderated panel of Bay Area academics discuss what their universities are doing in wireless.

View presentation
Andrea Goldsmith, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University

View presentation
-Professor Zhi Ding, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California at Davis

http://wetec.csumb.edu
- Arlene Krebs, Director Wireless Education & Technology Center,
California State University, Monterey Bay

View presentation
-Benjamin Friedlander, Professor Department of Electrical Engineering,
SOE, University of California at Santa Cruz


·        November 16th 2004 - View Synopsis

Acheiving Operator Profitability using Braodband Wireless
View "Fixed Wireless Venture Economics" presentation
- Duncan Davidson, Venture Partner, Vantage Point Venture Partners

View "An_Isp's_Perspective" presentation
- Craig Newman, Next Generation Product Management, Earthlink - an ISP
- Steve Howe, Vice President Corporate Strategy, Earthlink - an ISP

View "The Fof of FWA"presentation
- Loyd Nirenberg,

View "Wimax -A Carrier Perspective" presentation
- Aamir Hussain, Vice President Network Technologies, Qwest Communications - a telecommunication operator

View "The_Broadband_WirelessWay" presentation
- William Moreno, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Fire2Wire – a wireless ISP

View "Wimax Forum TM" presentation
- Dr. Mohammad Shakouri, Vice President Business Development, Alvarion – broadband solutions provider


·        November 30th 2004 - View Synopsis

Partnership Opportunities with Israeli based companies


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