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Deadline for Presentation Materials
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MIMO Distributed Antenna Systems –
For Indoor and Outdoor LTE/WIMAX Coverage
Lowering Costs of Implementation and Increasing Performance
September 14-17, 2009
Omni Dallas Hotel Park West
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Moderated
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Don Brown, Director, IWPC
Workshop Background:
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Workshop Goals:
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Monday, September 14, 2009 |
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7:00 PM |
Social and Networking
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At Hotel - Club Lounge |
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 |
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7:00 AM |
Breakfast & Registration |
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8:00 AM |
Opening Remarks |
IWPC Director
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8:15 AM |
Self Introductions |
Each person will be asked to introduce him/herself and share how they can contribute to this process |
8:50 AM |
Welcome |
Welcome from Verizon Wireless Director, System Performance Verizon Wireless
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9:00 AM |
Keynote presentation |
Challenges in Deploying MIMO DAS Corporate Technology Verizon Wireless
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10:00 AM |
Networking Break |
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10:40 AM |
OPERATOR PERSPECTIVES ON
Indoor vs. Outdoor Coverage DAS Performance Requirements
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LTE DAS Deployment Challenges Director of Engineering Metro PCS
Challenges of Evolving 2G/3G DAS to Future LTE and LTE-Advanced MIMO DAS:
A Wireless Operator's View U.S. Cellular
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12:00 PM |
Networking Lunch |
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1:00 PM |
Open Network DAS PROVIDERS AND INSTALLERS
Indoor vs. Outdoor Coverage on Existing Hosted Sites
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DAS Architectures for Future LTE Networks CTO/VP ExteNet Systems, Inc.
Design and Cost Strategies for LTE Indoor DAS
Sr. VP, DAS
Solutions American Tower
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2:00 PM |
Panel Session Operators and Neutral hosts
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Confirmed
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2:45 PM |
Networking Break |
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3:15 PM |
DAS SYSTEM SUPPLIERS AND OEMs
Architecture options and tradeoffs for indoor and outdoor coverage
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MIMO DAS for LTE: Requirements, Deployment Scenarios and Performance Fellow, Technical Staff Motorola
MIMO-DAS and Relay System for LTE Coverage Enhancement Huawei
MIMO Options for Capacity Improvement using DAS Member Technical Staff Alcatel-Lucent
MIMO DAS Challenges and Solutions
Director NRO Professional
Services
DAS Design Tradeoffs and Simulation Results Product Manager/Radio Access-LTE Nokia-Siemens Corp.
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6:00 PM |
Adjourn for Day |
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7:00 PM |
Bus leaves for:
Dinner |
Bus Transportation provided to and from hotel. |
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 |
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7:00 AM |
Breakfast |
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8:00 AM |
Special Tower Top Reliability Presentation
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A Day in the Life of a Tower Top Electronics Installer Technical Manager IWPC
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8:30 AM |
major subsystem suppliers Antenna Systems, Repeaters, and Remote Radio Head
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Investigations of LTE Indoor MIMO Systems Product Line Manager - ION Andrew
Heterogeneous Network for LTE Deployment Sr. Manager, Technical Marketing Group Qualcomm
Title TBA
Product Architect
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10:00 AM |
Networking Break |
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10:30 AM |
major subsystem suppliers Antenna Systems, Repeaters, and Remote Radio Head (Continued)
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LTE Network Deployment using Repeaters CTO Axell Wireless
Practical Network Driven Advanced Antenna Systems Vice President/Product Management ReVerb Networks
MIMO Indoor Antennas Head of Initial Development Group Kathrein
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12:00 Noon |
Lunch |
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1:00 PM |
Panel Session OEMs and MAJOR SUBSYSTEMS SUPPLIERS |
Confirmed
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2:00 PM |
ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES
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Gigahetz Signal Processor for Mobile Infrastructure Systems Director of Design Engineering Scintera Networks
Advances in High Frequency Materials Substrates for Use in MIMO DAS Remote Radios and Repeaters Sr. Market Development Manager Rogers Corp.
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3:00 PM |
Networking Break |
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3:30 PM |
ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES
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Connector Installation: Minimizing Risks and Side-Effects
Sales & Marketing
Manager
Passive Intermodulation Testing as a Quality Metric for Indoor and Outdoor Cellular Infrastructure VP, Business Development, The Americas Summitek Instruments
On Site Testing for PIM Technical Sales Engineer Rosenberger
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5:00 PM |
CLOSING PANEL
The Host and other Operators will be asked to recap the extent to which the workshop has addressed their wish lists.
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Hosts and Operators |
5:30 PM |
TakeAways & Closing Remarks |
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6:15 PM |
Adjourn |
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7:00 PM |
Dinner (Dutch*)
* = in this context, Dutch is a term which means that each person will be responsible for their own dinner costs. |
For those who desire to join our tradition, we get together to enjoy good friends, good food, good wine and [really] bad jokes |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 |
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8:00 AM |
Tour:
Note: Restrictions
may apply |
Bus Transportation provided from and to hotel. |
DEADLINE FOR HANDOUT MATERIALS: Deadline for electronic version of handout materials: Friday, September 4, 2009
ALL Hosts, Speakers, Panel Members and Attendees will be asked to cover out of pocket workshop costs such as conference room costs, food (Social Reception plus First Day breakfast/lunch/dinner plus Second Day breakfast/lunch plus 4 Breaks), booklet copying, audio/visual costs, etc.
We estimate that these costs will be $ 798 (USD) per person. (For IWPC Members, only.)
ALL Hosts, Speakers, Panel Members and Attendees will be asked to pay this fee in advance with either Visa, Mastercard, American Express, cash, personal check or business check.
Make checks payable to IWPC.
Omni Dallas Hotel Park West Omni Reservations: 1-800-THE-OMNI
Please contact the hotel directly for reservations. Mention the IWPC room block rate of $127.00. USD single occupancy.
Cut-off date for reservations is Monday, August 31, 2009. After that date rooms cannot be guaranteed at the IWPC rate.
TRAVEL OPTIONS FROM AIRPORT TO HOTEL: The hotel is only 8 miles from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport. Taxi and Shuttle service available for airport transportation (approximately $25 one way)
AUDIO VISUAL: A Computer Projector will be available for the speakers. In addition, we audiotape all presentations and the interactive discussions. Post workshop, presentations are made available to IWPC Members on the IWPC WEB site, along with “movies” of all presentations and panel sessions.
BUSINESS CARDS: Business cards will be collected at the door from all attendees. We will make copies of these cards, which will be available to all who provided a business card.
Business casual suggested. No ties, please !!
IWPC prepares a handout binder with ALL presentation materials delivered to the IWPC on or before the deadline.
Please submit these materials either by email, as a Word for Windows file, Power Point files or PDF files.
Please send electronic materials (up to 5 MB) to:
or use this FREE FTP Site for files greater than 5 MB http://www.iwpc.org/cal/sitedrop.asp
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