[Chapter-delegates] Do glance: Webinar Thursday on wireless to the gigabit

[Michael Snell]

Thanks for this, Dave. I fully agree with your point about how important
this is to extending access to the developing world. I'm signed up!

Mike Snell
InterPlanetary Networking Chapter
San Francisco Bay Area Chapter


On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Dave Burstein <daveb at dslprime.com> wrote:

> Folks
>
> Nothing will be more important delivering "the Internet for Everyone" than
> the coming 10x-100x increase in wireless capacity beyond today's LTE. High
> network capacity and $50 smartphones are driving remarkable growth. I'm
> reporting Cisco estimates that 300M Africans will be connected in 2017,
> more than in the United States. http://bit.ly/1g3nAAV
>
>   I believe ISOC should play a strong role in growing the Internet,
> including making sure that excessive patent fees, standards made behind
> closed doors by giant corporations and poor spectrum policy do not hold
> back the Internet for everyone. Freedom and security also matter, of
> course, but we also need to pursue service affordable for everyone.
>
>    The non-profit Marconi Society will present three pioneers: AJ Paulraj,
> inventor of MIMO, Henry Samueli, founder of Broadcom and Stanford Professor
> Andrea Goldsmith in a free webinar Thursday. The topic is "The Remarkable
> Wireless Future: More Megabits Soon, Gigabits to Come." Register at
> http://bit.ly/1cNGfTK and get the technical information to inform policy.
>
>
>
>        Here's the details.
>
> *2014 Marconi Prize w**inner AJ Paulraj, the inventor of MIMO, will
> present "The Remarkable Wireless Future*: More Megabits Soon, Gigabits to
> Come." 2012 Marconi Prize winner and Broadcom founder Henry Samueli will
> join as well as Stanford Professor Andrea Goldsmith. These three
> outstanding engineers are creating the future of wireless.  Coming networks
> may not live up to Noki'?s promised 1000x improvement, but speeds into the
> gigabytes are not that far away. No one is better able to describe the
> future of mobile than our panel.
>
> Thursday March 6. 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. New York, 6 p.m. London. Please
> join us. Register at http://bit.ly/1cNGfTK
>
> We promise a lively set of answers to the key questions of wireless. There
> won't be any lectures.Your questions will be welcome. I'm honored to be the
> moderator. My first question will be "What's likely reality and what's pure
> hype.
>
>    Do join and bring your questions, More information
> http://bit.ly/1fsqWSP. Register http://bit.ly/1cNGfTK
>
> Dave Burstein on behalf of the non-profit Marconi Society,
> Editor, Fast Net News, Net Policy News and A Wireless Cloud
> Author with Jennie Bourne  DSL (Wiley, 2002) and Web Video: Making It
> Great, Getting It Noticed (Peachpit, 2008)
>
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