2007 Region 6 Meeting Presenters

Troy West, UTC Secretary-Treasurer

Presented information on Technology Trends, Restoration of communications systems in cases of disasters and also of the structure of the UTC and the Officers of the organization.
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Brett Kilbourne, Director of Regulatory Services & Associate Counsel, UTC

Discusses the "Status Report on Infrastructure Issues - Pole Attachments & Rights of Ray" Brett also spoke on Spectrum Issues, Migration to 12.5KHz Operation and other Issues. Presentation

Karen Raines, Federal Communications Commission

Karen spoke about Tower Light Outages and what the rules are in notification. She also spoke about Antenna Structure Registration Rules and the Hale Color Chart. Presentation

Tracey Martin - CISCO, Product Sales Specialist

Spoke about how she got started with Red Cross and how she saw the need to correct the In-Operational Inefficiencies. She explained CISCO's solution to Interoperability of communication systems in Utility Radio System's.
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Kris Jarrett- ALCATEL

He explained how to transport video across your network.In addition, he spoke about today’s architecture in the traditional format system for our future applications. Presentation

Harry Moore - JDSU

Spoke on trends for optical transport. He explained the “Open Photonic Layer”, DWDM and it’s system components. Presentation

Kasey Regan, MidAmerican Energy, Sr. Network Analyst

He discussed wireless LAN and IT’s implementation at MEC. Kasey also spoke about WiFi Security and the different types of issues that MEC is dealing with. Presentation