February 24, 2008

WOMEN WORKING IN TECHNOLOGY - CONFERENCE 2008

Conference 2008 - Presented by Center for Information and Communication Sciences, Ball State University

Date: 14th April 2008 ; Venue : Alumni Center, Ball State University.

The prime focus of this event is to encourage women in the multitude of technology careers to achieve success and enhance their performance by ensuring full utilization of current and future resources. The event will be a forum for discussion and development of a culture and environment in which women have opportunities to grow, add value and succeed within the world of technology through the many transitions and phases of life.

We will bring together a cross-section of people (men and women) who can benefit from - and add value to - an agenda for oppurtunity and growth. The agenda is packed full of speakers delivering key messages, discussion panels and development articles. You will not be sitting listening to speakers you will be involved in the day and gain concrete useful information to take back to your work and your life.

CONFERENCE BENEFITS

• Gain a greater understanding of women’s role in technology careers and the opportunities to grow;

• Become engaged and excited about the future roles and opportunities;

• Be inspired and motivated about reaching full potential with confidence;

• Have established stronger networks;

• Be energized to continue the WWiT movement

Agenda

♦ KEYNOTE SPEAKER– Robin Smith, Nortel Diversity Council
♦ WOMEN’S ROLE IN TECHNOLOGY
♦ NEW TRENDS IN TECHNOLOGY: What Do They Mean to You?
♦ CAREER DEVELOPEMENT
♦ DIVERSITY– finding, retaining, and progressing women
♦ A Day in the Life: Balancing Work and Home
♦ Mentoring: How to Get One, How to Be One
♦ Networking Reception

February 21, 2008

ETHERNET PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS

Passive Optical Networks bring optical fiber to the end users. It is a promising last mile broadband solution offering point to multipoint access. Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) is emerging as a network access technology. The three main factors responsible for making it so popular are high bandwidth, low cost of components and low cost of maintenance. EPON provides connectivity between the Central Office (CO) and the end user. It is defined by ITU’s G.983 standard and supports triple play services .i.e. convergence of voice, video and data over a single network
Emergence of EPON can be traced back as the result of 3 drivers- The deregulation of common carriers (local loop) among telecom service providers, decline in cost of Ethernet and optical fiber and finally the growing use of internet.

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Voice over Wireless Fidelity (VoWi-Fi)

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has emerged as an effective technology for cutting telecommunication costs in the business market. VoIP offers transmission of phone calls over a wired network whereas VoWi-Fi offers voice transfer over a wireless infrastructure

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Comcast plays Internet Traffic Police

The topic “net neutrality” looks like the most attention seeking issue concerning cable service providers. The fact that the FCC has categorized them as “Information services” gives them exclusive rights over the cable they lay. This ruling by the Supreme Court has opened the Pandora’s Box to both the subscribers and the service providers

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NETWORK NUETRALITY – ISP’s PUSH FOR CABLE SHARING RULES

It has been in debate for quite some time now. The issue being whether cable companies providing cable infrastructure for broadband connectivity to residential and commercial users can be categorized under “Telecommunication services” or “Information services”. The issue is of debate because of the ambiguity in the classification. According to the FCC any type of service that simply transmits information without any additional processing involved is a telecommunication service. While any service that processes, stores and transfers information, in other words depends on a specific protocol is called “Information or Enhanced “services. (545, Supreme Court of United State, 2005)

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