IEEE tour of E-Comm Centre on March 11

Ed Casas (edc@ece.ubc.ca) Thu, 4 Feb 1999 21:46:23 -0800 

Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 21:46:23 -0800
From: Ed Casas <edc@ece.ubc.ca>
Subject: IEEE tour of E-Comm Centre on March 11




		IEEE Communications Society Tour

		  Thursday, March 11 at 7:30 PM

		 Tour of the E-Comm Radio System

			       by
			   Michael Webb
		   Wireless Technology Manager
		       E-Comm Corporation

Abstract:

The E-Comm Project will implement a multi-site, multi-zone radio
system providing trunked voice service as well as wireless data
communications to public safety agencies and other municipal
users in southwest British Columbia. Service will encompass the
entire Greater Vancouver area, West and North to the Sunshine
Coast and the Whistler and Pemberton area, and East through the
Fraser Valley to Boston Bar and Manning Park. The radio system
will employ the latest technologies to provide advance features
such as wide radio roaming, interagency inter-operability,
in-building coverage, digital encryption, selective calling,
dynamic regrouping, paging, and extensive mobile data
functionality.

Speaker:

After graduating from the University of Calgary with a degree in
Electrical Engineering in 1986 Mike spent 12 years with Northern
Telecom/Nortel in Calgary, Vancouver and the UK.  He worked in
the areas of digital switching, network management systems,
cellular/PCS and wireless local loop both in engineering,
marketing and business development.  He joined E-Comm in
September 1998 as its Wireless Technology Manager.  He is
currently responsible for E-Comm's wireless voice and data
technologies and operation of its network.  Mike is a
Professional Engineer in BC and has been an IEEE and
Communications Society member since 1985.

Time/Place:

The tour will be held at the E-Comm Building, 3301 East Pender
(Hastings and Cassiar) on Thursday, March 11 at 7:30 PM.  Due to
space restrictions a maximum of 30 visitors can be accommodated.
Please reserve ahead by sending e-mail to Please reserve ahead by sending e-mail to edc@ece.ubc.ca.

We would especially like to welcome new ComSoc members to this
event.

You can also meet the speaker at a no-host dinner before the talk
at 6:00 PM at Earl's, 4361 Kingsway.

For more information contact Ed Casas, UBC Electrical and
Computer Engineering, at 822-2592 or e-mail Computer Engineering, at 822-2592 or e-mail edc@ece.ubc.ca.

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I've also been asked to include the following notice as it may be
of interest to many ComSoc members:

   Details concerning INTERCOMM'99 (a business-oriented
   conference) and the IEEE MTT-S Wireless Symposium (a
   research-oriented conference) to be held in Vancouver from
   21-24 February 1999 are available at the INTERCOMM'99 web
   site:

        http://www.intercomm99.com/

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