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Keynote Address: Infocomm Landscape - A Long-Term Perspective
Dr Brian Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore
Dr Brian Chen will provide the technology leadership and vision to support the strategic use of infocomm in the economic and social sectors of Singapore. In this keynote, he will share his insights and perspective on the long-term view of the global infocomm technology landscape in a broad range of technologies. He will also discuss the changes and implications that accompany emerging key technologies such as Ultra Wide Band technology, Ad-hoc networking, Web services and the Open Source movement in the long run. This long term strategic analysis will benefit our local strategic planners, technology innovators and exploiters by helping them to understand the reality from fiction on emerging areas, and the opportunities we can identify. |
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Infocomm Security Technologies in E-Commerce
Mr Chan Keen Wai
Director, Infocomm Security
Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore
Mr Chan Keen Wai is responsible for developing infocomm security policies and standards for the government, security incidents response for Singapore and security technology roadmap for the nation. To facilitate e-commerce and to ease the mobility of applications across heterogeneous wireline and wireless broadband networks and devices, security technologies have become a pivotal building block for integrity, confidentiality, authentication and non-repudiation of data transactions. As Singapore anticipates the next wave of e-business applications in Web Services and a move towards distributed architecture, he will examine emerging security needs and measures required for a trusted end-to-end environment. |
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The Connected Home
Mr Raymond Lee
Deputy Director, Technology Direction
Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore
Mr Raymond Lee leads a team in IDA that spearheads the work in Technology Roadmap, Technology Standards and Technology Development Initiatives. The concept of a Connected Home is to create a smart living space for homeowners by tapping the power of infocomm technologies. The smart home will hence become a lively interaction space for the family to live, work and play, accessing a range of remote services delivered to the home. From home automation, intelligent home networks, device connectivity, to internet appliances, residential gateways, home media servers and multi-service platforms, this presentation will elaborate on the development of various enabling technologies and standards that can help us to build our own smart home of the future. |
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Mobile Wireless and Broadband Access
Dr Tan Geok Leng
Director, Network & Enabler Technology
Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore
Dr Tan Geok Leng heads a team of experts that analyse and track technology developments, which impact the infocomm landscape. His responsibilities also include strategising methods for key technologies to take root in Singapore. In this presentation, he will take us through a journey into the future whereby an integrated broadband infrastructure will be in place to allow the mobility of applications and services across heterogeneous networks, be it wireline or wireless. In this intimate journey, he will define the trends and opportunities in networks, enabling technologies, services and applications in many areas such as DSL, cable, fibre, wireless LAN, UWB, EDGE, 3G/4G, IP multimedia services, mobile broadcasting and webcasting, handset features and platforms, location based services, instant messaging and presence services, as well as convergence and interoperability issues. This succinct presentation will provide a most comprehensive analysis of two key clusters: broadband access networks and mobile wireless. |
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CANARIE CA*net 4 Project
Dr Bill St Arnaud
Senior Director, Advanced Network
CANARIE Inc
At CANARIE, Dr Bill St. Arnaud has been responsible for the coordination and implementation of Canada's next generation optical Internet initiative called CA*net 3 and more recently the world's first customer-controlled optical network CA*net 4.
As a successor to the CA*net 3, CA*net 4 spearheads advanced network architectures and form an innovation framework for supporting new concepts in collaborative research called "grids" and "eScience". Its ultimate goal is to provide end users with the ability to provision, manage and control the routing of their own LightPaths across the network. This is done on a peer to peer basis without the need to signal or request service from any central network management authority or server. Looking towards the future of networking technologies, Dr Bill St Arnaud will share the goals and technical overview on some of the technologies behind the visionary customer empowered networking. |
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Free-Space Optics, The Past, the Present and the Future
Dr Heinz Willebrand
CTO & Founder
Lightpointe Communications Inc
Dr Willebrand is widely regarded as one of the key driving visionary forces behind the Free-Space Optics (FSO) industry movement.
He will provide an overview of past, present and future deployments of FSO technology in the military, campus/enterprise and service providers networks. Special attention will be paid towards the feasibility of FSO technology in Singapore and the South East Asian market in general. The discussion will also address potential limitations of use of this technology as far as the overall system availability in this part of the world is concerned. |
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Trial-based Study of Free-Space Optics (FSO) Systems in Singapore
Associate Professor Ong Jin Teong
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Prof Ong Jin Teong is currently working on tropical rain and its effects on satellite, terrestrial and Free Space Optical systems, and on the quality of service and area coverage predictions for terrestrial Digital TV reception in Singapore.
Data collected from his trial-based study of FSO Systems have been processed and used with other research data previously processed by NTU to provide guidelines for designing FSO systems for deployment in Singapore. The more critical parameters in the Singapore context will be discussed. These includes the effects of heavy rain, smoke haze due to forest fires, rapid variation of received optical signal due to atmospheric effect (scintillation) and mitigation techniques for improving the performance of FSO systems. |
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Wireless LANs: The Transition to Phase II
Mr Tan Teik Kheong
Chairman of the Wireless LANs Next Generation Committee of IEEE 802.11, Product Management
& Co-chairman of the Wireless Interworking Group Committee of IEEE 802.11, Product Management
Philips Semiconductors
Mr Tan Teik Kheong has received numerous international awards for his worldwide contribution to networking and is listed in the International Who's Who of Professionals as a honorary member. He will discuss the current status of WLANs standards and the emerging activities in the WLAN marketplace.
He will also address several important trends in the semiconductor and service provider industries that are shaping the future adoption of WLANs. Finally, the convergence of computing and wireless communication devices such as PDAs, mobile phones, WPAN and WLANs and their path to sophistication and maturity beyond 2002 will be presented. |
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Trial-based Study of Next Generation Wireless LAN (NGWLAN) Technology in Singapore
Associate Professor Law Choi Look
School of Electrical Electronic Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Prof Law Choi Look is also the director of GPS Centre, Nanyang Technological University where he leads a team of 26 full-time researchers. He is a co-founder of RFNET, a company which specialises in wireless networking.
He will discuss the results of a trial-based study of NGWLAN technology based on the IEEE802.11a standard in Singapore. The trial involves the measurements of system performance indicators such as bit rate, coverage, throughput, etc. both at the physical layer and network layer in five different wireless LAN deployment scenarios. Studies into application layer issues such as security and roaming made together with measurements of throughput and end-to-end delays with different applications will also be presented. |
