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E1	Wednesday, November 6, 2002 · 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Engineering Wireless Networks for Cost and Quality Advances in technology have increased opportunities for cost saving through infrastructure sharing and have brought new approaches to increasing network capacity. Service providers cannot sacrifice quality of service (QoS) as they pursue these benefits. Wireless network engineers must consider the issues of QoS measurement and management in the context of these new approaches. Collocation and Infrastructure Sharing New Approaches to Increasing Capacity Designing Networks for Low Cost and High QoS Defining Customer QoS for Wireless Networks

CHAIRPERSON: James P. Simmons, Jr., Vice President, Marketing, Conductus, joined the company in 1998. Mr. Simmons has held similar positions at Superconductor Technologies and Nanometrics and has also worked as a product-marketing and application manager at Therma-Wave and KLA Instruments Corporation, a Hewlett-Packard company. SPEAKERS: Jill Hostetter, Director, Product Management, is responsible for Metawave's SpotLight®, SmartShare™, and SmartCell™ product lines. Ms. Hostetter started at Metawave in 1998 as a system engineer and quickly advanced to manager of network engineering. Tormod Larsen, Director, Technology and Engineering, Allgon Telecom, is responsible for managing the RF engineering and design tasks for the North American team of Allgon Coverage Engineering. His team has recently successfully deployed distributed antenna systems for the Moscone Convention Center. Derrick Murray, Wireless Technical Director, Wireless, DAX Technologies, was formerly the manager of network engineering and operations for Amica Wireless Phone Services. During his tenure at Amica, Mr. Murray was responsible for collection, analysis, and reporting of system performance of the Lucent Technologies wireless network. Joseph Shapira, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Founder, Celletra Ltd., has more than 35 years experience in electromagnetics research and engineering, communications, and radar systems development. During his tenure at Qualcomm, he took a major part in the development of the CDMA standard.