IEC Newsletter
January 2006, Volume 1 go to newsletter archive
Presenting the revitalized IEC Newsletter with a focus on providing more educational content to keep you posted on key developments in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Design Engineering industries…
In This Issue: IPTV and More
Executive Perspectives
Critical insights from key industry leaders
The IEC's Executive Perspectives allow industry professionals and students alike to learn from leading key experts' insights and experiences. Viewers can access answers to pressing industry questions and challenges instantly with this learning opportunity.
Paul Berriman
PCCW's Mr. Paul Berriman, Head of Strategic Marketing Development, shares his assessment of IPTV in Asia, what telcos need to do to deliver video, the services mix, access networks in the home, PCCW's success, and more.

Christian Unterberger
Mr. Christian Unterberger, President, Fixed Networks, Siemens, speaks on key issues, including the service mix for the emerging digital home, IPTV, service complexity dangers, access networks, WiMAX, broadband services across wireline and wireless, VoIP, business models, and more.

Technology Briefing
Broadband Trends:
Is Your Network Ready for the Broadband Revolution?
Educational content provided by Meriton Networks
With broadband multimedia services finally starting to roll out, the reality of what the broadband revolution means for service providers is rapidly becoming apparent. Read what service providers must adapt as demand emerges.
Read more...

The Secret to Ethernet Success: Older Technologies Must Play Nicely with New Ones
by Michael O'Malley
Educational content provided by Tellabs
Find out how to best utilize Ethernet and read why it may be the best connection method. Learn more about the Ethernet wide-area network (WAN), deterministic QoS, service ubiquity, Ethernet economics, speed, and the ability to converge applications over a single network.
Read more...

Design Engineering:
The Role of Design in Enhancing Nanometer Process Yield
by Dr. Marc Levitt
Educational content provided by Cadence Design Systems Inc.
Discover the key factors affecting yield in nanometer process technologies and the increasingly significant role that design plays in enhancing yield in nanometer circuits.
Read more...

Analyst Corner
The Analyst Corner features perspectives from a range of leading information industry experts.

The Telco services puzzle: Where does IPTV fit?
Following the diffusion of broadband access, and thanks to recent technological enhancements, the IPTV market is considered a business opportunity by telco operators. This paper, authored by Michelangelo Barbera, Giovanni Gagliardi, and Silvio Romeo of Accenture, discusses how telcos are entering into the IPTV market to support the increase of revenues deriving from broadband services and to contrast the decline of switched access services.

Academic Mission
ECEDHA Workshop on Globalization
Read what engineering students face as the industry globalizes and what the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (ECEDHA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) discussed to address the Impact of Globalization on Electrical and Computer Engineering Curricula of the Future.

Upcoming Events
Conference
February 6–9, 2006
Exhibition
February 7–8, 2006
Santa Clara Convention Center
Santa Clara, California, USA
27–30 March 2006
Business Design Centre
London, England
15–18 May 2006
Hong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Hong Kong, China

Featured Publications
Use discount code 012006 for a 20% discount off the following IEC publications:
Learn the basics of the leading design and test methodologies and techniques
Discover today's most viable broadband wireless business models and strategies
(Four-Volume Set)
Round out your library with all four volumes in this instructive series:
The Basics of Telecom.
The Basics of VoIP
The Basics of Satellite Comm.
The Basics of 802.11 WLANs

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