“ Evolving Communications Networks: Education in the Service of Ireland’s Next Generation Network Infrastructure Needs”

Wednesday 21 April, 2010
 

The Royal Irish Academy in collaboration with the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources presented, “Evolving Communications Networks: Education in the Service of Ireland’s Next Generation Network Infrastructure Needs”; a Half-day workshop was held  at The Royal Irish Academy, Academy House, Dawson Street on Wednesday, 21st April, 2010.

Programme and Presentations

• 2.00 – 2.15 Introductory Addresses, Chairman: Professor Hamid Aghvami Director of the Centre for Telecommunication Research (CTR), Division of Engineering, King's College London 
• 2.15 – 2.40 “The reduction in power consumption and Carbon emissions achievable through the combination of new technology developments and the emergence of green standards.” William McAuliffe, Director of Strategic Business Development, BT. - Click here for presentation
• 2.40 – 3.05 “Developments in IP Network design: the latest innovations in the design of IP Networks such as the use of tunable lasers and the integration of switching and transmission functions in optical networks” Tim Fritzley, Chief Executive Officer, InTune Networks Ltd. - Click here for presentation
• 3.05 – 3.30 “Cloud Computing”, Pól Mac Aonghusa, Chief Technical Officer, Emerging Technology Incubation, Strategy, Development & Innovation Team , IBM. - Click here for presentation
• 3.30 – 4.00 Coffee
• 4.00 – 4.25 “Next Generation Networks”, Geoff Shakespeare, Chief Technical Officer, Eircom - Click here for presentation
• 4.25 – 4.50 “Distributed Data Centres”, John O’Callaghan, Director, Executive Briefing Centre, EMEA & Asia Pacific, EMC - Click here for presentation
• 4.50 – 5.00 Wrap-Up
  
  
  

  The Department of Communications Energy and Natural Resources held a high level strategic workshop on Data Centres and Cloud Computing on 1 May, 2009. At that workshop one of the challenges identified was the development of future skills in this area. It was proposed that better links should be fostered between industry and academia to develop this expertise in Ireland. This recommendation was included in the “Technology Actions for the SMART Economy” report published by the Department in July, 2009. On foot of this recommendation this half-day workshop featured five Industry experts outlining these key directions and why it is important to carry out R&D in these areas and to include them in our educational programmes. The workshop was addressed at Education Professionals, PhD and Research students, Directors of Research Centres and Industry. At the recent Global Irish Economic Forum, Data Centres, Cloud Computing and Smart Communications Networks formed the core of a session on “Technology Actions to Support the Smart Economy”. As a result this workshop was both timely and topical.

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