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Special Events:
Welcome Reception (Monday, June 18, 18:30-20:30)
Sponsored by Bell Canada, the Welcome
Reception will be held in the Great Hall of the National Gallery of Canada
located at 380 Sussex Drive. The Gallery is just a 10-15 minute walk from
the Congress Centre. The Great Hall provides a stunning view of the
Parliament and the Ottawa River.
Technical Tours (Wednesday, June 20, 14:00-17:30)
Two technical tours will be available. Each
has limited capacity and will be available on a first-come first-serve
basis. Please sign up as soon as possible at the Registration Desk.
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The first tour (capacity: 38 persons) will
be to Nortel Carling Campus, the global
R&D center of Nortel.
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Subject to
last-minute change, this tour is planned to have a presentation and/or
demonstration on three topics:
Fixed/Mobile
Convergence - Nortel's solution is based on the IMS-based Voice Call
Continuity (IMS-VCC) standard developed under 3GPP. The solution is aimed at
providing a service common to both a fixed VoIP network and a cellular
network.
10 Gigabit Ethernet over WDM - This solution combines the, ubiquity,
flexibility, simplicity and cost effectiveness of Ethernet with the
reliability, speed and reach of optics to allow users to extend their LAN
environment across the MAN and WAN. Ethernet over Coarse/Dense Wave Division
Multiplexing (WDM) is particularly effective in high-bandwidth,
extreme-performance scenarios, such as information storage solutions or data
center interconnection.
Unified Communications for Enterprises - This solution aims at
unifying communication functions with desktop applications based on the
Innovative Communications Alliance (ICA) between Nortel and Microsoft.
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The
second tour (capacity: 45 persons) is to the Federal Government’s
Communications Research Centre (CRC).
As part of its security practice, CRC requires non-Canadian citizen
visitors to provide ITC-20 staff basic passport information not later
than morning of Monday, June 18. This tour will include demos in the
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BADLAB
The Broadband Applications and
Demonstration Laboratory (BADLABTM) is a CRC facility, which is used to
develop integrated communications systems comprising fibre-optics,
satcom and radio; and which
allows the demonstration and testing of new broadband applications and
services through a variety of telecommunications networks across Canada
and the world.
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BADLAB:
Le Banc d'essai de démonstration et
d'applications à large bande (BADLABMD) est un laboratoire du CRC qui se
consacre à la conception de systèmes de communication intégrant fibres
optiques, satellites et ondes hertziennes. On y recourt pour faire la
démonstration et tester de nouvelles applications et de nouveaux
services sur large bande au moyen de nombreux réseaux canadiens et
internationaux de telecommunications.
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MILTON:
The Milton (Microwave-Light Organized
Network) system is a cognitive radio network that mines spectrum to
provide cost-efficient telecommunications services at bi-directional,
high data transfer rates. This technology aims to provide residential
homes and businesses with broadband wireless Internet service, whether
they are in an urban or suburban area.
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MILTON:
Le système MILTON (Réseau structuré
optique-micro-ondes) est un réseau de radiocommunication cognitif qui
exploite le spectre pour fournir des services de télécommunication
économiques avec des débits élevés et bidirectionnels. Cette technologie
vise à offrir aux entreprises et aux résidences un service Internet sans
fil à large bande, et ce, qu’elles se trouvent en région urbaine ou en
banlieue.
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SDR:
SDR (Software Defined Radio) uses software
to perform radio-signal processing functions instead of using resistors,
capacitors, feedback loops, or application-specific integrated circuits.
Frequency tuning, filtering, synchronization, encoding and modulation
are now performed in software on high-speed reprogrammable devices such
as digital signal processors (DSP), field programmable field array (FPGA),
or general purpose processors (GPP).
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SDR:
La RRL utilise des logiciels pour exécuter
des fonctions de traitement des signaux radio au lieu de recourir à des
résistances, à des condensateurs, à des boucles d'asservissement ou à
des circuits intégrés propres à une application. Le réglage de la
fréquence, le filtrage, la synchronisation, l'encodage et la modulation
sont désormais réalisés à l'aide de logiciels et d'appareils
reprogrammables à grande vitesse, comme des processeurs de signaux
numériques, des réseaux prédiffusés programmables par l'utilisateur ou
des programmes généraux.
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Tour of Ottawa (Wednesday, June 20, 14:00-17:30)
For those not joining a technical tour, a
guided tour, Capital At-A-Glance Tour, provides a comprehensive city tour
within two hours. Tour highlights include major Ottawa landmarks and
neighborhoods. The tour will include stops at Rideau Hall (residence of the
Governor -General) and the Museum of Civilization across the river.
Gala Banquet (Wednesday, June 20, 18:30-22:00)
Sponsored by Nortel, the gala banquet will be
held in Salon E of the Ottawa Congress Centre starting at 7 pm.
Entertainment will follow the dinner. Preceding the dinner will be a cash
bar starting at 6:30 pm. The attire for this occasion is business formal.
Early Bird Draw (Thursday, June 21, 12:30-14:00) 
A special feature of
ITC-20 is the Early Bird Draw. The first 175 paying registrants are
eligible to have three chances to win an iPod Nano (2Gb). This draw will
occur during the Farewell Lunch. The winner must be present to claim the
prize. Otherwise, another draw will be made.
The Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation
(OCRI) is the sponsor of this event as well as the two lunches provided in
this conference.
Best Student Paper Prize (Thursday, June 21, 14:00-16:00)
As in past ITCs, a
Best Student Paper Prize will be awarded. First authors who were full time
students when their papers were submitted and who are presenters of the
papers can sign up for the competition when they show up at the Registration
Desk. An anonymous team of judges will evaluate the candidates and will
recommend the winner. The prize will be awarded in the Closing Session.
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