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Problem Statement
The bandwidth of mobile uplinks and downlinks as well as data latency parameters promise to be much improved over currently available 3G services with the advent of LTE and 4G wireless broadband technologies. ALU is seeking applications and services that will benefit from this improved connectivity especially in these key areas:
- Public Safety
- Media and Entertainment
- eHealthcare
- eLearning
Background Information:
Long Term Evolution (LTE) and Fourth Generation wireless networks (4G) will provide much higher data rates for mobile devices and applications than existing solutions. The LTE specification is defined and telecommunications equipment vendors are already executing contracts with carriers to deploy LTE gear. The definition of 4G is a bit more nebulous as standards are still being defined; however 4G has objectives of 100Mbits/s bandwidth between any two points in the world (although much higher rates have been lab tested) and support of IPv6.
More information on LTE specifications can be found at
http://www.3gpp.org/article/lte.
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Seeker Companies' leading representatives who will be participating in this TechQuest event:
Derek Kuhn, VP Emerging Technology and Media
Derek Kuhn is Vice President of Emerging Technology & Media for Alcatel-Lucent and is based in Canada at Alcatel-Lucent’s Ottawa, Ontario Campus. As a global business lead, Mr. Kuhn is responsible for next generation user experience and partnership ecosystem surrounding emerging technologies like 4G mobile connectivity and wireline broadband.
Mr. Kuhn was VP Strategy of the Americas Region in the office of the CTO/CMO and led business and technology strategy across all lines of Alcatel-Lucent products and services.
Prior to the merger of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies, Mr. Kuhn was Senior Director of Strategic Solutions in the Office of the CTO which encompassed Alcatel’s IP Video, IPTV and Broadband Entertainment strategy, strategic partner development activities, media and analyst relations and he was also Alcatel’s primary liaison with the content community including film, television and gaming.
Mr. Kuhn represents Alcatel-Lucent on the Board of the University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts, Entertainment Technology Center.
Mr. Kuhn is also the past Chairman (’03-’06) of the Broadband Services Forum, an independent, non-profit trade association that addresses the business of broadband and works with the service provider and content community to deliver content-rich consumer and business services. Under his stewardship he completed the acquisition of the DwA European group as well as the merger with the Service Creation Community and grew the organization to twice its original size.
Mr. Kuhn has held senior positions in Marketing, Business Development and Product Management for both wireless and wireline multimedia delivery solutions at Alcatel.
Prior to Alcatel’s acquisition of Newbridge Networks in May 2000, Mr. Kuhn was Senior Product Manager, ATM Access Products in 1999, and Product Manager, Narrowband Packet in1998. Mr. Kuhn joined Newbridge Networks when they acquired Castleton Network Systems of Burnaby, British Columbia where he was Systems Engineering Manager. Mr. Kuhn began his career as a consulting engineer with Totten Sims & Hubicki from 1988 to 1996.
Mr. Kuhn was chosen as one of the “Top 40 under 40” by the Ottawa Business Journal in May 2005.
Mr. Kuhn holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.
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