On Monday, December 19, 2011, the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors, or NATOA, will hold an “eNATOA” webinar featuring a panel discussion about US Ignite.
From NATOA: “US Ignite will interconnect hundreds of fiber networks throughout the United States over infrastructure provided by the National Science Foundation. The interconnected ‘network of networks’ will then serve as a test-bed for innovators, researchers, and application developers to work to provide fiber-based next generation applications.”
The discussion will include participants from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, or OSTP, including White House Senior Advisor Nick Maynard, OSTP Deputy CTO Chris Vein, as well as participants in US Ignite, including Jim Ingraham, VP Strategic Planning, Chattanooga Electric Power Board.
Chattanooga, it should be remembered, received a $111 million stimulus grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to build a 1-Gig Smart Grid Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) network, using Alcatel-Lucent equipment in the access plant – the part of the network closest to the home.
Alcatel-Lucent featured a demonstration of the Chattanooga’s build at last year’s Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, and also had a booth at TIA 2011, Inside the Network, held May 18-20, 2011, in Dallas, Texas.
NATOA President Joanne Hovis will moderate the discussion.
Next up: Gig. U!
