Hi readers,

Acronyms can be confusing. At WireIE, we constantly like to keep an up-to-date, ongoing list of all the terms that relate to our business and industry.

Click here to access the PDF. We will be updating it again in the coming weeks and will be sure to blog and tweet about it once again.

Please leave us a comment if we are missing any on the list or if you have any requests!

“One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential!” - Maya Angelou

Last week, WireIE’s entire team gathered in Richmond Hill, ON for our regular quarterly corporate meeting.

President & CEO Rob Barlow began the meeting with an inspirational video and then addressed the team with his corporate update and discussed our success as an organization and team. VP of Marketing Neil Buchanan presented our latest WireIE Messaging, and special guest John Barnett presented on “Unleashing our corporate potential”.

The meeting made for a great day and nice to see those from the WireIE team who live outside of Canada in the Caribbean and the United States.

Thanks for a great day all!

President & CEO Rob Barlow presenting and making the team laugh!

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Recently, Jennifer Jones (VP of Business Operations) and Nora Winje (Director, Business Development, CALA) traveled to Dominica for the annual Tele-gathering Conference, organized by Caribbean operators.

Founded in 1995, Tele-gathering is the largest gathering in the Caribbean Telecommunications Community. It unites and celebrates the friendships, interactions, and camaraderie of telecommunications employees from all islands, strengthening the social structure of the organization.

The host island every year highlights their culture, through activities, local tour and local cuisines. As a group, everyone participates in a local community service day that typically involves improvements to a local community property to give back to the population of the host country.

As a result of the exchange visits, employees in the telecommunications industry develop bonds that benefit them professionally and personally.

For more information please visit www.telegathering.com.

Our latest White Paper entitled, “Energy & Emissions at Cellular Base Stations: Smart Cell Site Design for Energy Efficiency & Reduced Carbon Footprint” is now available for download on the WireIE website.

Abstract: Alternative energy technologies are rapidly becoming more sophisticated, reliable and cost effective.  This paper first explores decisions that can be made by the wireless network operator at the site design stage to reduce power consumption.  It then examines the business case for solar and wind power at radio base station sites where grid power is unreliable or unavailable. (more)

WireIE’s President & CEO Rob Barlow has donated a satellite phone to be used by the Haitian Government.

The phone was sent to CHF International, an international development and humanitarian aid organization . For more information please visit their website.

Our thoughts are with those affected by the Haiti disaster.

~JM

There are several job postings on our WireIE LinkedIn Group.

All interested candidates are to send their CV’s to careers@wireie.com, Att: Human Resources.

Here’s a sneak peek at our new homepage…

WireIE and UOIT Release Collaborative Smart Grid White Paper

Nov. 5, 2009 (Richmond Hill, ON) – WireIE Holdings International Inc. and University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) are pleased to release a comprehensive White Paper entitled, “Developing a Communication Infrastructure for the Smart Grid”.

The White Paper walks through two future Distributed Generation (DG) scenarios, as envisioned by the authors V.K. Sood, D. Fischer, and J.M. Eklund from UOIT, and WireIE CTO Tim Brown.

The paper is a collaborative effort and details the communication network and data management facilities required to meet the strict latency requirements associated with the with DG scenarios discussed.

The WireIE/UOIT partnership is a long-term commitment by the partners and focuses on the advancing of Smart Grid. A computer simulation based on the White Paper is currently being worked on in order to validate the conceptual design of the communication network and data management facilities. The results of the computer simulation will be released in Feb. 2010.

The White Paper may be found here:

http://www.wireie.com/pdfs/Developing_a_Communication_Infrastructure_for_the_Smart_Grid.pdf. (more)

The below article was recently published in The Caribbean Association of National Telecommunication Organisations’ CANCION Second Quarterly Magazine of 2009.

“Why Transform your Network?”

By Jennifer Marron
Marketing & Communications Specialist, WireIE Holdings International Inc.

The Internet and the World Wide Web have revolutionized society. The quality of a user’s experience on the web depends directly on the quality of the communication channel. Today, Next Generation Networks are revolutionalizing the world of communications and are becoming more common, as both consumers and businesses are realizing their long list of benefits. These beneficial qualities include using a great variety of devices and experiences, while promoting economic development at the same time. An opportunity exists to leverage this technology transformation throughout the Caribbean. These networks, supported by the Internet Protocol (IP), have the capability to transport any information or service we associate with the web. (more)