“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.

WireIE is a Silver Sponsor of the 10th Annual North American wholesale telecommunications conference this fall in Toronto.

Please click here for more information about the conference including the agenda.

WireIE is proud to be a sponsor of the CariCam Conference this week in Barbados. The conference is taking place at the Hilton Barbados in St. Michaels, Barbados.

Go to the 46:30 minute mark to see Ray Bulengo, WireIE’s VP of Business Development for Emerging Markets discuss WireIE’s value to the Caribbean. The video is a two-hour special of the recently concluded CANTO 2009 conference and trade exhibition at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Trinidad. Video courtesy of Tempo Networks.

CANTO 25TH REVISED 1 from Tempo Networks on Vimeo.

WireIE CTO Tim Brown (Left) presents at EUCI Conference in Toronto, Sept. 23, 2009

Tim Brown (Right) about to deliver his joint presentation developed with WireIE’s strategic partner the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), entitled, “A Smart Grid Communication Infrastructure in Support of Distributed Generation”.

RICHMOND HILL, ON, Sept. 25 /CNW/ – WireIE Holdings International Inc. is proud to have been the VIP sponsor for the Electric Utility Consultants Inc. (EUCI) Conference, “Distributed Generation Using Renewable Energy: Realizing The Potential” on Sept. 22-23, 2009 in Toronto.

The conference was part of “Green Energy Week”, and focused on strategies to accelerate renewable energy production in order to reduce climate change impacts.

WireIE Chief Technology Officer Tim Brown participated in a panel discussion and delivered his joint presentation developed with WireIE’s strategic partner the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), entitled, “A Smart Grid Communication Infrastructure in Support of Distributed Generation”.

The presentation explored how low-latency wireless networks can reliably manage real-time switching of a distributed generation source.

In concluding the presentation, Mr. Brown invited the audience to follow the progress of the WireIE/UOIT collaboration on a Smart Grid distributed generation simulation being built at the university. Based on the findings, the intent is to deploy a prototype Smart Grid communication infrastructure incorporating a distributed generation environment at a Local Distribution Company (LDC).

The presentation can be found here:

http://www.wireie.com/presentations.html

WireIE Smart Grid Foundation(TM) specializes in Next Generation Networks in support of Smart Grid, and offers unique in-depth expertise in broadband wireless technologies that extend from the IP Core, across the backhaul, to the network edge. UOIT offers the vision of an electrical utility based on Smart Grid, while WireIE provides the communication network vision in support of Smart Grid.

As part of Green Energy Week, WireIE is the VIP Sponsor of the Electric Utility Consultants Inc. (EUCI) Conference “Distributed Generation Using Renewable Energy – Realizing The Potential“. This will take place from September 22 – 23, 2009 at Sheraton Centre Toronto, in Toronto ON, Canada.

Description of the Conference: EUCI will present a conference to bring together the important policy, technical, and programming information that regulators, utilities, independent power producers, market participants, service providers and vendors need to know to capitalize on the Ministry’s plan to boost renewable energy Dg/DeR development.   (more)

WireIE will be attending the Caribbean ICT Roadshow & 5th Caribbean Internet Governance Forum in St. Kitts & Nevis on Aug. 24 – 26.

On Tuesday, Aug. 25, Ray Bulengo, WireIE’s VP of Business Development – Emerging Markets will be presenting on Private Government Broadband Networks, explaining Wireless Wide Area Networking, its the key challenges, and WireIE’s value proposition.

For more information on the roadshow, please visit : http://ctu.int/cigf-2009-overview

WireIE was pleased to have representatives from MSN performing a demonstration of Internet Protocol Television (ITPV) at our CANTO booth last week.

WireIE CTO Tim Brown (Left), with MSN Representative Brian W. Gutiérrez Alba (Right)

WireIE’s President & CEO Robert Barlow (Far Left) and VP of Business Development – Emerging Markets Ray Bulengo (Far Right) interacting with CANTO Conference delegates.

IPTV (Internet Protocol television) is the streamed delivery of video content encoded as a series of Internet Protocol (IP) packets. Traditionally, IPTV is distributed by a service provider and can deliver either live TV or stored video. IPTV is often bundled with other broadband Internet services — VoIP (Voice over IP) being the most common.

Unlike the broadcast model with digital or analog cable television, IPTV sends only one program at a time per set top box.  When a viewer changes the channel, delivery of the original stream is stopped and a new stream is transmitted from the provider’s server directly to the viewer.