Five members of WireIE team attended the CWTA’s “25 Years of Connected to the Community” event which took place on Tuesday, April 20 in Ottawa, ON. The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry, delivered the keynote address at the CWTA awards ceremony and met the WireIE attendees.

“WireIE is pleased to support the CWTA and the Canadian government in its efforts to develop a robust return on investment using wireless technologies to embrace the gap in digital divide”, said Rob Barlow, President & CEO of WireIE.

From Left to Right: Bryce Mitchell – VP of Technology, Brian Nelson – VP of Business Development North America, Robert Cressatti – VP of Business Development, Jennifer Jones – Director of Business Operations, Rob Barlow – President & CEO (Far Right)

This past week, WireIE welcomed telecommunications engineer Jermin Girgis for the start of her 9-week tenure as a volunteer co-op student. The co-op placement comes through The Internationally Qualified Professionals Co-op Program, facilitated by the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board. The students go through a program where they learn effective job search and language skills in order to prepare for work in their chosen occupation. The program is a combination of classroom training and on-the-job co-op work experience in the students’ chosen fields.

Girgis brings over nine years of experience in the design, planning, and integration of wireless networks. She will be working alongside WireIE’s VP of Technology, Bryce Mitchell.

Welcome Jermin!

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 now a part of YouTube. You can see our channel here. The url is www.youtube.com/WireIE.

Check out our first video here: Computers for the Caribbean – Grenada.

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 is currently deploying a 20-site backhaul project that entails installing and testing Dragonwave microwave equipment.

The result of this project will be an all-IP HSPA network, which will pave the way to an LTE network in the future.

The project also utilizes WireIE’s best-in-class Project Management expertise for the defined installation process and methodologies. WireIE has created a streamlined installation of one site per day, in comparison to the 3-4 days previously required to complete a site install.

WireIE’s engineering team enhanced the quality of the installs they previously received from other subcontractors through staging and an implementation test plan.

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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)