Emergency Power to Remote Communications Locations

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Emergency Power Conference

Monday, November 22, 2004

AGENDA

Emergency Power to Remote Communications Locations

10:00 am Welcome and Opening Remarks

Rick Krock, Conference Program Chair

Product Manager, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Karl Rauscher, Chair, Technical Committee on Communications Quality & Reliability (CQR), IEEE Communications Society

Executive Director, Bell Labs Network Reliability & Security Office,

Lucent Technologies

10:15 am Presentations

Cell Site Power Outage Data

Rick Kemper, Director, Wireless Technology, CTIA

August 2003 Northeast Blackout

Charlie Romano, Director, Technical Support-Power Systems,

Verizon Communications

2004 Hurricanes

John Quigley, Co-Chair, Wireless Network Reliability Best Practices Focus Group, Network Reliability & Interoperability Council (NRIC)

Director, Network Integrity, Sprint Network Operations

National Security and Emergency Preparedness

Jack Edwards, Designated IES Representative, Nortel Networks

Chair, Telecom-Electric Sector Interdependency Scoping Group, President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC)

Director, Electricity Sector ISAC

Telecommunications Electric Service Priority

Lt. Col. Joanne Sechrest, Manager, Office of Priority Telecommunications, Department of Homeland Security

Power Industry Perspective

Lou Leffler, Manager, Critical Infrastructure Protection, NERC

Fuel Cells

Frank Ignazzitto, Vice President, Government Sales, ReliOn

New Technologies

Ira Bloom, Manager, Electrochemical Analysis & Diagnostics Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory

Power Needs of Emerging Data Networks

David Frigeri, Co-Chair, Public Data Networks Best Practices, NRIC

Director, Technical Services, Internap

11:30 am Open Discussion

12:00 pm Lunch

12:30 pm Breakout Sessions

Session 1: Methods to Improve the Speed of Restoration to Remote Communications Locations

Facilitator: Lou Leffler

Scribe: Perry Fergus, Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton

Session 2: Identification of Factors Affecting How Much Back-up Power Is Required at a Remote Site

Facilitator: John Stogoski, Chair, Homeland Security Infrastructure

Focus Group, NRIC

Director, Homeland Security, Corporate Security, Sprint

Scribe: Bill Hitchcock, Principal Member, Technical Staff,

Sprint Network Operations

Session 3: Best Practice Combinations of Alternate Power Sources

to Provide Optimum Duration

Facilitator: Marie Royce, Vice President, Government Programs,

Lucent Technologies

Scribe: Jim Runyon, Technical Manager, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

2:30 pm Readouts from Breakout Sessions

3:30 pm Concluding Remarks

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