By Oren Libis
It is now final. My company will be hosting the next face-to-face interoperability event for the 3G-324M activity group on October 8-12, 2007. It has been a bit over a year since we hosted our last event and it seems like I am getting the hang of it.
As we are planning our next event, there is this shopping list of issues that we will be taking into consideration:
- Location
Need to find a big enough place to accommodate the group. A table for each company, with some space between them. - 3G coverage
We have to make sure that there is good 3G coverage in the location of the event and that it can hold a capacity of 10 or more video calls simultaneously. - ISDN lines
BRI and PRI. There are those that don’t have direct access to the 3G network, or those companies that would like to test their gateways, so we need to provide ISDN access as well. - Connectivity of 3G and ISDN
Now that there are two separate networks (3G and ISDN), we must check that you can call from one to the other and vice versa. - Wireless LAN
Everyone wants to use the internet during this week. Might as well provide good access to it. - Lunch
The army walks on his stomach and engineers can’t think without sugar. We have to make arrangements for lunch each day – in different restaurants, with English menus. - Social event
We’re hosting the event, so we need to give people some good time. Last year it was Jerusalem – this time it is still open. Any suggestions?
There are additional issues such as banners for the event, visa invitations, and restaurants for the evenings...
This event is definitely going to be around MONA call setup time, H.264 video codec and AMR-WB speech codec again, but I have a pretty good feeling that these should go even better than the last time for our group. I can’t wait to meet all of the guys here in Israel!
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