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Filling the White Spaces: Wednesday, 26th September 2012
This workshop aims to encourage the key stakeholders to engage in a series of enhanced white spaces trials in Ireland – in particular building on the learning from whitespace trials elsewhere.
A spectrum opportunity awaits both consumers and the communications industry when the Irish analogue TV signals are switched off at the end of October 2012. The unused White Spaces that will surround the new digital signals of the Saorview system will be up for grabs.
But, who will use this spectrum? What will they use this new spectrum for? How will they access it?
Some of these questions have already been addressed by both industry and regulators in the USA and the UK where the digital TV switchover has already advanced. Suggested uses of this spectrum range from new WiFi-like devices for increased broadband connectivity, to machine-to-machine (M2M) applications, to new mobile network operator deployments.
The Filling the White Spaces workshop aims to inform an Irish audience as to these opportunities by sharing the experiences of companies that have already conducted trials in the UK and USA. We will also be looking to identify opportunities for Irish exploitation of this new spectrum resource in the context of on-going global developments. Among the companies presenting at the workshop will be Microsoft, Neul and Spectrum Bridge.
PART 1
The first part of the day will be devoted to describing the trials that have taken place and understanding the outcomes of those trials. Details of equipment used, setup, applications involved, measurements taken etc. will be presented. There will also be discussions of what worked and did not work in those trials.
PART 2
The second part of the day will focus on looking specifically at opportunities within Ireland. We are interested in two trials, one in Dublin City Centre focused around Trinity and the other in a suitable rural area in Ireland. To this end we aim to bring together experts from industrial, academic, political, regulatory, business, cultural and artistic domains.
The following are the questions we seek to answer:
1. What if any regulatory impediments exist to making the trials happen and what needs to be done if impediments do exist?
2. Who are the likely participants in these trials?
3. What potential new applications could be included within the trials? Can applications that were used in the UK be altered and enhanced? Are there specific applications
4. What new business opportunities might exist in Ireland to exploit TV white space?
5. What resources are required for the trials? Which resources exist already and which need to be explicitly created. [We plan to create an inventory of possible options as there are resources available ranging from transceivers to sensors to content to applications to databases etc.].
6. How might these trials be funded?
To register for this event, please email whitespaces@ctvr.ie to register your interest in attending, thank you.
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