News Release

Big Broadband Conference Now Available in Streaming Video from Calit2

San Diego, CA,  March 25, 2006 -- The optical networking advocacy group FirstMile.US held its Spring 2006 conference in Atkinson Hall March 22-23. Keynote speakers included Calit2 director and CSE professor Larry Smarr, National LambdaRail president Tom West, and San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, who received an award for his support of "big broadband" connectivity in the Bay Area. (For more on the mayor's visit, click here.)

The conference was webcast in real time by Calit2, and most of the presentations are now available for on-demand viewing below.  [Real  player and broadband connection required]. Most of the PowerPoint slides are also available in PDF format where indicated.

	Keynote: Big Broadband for San Francisco and California Gavin Newsom, Mayor, City and County of San Francisco Length: 28:51 [video]
	A Gigabit in Every Home--The Emergence of True Broadband Larry Smarr, Director, Calit2; and Professor, CSE, Jacobs School Length: 53:49 [video] [ppt]
	CANARIE: The Challenges of the First Mile  Bill St. Arnaud, Director, CANARIE (Canada) Length: 17:41 [video] [PDF]
	BC.NET: Developing British Columbia's Advanced Networks Michael Hrybyk, President and CEO, BCNET Length: 40:59 [video] [PDF]
	Owning and Controlling the Network Infrastructure Tom West, CEO, National LambdaRail Length: 21:33  [video] [PDF]
	Medical Demonstrations: Part One Ed Johansen et. al. Length: 32:04 [video] [PDF]
	Medical Demonstrations: Part Two  Parvati Dev, Stanford et. al. Length: 48:33  [video]
	Roundtable Discussion of the Americas: Distance Learning Carmen Carpio, World Bank (moderator) John Silvester, Chair, CENIC et. al. Length: 22:48  [video]
	The First Mile Philosophy Susan Estrada, President, FirstMile.US Length: 33:15 [video]
	Broadband and Babyboomers  Length: 52:27  [video] Joaquin Alvarado, Professor, San Francisco State (moderator) Gail Whitaker, SFSU Christopher Baker, AARP Public Policy Institute [Senior Divide PDF]
	Panel Discussion Susan Estrada, President, FirstMile.US (moderator) Michael Hrybyk, Steve Corbato, and Tom West (panelists) Length: 10:33  [video]
	CineGrid Demonstration Laurin Herr, President, Pacific Interface; and Director, CineGrid Length: 1:15:47  [video]  [PDF]
	High-Definition Audio-Video Network (HANA) Alliance David Cavena, Sun Microsystems Length: 33:58  [video]  [PDF]
	Open Mic Time and Three-Minute Madness Length: 42:53  [video] Tim Ryan, City College of San Francisco [PDF] Julio Ibarra, Florida International University [PDF] Yvonne Andres, Global School Net  [PDF] Don Means, Community TeleStructure, Digital Village  [PDF] Michael Shames, UCAN  [URL] Dewayne Hendricks, Sandoval County Broadband Project  [URL]

Media Contacts

Doug Ramsey
Jacobs School of Engineering
858-822-5825
dramsey@ucsd.edu