BANGALORE: Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) conducted NeTRANSAC 2005, a seminar on WiFi - Wireless Technologies from State of Art to State of Future. The principal sponsor was Intel, with D-Link as co-sponsor and Indian Business Academy (IBA) along with BPL Telecom were contributors.
The program schedule started with an inaugural session that commenced with a welcome and theme address by TCS VP-Bangalore operations N G Subramanaiam, who was also the co-convener of the IT panel. This was followed by an inaugural address by the Secretary to the Govt of Karnataka's Department of Information Technology, Biotechnology & Science and Technology M K Shankaralinge Gowda.The keynote address was by Intel director Asia Pacific solutions group Surendra Arora and a white paper 'Unwiring Bangalore was launched by Intel.
Three other sessions were conducted. The first session -Implementing Wireles LAN Networks started with opening remarks by session chairman Puneet Gupta who happens to be from the Mobility, RFID and Pervasive Computing Research- Software Engineering and Technology Labs, Infosys Technology.
This was followed by talk on 'Need for wireless as network access medium' by the head of Wipro's Wireless LAN program Simon Johney. MindTree Consulting's exec VP and CTO, R&D services Vinod Deshmukh spoke on 'Migrating from wired lines to wireless - Positioning Wireless Technologies vis-à-vis wired technologies with a focus on complementary technologies. The last speaker for the session - Accenture partner Vinod Bagal spoke on 'Impact o Wireless Technologies - Enterprises, Home Users and Small and Medium Businesses.
Opening remarks for the second session - on 'Wireless Security' were made by Intel Solution Services CISSP CWNA senior consultant Raghuram Kasavaraju. Nortel India's head of technology enterprise solutions Saja Paul spoke on 'Security in wireless'. BPL Telecom's VP-North America Shiva Balideva spoke on Voice over WiFi-The NexGen Enterprise Voice Communication.
Session chairman for the third session and Philips Software Center director-Technologies and Innovation Management Pradeep Desai opened this session on 'Emerging Application Areas'. Infosys Technologies head-Technical stream, delivery communications service provider practice C Gnanapriya spoke on Convergence on WiFi. D-Link India's director R&D J V Avadhanulu spoke on Voice over Wireless.
