[SatNews] As many of us have been unable to attend the IRG Annual Conference, here is a sampling of what occurred at the event during Day 1.
Martin Coleman kicked off the IRG Annual Conference today with a challenge: “100 Percent Carrier ID for the 2014 Football World Cup.” He commented that in the room there was enough of the industry to make that happen, thus laying down the gauntlet to those present to achieve that goal.
He also made it clear to the audience that discussions and action points from this week’s conference will form the basis of future activities and discussions leading to the next conference, which he hopes to run alongside CommunicAsia in Singapore. “We have been taking the conference to the places we need to go, and Asia is the next logical region.” Moreover, next year, he would like to see two IRG conferences held in two regions, with the second likely to be in Europe or North America.
Coleman went on to say that we are entering the “gloomy” part of implementing CID. We have the ETSI standard, fantastic, but now the hard work begins! Building the system, databases and processes, and ensuring widespread implementation and get the users to turn CID on.
For the other working groups, there is also a lot to do for the coming year. The VSAT (statistics) group has gathered a wealth of insightful statistics and at the conference the hope is to pick those apart in order to really drill down into the data and find those route causes!
The Difficult Cases working group has been dealing with the tricky problem of intentional interference. The group is working on deriving better and automated evidence gathering of intentional interference as well as looking at improving Geolocation techniques.
Day 1 of the conference ended with two presentations looking at technology on the market from Siemens and SAT Corporation, addressing new techniques, CID detection and, the all-important human interface of Geolocation and Carrier Monitoring systems. Day 2, starting Thursday, promises insight into the current environment within Latin America, as well as globally, which will help assess the challenge set down by IRG and decide whether it is indeed achievable!