Attempt at world's shortest speech planned for 14th.

clohamon

Minister Ryan to visit Japan and China
Japan 13 June 2010
Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Eamon Ryan today began an official visit to Japan. There he will meet with the electric vehicles manufacturers, ICT companies and broadband providers.
Minister Ryan will also visit the Ireland Expo in Shanghai, along with President McAleese where Ireland will showcase our green technology and innovation credentials.

At the request of the Japanese Interior Ministry and the Nikkei group, Minister Ryan will address the Global ICT Summit, where he will detail Ireland’s broadband and communications progress, particularly in relation to the Exemplar network, a first-in-the-world technology, unique to Ireland. 

The Irish and Japanese communications ministries have already jointly hosted last year’s Japan Ireland Ubiquitous broadband conference, and have since been collaborating on broadband schemes and policies. 

Minister Ryan will also meet with electric vehicles manufacturer Mitsubishi, Toyota and Nissan in Japan, to discuss the group’s delivery of electric vehicles to the Irish market in the months ahead.
Minister Ryan’s itinerary:

Monday 14th June Keynote address at Nikkei Global ICT Summit, Visit to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and meeting at Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
Tuesday 15th June Meeting with Senior Vice Minister Terasaki (tbc) Ministry for Internal Affairs & Communications, visit to Toyota and Panasonic
Wednesday 16th June Meeting with NTT West and Nissan
Thursday 17th June Visit Ireland Expo at Shanghai Expo
Minister Ryan will also attend the Ireland Day at the Shanghai Expo in China.
“I am delighted that Irish companies are showcasing our ambitious projects at the Expo." Said the Minister.

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http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/Press+Releases/Minister+Ryan+to+visit+Japan+and+China.htm

So that's Konnichiwa and Sayonara.

Sponge Bob

But the exemplar network is ( to be ) built in a lab in Waterford not deployed in the wild. It is not part of the network fabric of the state ....yet.

And then if it works the likes of Mongolia and Kazakhstan are likely to see it deployed before we ever do

rob808

clohamon wrote: »

http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/Press+Releases/Minister+Ryan+to+visit+Japan+and+China.htm

So that's Konnichiwa and Sayonara.

wow MR ryan getting a nice hoilday to japan and china another great waste of tax payers money
nice Green party.I hope to god he doesnt talk about our broadband the japanese will look at him like wtf Ireland has slow broadband in Eu.:D

watty

He'll tell them how they don't need to install fibre, just a few more FOMA masts.

They may say they tried that already

In order to improve coverage in rural and mountainous areas, NTT DoCoMo also offers FOMA services in the 800 MHz band

Sponge Bob

watty wrote: »

He'll tell them how they don't need to install fibre, just a few more FOMA masts.

Japan uses 'our' 3g in urban areas and uses a lower frequency in rural areas called 'FOMA' .

The Japanese knew 'our' 3g would not work in rural areas because it is on too high a frequency requiring too many cells for adequate coverage. Therefore they invented 'their' 3g for rural areas instead.

Ryan will simply tell the Japanese that he is a gee whizzy wonder who got the technology that does not work in rural Japan to work in rural Ireland ...not least because Ryan has blessed it with the 'smart' and 'green' imprimatur and therefore it must do here what the laws of physics always said it couldn't and wouldn't.

Luckily for him the Japanese are too polite to laugh out loud at him

Xennon

Just a quick question about this Exemplar thing, and correct me if Im wrong, but isnt it a packet marking system for fibre optic transmission?

Also....dont you need a fibre network first?

watty

It's getting more capacity on fibre using different colours of lasers, I think. Other people have similar products.

It's irrelvent to Ireland really. The issue is not who to buy nice boxes from for the ends of the fibre, but actually having FTTC/FTTK/FTTH.

Xennon

Ah ok its down at the physical layer, was wondering.

Agreed, all this spin on a technology that works on a system we dont have, and doesnt look like we are going to have for a long time yet,

clohamon

Well it didn't feel like a short speech. It was almost entirely aspirational and Dublin based - "my City". There were some very messy looking slides and he could have done with a script. Some wishful thinking on "Test & Trial" and some vapid futurism on "the Cloud" and "the internet of Things" There was almost nothing on broadband development.

"We have a lot to learn" (about fibre deployment 16:28 ) and our high dependence on wireless is down to "population dispersion".

The highlight comes (19:15) where, as part of a promotion of the Intune/Exemplar Network, he explains tunable lasers with his fingers.

Others working in ICT here must be wondering why Intune /Exemplar ( its a 'disruptive technology' according to the Minister) are getting such favoritism. Some will remember Baltimore Technologies with its high profile investors and media obsession. As I remember it, Baltimore had no proprietary technology and no customers, but it became a government darling for some reason. I remember Bertie Ahern and Bill Clinton digitally signing some agreement out at Gateway with bog standard PKI as though we invented it. I hope all this isn't just a pre-IPO snow job.

watty

Intune
Nothing "disruptive" about it. YouTube, BBC iPlayer, RTE player etc. is more distruptive.

The "population dispersion" is a nonsense. This is replacing the "lack of demand" canard now that Digiweb, UPC and the Mobiles have proved that if you make connectivity available (at reasonable price) it quickly gets almost fully subscribed.

"We have a lot to learn" (about fibre deployment 16:28 )
Like you need to build backhaul and the last mile as well as MANs?

"the Cloud" and "the internet of Things"
Marketing hype. There isn't even agreement on what the Cloud is as anyone with any kind of off site service is trying to sell you that it's The Clould" and thus a "good thing". For some people and some applications, it might be, what ever it is

bealtine

clohamon wrote: »

There was almost nothing on broadband development.

"We have a lot to learn" (about fibre deployment 16:28 ) and our high dependence on wireless is down to "population dispersion".

Same old nonsense he trots out every time.