2015 conference programme - Radio Frequency Users Association

RFUANZ 2015
CONFERENCE
& EXHIBITION
30 APRIL - 1MAY 2015
TE PAPA, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND
RFUANZ
Radio Frequency Users Association
of New Zealand
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DAY ONE:
Principal Sponsor
Gala Dinner
Sponsor
Networking Drinks
Sponsor
Delegate Lounge Sponsor
Lanyard Sponsor
Supporting Organisations
All presentations on Day One will be held in Soundings Theatre - Level 2
8.30am
REGISTRATION
2.15pm
SECONDARY SECURE NETWORK PROJECT FOR
COASTGUARD NORTHERN REGION.
Ray Burge, Unit Support & Operations Manager,
Coastguard
Coastguard Northern Region operates a
comprehensive Marine VHF network. Due to the
demands in the Hauraki Gulf over the busy periods
and at times when secure communications are
required we had the need upgrade our current
system. We had a number of limitations and
challenges ranging from a system that was
about to be decommissioned, finding a suitable
replacement, funding and volunteer buy in. We
also needed to ensure sufficient coverage and also
the ability to future proof our needs. Coastguard
and its volunteers required a user friendly system
that was easy to train on and maintain currency
of familiarisation. The presentation will outline
the process from need to implementation and the
many challenges that we encountered throughout.
9.00am
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
This 2014/15 AGM Agenda will be sent to
members separately. This years AGM we will vote
for a change to the constitution.
10.30am
MORNING TEA
11.00am
PRESENTATION FROM THE MINISTER FOR
COMMUNICATIONS, HONOURABLE AMY ADAMS
(subject to availability)
11.30am
UPDATE FROM RSM
An update from RSM on the changes to the Radio
Communications Act and other current activities.
12.15pm
LUNCH
3.00pm
AFTERNOON TEA
1.30pm
SURF LIFE SAVING NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL
COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK: BUILDING A
NETWORK FROM THE GROUND UP.
Chris Stevens, Surf Life Saving New Zealand
National Communications Advisor
In 2011 Surf Life Saving New Zealand (SLSNZ)
began planning for a National Operational
Communications Network. With the assistance of
external consulting services, SLSNZ finalized an
Operational Communications Masterplan in 2012,
which set a long term plan for implementation of
the network commencing with a pilot. Not without
its challenges, the pilot was successfully started
in 2014, and has now paved the way for the roll
out of the national network as funding allows.
This presentation will describe the process,
interoperability requirements, discuss the selection
of DMR Tier 2, Mimomax and Omnitronics RoIP as
the core chosen technology, as well as discussing
the technological and organisations lessons learnt.
3.30pm
VALUING MISSION CRITICAL RADIO SERVICES
Hamish Duff, President of ARCIA
With the introduction of new technologies like LTE,
there is an ongoing debate on the value of LMR.
In 2014 the Australian Radio Communications
Industry Association (ARCIA) produced an
economic study titled “Valuing Mission Critical
Radio Services, a study of the economic value
of land mobile radio spectrum in Australia”. This
presentation will outline the study, the conclusions
and key outcomes.
4.15pm
QUALIFICATION PATHWAYS
Gavin Bowden, ElectroTechnical Association Inc,
The Electro-technical Education Centre Director
ETEC, CEO ETA
RFUANZ has been working with ETEC to establish
qualifications for installers of radio equipment.
In this presentation, the process to date will be
presented, the development of training material
and time lines for these qualifications.
5.00pm
NETWORKING
DRINKS
CAMBIUM NETWORKS
7.30pm
RFI GALA DINNER & INDUSTRY AWARDS
Industry Award Sponsors
SPONSORED
BY
DAY TWO:
All presentations on Day Two will be held in Rangimare 1 - Level 3
8.30am
REGISTRATION
12.30pm
LUNCH
9.00am
IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN A DISASTER
Steve Davis, New Zealand Red Cross IT &
Telecommunications Emergency Response Unit
Steve’s presentation will give a brief introduction to
some of his background with Civil Defence, Amateur
Radio Emergency Communications, and the NZ Red
Cross IT&T team. This will be followed by an outline
of the impact that greater use of telecommunications
and IT infrastructure has had on the response efforts in
disaster-hit areas such as The Philippines, Christchurch,
Haiti, Tonga and the Solomon Islands, the challenges
faced, as well as some of the background to the Red
Cross IT&T team. Many examples will be presented
through photographs from work in disasters, with
particular emphasis on his mission to the Philippines
after Super-Typhoon Yolanda last year.
1.30pm
SECURITY IN FIXED WIRELESS BROADBAND
ACCESS AND BACKHAUL SOLUTIONS.
Roy Wittert, VP Sales (APAC) , Cambium Networks
Security concerns are common when it comes to
wireless solutions. There are a number of categories
of wireless solutions, these include WiFi, Mobile
Broadband such as 4G/LTE and Fixed Wireless
Broadband. Fixed Wireless Technology is widely used,
e.g. for CCTV, Last Mile Connectivity, eGovernment,
Mining and Macro cell backhaul. This presentation will
cover the security considerations to be made in these
applications which use both Point to Point and Point to
Multipoint technology.
9.45am
EAGLE TECHNOLOGIES
THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN COMMAND & CONTROL
(C2) SOLUTIONS.
Gerard Lelieveld, Defence & Intelligence, EAGLE
TECHNOLOGY GROUP LTD
Defence System Integrators have traditionally
developed communication solutions to meet military
field operational requirements. These have been
designed in a proprietary manner, to be enabled by a
data over radio network layer, providing chat, situational
and planning services. A new wave of commercial off
the shelf products are now becoming available, which
have the potential to revolutionise the conduct of any
type of field operations across all domain sectors. This
in turn is driving change in how radio networks are
configured, utilised and developed. This presentation
explores these trends, and the potential impacts on
industry and customers.
2.15pm
INTEROPERABILITY AND SECURITY
Jono Sands, Director, Ignition Networks
Requirements today dictate increasingly complex
interoperation between organisations. This extends
to Radio systems and presents some interesting
challenges both technically and politically. Questions
are raised about how we control access to our
systems, who can hear us, when we choose to share
or keep things private. All this is on top of the technical
connection between systems. How do we control and
have visibility of all this? This session discusses some
of the challenges and techniques for integrating and
protecting radio communications.
3.00pm
AFTERNOON TEA
3.30pm
RANGE, RELIABILITY & ROBUSTNESS. HOW TO
HARNESS DIVERSITY IN YOUR MISSION CRITICAL
COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK.
John Wilkinson, MiMOMax Wireless
Communications outages or lapses in performance at
key moments can be disastrous for Mission Critical and
Public safety network operators. Often, the times when
a communications network is required to perform at
its peak, is the time it may be experiencing its heaviest
traffic load. It is during these times of heavy congestion
that operators need to overcome the issues associated
with path outage and maintain performance around
delay, variation in delay (jitter), packet loss, late packet
arrival or low throughput. This dynamic presentation by
John Wilkinson will examine a range of key parameters
for Mission Critical Operators and outline how to utilise
different methods of linking topography to achieve
the Range, Reliability and Robustness required in
mission critical environments without sacrificing high
throughput and low latency.
4.15pm
CONFERENCE CLOSES
10.30am
MORNING TEA
11.00am LINKING DIFFERENT RADIO TECHNOLOGIES
Kor Snyman Engineering Manager, Omnitronics
Digital land mobile radio provides many useful
features to users of the technology beyond the
significant improvement of voice quality. And, unlike
analog radios, digital radios provide superior facilities
to address users as individuals and groups and to
more easily identify calling parties. It also supports
the transmission of text messages. Overall, digital
radios involve the transport of metadata, besides the
transmission of digitized voice. This presentation will
address how you can connect different digital radio
networks and not only carry across the digital voice but
also the metadata to maximize the digital benefits.
11.45am EMBRACING LTE
Geoff Peck, Chief Technology Architect Tait
Communications
Critical communications is no longer voice-only. At Tait
we are embracing LTE integration with LMR to allow
agencies to communicate, collaborate, and operate
efficiently and effectively. This session will provide
unique perspective on the applications, the networks
(P25, DMR, public and private broadband LTE) and
economic choices to help agencies unify their mission
critical communications. Learn how P25 and DMR will
integrate with next-generation tools to allow smooth
information exchange facilitating intelligence gathering
and putting rich situational awareness into the hands
of the front line.
See back page for workshops
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LINKING
02
DIGITAL RADIO TECHNOLOGY
DAY TWO: WORKSHOPS
This year we are offering two workshop sessions. In these interactive sessions experts and specialists will give you a deeper technical
insight and provide plenty of opportunity for interactive discussions.
WORKSHOP ONE: LINKING
ICON ROOM - LEVEL 2
WORKSHOP TWO: DIGITAL RADIO TECHNOLOGY
ICON ROOM - LEVEL 2
9.00 - 12.30PM
1.30-4.15PM
Jan Noordhof - P25, DMR
Jim Simpson - Tetra Association
Richard Malley - Regional Manager NZ and Pacific, Aviat Networks
Ian Burgess - 3T Total Team
IP linking is an important part of the new digital networks and
radio over IP solutions.
In this workshop we will review the options for wireless and fixed
links and address topics like:
• How to choose between wireless and fixed links
• What are technology choices?
• Bandwidth requirements
• Performance
• Reliability and resilience
As in so many other industries, in our radio industry, digital radio
is here to stay and the use of it is growing rapidly.
There are still many questions asked about digital radio and
whether it is a worthwhile change to make.
In this workshop we will talk about digital radio in general and
the different technologies available in NZ.
We will address topics like:
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What does digital radio provide over and above digital voice?
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The challenges with digital voice
Is digital radio always the best choice?
Will we have a choice going forward?
What is the difference between the available technologies?
Considerations when you make a technology choice
REGISTER TODAY
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Agenda Updates:
RFUANZ reserves the right to make changes and amendments deemed to be in the best interest of the conference. Agenda is correct at the time of printing, please check online for updates.
How to pay:
Please only pay on receipt of an invoice from Candice