SUNDAY, JANUARY 17

“CCTV Deployment: Understanding the Whole Picture”

• Carol Everett Oliver, RCDD, ESS, Berk-Tek, a Nexans Company, New Holland, Pennsylvania
• Glenn Adair, Panasonic System Solutions, Secaucus, New Jersey

3 CECs—RCDD, ESS, NTS, ITS Installer/Technician
Putting together an efficient IP surveillance system requires combining quality components and technologies. From design to implementation, this includes selecting the right cameras and cabling infrastructure that together can provide the highest quality video for any application, which includes observation, investigation and recognition. This seminar will look at the unique design considerations for many installation environments through a detailed educational presentation, as well as a hands-on exercise.

“Defining the 21st Century Presentation Environment,” Michael D. Frank, Crestron Electronics, Inc., Arlington Heights, Illinois
3 CECs – RCDD, ITS Installer/Technician
This seminar will examine the immediate impact of digital video processing design for presentation environments. An AV designer can no longer design analog systems for integration of such environments as they will become obsolete in the near future. Further, the impact of integrated control systems into presentation environments contributes immense value to the venue owner, as many aspects of control systems positively contribute to presentations, budgets of maintaining presentation environments and security of presentation environments. Those aspects will be examined along with how control systems contribute to “green” designs. This seminar will also address opportunities for retrofitting presentation environments without control systems and environments with older control systems. The seminar further addresses the importance of the role of control systems in remote control and asset management of AV environments, as well as the integration of Interactive Electronic Room Scheduling Display.

“From Satisfied to Delighted,” Bob Harris, Attrition Busters, West Hills, California
3 CECs—RCDD, ESS, NTS, OSP, WD, ITS Installer/ Technician
This exciting, high-energy seminar will solicit significant audience participation and will convey vibrant and creative tools on a host of customer and company culture issues designed specifically for our industry. Topics covered in this seminar will include ways to measurably reduce competitive attrition, understanding the six basic customer needs, increasing perceived value, added value sales in a lousy economy, methods of dealing with angry customers, teamwork and growth.

MONDAY, JANUARY 18

“Video Analytics—Promise and Practicality,” William Hobbs, RCDD, NTS, SafeCommGroup LLC, Fort Collins, Colorado
3 CECs—RCDD, ESS, ITS Installer/Technician
This seminar will focus on the process of deploying effective video analytic systems in real-world environments. Time will be spent reviewing the criteria to be considered when designing a video management system and how video analytics can be an effective tool in both the real-time and forensic analysis of the massive amounts of video collected in the average video surveillance system.

“From Satisfied to Delighted,” Bob Harris, Attrition Busters, West Hills, California
3 CECs—RCDD, ESS, NTS, OSP, WD, ITS Installer/ Technician
This exciting, high-energy seminar will solicit significant audience participation and will convey vibrant and creative tools on a host of customer and company culture issues designed specifically for our industry. Topics covered in this seminar will include ways to measurably reduce competitive attrition, understanding the six basic customer needs, increasing perceived value, added value sales in a lousy economy, methods of dealing with angry customers, teamwork and growth.

“What Patents Reveal About Emerging Technologies in the Cabling Industry,” 
Francis Lorin, Siberkhem, Arlington, Virginia
3 CECs—RCDD, NTS, WD, ITS Installer/Technician
Patented documents can reveal current and future trends in technology. This seminar will describe how to use available online patent databases to reveal emerging and converging trends in cabling technology. A brief case study will be included to show emerging and converging fiber optic and wireless technologies.

“Fiber Trends, Architectures and Cost Modeling”

• Rodney Casteel, RCDD, NTS, OSP, CommScope, Villa Rica, Georgia
• Alfred Flores, RCDD, Berk-Tek, a Nexans Company, Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina
• Ryan Chappell, Draka Communications, Claremont, North Carolina

3 CECs – RCDD, OSP, ITS Installer/Technician
Are you using the right fiber type? Are you using the right architecture? Are you using the most cost effective approach? In this seminar, the TIA Fiber Optics LAN Section (FOLS) will discuss fiber trends, fiber architectures and how to evaluate the cost of the different architectures using the new FOLS cost model. They will examine the current fiber trends based on industry recognized surveys, reports and fiber manufacturer’s data to make clear, factual recommendations. Then, using the newest version of the FOLS cost model, the presenters will take an in-depth look at how to integrate the fiber recommendations into the different architectures and calculate the most economical approach.

“CCTV Deployment: Understanding the Whole Picture”  SOLD OUT!

• Carol Everett Oliver, RCDD, ESS, Berk-Tek, a Nexans Company, New Holland, Pennsylvania
• Glenn Adair, Panasonic System Solutions, Secaucus, New Jersey

3 CECs—RCDD, ESS, NTS, ITS Installer/Technician
Putting together an efficient IP surveillance system requires combining quality components and technologies. From design to implementation, this includes selecting the right cameras and cabling infrastructure that together can provide the highest quality video for any application, which includes observation, investigation and recognition. This seminar will look at the unique design considerations for many installation environments through a detailed educational presentation, as well as a hands-on exercise.

“Layer Zero: Your Network Revolution”

• Lylette Macdonald, RCDD, Legrand North America, New London, Connecticut
• Jay Myers, RCDD, Legrand North America, Tampa, Florida

3 CECs—RCDD, ESS, NTS, ITS Installer/Technician
The importance of the physical layer and supporting infrastructure should not be a revelation! The OSI Networking model provides a road map for successful internetworking communications, assuring support for the increasing number of applications now running over an IP network, such as VoIP, security and building automation.

The lowest layer of the OSI Networking model, Layer 1, defines the cable or physical medium as the platform for information transport. What Layer 1 does not include is the physical support infrastructure for those cables. Layer Zero introduces a new level of stability to the network by addressing the critical role that physical support plays in network performance. This seminar will study key applications found in data center and LAN environments and show how a well designed Layer Zero foundation can reduce power consumption and cooling costs, reduce the risk of equipment failure and enhance overall system performance.

“TIA TR-42 Standards Overview and Update”   SOLD OUT!

• Herbert V. Congdon II, PE, Tyco Electronics, Conover, North Carolina
• Julie Roy, RCDD, NTS, C2 Consulting, Conover, North Carolina
• Mark Harger, Harger Lightning and Grounding, Grayslake, Illinois
• Jonathan Jew, J&M Consultants, San Francisco, California

3 CECs – RCDD, ESS, NTS, OSP, ITS Installer/Technician
This seminar will cover the latest and greatest developments in the TIA TR-42 cabling standards subcommittees. Attendees will learn about new standards, new revisions, new documents and new projects, as well as how these documents will affect how they and their customers design, specify and install telecommunications cabling. The presenters, chosen from the leadership in the TR-42 subcommittees, will cover significant issues such as the ANSI/TIA-568-C Series, the Building Automation Systems Standard (think “ESS”), Outside Plant Standard and Bonding and Grounding, as well as other new projects, such as the health care facility cabling standard. This seminar represents the best way to hear what is happening in standards from the folks that are making it happen, without having to sit in on the subcommittee meetings!