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Integration of Wireless Personal-Area, Local-Area
and Wide Area Networks.

January 16, 2002. Las Vegas, Nevada. Hosted by NetMotion Wireless

CONTENTS

Background
Meeting Agenda
Meeting Location
Hotel Information
Registration
Information for Presenters

Increasingly, carriers are looking to wireless local-area network technologies to
provide broadband data services in public areas. Yet WLAN (and personal-
area networks) will never have the coverage of broader area networks such
as cellular systems. One solution is a hybrid approach, with WPAN and WLAN
technology serving hot-spot areas and cellular data serving the wide area.

The intent of this meeting is to examine how such hybrid solutions will
evolve and what the technical implications are for device vendors, software
vendors and operators.

Proposed topics include:

• Usage scenarios
• Update on cellular operators offering WLAN public access
• Common authentication schemes
• Session maintenance
• Security implications
• Implications on protocol stacks
• WLAN support and media sense mechanisms  in Windows XP
• Other topics to be determined

PRELIMINARY AGENDA

Note that we are currently developing the agenda. We will update this page as we
finalize the agenda.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, GPRS INTEROPERABILITY WORKSHOP

The PCCA and MDI-ng will hold a joint interoperability workshop on January
15 that will focus on functionality of higher-level applications with GPRS.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16,  9:00 TO 4:00 PM - PCCA MEETING

• Introductions
• Hosting company presentation, Emil Sturniolo, NetMotion Wireless
• PCCA association update
• Review and planning of future 2002 meetings
• Review of action items from previous meeting
• Review of interoperability workshop program and prior day workshop results,

Ron Smith, Intel
• Vote on new +WS46 value for GMR-1 (THURAYA satellite network)
• PCCA NDIS Wireless Objects, status and next steps
• Report from subcommittee
• UMTS and CDMA2000 support
• AT Commands via IP
• Report from subcommittee
• Wireless objects extended to USB
• Presentation: "Microsoft Wireless Strategy Update", Mike Foley, Microsoft
• Presentation: "Secure mobile communications for heterogeneous networks", Dzung Tran,

Ecutel
• Presentation: "Standards-based Mobile Operator Seamless Mobility", Ken Rehbehn,

Megisto Systems
• Discussion and analysis
• Development of recommendations and action items

The meeting will be held in a meeting room at the Las Vegas Marriott Suites.

HOTEL INFORMATION

Both the PCCA meeting on January 16 and the PCCA/MDI-ng workshop on January 15
will be held at the Las Vegas Marriott Suites, 325 Convention Center Drive, Las Vegas,
NV 89109.

We have negotiated a $99 room rate. For reservations call 1-800-583-0079 (or 702-650-2000).
The room block is held under the name of "NetMotion Wireless". Our room block is being
held through January 2.

The hotel is five miles from the airport, so taxi rates are reasonable. There is also a private
shuttle service available.

REGISTRATION

If you are interested in participating in this meeting, you will need to register by sending
e-mail to pcca@pcca.org. Please include your name, company name, e-mail address
and phone number.

Organizations that are not PCCA members may attend for a fee of $300 per person. This
fee is waived for companies invited to present information.

INFORMATION FOR PRESENTERS

The following information is for people presenting at this PCCA meeting:

• Presentations are typically 30 minutes to 45 minutes long unless arranged otherwise.
• This is a technical audience, so please make the presentations technical. Emphasis

should be on industry issues and proposed solutions versus selling your product.
• There is usually a 5 to 15 minute discussion following the presentation.
• We will provide an LCD projector.
• The audience is technical, consisting mostly of engineering and program managers.
• Generally, 30 to 50 people attend each meeting, representing a broad spectrum of

the wireless industry, including carriers, infrastructure vendors, device vendors,
software vendors and computer vendors.
• If you are presenting a technical contribution, please provide hard copy for attendees.

We will advise you on the number.
• We request a copy of your presentation (PDF or PPT) before the meeting so that we

can post it in the members area of the PCCA web page.