Speakers
Brian T. Barcelo, PhD, PE
Brian T. Barcelo, a native of Louisiana, was graduated from Tulane University with a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1965. He continued his education at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, receiving M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aeronautics in 1966 and 1971, respectively.
Dr. Barcelo has been a part of the Lucent/AT&T family since 1971, when he joined the staff of Western Electric at the Engineering Research Center in Princeton, NJ. His career has included engineering research, editor of The Western Electric Engineer magazine, switching product management, international market planning and marketing. He joined Lucent's wireless business group in 1996 and has been responsible for international markets since then. Until his retirement a few months ago, he was the Asia Pacific Sales and Business Development Director for Lucent, responsible for wireline and wireless sales in this region.
Dr. Barcelo is a professional engineer in the state of Louisiana and is a member of the Louisiana Engineering Society and the ASME. He is on the Science and Engineering Advisory Board of Tulane University and was a past president of the South Brunswick Athletic Association.
"CDMA Wireless for Public Safety"
Today, public safety organizations use Land Mobile Radios (LMR) for their communications network. These systems, while useful, are voice-centric with limited data capability. They are usually developed by each organization independently since it was thought that public safety needed unique radio access technology. Unfortunately, such systems can inhibit emergency operations when several different organizations arrive on the scene of an emergency. Today's improved, high speed data commercial wireless networks using 3G (third generation) technology, such as CDMA, solve many of the communication issues facing first responders. These issues and their solutions will be discussed in this presentation.