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size=4>Wireless Access Research Centre</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=518170015-09112009><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=4>Liam Prendergast, Dell<SPAN class=005143513-10112009>,</SPAN><SPAN
class=005143513-10112009> will give a talk on
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class=005143513-10112009> </SPAN>"Mobile Broadband, GPS
and 4G"</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=3><SPAN class=518170015-09112009><SPAN
class=005143513-10112009>on </SPAN>Thursday 12th Nov 2009<SPAN
class=005143513-10112009>, 11:00-12:00, </SPAN>in room </SPAN><SPAN
class=518170015-09112009>B2-005<SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN class=518170015-09112009><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>The
presentation is aimed to give an understanding of the technology direction
of Mobile Broadband (MBB) towards 4G, and overview a demo of GPS
using the Spirent GPS simulator, a brief overview of A-GPS and how WiMAX is
likely to perform relative to the MBB roadmap.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=518170015-09112009><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial>Bio</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=518170015-09112009><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>Liam
Prendergast is Dell’s Senior Mobile Broadband (MBB) Development Engineer, based
in Dell Limerick. Liam works in the Comms Wireless Development team that is part
of Latitude Engineering Product Development Group that is HQ’ed in Austin,
Texas. Liam has over 9 years experience in product development at Dell Limerick
and in the past 5 years has focussed on MBB. Liam Prendergast graduated with a
B.Eng Electronic Engineering from University of Limerick, he joined Dell in 1995
and in that time he has held many technical engineering
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<DIV><BR><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>As the Lead Engineer for MBB
technology, Liam leads the Engineering team that develops the HSPA solutions
that is sold with all Dell Latitude and Precision Business Client platforms e.g.
Dell Wireless 5530 and more recently Dell Wireless 5540 from Ericsson. Liam’s
responsibilities require him to understand the MBB trends looking ahead over
three years, help define Dell’s MBB strategy over that time and how our
technology selection aligns with the Dell platform portfolio. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=005143513-10112009><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>Any
queries to John Nelson <A
href="mailto:john.nelson@ul.ie">john.nelson@ul.ie</A> or Sean McGrath <A
href="mailto:sean.mcgrath@ul.ie">sean.mcgrath@ul.ie</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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