The Need for Speed: The Importance of Next-Generation Broadband Networks

The Need for Speed:
The Importance of Next-Generation Broadband Networks

March 5
9:30AM - 11:00AM

ITIF will release a new report on the need for next-generation broadband in the United States. The report will document how the transformative functionalities that next-generation broadband enables will unlock a wave of innovative new Web-applications, delivering benefits to consumers, society, businesses, and the economy. While getting broadband service to the Americans who lack it is an important policy target, the report argues that supporting the deployment of faster broadband networks is crucial to enabling next-generation Web-based applications and services that will play important roles in improving quality of life and boosting economic growth.

The report will be introduced by Jeff Campbell, Cisco Systems Director, Technology and Communications. ITIF President Robert Atkinson will follow, presenting key findings from the report. Two distinguished respondents, Joaquin Alvarado, Founding Director of the Institute for Next Generation Internet at San Francisco State University, and John Windhausen Jr., President, Telepoly Consulting, will comment on the report's findings and conclusions.

Participants:

Robert Atkinson
President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

Jeff Campbell
Cisco Systems Director, Technology and Communications

Joaquin Alvarado
Founding Director of the Institute for Next Generation Internet, San Francisco State University

John Windausen Jr.
President, Telepoly Consulting

**PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE & TIME**
Date: Thursday, March 5, 2009
Time: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Place: The St. Regis Washington, D.C.
Chandelier Room
923 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006

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