woensdag 11 februari 2009

FTTH Conference: day 1

Today is the first day of the conference. We got up at around 8.30h and planned to leave around 9.00h but had a small delay because Jono wasn't feeling very well. Hopefully he gets better soon. According to the receptionist, the best way to reach the Bella Center was by train and metro, so that is what we did. And indeed, it was a lot more easier and comfortable than walking.

Before I go further I should mention why we are here. FTTH stands for Fiber To The Home, or in human language, extremely fast internet in your living room. We are here to demonstrate how we use our broadband connections. You could say we are the end users showing how we use the product provided by all the companies at this conference.

After exitting the metro at the Bella Center, we were greeted with the first signs of the conference:


After walking around the construction site (it seems they are building everywhere around here) we saw the conference building.
After registration we were guided to our spot. There were three nice computers waiting for us and a Playstation 3. Everything was like we requested, only the PS3 had no connectivity, but that was solved very quickly. The next picture is from our "demo room":



In this picture you can see from left to right the PS3 (at least the screen), the multimedia PC, the game PC and the laptop. We are in the reading area, an area with a few tables, sofa´s but also the food and beverage buffet very close by!

We are using the PS3 to demonstrate it's online capabilities such as gaming and online communities, but also the online content delivery systems such as the Playstation Network (games, video trailers, demos,...) . Similar networks exist for the Wii or XBox 360. So more in general we are demonstrating how gaming consoles are being used for more and more online activities.

On the PC´s we are downloading software, blogging, putting videos online, online gaming, video streaming, listening to internet radio, voip, .... or just regular internet browsing and mailchecking.

In my next post I will show you around the conference. See you!

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