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PUBLIC NOTICE
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
445 12th St. SW
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20554                                           

News media information 202/418-0500     Fax-On-Demand  202/418-2830     Internet:  http://www.fcc.gov    ftp.fcc.gov

                                        Released: September 14, 1999
                                
     TECHNOLOGICAL ADVISORY COUNCIL TO HOLD SECOND MEETING
                                
The FCC's Technological Advisory Council, a Federal Advisory Committee comprised of a broad
array of well-known technologists and chaired by Dr. Robert Lucky, Corporate Vice President,
Telcordia, will hold its second meeting Wednesday, September 22 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. 
in the Commission's meeting room TW-C305 at 445 12th St. S.W., Washington, D.C.  

The Council helps provide technological insights that  the Commission needs to stay abreast of
innovations and new developments in the communications industry.  The purpose of this second
meeting will be to hear and discuss the progress of the three focus groups established by the
Council to consider the issues the FCC presented to it at its April 30, 1999 meeting. These issues
include: (1) the current state of the art for software defined radios, cognitive radios, and similar
devices, future developments for these technologies, and ways that the availability of such
technologies might affect the FCC's traditional approaches to spectrum management; and the
current state of knowledge of electromagnetic noise levels and the effects of such noise on the
reliability of existing and future communications systems; (2) the current technical trends in
telecommunications services, changes that might decrease, rather than increase, the accessibility
of telecommunications services by persons with disabilities and ways the FCC might best
communicate to designers of emerging telecommunications network architectures, the
requirements for accessibility; and (3) the telecommunications common carrier network
interconnection scenarios that are likely to develop, including the technical aspects of cross
network (i.e., end-to-end) interconnection, quality of service, network management, reliability,
and operations issues, as well as the deployment of new technologies such as dense wave division
multiplexing and high speed packet/cell switching.  The Council may also consider such other
issues as may come before it at that time.

Members of the general public may attend the meeting.  The Federal Communications
Commission will attempt to accommodate as many persons as possible.  However, admittance will
be limited to the seating available.  There will be no public oral participation, but the public may
submit written comments before the meeting.

For further information, contact Kent Nilsson at 202-418-2478 voice, 202-418-1918 fax,
knilsson@fcc.gov.