E B Systems Limited

E B Systems Limited

Nature of Business:
Broadband telecommunications systems consultants, designers and
systems integrators, specializing in cable/fibre optics and
satellite television, 'wireless' cable and wireless high speed
multimedia facility implementations, such as LMDS/LMCS/MCS,
MDS/MMDS, MVDS and other wideband access technologies.

Key Customers:
Broadcasters, cable operators, major and mid-sized corporations,
telecommunication carriers, educators (tele-teaching), medical
community (tele-medicine).

Company Background and History:
E B Systems Ltd. is a telecommunications system design,
consulting and integration firm, founded by two
senior engineers/managers who have substantial experience
(over 50 years cumulative) in both the broadband cable,
satellite TV and business telecommunications, and telephone
industry sectors. Projects have ranged from system design to
management consulting and specification/design of new systems
equipment, including installation support, testing and user
training. Involvement in Business Plan and Regulatory
Applications for License preparation, as well as presentations
and Hearings support are provided.

The principals are members of the APEGM, IEEE (Senior), SCTE
(Senior), C.E.M., ACEC, CABC, and Cable Pioneers, and won a
2000 Award for Excellence in Consulting Engineering from
C.E.M. for their 66-site wireless broadband system serving the
Manitoba Learning Network.

Company Details

Year Established: 1989

Number of Employees: 6

Company Information

William E. (bill) Evans, P Eng.
Title: President
Area of Responsibility: Management Executive
Telephone: (204) 489-7467
Fax: (204) 489-7471
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Judy Fowler
Title: Administrative Manager
Telephone: (204) 489-7467
Fax: (204) 489-7471
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Kenrick G. (ken) Babb, P Eng.
Title: Vice President
Area of Responsibility: Management Executive
Telephone: (204) 489-7467
Fax: (204) 489-7471
Email: Click Here

Products

Broadband Networks For Distance Education And Telehealth Services

Services

Consulting Engineer - Communications-data Transmission Many of the firms projects involving various media coaxial / fibre optic cables, UTP, satellite and wireless have involved data transmission, usually at relatively high speeds to support video and / or high speed Internet access. An exception was the regulatory specification and definition of an 800 MHz wireless, slow speed, packet data system for nation-wide use in Malaysia.

Consulting Engineer - Buildings-communications The firm has designed and implemented coaxial cable and UTP broadband distribution systems in a number of Multiple Dwelling Units (MDU), institutions and industrial facilities for LAN, fast Internet and television service distribution.

Engineering And Project Management The firm provides consulting system/design/integration and project management services in telecommunications and broadcasting specializing in Broadband System for voice, video and data services using coaxial and/or fibre optics cable/satellite or wireless transport. Consulting services are also provided with respect to major applications of telecommunications systems such as videoconferencing and distance education. Development of working plans, competitive qualification and selection of contractors and equipment provided, supervision of installation, user training and acceptance / proof-of-performance testing have been provided.

Information Highway Services are the major product: CAD equipped to design wireless wide area or point-to-point systems; CATV distribution systems; fiber optic and or coaxial cable. The firm jointly developed, through a CANARIE Inc. project, a system of S-band antennas and an upconverter power amplifier and high power amplifier that serve a range of multimedia service distribution applications, both analogue and digital. This technology was utilized, along with engineering and project management services from E B Systems Limited, for implementation of the Manitoba Learning Network (MLN) a $4.2M project including interactive video and high speed data transmission to some 33 schools in rural Manitoba via a 66-site wireless network. More recently a 30-site Telehealth Network has been established, using satellite and terrestrial transmission facilities, along with existing hospital LANs, providing both IP (H.323) and ISDN (H.320) videoconferencing, ultrasound and store-and-forward medical imaging applications.

It - System Integration And Technology A major component of the MB Telehealth Network was successful IP videoconferencing network establishment on over twenty-five hospital LANs, implementing requisite Quality of Service (QoS) to specific terminal locations. This required working closely with IT staff and resources in the hospitals.

Consulting Engineer - Communications-wire Line Transmission In the standard North American telephone industry nomenclature, this generally pertains to entrance cable designs for buildings, institutions and large commercial enterprises. This is part of the outside plant engineering function, in which one of the principals has many years of experience.

Consulting Engineer - Other (specify) The firm has undertaken a number of Management Consulting assignments related to communications, including provision of independent analysis and opinion on a major utilitys $150M telecommunications budget, development of a business plan for a prospective Teleport facility to serve a major city, a study on telecommunications development strategies for a provincial government and a survey of R&D for an agency of the federal government and strategic analysis of PCN service opportunities for cable television operators.

Consulting Engineer - Communications-microwave The firms wireless work above 1 GHz qualifies as microwave communications. Engineering design and implementation of both point-to-point (PtP) and point-to-multipoint (PmP) configurations has been undertaken, using either topographic maps or with maps for manual design and digital terrain elevation data to facilitate CAD, using the fourth generation propagation / coverage software employed by the firm. While most work has involved licenced bands, design of facilities using ISM bands and not requiring licensure has also been undertaken.

Consulting Engineer - Communications-broadcasting E B Systems Limited has prepared Industry Canada Licence Applications and Engineering Briefs for a number of medium power, Low Power and Very Low Power FM and TV broadcasting facilities for locations in Canada and five regional Digital MDS broadcasting systems in the provinces from British Columbia to Ontario. Export work was completed in Europe, South America, the Middle East and the Far East related to broadcasting endeavours.

Consulting Engineer - Communications-telephone Systems While one of the principals of the firm has considerable Outside Plant design experience with a major telephone company, and both principals were employed for both over 30 years cumulatively with that company, the firms major telephony involvement has been in the specification and selection, via RFP process, of advanced electronic switches for major corporate clients, including features such as voicemail and other enhanced features.

Consulting Engineer - Communications-other Other communications consulting work has included the following: Cable television system design coaxial, fibre optic and hybrid fibre cable (HFC) architectures. The principals have been responsible for system designs in every Canadian province, totaling over 2,000 miles of plant. Current design is done using CAD, with capabilities to employ either digital base maps or to digitize existing analogue (printed) maps for incorporation in a full digital design. Wireless LANs using IEEE 802.11(a) and / or 802.11(b) standards technology 902, 2450 and / or 5800 MHz in buildings and institutes. Institutional and commercial building LANs using coaxial, fibre and / or UTP transmission media for Ethernet, Token Ring or Token Passing technologies.