LAS VEGAS – The Canadian Suite held annually at the Flamingo (excellently organized and hosted by Applied Electronics and supported by dozens of companies – including Cartt.ca – every year) isn’t the only place to find Canadians.
In fact, there are thousands of Canucks among the 92,000-plus who attended NAB this year. Broadcasters (CBC, CTV, Global, CHCH, CHEK, on the TV side and just abour every radio company), students, vendors, manufacturers all make the pilgrimage every year. We even saw former Canwest Global CEO and now CEO of Fight Network, Leonard Asper, working the floor.
You can’t walk far on the exhibit floor without running into a Canadian, or seeing a Canadian company in action.
Whether it’s Waterloo’s Dejero’s cool new live platform that leverages 4G cell nets to deliver an HD signal, transmitter companies Nautel (Hackett’s Cove, NS) and Larcan (Mississauga), graphics software company Matrox (Montreal), Markham encoder Digital Rapids, broadcast management software companies SDS and Broadview (both Toronto), or even the bleeding edge presented by the likes of the Communications Research Centre of Canada (Ottawa) or Ryerson University, Canadians are everywhere in Vegas.
We snapped a few shots (below) of their busy booths as we roamed this week.
The Canadian Suite Sponsors’ Banner.
The Dejero booth – with Burlington’s Evertz, in the background
Montreal’s International Datacasting beside Ottawa’s Telesat.
Montreal’s Miranda was up the aisle from Iroquois, Ont.’s Ross Video.
Ryerson’s Tyler Pham and Tino Kapetaneas.
Larcan’s busy booth.
Toronto’s Ward-Beck Systems.
Nautel was crowded on day one.
