Webinar: Seamless Connectivity for Smarter Energy Futures
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Instructor 1Timothy E. Lawter
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Instructor 2Mike Johnson
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LevelAll
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Video time54 min
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Recording DateNovember 2025
What you´ll learn
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Your Instructors
Timothy (Tim) E. Lawter Principal – Complex Projects,ENTRUST
Mike Johnson Senior Broadband Consultant, ENTRUST
Mike Johnson
Senior Broadband Consultant, ENTRUST
About the instructors
Tim is an industry expert in telecommunications network architecture, engineering, and operations, with over 45 years in the Service Provider industry. Tim’s focus is the delivery and operation of Utility Grade fiber optic networks and broadband services.
His fiber optic experience began in 1985 at MCI (Verizon). During his twenty-seven (27) years at MCI/Verizon, Tim was responsible for
Technical Operations throughout a multistate area in the Southeast
US. Tim’s expertise spans across all disciplines in the telecommunications industry, including OSP engineering, design, and maintenance; inside plant/central office engineering, design, and maintenance. However, his core competencies are transport engineering, design, and maintenance; long-haul and ultra-long-haul
transmissions; fiber optic cable splicing; ethernet switching and core network routing, and data center environments. In his previous positions, Tim was responsible for Sales Engineering, Technical Solutions Engineering, and Applications Engineering for North and South America. Tim’s previous experience also includes Program Management for EF&I services. Additionally, Tim has multiple years of experience on Fixed Wireless, and he holds an FCC General Radiotelephone License.
Mike has over 30 years of extensive experience in wireless communications and designing broadband data networks. He uses his extensive history and knowledge to assist clients in accomplishing project planning and deliverables essential to deploying successful communications and data systems. His strengths include program management, requirements gathering, field test engineering, equipment evaluation, engineering management, and analyzing complex design concepts. He has also designed wireless broadband equipment for cellular, point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, and Mesh Radio Networks. He has extensive FirstNet and P25 radio network experience. Mike holds 4 patents on spectrum sensing, channel coordination, and dynamic location information. He also has current certifications in FTTx architecture, Fiber Plug and Play modules, and FTTx link budgets. Mike holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida.
Mike has over 30 years of extensive experience in wireless communications and designing broadband data networks. He uses his extensive history and knowledge to assist clients in accomplishing project planning and deliverables essential to deploying successful communications and data systems. His strengths include program management, requirements gathering, field test engineering, equipment evaluation, engineering management, and analyzing complex design concepts. He has also designed wireless broadband equipment for cellular, point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, and Mesh Radio Networks. He has extensive FirstNet and P25 radio network experience. Mike holds 4 patents on spectrum sensing, channel coordination, and dynamic location information. He also has current certifications in FTTx architecture, Fiber Plug and Play modules, and FTTx link budgets. Mike holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida.
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