wiredinUSA February 2013

wiredInUSA - February 2013

The Wire Association International (WAI) has appointed

Richard R Miller as president of the association for a one-year

term that began on 1

January. He will serve as chairman

of the board of directors and as the 59

president of the

association.

Miller has been involved with an association-wide initiative

to increase WAI membership, which has resulted in hundreds

of new members representing both industry manufacturers

and suppliers. “If you work in the wire and cable industry,

you should have a willingness to support your industry

association and help grow WAI membership. It’s about

participating in your profession,” he believes. A WAI member

since 1996, Miller has served on the association’s board

of directors, its executive committee, and on multiple

committees including member relations, conference

programming, and paper awards.

Miller is senior vice president at Southwire Company, where

he began his career 37 years ago. He has been instrumental

in developing the nationally recognized 12 for Life program –

a partnership between Southwire Company and the Carroll

County School System – to reduce the high school drop-out

rate by allowing at-risk students to work in a manufacturing

plant designed for students while earning credit toward a

high school diploma.

Other notable accomplishments include receiving the 1994

Southwire H A Case Technological Achievement award and

the 1998 Southwire D B Cofer Enterprise award. Miller has a

BSc in industrial engineering technology and holds several

Southwire patents.

WAI’s 2013

president

Football fiber

Brazilian state-owned telecom company

Telebras has completed the deployment

of 70 percent of the fiber optic network

in the six cities that will host FIFA’s

Confederations Cup, due to start in June

2013.

Telebras was awarded the task of providing

the infrastructure for the deployment

of metropolitan fiber optic networks,

satellite links and radio systems in all

the cities hosting the tournament – Belo

Horizonte, Brasília, Fortaleza, Recife, Rio

de Janeiro and Salvador.

The telecom infrastructure has to be

in place by April 2013 in all six cities. The

telecom infrastructure for the six other

cities that will host the 2014 World Cup will

be ready by November 2013, said sports

ministry sources.

The fiber optic network, including all 12

cities, will cover a distance of 2,000km.

The government has also taken initiatives

to create a Telebras subsidiary to provide

telecommunications services to FIFA

during the two tournaments. This will be

called Telebras Copa.

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