New
Report Assesses Current Broadband Wireless Internet Technology
Trends and Business Models
There is a powerful trend toward seamless mobility in the
wireless industry, where mobile professionals today and eventually
all consumers in the future will want to communicate and be able to
do their daily business anytime, anywhere. As a result, there is
real demand for ubiquitous connectivity between a wide variety of
mobile devices and access technologies, which, at least for now,
include wireless wide-area networks (WWANs) and wireless local-area
networks (WLANs). Roaming and communications between these
technologies are therefore "must-haves" for seamless mobility to
occur.
According to Seamless Mobility: The Marriage of 3G and Wi-Fi,
recently published by the International Engineering Consortium, to
realize the potential of seamless mobility and ensure continued
profitability, service providers must focus as much on WLAN
implementations as on that of cellular WWANs. Wi-Fi and traditional
wireless services are adjuncts that can exist and succeed together
to provide consumers what they want, when they want it.
"The wireless network of the future will be a hybrid of
2G/2.5G/3G/Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/UWB technologies with roaming/billing
systems that provide the bridge. The day is just around the corner
where there will be contiguous Wi-Fi coverage in dense metro areas
and 2.5G or 3G in more outlying areas. Service providers will derive
their revenues through guaranteed service levels and content," says
the author of Seamless Mobility, Goli Ameri, founder and president
of eTinium, a telecom consulting and market research firm
specializing in wireless technologies.
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IBM Brings Wi-Fi Broadband Wireless Service to More
Than 600 Boys & Girls Clubs |
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From Maine to California, Hotspots Give Thousands of Kids
Their First-Ever Internet Experience
IBM announced that it has built secure wireless computing
environments -- known as Wi Fi -- for more than 600 Boys &
Girls Clubs across the United States, providing Internet
access for more than 200,000 children.
The contract represents one of IBM's largest deployments of
Wi Fi systems to date, with wireless- enabled Clubs located in
New York, Chicago, Oakland and other major cities as well as
in small towns and rural areas.
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story!
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Wi-LAN Provides Backbone for Calgary's Wi-Fi
Hotspots |
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Wi-LAN Inc., a global provider of broadband wireless
communications products and technologies, has provided its
Ultima3 Series fixed wireless access products to link Calgary
Wireless City Showcase Hotspots to the Internet. The Showcase
Hotspots, part of the new and exciting Wireless City
initiative officially launched today in Calgary, allow the
public to access the Internet wirelessly. Visitors to the
Hotspots will be able to send and receive e-mails, search the
Web, and send or download files without being plugged in,
using their own Wi-Fi enabled laptop or PDA.
"Wi-LAN's products performed very well at the Wireless City
- Spruce Meadows demonstration project, where they were used
to provide the wireless backbone at several world-class
equestrian events in 2002," said Richard Belzil, Director,
Wireless City. "We are very pleased to be using Wi-LAN's
Ultima3 products to provide high-speed wireless connectivity
for our new Calgary Wireless City Showcase Hotspots. Wi-LAN is
an excellent example of the depth of wireless expertise that
resides in Calgary."
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Backhaul Story!
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Sybase Debuts Wi-Fi Professional Services
Practice |
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Sybase, Inc. announced a Wi-Fi Professional Services
Practice as one of the first programs launched under its
recently announced enterprise Wi-Fi initiative. Designed to
help enterprises rapidly deploy Wi-Fi technology, the
professional services offerings include a 12-week pilot CRM
Mobilization Program to extend CRM data to mobile workers,
Mobile Business Process Strategy Consulting to define mobile
strategies for maximum return on investment, and Wi-Fi
Turn-Key Services to implement networks and applications.
"Wi-Fi technology is changing the nature of enterprise
computing -- extending the desktop experience to unwired
environments such as streetside locations, warehouses, truck
depots, retail locations and airports," said Dave Lavanty,
vice president, Worldwide Professional Services of Sybase,
Inc. "With over a decade of mobile enterprise computing
experience, Sybase is uniquely suited to help companies
capitalize on new wireless technologies by designing
strategies and deploying applications that deliver real
economic value."
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Story!
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LinkSpot Networks and TNS Accelerate Deployment of
Wi-Fi Hot Spots in RV Parks |
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LinkSpot using TNS' Managed Wi-Fi Services Offering to
quickly and cost-effectively offer wireless Internet access to
RV parks throughout the U.S.
Transaction Network Services (TNS), one of the world's
leading providers of fast, cost-effective data communications
services for transaction-oriented applications, and LinkSpot
Networks, a leader in developing wireless Internet solutions
for the traveling public, today announced a strategic
partnership to accelerate the deployment of Wi-Fi hot spots
(Link Spots) within RV parks throughout the United States.
LinkSpot Networks is using TNS' Telecom Services Division
managed Wi-Fi service offering to accelerate the roll-out of
wireless networks in RV parks across the country. LinkSpot is
already operating in close to two dozen parks in thirteen
states, with plans to expand to 100 parks by year's end.
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