| Description: | The rate of change in wireless communications continues to accelerate. We now have overlapping, loosely integrated and possibly disruptive standards for supporting various degrees of mobility. WiFi, while well established as a standard office and home technology, continues to evolve with revisions in development for higher throughput and mesh inter-networking. In parallel, two WiMAX standards for long range and mobile access have been approved with PC cards and other equipment due by end 2006.
Together, new WiFi and WiMAX products should provide affordable high speed networks on a campus, community and metropolitan scale. Meanwhile, mobile operators have announced High Speed Download/Upload Packet Access – a so-called “3.5G” technology due to launch in 2006 that will enable data download at up to 10 Mbps over a mobile network.
This Briefing has been developed to present the leading and emerging wireless technologies in the context of the capabilities and business benefits that they can bring. In particular, the briefing seeks to identify the areas for potential co-operation, overlap and even conflict in this emerging space. Key players, industry leaders, expected business models and trends are explored.
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| Audience | This briefing is suitable for chief executives and senior managers in sales, marketing, business development or ICT who are interested in utilising wireless applications and technology in their business. All of these need a high-level view of these emerging technologies and how to derive maximum business benefit from it. |
| Objectives | On completion of this Briefing, delegates will:
• Be comfortable with the concepts and terminology used
• Know when and how correctly choose the right technology for the task required
• Have a working knowledge of the new network types and capabilities
• Understand how these technologies can be used to gain competitive advantage
• Have an appreciation of how new networks can enable rollout of applications for voice, video and data – the so-called “Triple Play”
• Be aware of the security and operational requirements for deploying wireless Internet services
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