Evaluate the Current State of the WiFi Value Chain, Vendors, Service Providers, and Solutions As Well As Future Prospects of WiFi

Business Wire, Feb 25, 2008

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c83871) has announced the addition of Wireless Broadband Services 2008: WiFi to their offering.

Wi-Fi technology is advancing beyond the usage model of providing indoor, short-range wireless Internet access for mobile computers. The extended range of Wi-Fi access points for indoor and outdoor applications has the capability of coverage across entire campuses, thus eliminating wiring infrastructures for other types of electronic equipment. Applications and demand for new services will drive Wi-Fi to bring voice, data and video into the space of various offerings. Wi-Fi is evolving from a WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) application to a broadband wireless service with a great deal of opportunities on a global scale.

How will WiFi hold up against WiMAX? What vendors are aggressively pursuing WiFi? What is going to happen to municipal wireless?

This report evaluates the current state of the WiFi value chain, vendors, service providers, and solutions as well as the future prospects of WiFi.

Key Issues

Despite a spate of setbacks for WiMAX and Wi-Fi vendors are diligently working hard to develop products and services to sell to the telecom carriers. Sprint's aborted WiMAX project rose from the dead only to be brought back to life as an internal and limited trial. What are Clearwire's alternatives to a dead Sprint relationship? What will happen to Intel? Intel is the driver behind WiMAX and now Sprint has abandoned its $5 Billion WiMAX network.

Author Info:

Robert D. Crago NCE - Mr. Crago has been in the communications industry for over twenty years as a systems engineer, project manager and consultant to enterprise groups, telecommunications companies and vendors providing effective solutions. Mr. Crago's consulting practice provides clients with technology migration, consolidation and transformation planning, implementation and integration processes having a direct effect to the bottom-line. Mr. Crago's success has been in providing realistic ROIs to his clients.

P.J. Louis has over a quarter of a century's worth of experience in the telecom business. Mr. Louis is currently developing businesses in Asia and in the United States. Prior positions include Managing Director for Telecom Business Recovery in FTI Financial Consulting and PricewaterhouseCoopers, Vice President of Carrier Marketing & Product Management at TruePosition, Inc., a leading provider of wireless location services. Mr. Louis had also served as chief of staff for engineering in NYNEX (today known as Verizon). He has held a number of leadership positions within Bell Communications Research and NextWave Wireless. Mr. Louis is a former officer of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Communications Society - New York Section. Mr. Louis has been a senior member of IEEE for 26 years. Mr. Louis' experience includes leading sales and marketing organizations as well as technology organizations. Mr. Louis has been a featured speaker in telecommunications conferences and is the author of four (4) McGraw-Hill books; Telecom Management Crash Course, M-Commerce Crash Course, Broadband Crash Course, and Telecommunications Internetworking.

Content Outline:

About the Authors.

Wireless Broadband Services.

1. What is a Broadband Service?.

2. What Kinds of Networks Support Broadband Services?.

3. Why Wi-Fi, WiMAX, LTE, and 4G?.

4. Network Value Chain.

5. Our Focus.

"The WiMAX Industry".

(Part One of Four)

1. Introduction.

2. The Vendors Perspective - WiMax.

4. The Sprint WiMAX Model

5. Why Did Sprint Choose WiMAX?.

6. The Clearwire WiMax Model - Before Sprint

7. The Clearwire WiMax Model - After Sprint

8. Possible Clearwire WiMAX Strategy Without Sprint

9. The Google Factor/The Intel Factor

10. The Korean, SK Telecom, Samsung WiMax Model

11. Huawei and ZTE- China's WiMax Model

12. Test & Certification - WiMAX Products.

13. Standards Impact - WiMAX..

14. Costs Impact - WiMAX..

15. Market Analysis.

Companies Mentioned:

- Airspan

- Alvarion

- Aperto Networks

- Cisco

- Google

- Intel

- Proxim Wireless Corporation

- Redline Communications

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