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WiMAX for Job Creation and Economic Development

Mind Commerce Publishing
June 1, 2009
78 Pages - SKU: CCJQ2283348

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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 allocates $4 billion for the BTOP for which job creation and economic development are key components. How will grant writers explain the connection between broadband, job creation and economic development? This paper provides detailed explanations on the connections between WiMAX and applications that make industry verticals more efficient. Those projects alone create jobs while driving economic development.

Key Findings:

Job creation is at the heart of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Public investments in broadband technology provide for immediate job creation but what about WiMAX applications that make industry verticals more efficient? The deployment of those networks creates jobs as does the integration of WiMAX into those industry verticals such as banking, retail, banking, construction, agriculture and transportation.
The "killer app" of WiMAX is anything that can make an industry more efficient. This paper explores specific applications for specific industries and is intended to provoke thought with BTOP grant applicants as to WiMAX applications that will make their WiMAX network sustainable.

Audience:

Economic development agencies
Public sector IT directors
Incumbent telecom operators
WiMAX solution providers
Vendors for WiMAX and/or the enterprise industries
Enterprise personnel responsible for computing and communications
Investors in the WiMAX space and/or enterprise automation

Introduction: CLEARTMThe Disruptor; The 3 A's of the WiMAX-enabled Business; Access; IMS Vision; The Impact of WiMAX on Business Connectivity; Why WiMAX as access technology?; Objections to WiMAX; WiMAX is not Wi-Fi; WiMAX Components; WiMAX Base Stations; Outdoor CPE; Indoor CPE; USB, Laptop card or similar; Femtocells; Relationship of WiMAX Range and Throughput for Business Applications; Link budget; Limitations of the laptop; MIMO; MIMO as interference mitigating technology; Adaptive Antenna System (AAS) as Interference Mitigation Technology; Why 3G cannot compete with WiMAX; Fixed vs. Mobile WiMAX; Why backhaul is important; Wireless Backhaul Considerations; Comparisons with Fiber; Spectrum Considerations; Access Conclusion; Applications; Relationship of Connectivity and Productivity; Applications: Generic; Applications: Specific-Industry Verticals; Case study: City of Corpus Christi; Affordability: WiMAX in the Business; Strategies: A) subscribe from WiMAX service provider or; Custom Built WiMAX Network for Business Private Use; Base Station and Business Density
Summary Affording WiMAX
Conclusion and Projections: "Landline migration" to "T1 migration"; Clear: a portent of things to come
Tables: Table 1 3G is technologically inferior to WiMAX; Table 2 Comparisons of wireless backhaul with other options; Table 3 Comparisons of wireless vs. fiber optic cable as backhaul solution; Table 4 WiMAX-related spectrum; Table 5 What businesses buy for data solutions; Table 6 WiMAX prioritizes VoIP packets over data packets for maximum QoS; Table 7 What does it cost your business per hour to be down?; Table 8 Availability figures in terms of downtime per year; Table 9 Generic applications for business WiMAX; Table 10 Cost comparisons of WiMAX and other forms of access for business telecommunications; Table 11 Hypothetical comparisons of legacy telco servic prices to that of a CLEAR-like WiMAX service provider; Table 12 OPEX savings CLEAR-type service vs. legacy IT; Table 13 Hypothetical CAPEX for a WiMAX network to service 100 gas stations; Table 14 Hypothetical OPEX for gas station chain using WiMAX as substitute for telco services; Table 15 Telephone companies are losing 7% of their landline subscriber base every year
Figures: Figure 1 WiMAX offers a broad range of business IT applications at highly competitive pricing and very flexible access; Figure 2 The 3 elements that comprise a telecommunications network: Access, switching and transport (backhaul); Figure 3 Legacy "stovepipe" infrastructure cannot easily offer more than one service; Figure 4 IMS allows a subscriber to access any service on any device using any form of access; Figure 5 Progression of networking: from mainframe to WiMAX; Figure 6 WiMAX performance parameters make it an excellent business technology; Figure 7 Wi-Fi serves a coffee shop or home. WiMAX serves a city; Figure 8 WiMAX nomenclature: base station and subscriber station; Figure 9 WiMAX base station and antenna combinations; Figure 10 Outdoor CPE provide a superior link budget and QoS for business subscribers in office buildings; Figure 11 Some indoor CPE incorporate Wi-Fi access points and telephone ports; Figure 12 USB access devices make WiMAX access more convenient to use; Figure 13 Femtocells provide indoor coverage for WiMAX subscribers. This is especially important for use in RF unfriendly buildings; Figure 14 Line of sight offers better range and throughput than non line of sight; Figure 15 Link budget illustrated; Figure 16 On campus WiMAX delivers a throughput of multiple megabits per second; Figure 17 WiMAX extends employee access to the business network enabling telecommuting, hoteling, disaster recovery and other business enhancing practices; Figure 18 8x8 MIMO provides 8 times the data streams of a single antenna system; Figure 19 Another view of MIMO where multiple antennas enable a bypass of interference; Figure 20 By utilizing AAS and beam steering technologies, WiMAX mitigates interference .; Figure 21 Backhaul supports WiMAX base stations, which in turn support home office internet/corporate intranet access; Figure 22 Networking and the work place: the geographic expansion of business telecommunications services; Figure 23 WiMAX services negate the need for legacy telco T1 services; Figure 24 WiMAX supports business voice and data; Figure 25 WiMAX as disaster recovery solution or alternative to telephone company T1 or DSL services; Figure 26 Destroyed telephone central office, 140 West Street, NYC, across from World Trae Center, September 15, 2001; Figure 27 WiMAX can enable shopping for best price on telecom services; Figure 28 Retail business-wid adotpions of WiMAX could ad more intelligence in the business making them more profitable; Figure 29 WiMAX can replace a number of disassociated telecommunications services providing savings to the retailer both in telecommunications and manpower; Figure 30 Use of WiMAX to network ATMs could save banks on networking costs while providing portability for those machines; Figure 31 Mobile health car vans or buses could be networked via WiMAX; Figure 32 The networked ambulance could boost life saving efficiencies for ambulance services; Figure 33 WiMAX in support of the delivery industry; Figure 34 WiMAX can be used to read a wide variety of utility meters; Figure 35 Farmers need real time information, literally, "in the field"; Figure 36 WiMAX may serve as a substitute for satellite based services for farmers; Figure 37 Agriculture implement dealer in Pomeroy, Iowa using pre-WiMAX broadband wireless services; Figure 38 WiMAX provides almost unlimited telecommunications services for job sites where ever they may be; Figure 39 Problem solving and solutions inverted pyramid; Figure 40 Potential telecom expenses for which WiMAX is a substitute and potentially reduces or eliminates some expenses; Figure 41 An oil company can save on telecommunications by deploying an in-house WiMAX network; Figure 42 Technology adoption curve; Figure 43 WiMAX as a substitute for telco landline, T1, DS3 services is an S-curve; it consumes telco market share; Figure 44 WiMAX will consume 7% of the per year of the US business telecommunications market per year beginning in 2010

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