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WiMAX in the Enterprise: Access, Applications and Affordability
Mind Commerce LLC, Nov 2007, Pages: 80
WiMAX will change the way enterprises view telecommunications. Telecom companies must service the customer in this new environment or some one else will. Customers could start demanding lower prices, or they'll turn to a new WiMAX operator or set up their own private network using WiMAX equipment. The technology gives businesses the ability to virtually manage their workforce and add and remove new services and applications quickly.
This publication evaluates the deployment of a WiMAX network for an enterprise in terms of the author's unique analysis methodology of the 'Three A's of WiMAX deployment', which are: Access, Affordability and Applications. Access refers to how an enterprise employee might access the Internet or corporate intranet. Internet skills are critical in the job market of 2007 and will be even more so in 2020. Affordability means bringing wireless broadband internet/intranet access to all employees may be surprisingly affordable. Compared to the telephone company's T1, the cost per megabit per employee for WiMAX services is very competitive. In terms of Applications, wireless broadband access and mobile computing come together via WiMAX to offer the enterprise a range of applications limited only by the imagination of enterprise leadership.
This publication explores how WiMAX will change enterprise telecommunications in terms of access, applications and affordability. This matrix ultimately points to WiMAX holding a $36.4 billion market in US enterprises telecommunications services by 2013.
Target Audience for Publication
-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
Given its low cost adaptability for a wide range of telecommunications applications, enterprise WiMAX is predicted to be an almost $40 billion per year industry by 2014. Cisco’s recent acquisition of WiMAX vendor Navini points to the powerful logic for WiMAX as an enterprise application as well as carrier application.
Written by WiMAX pioneer Frank Ohrtman (WiMAX Handbook, WiMAX in 50 Pages, consultant on some of the first telco deployments of WiMAX in the Western Hemisphere), the paper describes the potential for WiMAX in the enterprise in terms of the “3 A’s”: access, applications, and affordability. Access refers to a brief description of the technology of WiMAX and how it is the most cost effective means of delivering a wide range of enterprise telecommunications. Applications include the generic such as disaster recovery, converged voice and data as well as E1/T1 substitutes. Specific applications contained in the paper focus on industry verticals such as WiMAX for transportation, petroleum, utilities, agriculture and healthcare. Finally, “affordability” refers to how WiMAX in an enterprise setting can offer a very short return on investment while boosting worker productivity and trimming or eliminating traditional telecommunications costs in the enterprise.
Given the decline in landline telephone service in favor of mobile voice, mobile data is expected to follow a similar trajectory and WiMAX presents a much more cost effective means of delivering that basket of services than 3G cellular, making it the obvious choice for the enterprise to replace their expensive legacy T1 overhead. This paper is a “must read” for any IT director seeking to add more intelligence into their employer’s processes translating into greater profitability.
Author Info:
Frank Ohrtman has almost 20 years experience in VoIP and wireless applications. He is the president of WMX Systems, LLC, a Denver, Colorado-based consulting and systems integration firm. Mr. Ohrtman learned to perform in-depth research and write succinct analyses during his years as a Navy Intelligence Officer (1981-1991) during which he specialized in electronic intelligence and electronic warfare. He is a veteran of U.S. Navy actions in Lebanon (awarded Navy Expeditionary Medal), Grenada, Libya (awarded Joint Service Commendation Medal), and the Gulf War (awarded National Defense Service Medal).
His telecommunications career began with selling VoIP gateway switches for Netrix Corporation to long distance bypass carriers. He went on to promote softswitch solutions for Lucent Technologies (Qwest Account Manager) and Vsys (Western Region Sales Manager). His consulting clients include national governments and tier one telephone companies.
Mr. Ohrtman is a Gerson Lehrman Group Scholar and serves as Dean of WiMAX for Applied Learning Solutions (http://www.e-als.com). He is a regular blogger and contributor to WiMAX.com and annual presenter at WiMAX World as well as local Cisco Users Groups. Mr. Ohrtman serves as an advisor to Bush Telecommunications Pty Ltd and the Rural Broadband Consortium of Australia.
Mr. Ohrtman holds a Master of Science degree in Telecommunications from Colorado University College of Engineering (master's thesis: 'Softswitch As Class 4 Replacement-A Disruptive Technology'), a Master of Arts degree in International Relations from Boston University and a Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, from University of Iowa
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