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The Wireless Outlook: Dealing With Decline


Description: Corporate users may not be ready to universally embrace wireless LANs - but with the single possible exception of security, all the problems that deter companies are close to resolution, so what does the future have in store for the wireless market?’ The Wireless Outlook: Dealing with decline investigates the issues surrounding the industry’s decline in 2001 following years of booming growth and its effects on you as the end-user. As PDA sales plummet the report identifies the profit opportunities in the remaining strong revenue generating services. Evaluate the business benefits of the current global wireless sector through detailed investigations into product and vendor analysis. This report enables you to assess how much more work needs to be done to ensure that implementing Wlan does not force you to significantly compromise on features routinely expected from the conventional wired network.


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Table of Contents

The Wireless Outlook - Dealing with decline

Executive Summary 12 Market position & overview 12 Technology directions 12 Market directions 13 Evaluating the WLAN case 15 Selected product analysis 16 Selected vendor analysis 16

Chapter 1 Market Position & Overview 20

Summary 20 Introduction 20 Handhelds decline 22 Opportunities in WLAN 24

Chapter 2 Technology Directions 28

Summary 28 Introduction 29 Location-based services 31 Relative accuracy 32 Terminal availability 33 Infrastructure technology and vendors 33 Interoperability issues 34 The beginnings of market consolidation 36 Microsoft steps in 38 Putting LBS to work in the enterprise 39 The end of the OS phony war 42 The status quo 42 MNOs fight back 43 Enter Microsoft 44 Start high then go low 46 The importance of software 48 More ARPU now 50 Mobile salesforce automation 51 Systems approaches 53 Connectivity and device options 55 New web-based alternatives 58 Conclusion 59

Chapter 3 Market Directions 62

Summary 62 Introduction 63 Corporate or consumer? 63 The challenge of next-generation wireless 64 Experience so far 64 The corporate market 65 Wirelessly enabling the desktop 67 The role of application vendors 67 The vertical market opportunity 68 Conclusion 71 Will wireless computing win out? 72 Wireless integration 73 Life expectancy 75 Functionality debate 76 Individual need 77 User interfaces hold the key 79 The return of wireless email? 84 In search of the killer application 85 Enter RIM's Blackberry 88 Shaping the future 89 Opinion 90 The state of mobile payment 91 i-Mode unassailable? 91 Europe in the back seat 92 The failure of Internet payments 93 Standards battles 95 The practical realities 97

Chapter 4 Evaluating The WLAN Case 100

Summary 100 Introduction 100 A foundation for the wireless enterprise 101 The importance of 802.11 102 Wi-Fi: the cornerstone of the wireless enterprise 104 The future of 802.11 106 WI-FI 5 arrives 109 G brings higher speed in lower bandwidths 110 Adding security and QOS to WLAN 112 Conclusion 114 An introduction to wireless VPNs 114 Technology issues 115 Key vendors 119 Market dynamics 121 Opinion 123 Public WLAN hotspots 124 So what's a hotspot? 125 Roaming 127 The U.S. hotspot experience 128 WISPs and aggregators 129 The aggregator - Boingo Wireless Inc 130 Tariffs 133 The WISP - Wayport Inc 133 The end of the beginning of the U.S. hotspot market 136 Europe follows suit in hotspots 137 Europe's structured PWLAN opportunity 138 Europe’s HSOs 140 Conclusions 146

Chapter 5 Selected Product Analysis 150

Summary 150 IBM WebSpere Everyplace Suite (WES) 150 Products 151 Content handling 155 Security 155 Optimization 156 Subscriber and device management 156 Base services 156 Platforms 157 Opinion 157 Strengths 158 Weaknesses 158 Conclusions 159 mm02 XDA/Microsoft Pocket PC Phone Edition 159 Introduction 159 Market dynamics 161 Pocket PC Phone Edition 163 Device capabilities 164 Messaging 164 Interface 165 Other applications 166 Device specifications 166 Pricing 167 Conclusions 167 RIM Blackberry/mmO2 168 Technical specifications 169 Hardware 169 Dimensions 170 Interface 170 Memory 171 Battery 171 Radio support 171 Voice support 171 Alarms 172 Power management 172 Client software 172 Desktop synchronization 173 The MMO2 and RIM wireless email service 173 Push email 173 Attachments 174 Security 174 SMS 175 Web browsing 175 Price and availability 175 The GPRS network 175 Positioning and pricing 176 Opinion 177

Chapter 6 Selected Vendor Analysis 180

Summary 180 Alvarion Ltd 181 Competitive strategy 183 Main activities 184 Financial performance 185 Key deals 186 Key channels 187 Opinion 187 Contact details 187 AppForge 188 Competitive stance 189 Financial performance 190 Main products 190 AppForge MobileVB 191 AppForge Booster 191 Future strategy 192 Key deals 194 Key executives 194 Key partners 194 Key channels 195 Opinion 195 Contact details 196 AvantGo 196 Market dynamics 196 Competitive stance 196 M&A strategy 198 Key partnerships and alliances 199 Current positioning 200 Future strategy 202 Financial performance 203 Key deals 204 Market sector interests 204 Opinion 206 Intel Corporation 206 The Intel Communications Group 207 Laptop ambitions 208 Redesigning the mobile processor 209 Intel as a device maker? 210 Opinion 213 Contact details 214 Metrowerks Inc 214 Competitive stance 214 Financial performance 216 Main products 216 Cross device tools 217 Wireless and PDA platform tools 217 Palm OS development tools 217 Symbian OS development tools 218 Development tools for other handset, PDA or consumer-oriented device 218 RTOS and Embedded processor tools 218 Desktop and server platform tools 219 Macintosh development tools 219 Solaris development tools 220 Linux development tools 220 Game platform tools 220 Antecedents/history 220 Future strategy 221 Key executives 222 Key partners 223 Key channels 223 Opinion 223 Contact details 224 mmO2 224 Current positioning 225 Competitive stance 227 Financial performance 229 Acquisitions 230 Future strategy 232 Opinion 233 Contact details 233 Orange SA 234 Financial performance 237 Opinion 239 Key deals 241 Red-M Ltd 242 Current positioning 245 Main products 246 Genos 246 Genos and security 248 Genos five-layer security model 249 Device layer 249 Link layer 249 User layer 250 Firewall layer 251 VPN layer 251 Genos as application platform 251 Hardware 251 Red-M 3000AS Application Server 252 Physical specification 253 Red-M 1050AP 253 Red-M 1000AP 253 Red-M Blades 254 Financial performance 254 Key executives 255 Opinion 256 Contact details 258 Symbian Ltd 258 Competitive stance 260 Financial performance 268 Current positioning 269 Symbian OS v7.0 269 User interfaces 270 Features and support 271 Technical discussion 274 Current devices 276 Future strategy 278 Key deals 278 Key executives 279 Key partners 280 Key channels 282 Acquisitions 282 Opinion 282 Contact details 284 Symbol Technologies Inc 284 Key markets 285 Competitive stance 286 Main activities 288 Financial performance 289 Main products 289 Handheld computers 290 Industrial devices 290 Generic platform devices 291 Future strategy 291 Key executives 293 Opinion 293 Contact details 294 Appendix 295 Index 295

List of Tables

Table 1.1: Worldwide handheld device shipments, Q1 2002 23 Table 6.2: Alvarion Ltd Financial Information 186 Table 6.3: Alvarion Ltd contact details 188 Table 6.4: AppForge Inc contact details 196 Table 6.5: AvantGo Inc contact details 206 Table 6.6: Intel Corporation major acquisitions 213 Table 6.7: Intel Corporation contact details 214 Table 6.8: MetroWerks Inc contact details 224 Table 6.9: mmO2 contact details 233 Table 6.10: Orange SA mobile operations 241 Table 6.11: Red-M contact details 258 Table 6.12: Symbian Ltd contact details 284 Table 6.13: Symbol Technologies contact details 294

List of Figures

Figure 1.1: Worldwide mobile phone sales (millions of units) 21 Figure 1.2: 802.11x wireless handset shipment forecast 24 Figure 5.3: IBM WebSphere Everyplace Suite products 153 Figure 6.4: mmO2 customer numbers in key markets, 2002 226 Figure 6.5: Orange SA corporate structure 240




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