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WiMAX Market and Business Assessment: Access, Affordability, and Applications for Education
Mind Commerce LLC, Oct 2007, Pages: 85
This is a very unique report as it focuses on the three A's (Access, Affordability, and Applications) when considering a WiMAX deployment. The author leverages his real-world experience of deploying a large scale WiMAX system for a major metropolitan educational institution to instruct others about the many opportunities for WiMAX in education. Not only is this a valuable resource for those seeking business drivers for WiMAX, his method of evaluating using the 3A's can be used for any purpose to evaluate deployment issues and options.
Written by subject matter expert, Frank Ohrtman, a consultant on multiple WiMAX projects in US and abroad and author of WiMAX Handbook: Building 802.16 Wireless Networks and WiMAX in 50 Pages, this publication provides an easy-to-understand process for assessing the parameters for a school district-wide WiMAX deployment (access, affordability and applications). It provides case study analysis based on project in progress in Palm Beach County, FL of TV over WiMAX, 'controlled' Internet access, school financing/savings
The reader may use the author's unique approach to the 3A's of WiMAX as a process and framework to determine feasibility and launch plan for any potential WiMax project or application-driven deployment.
Key Findings
-One-to-one computing (one laptop per student) is a powerful market driver for the deployment of WiMAX as a wireless broadband access technology
-School districts could provide broadband wireless internet/intranet access for their students at home for as little as $40 per student in capital expenditure of $1/month per student in operational expenditures
-WiMAX-enabled laptops may be the only way for public schools to comply with federal mandates in education (NCLB, ATTAIN)
-WiMAX provides a low-cost means for crossing the digital divide
-The WiMAX in Education market could be $1.8 billion by 2015
A school district can equip each student with a WiMAX enabled laptop extending the school intranet's content and application to the student at home for less than 10% of what a public school district receives in annual federal money per student alone (before state and local funding)
Target Audience
-WiMAX vendors: this will prove to be a very lucrative niche market for those willing to focus on it and adjust their sales and marketing strategy accordingly
-Laptop vendors: They will sell many more laptops more quickly if the laptops can be networked to the school intranet or Internet via a low-cost WiMAX network.
-Computer chip vendors: 45 million public school students using WiMAX-enabled laptops will sell a lot of chips.
-Network devices vendors: WiMAX deployments to schools will sell a lot of routers, servers and other devices.
-Carriers: new technologies such as WiMAX may disrupt their traditional business and how to 'turn the retreat into a parade'
-Educators: How can the instructional yield from one-to-one computing be multiplied using WiMAX?
-School administrators: What is WiMAX and why is it so important to instruction?
-State/Federal/School finance professionals: provides strategies in ;aying for multi-million dollar WiMAX deployments
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