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-One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), One-to-One Computing and WiMAX: Access, -Affordability and Applications for Education -Introduction: Technology to the Kid via One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), One-to-One -Computing and WiMAX -Technology to the kid AND the classroom -One-to-One Computing and Federally-mandated Technology Literacy -The School Intranet: The Value Statement for Networked One-to-One --ComputingConverging One-to-One Computing and School Networks -Extending the School Network via Wireless -Technology to the Kid: At school or at home -Market Drivers for the WiMAX-enabled One-to-One Laptop -Government mandates -Private vs. public networks -The 3 A's of WiMAX-enabled One-to-One Computing -Access -Why WiMAX? -Objections to WiMAX -WiMAX is not Wi-Fi -WiMAX Components -Relationship of WiMAX Range and Throughput for School Applications -Base Station and Student Density -Fixed vs. Mobile WiMAX -Why backhaul is important -Wireless Backhaul Considerations -Comparisons with Fiber -Spectrum Considerations -Access Conclusion -Affordability -WiMAX is inexpensive relative to other technologies -What does a one-to-one WiMAX-enabled laptop program cost? -Case Study: School District of Palm Beach County, Florida -Savings on Existing Expenditures -Telecom and Textbooks -Other Instruction-Related Expenses -School assets Government mandates-can a school district afford to NOT comply? -Conclusion -Applications -Literacy -Numeracy -Writing -Who benefits? -Parents -Teachers -Hall Monitors and Deans of Students -Administrators -Technical Applications -Textbooks -Video -Voice -Selling to school districts -Gauging the market -Revenue Potential -Extrapolating by student head count -Estimates based on Cahners Report -Estimates based on Sprint Nextel Press Releases -Who should do this? -Schools "roll your own" -Carriers -Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) -WiMAX Service Providers -How to sell to schools -Long sales cycles -Facilitate across departments -Need to compete in RFI/RFQ/RFP processes -Need to partner with other vendors -Establish marketing intelligence database -Aggregate, aggregate, aggregate -Find the money: grants, etc -Get a success story, even if you have to give it away! -Conclusion and Recommendations -Recommendations -Schools and Instructional Institutions -Network Operators and Service Providers -Equipment Suppliers and Systems Integrators List of Figures -Figure 1 The XO laptop, aka "$100 laptop", AMD's platform for gaining the next -billion internet subscribers. Note antennae and USB port for wireless access. -Figure 2 Intel's low cost laptop, the Classmate; Intel's approach to landing the next -billion internet subscribers. New Intel chips enable WiMAX as well as Wi-Fi -functionality. -Figure 3 Are networked student laptops inevitable? -Figure 4 Most US schools have computer labs with desktop computers networked to the school's intranet content and applications -Figure 5 Access to a school computer lab is limited geographically -Figure 6 School connectivity for a majority of schools. For many kids, technology ends at the school house -Figure 7 Campus-wide wireless network access with one-to-one laptop programs extends network access campus-wide -Figure 8 WiMAX extends the school intranet content and applications to the student home -Figure 9 A school district-wide WiMAX network connects the student to the school's intranet content and applications-Figure 10 The 3 elements that comprise a telecommunications network: Access, switching and transport (backhaul)-Figure 11 WiMAX performance parameters make it an excellent education technology -Figure 12 Wi-Fi serves a coffee shop or home. WiMAX serves a city -Figure 13 WiMAX nomenclature: base station and subscriber station -Figure 14 WiMAX base station and antenna combinations -Figure 15 WiMAX access or subscriber devices -Figure 16 Line of sight offers better range and throughput than non line of sight -Figure 17 Link budget illustrated -Figure 18 On campus WiMAX delivers a throughput of multiple megabits per second -Figure 19 A WiMAX-enabled laptop can enjoy a range of one mile with throughput -equal to DSL. WiMAX extends student access to the school's intranet content and applications to the student's home -Figure 20 Note populated areas of Palm Beach County, Florida (where the students live) are concentrated on the coast. Compare with figure below for school locations and WiMAX coverage -Figure 21 Placing a WiMAX base station ate each of Palm Beach County Schools 172 schools covers a majority of the populated area of Palm Beach County Figure 22 Backhaul supports WiMAX base stations, which in turn support student at home internet access -Figure 23 Cover Palm Beach County, Florida at a cost of $7 million for 170,000 students = $41 per student in one-time CAPEX or lease for $1/month/student on a 48 month lease or 5% of school district's per student annual allocation -Figure 24 Satellite imagery of the US at night reveals concentration of population more easily served by WiMAX List of Tables Table 1 The progression to "one-to-one" computing. Table 2 Comparison of Wi-Fi and WiMAX for school district use Table 3 Comparison of Wi-Fi and WiMAX Table 4 Comparison fixed vs. mobile WiMAX Table 5 Comparisons of wireless backhaul with other options Table 6 Comparison of wireless vs. fiber optic cable as backhaul solution Table 7 School WiMAX-related spectrum Table 8 Comparisons of the costs for technologies for residential internet access Table 9 Comparisons for monthly internet/intranet access accounts for public school students plus laptop lease as a percentage of annual subsidy per student Table 10 School district operations savings on telecommunications, textbooks, manpower and insurance for WiMAX network Table 11 Cost savings related to instruction using WiMAX networks Table 12 Assets a school district may have that a telephone company would have to buy Table 13 Federal mandates on education where WiMAX-enabled laptops provide a solution