Wireless Products in the Workplace

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Wireless Products in the Workplace
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Tomorrows Wireless Workplace
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Wireless LAN Market Evolution
Small Business Home
Horizontal Applications
Corporate Mobility
Healthcare Education Financial
Vertical Applications
Manufacturing Warehousing Retail
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Wireless LAN Standards
10/user
10 Mbps HomeRF
1.6 Mbps HomeRF
100/user
11 Mbps 802.11b Wi-Fi
24 Mbps HIPERLAN 1
1-2 Mbps 802.11
1000/user
54 Mbps 802.11a/HIPERLAN 2
2001
2003
2005
1999
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Wireless LAN Migration to Wi-FiTM
Source Cahners/Instat, 3Com, 1/00
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Bluetooth Primer

• Low-power, short-range cable replacement
• 721 Kbps
• 10 meters
• voice and data support
• application portability via standard profiles and
  objects
• Likely defacto standard for low cost wireless
• Nine Promoters 3Com, Intel, Ericsson, Lucent,
  Nokia, IBM, Microsoft, Motorola, Toshiba
• 1200 adopters with 14 silicon providers
• Wide array of applications
• Wireless peripherals
• Wireless personal area network (PAN)
• Light access to LAN and WAN

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Bluetooth Enabled Devices
Bluetooth Penetration by Device Type
Sources IDC, Strategis, Ericsson and 3Com
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Bluetooth Extended PAN
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Palm Bluetooth Connectivity
wireless
via cell phone
Wireless Connectivity to World

• Wireless HotSync
• Web Clipping
• Messaging

Pass call to Headset
Optional Bluetooth Wireless headset
wireless or wireline
RF Beaming
wireline
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Bluetooth Wi-FiTM in the Workplace
Bluetooth User
Wired LAN
Wi-Fi Wireless LAN
Bluetooth User
Bluetooth Visitor
Bldg Lobby
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Wireless WAN ConnectivityOptions for Handheld
Computers
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Palm VII
THE TRULY CONNECTED HANDHELD COMPUTER

• A Palm Computing platform device
• Instant access to Internet data
• Wireless Internet messaging
• Instant, hassle-free activation
• Weeks of battery life
• Starting at 9.99/month service fee

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Hardware

• Integrated Palm III and RF circuitry
• smaller, cheaper, lower power, no configuration
• Palm III industrial design
• 2MB RAM
• Flash upgradable
• IRDA
• Antenna serves as an on button
• Weeks of life on 2 AAA batteries

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Palm.net Overview
Sports
Travel
THE INTERNET

PALM DATA CENTER
News
Stocks
Encryption Compression UDP
SSL HTTP TCP
Legacy Applications
THE ENTERPRISE
Examples Database (Oracle, Sybase) ERP (SAP) Help
desk (Remedy) Workgroup (Lotus) Enterprise
management(CA Unicenter) Middleware (TIBCO)

• Standards based
• Security good enough for Fidelity, B of A, Amazon
  
• Easy trial

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Web Clipping
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In Box Content Partnerswith 250 more
applications available growing ...
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B to C Financial Apps
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Enterprise App - EBA Siebel
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Palm Economy Application Developers

• 35,000 Registered Solution Providers
• 4,000 Applications
• Enterprise 30?, Retail 5 ?, Shareware
  37?
• Accelerating Growth, 1,000 new Developers / Week
• Web Clipping Solution Providers
• 1,900 Registered
• 250 Applications
• Global Alliance Program
• Dedicated Relationship Teams
• Alliances Oracle, Computer Associates, SAP,
  PeopleSoft, Tivoli, Lotus, Remedy, IBM/DB2

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Data Migration Path to 3G WWAN
3G Fixed access at 2Mbps
2 M 384 K 144 K 64 K 14.4 K 9.6 K
3G Phase II IS-2000 Rel A (3XRTT) Packet Data /
Voice / Video
3G Phase I IS-2000 Rel 0 (1XRTT) Packet Data
Subscriber Data Rate
2.5G IS-95B Packet Data
2G IS-95-A Circuit Switched QNC
1G Analogue Cellular
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
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Conclusions

• Wireless data apps have a practical use - today
• Wi-Fi Wireless LANs
• Palm VIITM
• Bluetooth will be adopted for PANs
• more exotic applications uncertain
• A variety of wireless WAN solutions will co-exist
• Richness of content
• Latency and speed
• Ergonomics
• Think SONY WalkmanTM

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And now for what youve all been waiting for
The GIVEAWAY