Wireless IP: An idea whose time has come!

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Wireless IP An idea whose time has come!

• Dewayne Hendricks

Warp Speed Imagineering
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Introduction

• How does one deploy wireless to solve local loop
  issues?
• CO-PI, NSF Wireless Field Test Project

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Topics of Discussion

• Technologies
• Regulatory Issues
• Deployment Issues

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Technologies

• Part 15 Spread Spectrum Devices
• Antennas and Feedline
• Economics and Rate of change

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Regulatory Issues

• FCC is model to rest of the world
• Unlicensed devices have been a major succes in
  the US
• Recent U-NII Band decision is a major milestone
• More work is need to reach the Gilder vision

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Deployment Issues

• Treat it as a system
• Wireless remains a black art!!
• Site surveys are important
• Nothing beats wireless for rapid deployment!!

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Real Life

• Mongolian Wireless Field Test Project
• Benefits to use of wireless as local loop
  alternative

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What This Means

• Wireless/Radio is very hard to do in practice!!!
• There will be no standards for some time to come.
• New technology is required to scale up local
  deployment
• Spectrum is needed at multiple points in the RF
  spectrum

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Next Steps

• Check out NSF WFT website lthttp//wireless.oldcol
  o.com/gt
• Check out Wireless LAN/MAN website
  lthttp//hydra.carleton.ca/info/wlan.html/gt
• Check out TAPR website lthttp//www.tapr.org/ss/gt
• Address spectrum issues in your country!!
• Define a pilot project and deploy it!!