WiMAX Market and Business Assessment

Access, Affordability, and Applications for Education

Publication Date	January 2007
Publisher	Mind Commerce
Product Type	Report
Pages	85
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	MIC00011

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Summary

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.

Content

This publications includes four working Excel spreadsheets:
- Lease calculator
- Cost of laptop and WiMAX as Percentage of Annual Student Allocation
- Pay for WiMAX Through Savings on Telecom and Textbooks
- Pay for WiMAX Through Savings on Tutors and Travel Time
Main Body of Report
- Introduction: Technology to the Kid via 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 Computing
- Converging 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: Palm Beach County School District, 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 Are networked student laptops inevitable?
- Figure 2 Most US schools have computer labs with desktop computers networked to the school's intranet content and applications
- Figure 3 Access to a school computer lab is limited geographically
- Figure 4 School connectivity for a majority of schools. For many kids, technology ends at the school house
- Figure 5 Campus-wide wireless network access with one-to-one laptop programs extends network access campus-wide
- Figure 6 WiMAX extends the school intranet content and applications to the student home
- Figure 7 A school district-wide WiMAX network connects the student to the school's intranet content and applications
- Figure 8 The 3 elements that comprise a telecommunications network: Access, switching and transport (backhaul)
- Figure 9 WiMAX performance parameters make it an excellent education technology
- Figure 10 Wi-Fi serves a coffee shop or home. WiMAX serves a city
- Figure 11 WiMAX nomenclature: base station and subscriber station
- Figure 12 WiMAX base station and antenna combinations
- Figure 13 WiMAX access or subscriber devices
- Figure 14 Line of sight offers better range and throughput than non line of sight
- Figure 15 Link budget illustrated
- Figure 16 On campus WiMAX delivers a throughput of multiple megabits per second
- Figure 17 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 18 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 19 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 20 Backhaul supports WiMAX base stations, which in turn support student at home internet access
- Figure 21 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 annual federal allocation
- Figure 22 Satellite imagery of the US at night reveals concentration of population more easily served by WiMAX