Table of Contents
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
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