WiMAX Business Planning Package

Table of Contents

• Executive Summary
• The 3 A' s of the WiMAX-enabled Enterprise or Residential Service Provider
• WiMAX as Access
• IMS Vision
• Why WiMAX as access technology?
• WiMAX is not Wi-Fi
• WiMAX Components
• WiMAX Base Stations
• Outdoor CPE
• Indoor CPE
• USB, Laptop card or similar
• Femtocells
• Independence from competitors or why backhaul is important
• Wireless Backhaul Considerations
• Voice (telephony): the "killer app" for WiMAX or "access" to telephone networks
• VoIP Architecture
• Video
• Applications
• Residential or Business Market?
• Residential market
• Business Market Applications: Generic
• T1/DS3 Substitute = converged voice + data
• Disaster Recovery
• Combating high telecom costs and/or Building Diversity
• Business Market Applications: Specific-Industry Verticals
• Retail
• Banking
• Healthcare
• Transportation
• Utilities
• Agriculture
• Construction
• Petroleum/Energy
• Customer Service
• Reach vs Rich: Its your choice
• Affordability: WiMAX
• Lower CAPEX/OPEX = potential for faster RoI + profitability
• Strategies: WiMAX service provider pitch to the enterprise
• Custom Built WiMAX Network for Enterprise Private Use
• Base Station and Enterprise Density
• Affording WiMAX
• Determining Affordability
• What is over subscription (OSR)?
• Spectral Efficiency
• OPEX and CAPEX for a WiMAX Business Plan
• Capital Expense Elements
• Objections and suggested Responses
• Exit Strategy
• Summary
• Appendix A Executive Biographies
• Appendix B Financial Projections

• 1.0 General and Administrative Provisions
• 2.0 General Requirements
• 3.0 Buyer Executive Summary
• 4.0 Backhaul Solution
• 5.0 Point-to-Multi Point Base Station Solutions
• 6.0 Subscriber Station (CPE) Solution
• 7.0 Network/Element Monitoring/Management or Back Office Solution
• 8.0 Site Survey
• 9.0 Installation
• 1.0 Ongoing Network Management Monitoring
• 11.0 Training
• 12.0 Maintenance contract
• 13.0 Tier 1, 2, 3 Customer Support