Abstract
Overview
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.
Written by subject matter expert, Frank Ohrtman, a consultant on multiple
WiMAX projects in US and abroad and author of WiMAX Handbook: Building 802.16
Wireless Networks and WiMAX in 50 Pages, this publication provides an
easy-to-understand process for assessing the parameters for a school
district-wide WiMAX deployment (access, affordability and applications). It
provides case study analysis based on project in progress in Palm Beach
County, FL of TV over WiMAX, "controlled" Internet access, school
financing/savings
The reader may use the author' s unique approach to the 3A' s of WiMAX as a
process and framework to determine feasibility and launch plan for any
potential WiMax project or application-driven deployment.
Key Findings
- One-to-one computing (one laptop per student) is a powerful market driver
for the deployment of WiMAX as a wireless broadband access technology
- School districts could provide broadband wireless internet/intranet access
for their students at home for as little as $40 per student in capital
expenditure of $1/month per student in operational expenditures
- WiMAX-enabled laptops may be the only way for public schools to comply
with federal mandates in education (NCLB, ATTAIN)
- WiMAX provides a low-cost means for crossing the digital divide
- The WiMAX in Education market could be $1.8 billion by 2015
A school district can equip each student with a WiMAX enabled laptop
extending the school intranet' s content and application to the student at home
for less than 10% of what a public school district receives in annual federal
money per student alone (before state and local funding)
Target Audience
- WiMAX vendors: this will prove to be a very lucrative niche market
for those willing to focus on it and adjust their sales and marketing strategy
accordingly
- Laptop vendors: They will sell many more laptops more quickly if
the laptops can be networked to the school intranet or Internet via a low-cost
WiMAX network.
- Computer chip vendors: 45 million public school students using
WiMAX-enabled laptops will sell a lot of chips.
- Network devices vendors: WiMAX deployments to schools will sell a
lot of routers, servers and other devices.
- Carriers: new technologies such as WiMAX may disrupt their
traditional business and how to "turn the retreat into a parade"
- Educators: How can the instructional yield from one-to-one
computing be multiplied using WiMAX?
- School administrators: What is WiMAX and why is it so important to
instruction?
- State/Federal/School finance professionals: provides strategies in
;aying for multi-million dollar WiMAX deployments
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