AD-HOC Kick-off Meeting October 2001, Crete, Greece
AD-HOC Kick-off, Crete, Oct-2001 FORTHnet SA b Spin-off of FORTH b Established in 1995 as ISP b Full Telecom Service Provider b Bundling services: telecommunicationtelecommunication applicationapplication b Over customers b 250 full-time employes b Public in ASE since Sept’ 2000
Subsidiaries & Partnerships Subsidiaries & Partnerships
AD-HOC Kick-off, Crete, Oct-2001 FORTHnet R&D Department b TEMeTeN b InterCare b TEN-TELEMED b SIAMS b GUIDE-FREE b groupSMS
AD-HOC Kick-off, Crete, Oct-2001 Network Services Development b Virtual Office b Notification Services b Crete Telework Network b User Profiling and Matching b WAP services b groupSMS and groupMMS b Infobeam Points (GF)
AD-HOC Kick-off, Crete, Oct-2001 Available Technologies b Wireless Internet. GPRS, UMTSGPRS, UMTS b Images / pages over WAPover WAP b Mobile Messaging Services SMS, EMSSMS, EMS b Wireless Local Links (WLAN, Bluetooth)
AD-HOC Kick-off, Crete, Oct-2001 Wireless Networks b Wireless and instant connections between various devices b InfoKiosks for downloading information wirelessly AD-HOC: Download information about language and local dialect
AD-HOC Kick-off, Crete, Oct-2001 Mobile Devices b PDAs with colour screens b WAP phones b Mobile phone used as fast wireless modem b Combination of the above
AD-HOC Kick-off, Crete, Oct-2001 Personal Digital Assistants Windows CE –Compaq iPAQ –Casio E-125 – HP Jornada Palm OS –Palm Vx –Handspring Visor –Sony PEG-S300 Epoc –Nokia Communicator –Ericsson Smart Phones
AD-HOC Kick-off, Crete, Oct-2001 PDA specifications b b Mobile pocket-sized electronic devices b b TFT display with up to 65,536 colors b b Stereo Sound, build-in Speaker & Microphone b b 206 MHz CPU, up to 64MB RAM in-board b b Communications via Infrared Port, RS-232 serial port, Bluetooth, USB connection Add-on accessories with CF or PCMCIA card
AD-HOC Kick-off, Crete, Oct-2001 Mobile Internet Mobile phones Network
AD-HOC Kick-off, Crete, Oct-2001 Multi-devices b Devices that can function as modems, PDAs, even as GPS receivers Nokia 9210Nokia 9210 Ericsson CommunicatorEricsson Communicator VisorVisor b Devices (usually PDA) in combination with add-on devices like cameras, modems, etc
AD-HOC Kick-off, Crete, Oct-2001 Web Page Technologies b HTML b ASP b Javascript b Advanced S/W tools (eg Flash)