1 Wi-Fi, Wireless Broadband, Sensor & Personal Area Networks –Standards –Applications Broadband Wireless Access –WiMAX –Adapting 3G for WBA: UMTS TDD Personal Area Networks: Bluetooth, RFID, UWB Sensor Networks - Zigbee Comparisons of Technologies & Applications
2 What is Wi-Fi? A wireless Ethernet standard –Wi-Fi - (wireless fidelity) IEEE b, a & g Why standards matter The downside of standards
Standards n Range Capacity Data Rate Why these matter
4 Portability in Enterprises Laptops & handheld computers Cabling Need for computers in common areas Reliance on GroupWare Applications in vertical industries
Components Access points The user interface Switches Controllers Wireless access point Modem to the Internet Each computer has a Wi-Fi compatible card or chip & antenna
6 Workgroup switches (which are on individual floors), access points, and a core switch in an enterprise network.
7 Wi-Fi in Hot Spots Speed Convenience Benefits to providers
8 A Clearinghouse for Single Sign on & Billing Clearinghouse passes billing data to WISP who bills user & pays clearing house a fee
9 A secure virtual private network (VPN) connection between hotspots and enterprises using tunneling
10 WISPs & Aggregators WISPs –Wayport –T-Mobile Aggregators –Boingo - billing “uber-aggregator” –GoRemote –iPass –Fiberlink
11 Mesh networks
12 Hot Spot Remote Access Lost PDAs & laptops Eavesdropping Stolen data Log in to WISP authenticated but data not secured
13 Wi-Fi in Homes Why did residential customers use Wi-Fi earlier than business & commercial customers? How will future residential applications differ from initial applications? Is there a downside to Wi-Fi in homes?
14 Voice over IP on corporate wireless networks
15 Security Security on wireless services compared to that of wireline Software on access points or devices connected to corporate networks Software on clients
16 What can go wrong? Unauthorized access Snooping Competitive information compromised Rogue access points
17 Security Tools WEP - Wired Equivalent Privacy –Easy to “crack” –Shared passwords WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) i subset –128 bit level of encryption - more scrambled –“Keys” between user & access point changed more frequently
18 Implications for the CIO Complexity Vs. ease of administration
19 Compared to cellular 13% of the cost of cellular data to provision* Stationary Speed Coverage * Craig Mathias, the Farpoint Group
20 What about WiMAX? d - fixed e - mobile Longer distances MMDS - Multipoint Microwave Distribution System Will these go the way of WinStar & Teligent?
21 WiMAX service with overlapping wireless coverage between towers for redundancy
22 WiMAX to Extend Wireline Networks Provider’s Tower Fiber ISP Customers’ antennas
23 Bluetooth Short distances 2.4 GHz Standards Version 1 vs. Version 2 Bluetooth wireless links Palm
24 RFID service in hospitals to manage assets
25 Ultra-wideband (UWB) low-power signals
26 A ZigBee partial mesh network
27 Summary Wi-Fi use in enterprises will increase when:___ Hot spots compared to Cellular? –Will wane as 3G grows –Will outpace 3G Explain the differences & similarities between fixed & mobile WiMAX Compare: bluetooth, RFID, Ultra-Wideband & Zigbee