KistaOpen.Net KTH Communication Systems Design 2002

Content Participants Problem, Solution & Goal Current Situation & Achievements Difficulties & Lessons Learned SWOT Further Work Summary

Participants Bo Liu Ning Zhou Stanislav Grozev Victor Kordas Elisabet Frankenberg = 4 nationalities + 4 study programs

Participants Coaches: Joakim Wiling Jonas Willén Principal: Björn Pehrson Sponsors: Birka Energi Centrumutveckling Private Gateway

Background The current situation of network evolution has shifted the power from the network to the users. Alone, the users are not able to make a full use of this advantage offered to them.

Problem, Solution and Goal -Users -Service Providers -Network Owner 3 actors, 3 perspectives:

Problem, Solution & Goal New concept – Operator Neutral Network New actor – Communication Operator - that will: help users exploit their power offer competitive environment for service providers provide advantage for property owners generate profit to secure its own existence

Problem, Solution & Goal study the requirements for a Communication Operator create a procurement document based on this study use this document in the context of two projects – Kista Gallerian and Mobile Intranet Access. Our goal consists of three parts:

Current Situation & Achievements Current Situation We work on the requirements for a communication operator. Achievements we work as a team we have a clear vision of our goal we have formulated what we want to know we have met two companies and studied the way they look at the problem.

Difficulties Information processing We are slow in working with documents in Swedish Lack of Efficiency We spend more time than necessary to complete a task Communication We do not understand each other sometimes

Lessons Learned 1.Efficient communication – important but difficult to achieve 2.Time management – never succeeded 3.Decision making – lack of flexibility

SWOT Strengths – good team spirit Weaknesses – efficiency Opportunities – to receive the help we need Threats – to be delayed by unexpected work and limited access to useful information

Further Work What we can help with: - any information with concern to our work - assistance with tasks, relevant to our goal - arrange a meeting for discussion What we need help with: - assistance with documents in Swedish - assistance with our market research We will continue with market investigation and closer cooperation with three projects: KistaOpen.Org, KistaGallerian, MobileIntranetAccess

Summary 1.We work on the new concept of operator neutral networks with the focus on the communication operator. 2.We want to help all involved actors to benefit from the current network development. 3.We are willing to collaborate with any group that finds our project interesting.

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