Future of Wi-Fi and WiMAX in the ME

Future of Wi-Fi and WiMAX in the ME

Prepared by:

Salah ShataWiFi / WiMAX Program Manager

BTC – [email protected]

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RFID - NFCRFID - NFC

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RFID - NFDRFID - NFD

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Last three years in ME

• WiFi Zones

• Public Areas applications

• WiFi Phones

• Fixed pre-Wimaxed links.

• Triple Player (Video, Data & Voice) over wireless.

• ………

WiFi Hot Spots

• Café Shops

• Airports

• Railway stations

• Hospitals

• Public areas

• …..

Wireless Cities (Open Access WiFi)

• San Francisco

• Moscow

• Rwanda

• Los Anglos

• Riyadh

• Philadelphia

• ……….

WiFi , RFID & NFC

WiFi , RFID & NFC

• Overall the interaction between phone and RFID tags has been good. The reader/writer is on the base of the phone, at the bottom. This seems a little awkward to use at first, but slowly becomes natural.

• NFC offers a simple, touch-based solution that allows consumers to exchange information and to access content and services in an intuitive way.

NFC Applications

Can be used in:

• Car Parking

• Super Markets

• Petrol Stations

• Public Areas …..

• …..

City of Caen, France, to demonstrate simplicity of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology

Wi-Fi Hotspots at 40,000 feet height

• Time, for many of passengers, definitely is money.

• Many of airlines understanding this need,

• Emirates is the first airlines in ME has invested in the WiFi hotspot making it possible.

Mosquito-FiMosquito catching over Wi-Fi

• It’s an electronic vacuum cleaner that omits odors attractive to mosquitoes.

• better to kill mosquitoes before they breed!

WiFi Against Mosquito rights group

• “We've meshed a great mosquito-catching machine with a computer technology on top of it, and wireless network technology on top of that, and then turned it into a great defensive shield against mosquitoes coming into your habitat” … Devin Hosea, AmBio CEO

• “So far we don't know of any mosquito rights group, so it's totally PC to kill as many as you want” … Devin Hosea, AmBio CEO

http://cnet.com.au/wireless/0,39028844,40058467,00.htm

Why are we interested in WiMAX?

• bandwidth

• QoS

• services

• standards

and a rural model ….

WiMAX Access Application

1st mile & Last mile

WiMAX/3G Debate

• Is WiMAX a threat to 3G ?

• Voice networks backhauls.

• Mobily Case in Saudi …

• ITC …

IEEE / ETSI Standards

IEEE, ETSI & WIMAX for Fixed

IEEE, ETSI & WIMAX for Mobile

Solar powered WiFi/WiMax

• solar-powered WiFi router/WiMax router/surveillance cam that can be situated a top a streetlight. The access point may uses a high gain omni antenna and a high gain parabolic antenna to provide access/security to both developed and developing regions; it is already in use in Cameroon, with plans for deployment to India, China, and Morocco.

WiMAX Planning & Designing

• The major challenge for WiMAX designing in ME is GIS availability.

• Satellite service provider

ME GIS

DhahranAbqaiq

Udhailiyah

Ras Tanura

Tanajib

Yanbu

Rabigh

Saudi GIS

Smart Antennas Designing

• because the available broadcast spectrum is limited, attempts to increase traffic within a fixed bandwidth create more interference in the system and degrade the signal quality

Smart Antennas (Beamforming)

Smart Antennas System Non-Smart Antennas System

Will Mobile WiMAX Kill Wi-Fi?

• The approval of the IEEE 802.16e standard for mobile WiMAX raises many unanswered questions about the

future of Wi-Fi. • About 90 % of laptops are now delivered with built-in

support for Wi-Fi.

• The number of public Wi-Fi hotspots continues to grow.

• Mesh WiFi … will be deployed 2006/2007

Mobile WiMAX won’t kill Wi-Fi

Competitive, But Not a Replacement

Wi-Fi & WiMAX are Friends

WiBRO 2006 @ Korea

• Wireless Broadband Access, part of the IEEE 802.16 family.

• 2.3 GHz closely related to the mobile WiMAX.• WiBro rollout this year @ South Korean.• Government has mandated that WiBro will have a

minimum download of 512 Kbps and a minimum upload 128 Kbps.

• WiMAX to backhoul the Wibro• Samsung has demonstrated a 4 Mbps download

and 2 Mbps upload.• Samsung announced a PDA with WiBro

capability.

MAKKA Case Study

MAKKA Case Study

Ministry of Hajj in Saudi:

• To cover the whole Makka area wireless.

• More than 450 buildings to be connected.

• Mena & Arafat second phase coverage.

• Smart automated system to manage the Hajj season.

• WiMAX / WiFi application

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