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5GHz Consultation Workshop 1

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Objectives of the group

The group was task with identifying what areas are the expected high volume sales applications to be generated from within the bands?

As a result of the first round of the consultation process the list below contains details of the various applications that were suggested: -

  • Public access to high speed data networks

  • Local delivery of broadband internet access

  • ‘last mile’ distribution

  • high speed data office and home applications

  • conference and classroom/lecture theatre scenarios

  • video point to point

  • portable video

  • short range links in transport environments such as railway platforms

  • vehicle to vehicle links

  • mobility within the corporate network for notebook/laptop

  • IP access to ISPs

  • Hot spot access for travelling business people at locations like airports, conference centers and hotels

  • Infotainment

  • High quality voice and video to the nomadic user

  • Dispersing an incoming broadcast signal around the home

  • Linking multiple users within a building

  • Uses ancillary to program making

  • Outdoor campus LANs

  • Indoor wireless LANs

  • Interactive museum guides

  • Completion of 3G cellular services with Hiperlan type services for corporate and home environments.

No indication had been given as to where the largest volume market lies. The answer to this question is key to all the decisions on the future of the bands, especially the issues concerning partitioning and the potential introduction of public services.

Objectives for Consideration

The objectives for consideration by the group were to achieve the maximum spectral efficiency together with the maximum flexibility in the types of services available within the market.

Suggested applications for the bands

The group set out to define the various types of applications that would be possible within the bands, these are detailed below in bullet form:-

  • Secondary remote media application around the home (local distribution of TV, video and linking home computers).

  • High speed internet access for use by business to business.

  • Educational establishments by using LANs for internal applications and HIPERLANs for external applications within campus.

  • Business purposes (could be anybody) – although the band would require harmonization on a global basis.

  • Laptop computer mobile users, this could be both business and domestic users.

  • Fixed wireless access for the last mile delivery to the SOHO/SME type market.

As can be seen there is a split in terms of the requirements from the different communities.

Applications for LANs

LANs can be used to give access for laptop computers in both the indoor and outdoor environment for both private and public networks. Additional applications also include such things as "Web-Pad" for local screen access to web pages.

Also able to provide a high bandwidth pipe for data transactions between users.

The bands are also seen as giving additional spectrum that will allow for expansion from the existing bands.

Applications for FWA

Can be used in a Point-to-Multipoint configuration to provide the last mile connection to the network for the SOHO/SME market by offering alternative means of connection and providing higher data rates than at present thus enabling such services as fast internet access.

This area causes some problems concerning issues related to what is a public network and what is a private network and the licensing of such networks (both for the WT Act and the T. Act). Also issues relating to the question of quality of service and how this affects the planning requirements.

Other Applications

Other applications that can be accommodated within the bands are for security systems such as CCTV monitoring and remote meter reading.

Home Market Applications

Currently the home market is dominated by one-way systems, although the requirements are changing. Devices are low powered and quality of service has not been an issue.

The market is driven by the cost of the product, which is directly related to the volume of market and the current limitation on broadband access availability.

Demand in the business but will increase from the home market.

Summary of issues

The issues that have been raised within the group are highlighted in bullet for below: -

  • Low power networks

  • Laptop mobility

  • Indoor and outdoor

  • Public and private

  • Web pad local

  • Telemetry

  • Last mile delivery

  • Point-to-Multipoint

  • Internet access

  • Virtual private networks

  • Telemetry (Meter reading)

  • Can migrate to higher frequencies

  • Security monitoring

  • Remote Media ‘Home’

  • High Speed Internet Access (Business to Business)

  • Education: (I) Internal with LANs (ii) External: On campus links

  • Lap-top Mobile Use

Demand for Bandwidth

Suggestions on the requirements for bandwidth required for the various applications that had been discussed are given below:-

  • In-Home 2-20 Mbit/s

  • In-Office 20-100 Mbit/s

  • Nomadic Data 128-256 Kbit/s

  • Voice & Video 128 Kbit/s-2 Mbit/s

  • Access Networks 6 Mbit/s

 

 

 

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