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Author: Alan Weissberger

  • Will accelerating Internet traffic growth produce a bandwidth famine? Is congestion slowing down your Internet experience?

    Yesterday, I read a very thought provoking article in Broadband Properties magazine (I have a print sub).  It stimulated my thinking on Internet bandwidth growth and network congestion. I have recently been keenly aware of how long it is taking some web pages to load and I can only attribute that to Internet congestion (probably caused…

  • Maravedis-BWA Webinar: WiMAX Counts 1Q08 Market Survey

    Overview: The global Broadband Wireless Access (BWA)/ WiMAX subscriber base increased by more than 200,000 in the first quarter of 2008, reaching nearly 2 million (1.98M ) subscribers worldwide, according to Montreal based market research and analysis firm Maravedis. Service revenue increased more than 20% to $366.2M.    Author’s Note:   It is not clear how many…

  • IEEE ComSoc-SCV Workshop: Location Based Technologies and Services

    Summary of Location Based Technologies and Services Workshop [June 19, 2008, Crown Plaza Hotel, San Francisco International Airport]  Alan J. Weissberger IEEE ComSoc- SCV Secretary and Program Chair Backgrounder:   Yankee Group tele-briefing report on Location Based Services and Technologies: http://viodi.com/2008/06/13/location-based-services-and-technologies/ Speaker Remarks 1. Dave Reid, Director of Business Development, SiRF Technology Inc. http://sirf.com/   The…

  • Market for Location Based Services and Technologies

    Note:  IEEE ComSoc SCV had a great workshop on this topic June 19th at the SFO Crown Plaza Hotel.  The workshop summary report appears elsewhere on viodi.com. The following notes are a transcription from a Yankee Group LBS telebriefing I attended June 12, 2008: Location Based Services (LBS):  The Final Destination • Navigation is a great first…

  • WiMAX Patent Pool Planned by Cisco Systems Inc., Intel Corp., Samsung Electronics Co., Sprint Nextel Corp., Alcatel-Lucent and Clearwire

    Computerworld and the WSJ articles state that several WiMAX stakeholders will jointly license patents that cover WiMAX technology in an attempt to limit royalty rates that could deter customers from using it. The group of six, now known as the Open Patent Alliance (OPA), wants to make IPR costs predictable so that the WiMAX ecosystem will grow.…

  • 2nd Update on WiMAX in India article

    July 15, 2008 update:  More disputes threaten to delay India’s WiMAX goldrush, by Caroline Gabriel India is absolutely critical to the fortunes of WiMAX, and the level of uptake in the huge nation will help decide how prominent a position 802.16e takes in the overall wireless landscape in the next decade. There are many reasons…