Over the last decade, the tremendous growth in the mobile Internet user population has been accompanied by an exciting evolution in wireless networks. 4G wireless systems, currently in the design and scheduled to be deployed in the next decade, are expected to support considerably high data rates, and will be based on Internet technology, making them an integral part of the Internet infrastructure. Users are expected to be able to receive the same services over wireless as they do over wired networks, including high bandwidth applications like interactive multimedia and multi-player games. Furthermore, these services will be provided over a diverse set of environments including indoor home and office, city roaming, outdoor remote areas, and global satellite regions.

NextWave.IT Ltd have reviewed current developments toward future mobile broadband networks, and the 4G paradigm of internetworking and will give some perspectives on likely trends in future wireless broadband networking.  The review focuses on were wireless broadband Internet and related technologies are heading. We show how different networks play their own roles in the emerging infrastructure so that we can travel the broadband Internet network from small mobile devices toward global internetworking.

The findings of our analysis show that the information surrounding wireless developments has led to the 4G infrastructure becoming more pervasive, leading to a society where broadband connectivity is available always when stationary and most of the time when on the move. It is envisioned that users will be seamlessly assigned and reassigned to the appropriate level in the roaming area based on their mobility requirements.

In our 4G future, it is our recommendation for both business and home users that mobile devices, home appliances and wireless networks require adaptive carrier sense solutions at different levels of internetworking, and Quality of Services (QOS) for all environments and levels of users.

Mark Bower

Director

NextWave.IT Limited

www.nextwaveit.biz

enquiry@nextwaveit.biz

Free spirits can now roam whenever the mood takes them, thanks to Wireless Internet (WiFi). The mobile Internet is finally here and mobile communications has changed the way we communicate. By removing the barriers of place, people worldwide have new and rewarding ways of connecting with others – both privately and for business. The possibility of anytime, anywhere communications brings choice and freedom. With almost 2 billion users in the next decade, mobile devices will be the main method of communication.

The next few years will see the further convergence of mobile communications and the Internet towards a shared architecture. This mobile Internet will not be simply the Internet of today accessed from a mobile device. Instead, we will be using custom applications and services profiled according to our personal preferences.

To stimulate innovation and enable contributions by many collaborators, a shared architecture based on open technologies and standards is necessary. This will result in innovative and interoperable services that benefit the mobile users, and business opportunities for innovative companies.

The mobile Internet vision assumes users will use different mobile devices for connecting to many different services, via various access networks. In practice, this means that users must be able to access their personalized services through mobile devices that best fit their needs and whereabouts. It encompasses universal and integrated instant person-to-person or person-to-business visual communications. This is a complete new media that will revolutionize the way we communicate.

Currently, with the launch of the first third generation (3G) phones, and the growth of Bluetooth-enabled mobile devices, it’s finally becoming possible for people to get the same online experience on the move as they do at home. More important than this, though, WiFi is becoming a cost-efficient way for users to create home entertainment networks, share bandwidth across communities, and get Internet access through their own mobile devices when travelling –all without having to seek out the nearest Internet café or public library.

WiFi has been championed by technical boffins over the last decade as a further means of democratising the Internet, and it’s finally emerged as the most exciting development in the online world since the launch of broadband in the late 1990s. It offers the potential to make high-speed Internet access ever-present, whether checking your email in the train station, the airport lounge, hotel room, hospital, university or Internet café, or getting wireless broadband access in the remote corners of the country, where ADSL and cable providers fear to tread. You connect to the WiFi network by using a wireless supplier’s Service Set Identifier (SSID) - Megabeam the name used to identify a network - and are then redirected to the company’s site to buy credits.

Both 3G and Bluetooth are corporate-driven, hugely marketed attempts to bring the power of the Internet to our mobile lifestyles: that’s partly because their entrepreneurs have the opportunity to reduce costs on expensive corporate communication networks.

It’s this kind of mobile lifestyle which is set to change people’s attitudes about when and where they get to go online. For British users, all too used to rationing their surfing time or risking high telephone bills, that can only be a good thing.

Mark Bower, Director

NextWave.IT Limited

www.nextwaveit.biz

enquiry@nextwaveit.biz

Wireless networking is revolutionising the way people work and play. By removing physical wiring commonly associated with high-speed networking, individuals are able to use networks in ways never thought possible in the past. The wireless revolution will require bringing the Internet and mobile devices together into a seamless mobile system, allowing access to information that is not only independent of the source of the information, but also independent of the location of the person accessing it. Wireless voice communications build on the mobile phone network, and wireless data applications that are based on that and the Internet has the potential to be a huge future market.

The mobile system is not just the mobile device, but also the combination of air network, cable connections, servers, PC’s, software, networking, information, and everything else that makes the mobile device in my hand usable.

Mobile devices will have to be handheld and small enough to put in your pocket to become usable everywhere. Examples of mobile devices are mobile phones, personal digital assistants, and mini laptops. To find information on the street with a laptop can take up to three minutes. If you can’t pick up the mobile device and walk out the building while maintaining contact and continuing to use the applications you were using, it is not really mobile.

Independence of the user network, whether it is cabled or wireless, is one feature of the web revolution that has changed the way we design applications and information systems. The browser is the platform on which you design the information access and interactions of the user, not the operating system. Family members can check email from anywhere in the house, and they can pool resources with neighbours and share one community broadband Internet connection.

Wireless users have many more opportunities in front of them, but those opportunities open up the user to greater risk. With wireless networking, there is little physical security. The radio waves that make wireless networking possible are also what make wireless networking open to eavesdropping. A user can be anywhere nearby listening to all the traffic from you network.

Wireless networks are showing up everywhere. Businesses are deploying WLANs to allow employees to roam freely around locations without leaving the network. People weren’t meant to sit in the same place, day in and day out, the combination of a PDA and wireless networking providing Internet access wherever we go is liberating. Some airports offer wireless access so mobile users can continue to be productive while waiting for plane departures, and communities are banding together to provide wireless Internet access to homes that may not have direct access to wired broadband networks.

Mark Bower

Director

NextWave.IT Limited

www.nextwaveit.biz

enquiry@nextwaveit.biz

Airbourne Wireless Broadband

Angel Technologies Corporation and its partners are highly encouraged by technological and manufacturing advances in the aviation, wireless, data communications, mobile networking, and multimedia communications fields. They believe that they have an opportunity to organize an innovative broadband communications network that includes a new stratospheric communications layer.

Its work suggests the HALO Network will be able to offer wireless broadband communications services to a super metropolitan area, an area encompassing a typical large city and its surrounding communities. The aircraft will carry the hub of the network from which it will serve thousands of mobile users on the ground. Each mobile user will be able to communicate at high-speed through a simple-to-install mobile device. The HALO Network will be evolved at a pace with the emergence globally of key technologies from the RF software radio, voice and data communications, and network equipment fields. The HALO Network will be a template that Angel Technologies will evolve and replicate to grow a global business.

The integrated functioning of our nervous systems (perhaps best exemplified by the real-time feedback loop between eye, mind and hand) has played an enormous role in the evolutionary success of human beings.

The fact that technologies are now converging to give the human race an external nervous system, a global digital network with extraordinary power to monitor and interact with the material world, will also have far-reaching consequences for our physical and economic well being.

"The nervous system," according to the dictionary, "is a network of fibres and neurons controlling the actions and reactions of the body. The central nervous system is composed of the brain and spinal cord, which receive and integrate signals relayed from the sense organs ... via the peripheral nervous system."

In the paradigm of the digital nervous system, computers form the brains of the network. Communications systems, including the Internet, fibre optics, satellites, microwave and other wired or wireless technologies, form the spinal cord and neutral network. The sensory organs and receptors of this far-flung system consist of billions of sensors capable of measuring any physical or chemical property (light, sound, weight, stress, impact, acceleration temperature, humidity, etc.) with an accuracy and sensitivity far beyond unaided human abilities. The actions, analogous to movements generated by the human nervous system, are enabled by all manner of electro-mechanical or micro-electro-mechanical devices.

Mark Bower

Director, NextWave.IT Ltd

www.nextwaveit.biz