I suspect it will keep the volce separate. Its hard to imagine that the migration to a totally evolved packet core is going to be done by VZW in the first year of deployment.
We live with two year cycles and keeping it simple to deploy is a good move.
More important than the way the transport works though will be the signaling. Verizon wants apps that integrate into the network and this would be a great opportunity to move beyond the Skype Mobile handoff.
At 4GWE http://www.4gwe.com we have the benefit of Anton Wahlman speaking who is one of the best trackers of this space. He suggested last year that the discussion at CES would dominated by tablets.
One company that looks like it needs to make a boost is RIM, Their tablet has long been discussed, but others such as Vizio maybe stealing the thunder http://on.wsj.com/gQfMjV .
Additionally, the divide and Conquer model of Google is expanding with their tablet / ereader strategy called Newstand http://on.wsj.com/hmJf82 . Here is an interesting question to think about, when you want to read an article do you go to a newsstand or a tunes place?
I think the familiar model has been captured by Google, now lets see the ease of use.
The last three years have been pretty amazing. Thanks to Apple's iPhone we finally got to see what its like to have "full" access to the Internet. The iPhone shifted everyone's strategies, and where LTE looked like it would be slow to develop we now have initial implementations in scattered areas around the world.
However, this is no longer about the transport; it's about the application demand. Having verified the insatiable appetite the carriers are now racing to find ways to expand the coverage and recover the cost.
The question is can Wireless have parity with the customer's Internet experience at home and at work.
While many will tell you that the Web is dead, the reality is the Internet evolves. From a research project, to a modem extended email system, to the web , to music, to movies and now to mobile.
This week, we are in LA looking at what it takes to give us mobile parity. If you have ever been around me at an event, you know I love the content and community interaction.
Mobile Video is an increasing part of our future, so we have set up a streaming feed at www.4GWE.TV with an archive available as well.
As a matter of fact, I have looked at this event more as TV show then a conference. The delegates are the studio audience. We are charging $20.00 to watch and have access to all the slides. More than you pay for an iTune, but an incredible deal when you consider you are getting over 20 hours of content.
If you have ever been with me at event in the past, I think you will find we have taken it up a notch here.
I hope you join us.
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Barlow Keener will moderate.
Jack Unger
President of Ask-Wi.Com, Inc.
Jack Unger founded the company in 1993 after working for 14 years in the Silicon Valley telecom industry for ROLM, IBM, Siemens and NEC. Ask-Wi.com has been serving the broadband wireless community for the past 17 years. Mr. Unger deployed one of the world's first wireless ISPs (WISPs) in Silicon Valley 1995. He has personally has trained over 3500 wireless personnel and he wrote the first handbook for the WISP industry, "Deploying License-Free Wireless Wide-Area Networks", which was published by Cisco Press in 2003. Mr. Unger is serving his 4th-term as a Director on the Board of the Wireless ISP Association (WISPA) and is serving his third term as Chair of WISPA's FCC Committee, which guides WISPA's advocacy and lobbying efforts on TV White Space and other FCC issues of importance to the WISP industry.
Fanny Mlinarsky is the founder of octoScope. She brings a powerful combination of in-depth technical knowledge and business acumen. With 26 years of experience in progressively influential technology roles with companies including Agilent and Teradyne, she has developed hardware and software, managed R&D teams and founded Azimuth Systems, a successful VC funded wireless test equipment company. Fanny has a BS/EE and BA/CS from Columbia University with some graduate work at MIT. She holds 5 patents. In 2004, Fanny received a Woman to Watch award from Mass High Tech.
Fanny Mlinarsky is the founder of octoScope.
In 2001 she founded Azimuth, the leading provider of Wi-Fi, WiMAX and LTE test equipment, and served as the company's Chief Technology Officer for five years.
Before founding Azimuth, she managed the Agilent Handheld Tester business unit formed through the acquisition of Scope Communications. Prior to that, she was VP of Engineering at Scope, where she led the development of the technology that was acquired by HP/Agilent.
Brough Turner
Brough Turner is the founder of netBlazr Inc., a radically new form of wireless ISP. Our motto: Free your broadband! Check us out. Previously he was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Natural MicroSystems and NMS Communications. After NMS was split up and sold off, Brough consulted to Dialogic as their Chief Strategy Officer for most of 2009.
Brough has a long history with telecom and the Internet, beyond what's mentioned in his LinkedIn bio. He entered the telecom industry when some friends and I started Natural MicroSystems in 1983.Barlow Keener
Barlow Keener has been specializing in communications law and its development for over 15 years. Barlow represents competing telecommunications providers (including firms using wired and wireless technologies) in state and federal regulatory matters. He negotiates interconnection agreements and handles issues involving universal service, pricing, tariffs, and other matters, as well as representing various Internet-related entities in regulatory matters and issues relating to rights management, privacy, and internet video. Barlow also handles matters related to inter-carrier compensation, providing advice and analysis regarding compliance with the Carrier Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) and CNPI rules, interpreting court orders, FCC orders, and tariffs to determine precise costs of network configuration, and negotiating interconnection agreements. In addition, Barlow works on matters related to start-up firms in the telecom, wireless, and internet sectors including incorporation and general corporate governance.
Barlow was the legal counsel and CEO of a facilities-based voice and data CLEC, General Counsel at CSA, Inc., a video advertising-focused consumer products company, and General Attorney at BellSouth Telecommunications. He is a member of the Massachusetts, Georgia, and Florida bar associations.
Barlow has spoken at numerous telecommunications conferences on the regulatory and legal issues related to femtocells and Fixed Mobile Convergence (FCM) issues.
Steve Colbert, used to do "Better Know a District" This is my version.
And this session on Wednesday is 4G Synergies in Silicon by Mindspeed's CEO Raouf Halim.
Why do they call the session Synergies is the question I have on my mind. From the perspective of Mindspeed is the silicon stable for both LTE and WiMAX? Are the deployments in the handset impacting the evolved packet core, or are we actually seeing a détente that allows the Wireless Internet at the core to be just as interoperable as the Internet Backbone is on fiber? In other words is the backhaul network still an access network or is it closer to the Internet Backbone?
Those are the questions on my mind, but the more important question is probably in your mind. So join us at 4GWE so you can ask it and be part of the event.