How can WiMAX providers break through? Doll has the quote of the day: Providers who will succeed, he said, "will be the people who figure out where to bring service into the marketplace in a way that the FCC can't screw it up." The constraints, rules, and "archaic infrastructure of the FCC is pathetic," Doll said.
Voice in the Enterprise Panel
Participants:
John Verity, Contributing Editor, ComputerLetter (moderator)
Ujjal Kohli, CEO, Meru Networks
David Ladd, general partner, Mayfield
John O'Connell, CEO, Kineto Wireless
Robert Shostak, Chairman and CTO, Vocera
Question: What is and what will drive VoWLAN adoption? Ladd -- It's all about the applications. Panelists agree that first movers are verticals with mobile users -- "people who aren't at their desks all day." This includes hospitals, retail, warehouse and higher education. Kohli talks about a campus that gives students VoWLAN phones: "That way they don't have adds, moves and drops every quarter, plus they get long-distance traffic as revenue."
Panel also sees carrier model for VoWLAN provide a big pipe into a small company (who doesn't have its own IT staff), provide all data and voice over that pipe. Redirect in softswitch back at carrier, make money by being the middleman.
