enabling technology for connecting communities

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Enabling Technology for Connec2ng Communi2es Dr. Mazlan Abbas Head, Wireless Communica8ons Cluster MIMOS Berhad


Agenda

•  Webciety vs Non-Webciety •  Bridging Digital Divide - National Agenda •  Challenges and Obstacles •  Technology of Choice

–  WiWi Gen 1.5 –  What’s After Mobile WiMAX?

•  Summary

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Digital Natives - WEBCIETY

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Create Use Live

“We create the Internet” “We live and breathe in the Internet”

“We use the Internet”

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Rural Subscribers Present an Unlocked Potential

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Close to 3.4 Billion people live in Rural Area (World popula8on 6.7 Billion)

In Africa about 70% and in Asia 60%

OCen there is NO communica8ons service available

Characteris8cs of a poten8al village subscriber • Income less than USD 3 per day • Awareness and educa8on level is low • Lack of basic infrastructure such as power, roads, etc


Understanding the Digital Divide Gap

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Intensity of ICT adoption

PHASE 2. Employ indicators of intensifying adoption

Adoption gap

Diffusion of ICT infrastructure

PHASE 1. Employ indicators of ICT diffusion

Access gap

PHASE 3. Employ indicators of socio-economic impact

Value gap

Social & economic impact of ICTs

• Poor Value realization due insufficient value creating content

• Barrier to entry due to literacy level and language • Complexity of computers

• Connectivity • High cost of deployment

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100.1% Mobile

22.9% Household BB

[Source: Household use of the INTERNET Survey 2008, SKMM]

Can we really achieve the 50% Household broadband penetra8on target?


BDD -‐ Holis8c Approach

Digital Divide must be tackled from a holis8c approach rather than hardware or connec8vity

•  Improved service delivery.

•  Easy to use internet device

•  Relevant content •  PlaXorm for business ecosystem

ACCESS GAP

ADOPTION GAP

VALUE GAP

USER EXPERIENCE

USER CONFIDENCE

USER ATTACHMENT

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Population % Technology Choice

Zone 1 13,318,703 48.03% FTTH, ETTH, VDSL, HSPA+, WiMAX

Zone 2 5,499,180 19.83% ADSL2+, HSPA+, WiMAX

Zone 3 8,911,813 32.14% HSPA+, WiMAX, etc

Total 27,729,696 100.00%

Zone 1 Zone 2 Zone 3

Zone 1 : High Speed Broadband (HSBB) •  High Impact Area (>10Mbps) •  TM and Gov partnership •  Target to cover 50% of household (2.5 million) by 2010

Zones Distribution

Zone 1&2 : Broadband for General Population (BBGP) •  Medium Impact Area (<2 Mbps)

Zone 3 : Universal Service Provision (USP) • Telephone and Broadband (>384kbps) • Less than 80 people in 1 square km • RM 2.5 Billion from Operators Contribution


Current Challenges

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Lack of basic infrastructure such as road access & power supply

Difficult to maintain due to distance and rough geographical terrain

Low return on investment: High cost, low ARPU

Un-optimize network resources for sparsely populated areas

Limited income to spend on communication

Perceived lack of direct value from Internet


Household Use of Internet



Monthly Income Salary



Imagine … If We Can Bring Value to the Community

The Success Story of e-‐Bario

One of the most important is that to be successful, ICTs cannot just be “dropped” into a rural area but must be part of an

integrated approach that takes into account the community’s informa8on needs and capacity to absorb use new technology.


Imagine … If We Can Bring Value to the Community

Registered Users ~ 50K

Average transac2on value = RM 50M per

year 70% Sellers 30% buyers

Launched in 2004

Connects food producers, wholesalers, distributors,

entrepreneurs and consumers


Strategies

Strategies

Community’s IT Needs and Capacity to Absorb

Con2nuous Sustainability

People / Local Community

Buy-‐in

Right Choice of Technology

Synergize Efforts


Selecting the Technology

WiMAX

Speed & Access

Robustness & Stability

LOS/NLOS

Coverage Zone Cost of

Deployment & Pricing

Quality-‐of-‐Service

Maintenance


MIMOS WiWi Gen 1.5 “Bringing Broadband to the Users”

A Step Towards Reducing the Gap


MIMOS WiWi Gen 1.5 – Hybrid WiMAX/WiFi CPE

MIMOS WiWi

Provides Fixed, Portable and

Mobile Wireless

Broadband IEEE 802.16e Mobile WiMAX

Ease of Deployment

Integrated Solu2on

(WiFi built-‐in)

Cheaper access

IPv6-‐enabled

Enhanced Mul2cas2ng

Hybrid WiMAX/WiFi CPE 2.3 GHz (802.16e WiMAX) 2.4 GHz (802.11b/g WiFi) Indoor/Outdoor Unit


MIMOS WiWi Gen 1.5 Actual Deployment Scenario

WiMAX BS

WiFi Network

WiWi Gen 1.5

Internet

Tele-center or

House

WiMAX Coverage

Fire Brigade

Ambulance

Community

Bus


MIMOS WiWi – Delivering Multimedia


WiMAX Deployments (as of June 2009)

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[Source: hdp://www.wimaxmaps.org/]

Deployment Frequency Total

2.3 GHz Deployments 23




5+ GHz Deployments 20


WiMAX Forum Certi#ed™ Products

WiMAX Vendors with WF Cer2fied Products Total

Base Sta8on Vendors 48

Subscriber Sta8on Vendors 66

This Month (June) Last Month

Total WiMAX Forum Cer2fied Products 114 104

In June 2009, WiMAX Forum cer8fied 10 new devices

WiMAX Forum Cer8fied Product Vendors

Base Sta8on Vendors Airspan Networks, Alcatel-‐Lucent, Alvarion, Aperto Networks, Axxcelera, Cisco Systems, E.T. Industries, Huawei Technologies, Motorola, NEC, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel, PointRed Telecom Pvt Ltd, POSDATA, Proxim Wireless Corpora8on, Redline Communica8ons, Runcom Technologies Ltd., Samsung, Selex Communica8ons, SEQUANS Communica8ons, Soma Networks, SR Telecom, Telsima, WiNetworks, ZTE Corpora8on Subscriber Sta8on Vendors Airspan Networks, Alcatel-‐Lucent, Alvarion, Aperto Networks, Axxcelera Broadband Wireless, Beceem, E.T. Industries, Fujitsu, GCT Semiconductor, Inc., Gigaset Communica8ons, Huawei Technologies, Intel Corpora8on, MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO.,LTD., MODACOM Co., Ltd., Motorola, NEC, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Onkyo, Panasonic, POSDATA, Redline Communica8ons, Runcom Technologies Ltd., Samsung, Selex Communica8ons, SEOWON INTECH Co., Ltd., SEQUANS Communica8ons, Siemens AG, Sony, SR Telecom, Telsima, Toshiba, Wavesat Inc., ZTE Corpora8on, ZyXEL Communica8ons Inc.

[Source: WiMAX Forum Industry Research Report -‐ Review of June 2009]


Multi-Hop Relay WiMAX “The New Upcoming Standard IEEE 802.16j”

A Step Towards Reducing the Gap

802.16d Fixed WiMAX 802.16e Mobile

WiMAX 802.16j Relay WiMAX


802.16j Usage Models

Coverage at cell edge

Penetration into inside room

Shadow of buildings

Coverage hole

Underground

Valley between buildings

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Coverage extension to isolated/rural area


Summary

Wireless BB

(WiMAX)

Internet as the Enabler

Holis2c Approach


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