Tuesday, March 22, 2011

"Connections 4g, everything is ready but no network is in danger of collapse"

Super fast mobile connections for people to communicate and even objects. With a great unknown: the network. According to the experts of Nokia Siemens Networks, compared with companies and industry experts to the 'Broadband Summit' held in Rome, the next few years will see those involved in meeting a request of the exponential mobile broadband, which will require the transition to 4G networks .

Otherwise - bluntly - we risk the collapse of the system. Connection to the needs of users, in fact, by 2014 it will also add that the so-called 'smart objects', intelligent objects with chips and sensors, capable of exchanging data and information among themselves and with the network.

This is the "Internet of Things", the internet of things, a technology ecosystem in which individuals, mobile devices and tools used more or less common are interrelated and interact. In this scenario, the network can not remain what it is now. Hungry for mobile broadband. To understand the growth of mobile broadband, driven by the spread of smartphones and Tablet PCs, just scroll down a few numbers: the world's mobile subscribers are about 5 billion and 700 million users who use it (source: Informa database).

Users of Facebook have 150 million mobile, which is more than 25 percent of all students enrolled in the social network (source: PC World). The app store of Apple rose sixfold between 2009 and 2010, and ten times those dell'Android Market in the same period. In 2013, 43 percent of phones will be smartphones in the world (source: Gartner.

Com). Mobility required. Not surprisingly, the projection of Morgan Stanley for which users of the mobile Internet will exceed those fixed in the next two or three years. "Among the causes of this development is booming traffic data HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) since 2007 and the flat rates offered by providers," said Alessandro Di Salvo, Head of Sales and Technology South Europe, Nokia Siemens Networks "Not to mention that users tend to do the same things with both their mobile device with both fixed and whether a service / application is available in the mobile adoption is much quicker." An example: in Britain nine of the ten most visited sites, are the same in both mobile and in fixed (Alexa data.

Com and Opera. Com). "This impacts on the infrastructure of existing mobile phone that in time will prove increasingly inadequate quality and quantity of the necessary connections," said Di Salvo. NSN is the opinion of today that the cabinet does not bear comparison with fixed terms of efficiency: after ten seconds of video streaming on the move 20 percent of people stop watching, and 60 percent after two minutes.

The road LT. E 'therefore necessary to adjust the network and the 4G technology LTE (Long Term Evolution). "The LTE offers three main advantages," said Di Salvo: "To send pictures in HD, has a minimum latency and is based on a system adopted by all countries that uses the frequency spectrum in addition to other existing" .

Nokia Siemens Networks' LTE looks at not only the consumer sector but also for the "machine to machine (M2M):" We foresee a situation where not only people on the move will exchange data, but also the objects will need an address IP and communicate with each other and with an operator that will make them move and work.

" Business opportunities. "As the 'touch' has given the sales of smartphones," said Di Salvo, "as the 4G will open the door to new services for M2M and I think the solutions to the 'smart city', the smart cities, the management of public administration and the whole area of safety that could benefit of these new possibilities.

" NSN has estimated that investment in cellular M2M connectivity solutions globally will reach 35 billion euro in three years and the world will be 250 million items on the network. Even more, the research company Harbor in his work "Machine-To-Machine (M2M), Smart Systems & Forecast 2010-2014, EXCLUDING consumer / professional segment numbers" estimated that the total number of objects connected to WAN, LAN and short distance exceed one billion by 2015.

At least in theory a real business opportunity. "The technology is ready," Di Salvo gloss, "what are you waiting for just the rods for the licensing of the LT, in case of non-compliance risk the collapse of networks connected to excess."

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