CTIA2010Fall

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CTIA Enterprise & Applications †

• Oct. 5 - 8, 2010, Moscone Center West, San Francisco

DAY ONE KEYNOTE: Oct. 6 †

• 9:30-11am, ''Mobile Commerce, Smart Energy and LTE: the Transformative Next-Generation Network''

Ralph de la Vega (Pres. ATTM), Chairman, CTIA–The Wireless Association †

• Mobile market are growing. 3 key driver are
  • 1st : Mobile OS (Android, iOS, MS, Symbian...) gave us new rich features. Those are not desktop os, only for mobile.
  • 2nd: Tablet will create new mobile market. This is a new revolution...next 5years, this market growing 42%.
  • 3rd: Cloud Mobile. Cloud will growing 88% from 2010 to 2014.
• US is a leader in mobile and mobile oriented society. US government should be light regulation on wireless.

Steve Largent, President & CEO, CTIA–The Wireless Association †

• Mobile is everywhere. All type of industries has been influenced by mobile technology.
  • Wireless Data Service Revenue (from Jan. to June, 2010) are 24.79 Billion dollar. (+27% year-to-year)
  • Wireless Data Demand (from Jan. to June, 2010) are 161 Billion Megabyte. (+50% from previous six months)
• We US wireless industry need more bandwidth. FCC has a good job to provide 500MHz.
  • Net Neutrality and Open network is okay. But wireless is limited asett and unique. We need appropriate regulation for wireless.

Dr. Kristina M. Johnson, Under Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy †

• We should save energy:
  • 70 % of electricity comes from coal, fossil energy source. Transportation sector is big. Wireless and IT is not so heavy from this point of view.
  • We promise that 85% of energy should be clean source by 2015. So that we need every type of clean energy source like nuclear, water, wind, renewable sources.
• Our Electric Grid is too old:
  • There are not changed from our grandfather. Building future Grid need help wireless technology. New Grid should be with communication technologies which support a demand feedback. If we can control Consumer Electronics equipment in the house, we save 25 % of energy. There are 2 million smart meter has installed by now.
• What we DOE expect wireless industry are two thing. Wireless industry help to build-up real-time communication network for Grid. And become a Roll model of energy saving.
  • Privacy is important issue. There are some trouble about RF radiation of smart meter. Which will take care by FCC (regulated radiation issue).
  • Home automation, smart grid is not economical for old house. Only new build house?
  • Old house have some benefit like new refrigerator, CE devices.
    
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Lowell McＡdam, President & COO, Verizon Wireless †

• Sophisticated Network.... is need to buildup few billion dollars.

Verizon Wireless are excited about LTE: †

• 3 years ago, we committed LTE. We believe that an investment should be into new technology not an old tech. New LTE become a global standard of 4G network.
• At lab test, LTE speed about 7Mbps (down) but build up and ready to start... speed are average 8 ~ 9Mbps... Also latency is a 30msec which is 2 times better than 3G. So user can enjoy mobile game and video like remote health care... mHealth.
• 4G build-up is not so easy work. But a penetration of 700MHz into the building is better than our 3G... so that we expect better service for M2M. We are start at PC-modem for laptop. But you can see a half dozen of LTE devices coming CES 2011.
  

VZW社LTEプレスリリースのコピー †

BASKING RIDGE, NJ, and SAN FRANCISCO, CA ― Verizon underscored its rapid deployment of the world’s first large-scale 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network today from the CTIA Enterprise & Applications™ 2010 conference. Lowell McＡdam, president and chief operating officer of Verizon, detailed the company’s major network launch in 38 major metropolitan areas, covering more than 110 million Americans, by the end of the year. In addition, the company is launching 4G LTE in more than 60 commercial airports coast to coast – both the airports within the launch areas plus airports in other key cities.

McＡdam said, “We are driven by the vision to provide ubiquitous wireless broadband connectivity and mobility to rural and urban Americans alike. With our initial 4G LTE launch, we will immediately reach more than one-third of all Americans where they live, right from the start. And, we will quickly introduce 4G LTE throughout the Verizon coverage area.”

McＡdam highlighted the metropolitan areas for the initial launch, which include:

Large sections of the Northeast Corridor, including Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. as well as Rochester, New York

Throughout Miami and south Florida, Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and New Orleans as well as Charlotte, North Carolina and Nashville, Tennessee

Chicagoland, St. Louis, the Twin Cities, Pittsburgh and major cities in Ohio

Major population centers in California as well as Seattle, Phoenix, Denver and Las Vegas (A list of all metropolitan areas and airports is located at the end of the news release.)

Verizon Wireless is building its 4G LTE network with the same commitment to performance and reliability for which it has long been recognized. Verizon Wireless’ laser focus on reliability is based on rigid engineering standards and a disciplined deployment approach year after year.

Enterprise users, businesses and individuals can immediately benefit from Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE network this year. While Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE network promises much more than speed, the first application gives employees the ability to work at significantly faster speeds and improved latency, increasing productivity and the opportunity to get work done where their business takes them.

McＡdam continued, “Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE network will also be available in the commercial airports in the 38 metropolitan areas, plus we’re launching airports in other key cities coast to coast, giving road warriors added coverage when they travel. Every time we’ve built a next generation network, our customers have seen real benefits to their bottom lines. Taking advantage of the first large-scale LTE network on the globe gives our customers a competitive advantage.”

Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE rollout positions the company to be the global leader in 4G LTE deployment. Verizon Wireless expects 4G LTE average data rates to be 5 to 12 megabits per second (Mbps) on the downlink and 2 to 5 Mbps on the uplink in real-world, loaded network environments. These speeds are significantly faster than Verizon Wireless and other wireless providers’ current or promised 3G network speeds.

By leveraging its 700 MHz spectrum for LTE deployment in the United States, Verizon Wireless is capable of quickly deploying a high-quality wireless broadband network with excellent coverage. The company is currently installing LTE equipment at existing cell sites and switching centers around the United States as part of its extensive, ongoing investment in its voice and data network infrastructure.

In addition to the 38 major metropolitan areas, Verizon Wireless is launching its 4G LTE network in West Lafayette, Ind., home of Purdue University. The public university is using several innovative software applications on Verizon Wireless’ 3G network that improve student engagement and success, and Verizon Wireless is working with Purdue to explore the next phase of how 4G LTE technology can improve e-learning across the nation.

for more information about Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE network: http://www.verizonwireless.com/lte.

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Enabling Smart Energy Initiatives †

Technology Strategy for Smart Grid, presented by Pacific Gas & Electric †

• 1:20pm – 2:20pm Brian Abrahamson, Chief Architect and Senior Director, PG&E
• PG&E will explore how wireless communications infrastructure is enabling smart energy, and how these technologies fit into a utility’s Enterprise Architecture as a whole.

• Who is PG&E
  • Energy services to 15M people; 5.1M Electric Customer Accounts, 4.2M Natural Gas Customer Accounts.
  • 70,000 square mile diverse topography : 20,000 Employees
  • Regulated by the CPUC(the California Public Utilities Commission)
  • 6,833 MW of Generation
  • Electric delivery: 18,616 transmission circuit miles / 120,000 distribution circuit miles
  • Gas delivery: 6,000 transmission backbone miles / 40,000 distribution pipeline miles
  • Deploying > 10,000 IPv6 wireless meshed meters/day

• Why Smart Grid?
  • The US is on a trajectory of declining bulk energy margin
  • There is no good supply side solution
  • The solution is a dynamic distributed demand side energy efficiency and load control system
  • Reasonable reductions can dramatically improve our peak energy position
    

    California Residential Peak Load
    Air-con	Cooking	Dryer	Miscellaneous	Pool /SPA	Refrigeration
    56%	6%	6%	18%	5%	9%
    Source: http://www.energy.ca.gov/electricity/peak_loads

    
    
• Four Challenges
  

  Peak = 2X base Load

  Intermittent Renewables

  Local Concentration of DG

  Local Concentration of EVs

  
  
• The Smart Grid Requires a Scalable Near Real-Time IT System
  • As distributed resources (generation, load) increase, electric flows on the grid become more dynamic and complex
  • Near real-time event processing architecture with distributed elements is a critical piece of the Smart Grid that is "conveniently" left out of many of these diagrams
  • This is a key foundational component necessary to design grid operations to maintain reliability in the face of increased load variations
• A Smart Grid: Overlay with intelligence and automation
  

  Sense	Communicate	Compute	Control
  Power Plants	Transmission Networks	Substations	Distribution Networks	Consumers

  
  
• The Smart Grid Communications Strategy: Smart Grid Communications Blueprint
  　

  Substation Automation: ・Real Time communication to RTUs, breakers, relays, and other equipment ・Normally low bandwidth ・Video Surveillance will drive up data speed requirements	Corporate Applications ・Very high speed and low latency ・Carry Telecom Traffic for Utility ・Carry Video and Security data from critical assets back to control Center
  AMI ・Coverage across entire service territory ・Capacity to support meter reading, demand response and HAN devices ・Reliable, secure and cost-effective backhaul ・Security for data and integration	Distribution Automation; ・Monitor capacitor banks controls, regulators, switches, recloser, fault circuit indicators and sensors ・Low throughput, very low latency < 1 Second for messaging

  
  
• Network Technology Options
  

  Home Area	Grid / Local / Campus Area	Wide Area	Back Office
  ・ZigＢee ・HomeＰlug ・Wi-Fi	・RF Mesh (proprietary) ・Point-to-Mulitipoint (proprietary) ・Wi-Fi ・WiMAX ・Cellular Data ・PLC ・Serial ・Modbus ・Ethernet ・LMR / Analog & Digital Radio	・Mesh Wi-Fi ・Point-to-Multipoint (Wi-Fi, OFDM, Proprietary) ・WiMAX ・Cellular Data ・Microwave ・Fiber ・Ethernet ・MPLS ・Satellite	・Smart meter Head-end and MDMS ・Customer Care & Billing ・Distribution Management Sytems ・Outage Management Systems ・Field Mobile Worker Systems ・IT / Data Center Operations Systems ・Telecom Operations Systems ・Security Systems ・Device and Data Management Systems ・Operations Cneters

  
  
• Network Architecture Requirements;
  • Guiding Principle: MODULARITY in the communications architecture. The network infrastructure will be a collection of technologies, and we must be able to upgrade key components (without swapping out the system) as technology evolves
    • Ability to support migration from serial to IP-based communication networks
    • Ability to support migration to industry standard protocols such as DNP3 and IEC61850
    • Ability to scale to accommodate an increase in data point collection of both operational and non-operational data in the future
    • Ability to scale to accommodate an increase in polling frequency and mixed polling frequencies required for future business capabilities
    • Ability to support a diversity of applications across the communication fabric (e.g. SCADA, substation video, etc.) driven by internal and external compliance requirements
    • Ability to support a mix of carrier cetworks that make up communication fabric solution
    • Ability to support secure access and programming of devices

• Utilities Face Immediate Issues with Communications
  • Networks Just to Maintain the Status Quo
    

    Immediate issues	Ramifications
    Many microwave, radio, and paging systems will have support phased out by the manufacturer	Reliability issues: eBay is not an option
    Field workers carrying a two-way radio, a pager and a cell phone	Redundancy and her cost
    High cost of communications associated with Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) systems deployment	Consideration needs to be given to potential synergies and savings associated with a common infrastructure
    New IEDs produce up to 1,000 data points to be transmitted as often an once per second	Dialup is to slow for timely upload; total substation requirement may easily be 256Kbps per second or greater
    Regulatory requirements related to security (such NERC-CIP) and increased automation on the grid are putting new demands on operational communications	Increased security (cyber and physical) and monitoring needs cannot be supported by legacy communications infrastructure
    Cellular digital packet data (DCPD) at end of useful life	Many applications require bandwidth greater than 19.2Kbps; providers phasing out support

    
    
• Key Takeways;
  • Smart Grid will drive unprecedented investment in a Utility's communications infrastructure
  • Relatively speaking, the physical medium is the easy part (price, performance, coverage).
    Real complexity exists elsewhere:
    • Adoption of standards at the protocol layer
    • Network Management
    • Emerging security requirements
  • A modular architecture is the best insurance against disruptive technologies
    • Television White Space - Super Wi-Fi... White-FI
  • Utility communication requirements are QoS and reliability constrained, not capacity constrained. The Telecom sector will have to prioritize over other traffic in order to meet Utility needs.
    • In operational applications there is no compromise, the analogy of a dropped call is unacceptable
  • Utilities need to be able to deploy or extend the network at the pace of value to operations and within our regulatory approval limits.
    • Deployments options need to be flexible and modular in order to meet Utility needs

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M2M Connected Devices Conference †

• 2010年10月7日　11am〜1pm
• Moderated by:(1)Robin Duke-Woolley,CEO & Founder, Beecham Research
  Panelists:
  (2)Timothy Morey, Director, Business Technology Consulting Group, Aricent
  (3)Alex Brisbourne, President, KORE Telematics
  (4)Steve Pazol, President, nPhase
  (5)Michael A. Ueland, Vice President & General Manager, Telit Wireless Solutions, Inc. North America
  (6)Michael Tighe, Executive Director & Acting-VP, Business Solution Group, Verizon Wireless
  写真の順序:　左から(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)

• Topic 1: M2M Consumer Application
  • Usages base Insurance などConsumer M2Mは必要なときに必要なサービスを提供できる
  • Q；Consumer M2Mは専用機（eReaderなど）と多能機（スマートフォンなど）のどっちがリードする？
    • (4)多能機はますます能力が向上する。専用機はインターフェース競争が重点。どちらも伸びる。
    • (2)多能機の問題は、ますます複雑化すること。操作が難しくなる。一方、単能機は機能が不十分で不満が出やすい。いずれにせよM2Mでは追加アクセス費用（月額）が付いていては普及しない。つまり、次の2つのモデルになる
      

      携帯電話；月額アクセス料が固定＝＞機能の多角化、コンテンツの増加が促進

      キンドルモデル；アクセス料は商品価格に含まれている＝＞機能はシンプル いずれにせよ、M2M型投薬ボトルなら病院や製薬会社が通信料を負担するだろう。また、iPhoneのような利便性と心臓ペースメーカーのように必要性のふたつに用途は分かれる。
      電子ブックリーダーは流通の変化。紙で情報を運ぶことから、ネットで配信。仕事を運送業者から通信事業者に移した。

      • (6)「1端末−1価格」というワイヤレスのあり方はM2Mで変化するかもしれない。様々なM2Mサービスそれぞれに費用を払っていたら、ユーザーは高い料金になってしまう。「多端末／マルチ・アクセス−1価格」プランも検討すべきだろう。様々なM2M機器をユーザーが包括料金で利用できる仕組みが求められるかもしれないとベライゾンは考える。

      • M2Mは成長すると長らく言われてきた。しかし、なかなか市場は成長しない。何が問題か？
        • (4)M2Mの成功要因は、技術ではない。ビジネス･モデルだ。アマゾンのキンドルが好例。M2Mには、ユーザーを引きつける必要性が求められている。
        • (5)キャリアはM2Mディバイスの審査に際して、ボイス･メールなど不要なテスト項目をようやく不要にした。M2Mに対する熱心さがキャリアにも見えてきた。
          

• Topic 2：Automotive／Telematics

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Spectrum challenge †

• • 25% user of iPhone and Android spend 2 hours a day
  • FCC is good job. A lot of rulemaking in FCC. 500MHz looking for by NITA. AWS1… T-Mobile looking and deploy LTE bandwidth
• How FCC doing on spectrum inventory?
  • She is a White space supporter
  • International broadband plan…there are lot of new technology.
  • NBP is very umbisous… 500Mhz…White space…
  • Spectrum inventory… Generally all commercial band should review… usage… occupancy review. How people use spectrum.
  • Worldwide spectrum usages assessment by Copps
• How next step?
  • Proceedings apply based on usages like satellite spectrum. Not yet to be time to say next step.
  • Coordination of terrestrial and satellite is very difficult and complicated.
  • NBP has so many uncertainty…
• TV engineer have a question on 160MHz
  • We have a June 29 engineering workshop. At there, discussion… lots of discussion. Channel share ring…
  • TV white space of database manager (5candidate)… we review. Cannot say timeline. With NTIA, do we have to do.
• Below 700MHz… 900MHz.. AWS1 and something. GPS band and air traffic control those cannot touch or change. Spectrum is a part of answer of Data explosion on wireless.

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