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Nikkei Communications

November 15, 2007

Cover Story 1

This is wireless broadband: The keyword is "Open"

"Wireless broadband" is intended to achieve effective speeds comparable to those of ADSL on a mobile basis. The carriers that are allowed to offer wireless broadband services will be determined within 2007, and the services are likely to start around 2009. Under the banner of "openness," all carrier candidates strive to create green systems totally different from the existing mobile telephony. Terminal manufactures have lost no time in taking actions and are preparing various terminals.

Four 3G and PHS carrier groups compete for two seats

Impacts from "opened" mobile

Various WiMAX terminals have already appeared

Cover Story 2

Sudden resurgence before commercialized NGN: Will IPTV be born again?

Year 2008 may witness the appearance of "Next-Generation IPTV Services" in Japan. What primes this move is commercial services for NGN launched by the NTT Group in March 2008. While Next-Generation IPTV may be likely to turn to a smash hit, it is still fraught with danger that the market for it will falter.

Latest technology that has stimulated enterprises

OSGi (Open Service Gateway Initiative)

Infrastructure to run remote maintenance services, enabling a function to be added without restarting the service

OSGi is a technology that remotely adds a new function or modifies an existing function in a communication device through a network. It works on Java virtual machines. It is attracting more attention as one of the core technologies that will bring forth home network services.

Highly technical term you need to know

Cross-Site Request Forgery

Report

Content of commercial NGN revealed by NTT East and NTT West still leaves many issues such as unresolved service rates

Korean manufacturers market WiMAX terminals to Japan, ranging from UMPC to game machines

All separate pricing plans prepared by three leading cell phone carriers are on the table, showing which model without incentives will be paying off or not

STP, the first of its kind in Japan, launched by Sony, is capable of various IPTV services with one set

NTT announces NGN field trial results, indicating some issues in service quality verification have yet to be resolved

NGN Summit2007 shows NGN motivates carriers in Asia and a common issue is to develop applications with the exception of telephony

Telecom watch

Carriers affiliated with power utilities and CATV operators fiercely oppose to one-branch leasing of optical fiber

Editor-in-Chief's Interview

"We would like to form an alliance with a carrier in Japan. We will also take advantage of HSDPA and WiMAX technologies."

Mr. Martin Varsavsky, CEO, FON WIRELESS Limited

Case study

The Peninsula Tokyo

The hotel deploys N902iL terminals to its employees and guest rooms in a way that enables hotel guests to use the terminals outside

SBI Holdings, Inc.

The company enhances BCP by dividing the network into the one for data and the other for voice in conjunction with the deployment of a quarantine network system to prevent virus from causing damage