Product and Service Opportunities from Short-Range Wireless Technologies: WLAN,

Product and Service Opportunities from Short-Range Wireless Technologies: WLAN, Bluetooth, UWB and NFC

Published Date: March 2005

Published By: Analysys Mason

Order Code: R51-176

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1 New short-range wireless technologies in mobile phones could have significant implications
1.1 New short-range technologies could be widely deployed in mobile devices
1.2 The impact on mobile operators will be a function of demand, business model and ease of implementation

2 Enhanced IEEE 802.11 WLAN standards could become the preferred choice for mobile handsets
2.1 IEEE 802.11a, b and g have been widely deployed, but limitations constrain their usefulness in mobile devices
2.2 IEEE 802.11n uses advanced MIMO technology to increase data rate and range, enhancing existing WLAN applications
2.3 IEEE 802.11e will improve support of VoIP, but fragmented adoption could slow take-up
2.4 The combination of IEEE 802.11e and IEEE 802.11n could make WLAN an attractive alternative for voice telephony
2.5 IEEE 802.11 enhancements could support many UWB applications, potentially displacing UWB from mobile handsets

3 Bluetooth and UWB do little to enhance operators’ service opportunities
3.1 Bluetooth has been extensively deployed in mobile handsets, but offers limited service opportunities
3.2 Bluetooth 2.0 provides useful, albeit limited, capability enhancements, but will not create new service opportunities
3.3 UWB offers much higher throughputs than Bluetooth, but is suffering delays and could cause interference with 3G
3.4 A narrow set of applications and devices, without service revenue opportunities, will limit economies of scale for UWB

4 NFC enables compelling new applications for mobile phones
4.1 NFC offers a simple and intuitive way for users to instigate communications and applications between electronic devices
4.2 NFC has applications in many consumer devices, but could have the greatest potential if implemented in mobile phones
4.3 NFC could lead to a range of new revenue opportunities for mobile operators
4.4 Implementation of NFC in the wider environment will be the key to its success

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Figure 1.1 Characteristics of short-range wireless technologies, in terms of throughput, range and power consumption
Table 2.1 Effective application throughput comparison of IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11b and IEEE 802.11g
Figure 2.1 Relationship between WLAN throughput and range/receiver sensitivity for IEEE 802.11 standards
Table 2.2 Competing technologies for the IEEE 802.11n standard
Figure 2.2 Data rates achieved by MIMO-OFDM at 25dB signal-to-noise ratio
Figure 2.3 Signal-to-noise ratio required to achieve 140Mbit/s throughput with MIMO-OFDM
Table 3.1 Range and power output for Bluetooth power classes
Table 3.2 Examples of Bluetooth devices
Table 3.3 Comparison of typical uploading/downloading times for applications with Bluetooth and UWB
Figure 3.1 Range and throughput performance of UWB (OFDM-UWB) for four typical channel models
Table 3.4 Competing technologies for UWB standard
Table 3.5 Commercial suitability of UWB for different applications
Table 4.1 Features of NFC technology
Table 4.2 Examples of consumer applications enabled by NFC
Table 5.1 Evaluation of short-range wireless technologies that could be integrated into mobile devices in the next five years

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