NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: STEVE TAYLOR AND JOANIE WEXLER ON WIDE AREA NETWORKING 11/09/04 Today's focus: Service bundles gain cellular access options
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Late last month, for example, Fiberlink began provisioning CDMA-based 1xRTT mobile WAN services alongside the other access methods it provisions, supports and bills on behalf of remote enterprise users. In the U.S., the company is offering a promotional package that combines a free Sierra Wireless 555 Aircard for CDMA 1xRTT network access; unlimited 1xRTT service usage (with speeds of about 144M bit/sec); public wireless LAN, or "Wi-Fi," services; dial and ISDN services; and hotel broadband services for $99 per month under a two-year contract. When you consider that flat-rate 1xRTT services alone usually run $80 a month, this seems like a decent deal. Other pricing models, including usage-based plans, are also available. The Sierra Wireless 555 Aircard is the giveaway that Fiberlink is reselling Verizon's 1xRTT data network services. Fiberlink says that the carrier's entire network coverage and inherent service capabilities will be fully available to Fiberlink customers. Fiberlink offers an identical 1xRTT service in China, as well as Personal Handyphone Service (PHS) mobile WAN access as part of its one-stop bundle in Japan, says Howard Pressman, mobile professional solutions manager. He expects to expand mobile WAN access options to other countries as well, including reselling EV-DO services (300K to 500K bit/sec) as part of the U.S. CDMA-based service set. Fiberlink competitors GoRemote and iPass are in a similar mindset. Joan Fazio, product marketing manager for mobile data at iPass, estimates that the company will be ready in the second quarter of 2005 to resell and provide a single bill for domestic and international cellular services. Exactly which services will be sold is still being considered, she says. Abdel Missa, director of market research and strategic planning at GoRemote, says his company is "actively talking" to the cellular carriers, and predicts that it will provision a one-stop Generalized Packet Radio Service (GPRS) domestically and internationally within approximately six months. Today, both GoRemote and iPass do enable users who have procured mobile WAN services on their own to access those services through their client software interfaces. And they will enforce the user's corporate mobile security policy on the cellular connection. In the case of GoRemote, this capability is limited to GPRS connections, while the iPass client interface supports the full range of GSM-, CDMA- and UMTS-based technologies. RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS Mobile wars intensify Network World Wireless in the Enterprise Newsletter, 10/04/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/nlwan814 High-speed WAN services gain momentum Network World Wireless in the Enterprise Newsletter, 06/12/02 http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/wireless/2002/01383329.html Navigating the endpoint security maze Network World Wide Area Networking Newsletter, 07/27/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/frame/2004/0726wan1.html What the various remote security vendors do Network World Wide Area Networking Newsletter, 07/29/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/frame/2004/0726wan2.html _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Steve Taylor and Joanie Wexler Steve Taylor is President of Distributed Networking Associates and Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Webtorials.Com. For more detailed information on most of the topics discussed in this newsletter, connect to Webtorials.Com <http://www.webtorials.com/>, the first Web site dedicated exclusively to market studies and technology tutorials in the Broadband Packet areas of Frame Relay, ATM, and IP. He can be reached at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Joanie Wexler is an independent networking technology writer/editor in California's Silicon Valley who has spent most of her career analyzing trends and news in the computer networking industry. She welcomes your comments on the articles published in this newsletter, as well as your ideas for future article topics. 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