Wireless Clouds Connecting Our Communities

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Wireless Clouds Connecting Our Communities

• Riz Khaliq
• Business Area Leader Community Broadband,
• IBM Global Government

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The Wireless Broadband Market Then And Now
Education
Public safety

• wireless campuses

national agenda
hotspots
government employee access
Hotels, cafés, airports
2000
2005

• WSJ reported it was hard to imagine the
  broadband sector getting much worse due to
  technical problems and consumer indifference

Wireless Clouds
Broadband wireless could be as disruptive a
technology as the Internet
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Broadband Wireless Solutions Cross Industry
Boundaries
Government
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Wireless Campuses Are Becoming Wireless Community
Clouds

• Public Safety Driving Community Broadband
• Wireless broadband networks can be deployed
  quickly for use by city employees and safety
  personnel
• Multiple sources of government funding are
  available to help support these public safety
  networks
• Once a network is in place, it can be used by
  multiple members of the community
• Schools and universities
• Hospitals and clinics
• Local merchants, hospitality and tourism
  providers
• Sports and cultural venues
• Wireless is an attractive way to cover large
  sections of cities, suburbs or rural areas not
  served by DSL or cable

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Digital Communities are driven by government and
public usage models
PUBLIC USAGE MODEL

• C

Public Access
Economic Competitiveness
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Digital Communities often begin with a single
application or mobile communication need
Public Safety
Emergency Response Disaster Relief Law
Enforcement Video / Sensor Surveillance City
Workforce Mobility Economic Development Traffic
Management Public Utilities Public
Access Telemedicine Distance Learning
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Public Safety Communication Drivers for Change
Interoperability and Collaboration for Emergency
Services
Emergency services, civic leaders and government
agencies need the right information, at the right
time, in order to make the right decisions during
major incidents. They need interoperability
across agency boundaries and situational
awareness
Public Safety solutions using mobile devices and
wireless broadband can transform how the
emergency services manage information flow and
communications in order to offer dramatically
improved government services during incidents and
disasters.
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Networked and Sensor Enabled Surveillance for
Public Safety derive significant benefits from a
Digital Community Network

• Threat Model
• Insider/Employee Threat
• Tailgating / Bringing in packages
• User Threat
• Passengers / Contractors /Visitor screening
• Outsider Threat
• Addressed by perimeter security
• Response
• During the attack -- real-time alerts
• After the fact investigative / forensic role
• Predictive / Preventive data mining to discover
  unusual activity.
• Other Non-security applications

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Other Customer Examples
City of Tyler Texas Police
DEWR
Pathways School
Yakima Police Department
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The Digital Community of the Future Summary

• We can connect to the Community Network
  everywhere through a wide range of devices
• Information can be obtained instantly
• Each device in the city become part of a dynamic
  mesh or grid of wireless devices
• We can move seamlessly between different
  connections without interruption
• Public service workers communicate using common,
  flexible, secure infrastructure
• City maintenance and environmental costs are
  lower
• Quality of life is higher

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Broadband Wireless drives Digital Communities
Communities that will thrive in the increasingly
turbulent market environment will be those that
can transform themselves by connecting government
services with their populace, via low-cost
Internet access, fusing the best of emerging
technologies and new business models to
accelerate value creation.
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Contact Details
Riz Khaliq, Business Area Leader Community
Broadband, IBM Global Government Tel [phone]
3273 rizkhaliq_at_us.ibm.com
www.ibm.com/solutions/wireless