The 2008 Fall ISPCON, from November 11 – 13, at the San Jose Convention Center, will consist of four tracks over three days. ISPCON attendees will be able to choose from more than 40 conference sessions organized over four distinct “tracks”. They include:

• Wireless …and More Wireless:
  Not one, but two tracks of Wireless. From several angles and approaches, market sizes, business issues, opportunities, technologies, topologies, tactics and trends.
• Web Services, Apps & Hosting:
  Datacenters, Web Services, Applications, SaaS, Power, Storage, Virtualization, Grid Computing and Hosted Services.
• Business, Finance and Marketing:
  How to build, buy or manage a profitable service in today’s market. From finance, capital and exit strategies to marketing, sales and management tactics, capex management skills, asset protection tips and smart legal pointers for dealing with liabilities in a digital age with challenging regulatory conditions.

Check out the conference grid, exhibit hall and speakers. Among the press releases and recent developments:

• Alvarion will set up a BreezeMAX 3650 for 3.65 GHz connectivity in 12 minutes. Their BreezeACCESS 4900 will demonstrate wireless video surveillance and network access for public safety.
• Solarflare Communications will present on the topic of 10 Gigabit Ethernet over copper.
• WiMAX is set to become the broadband solution of choice from 2009 as operators in the Middle East adopt the solution en masse over the coming 12 months.
• Kalimat Telecom, Iraq’s national telecom operator, has launched the first WiMAX network in Baghdad. Kalimat Telecom will use WiMAX radios from Redline Communications for fixed wireless communications.
• Intel and Fujitsu are reportedly developing wifi and WiMAX radios in a single package for white spaces usage, where wifi is expected to be used in the LAN, and WiMAX for long-range connectivity.

Network World has a great roundtable, comparing Wi-Fi, WiMAX or LTE: Which to choose?

• Mobile WiMAX: Currently deployed by about 70 operators worldwide. About 2Mbps per user.
• LTE: To be commercially available “in some markets” starting in 2010, “of which we expect North America to be one,” said Dan Warren, the GSM Association’s CTO. Tens of megabits per second per user
• HSPA: 200 live networks in 114 countries with 60 million worldwide subscribers. Offers 1Mbps downlink average but some markets offer 3.6Mbps, 7.2Mbps and 14.4Mbps services.
• Wi-Fi: Aggregate 150Mbps up and 150Mbps down in 802.11n networks, shared by a number of users. A real-world shared throughput of about 25Mbps, although per-user bandwidth depends on how many users are sharing the RF resources at one time.

Hosted by Redline Communications and Senza Fili Consulting, a 30-min free Webinar will be available on 12-November at 11 am PST/2 pm EST. It features Monica Paolini, a respected analyst and founder of Senza Fili will discuss key findings from her in-depth study of the 3.65 GHz spectrum.

Posted by Sam Churchill on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 11:25 am.