Wireless Architecture Brief

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Boeing Wireless Futures
Richard H. Paine Phantom Works MCT richard.h.pain
e_at_boeing.com
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Wireless Accomplishments

• Wireless Requirements and Issues Document (5/93)
• Wireless Request for Information (RFI) (6/93)
• RFI Response Analysis (7/15-8/15/93)
• Wireless Roadshow (8/15/93-12/20/93)
• Wireless Technology Assessment Progress Report
  (10/31/93)
• Wireless Demonstration (3/15-17/94)
• Wireless Infrastructure Alternatives Analysis
  (5/16/94)
• Wireless Vision and Architecture Document
  (11/18/94)
• Wireless LAN RFI (4/95)
• Wireless LAN Testing (5/95-12/96)
• Mobility communications Vision and Architecture
  (97)
• Wireless LAN (frequency hopping) Certification
  Spring 97 (Symbol)
• Selection of Regional Low Speed Wireless (voice
  and data) Spring 98
• Wireless LAN RFP for selection of IEEE 802.11
  products Summer 98
• Wireless Deployment, Implementation, and
  Maintenance document Dec 98
• Delay (6 months) imposed for lack of 802.11
  security implementation
• IEEE 802.11 Product Selection 6/99
• Tactical Architecture 6/99
• IEEE 802.11b Product Testing 2000

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Customer Requirements

• Verified Transportation
• Warehousing
• Inventory Control
• Field Service
• Factory Floor
• AOG
• Sales and Marketing
• Workgroup
• Move and Change
• Personal Voice
• Personal Data

Traditional Wireless
New Wireless
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Issues

• Low speed (MANs) vs high speed (LANs)
• Wireless Registration and Management
• Directory of Users and Locations
• Management of wireless devices
• Public vs private wireless systems
• Personal wireless access to the Boeing Internet

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Wireless Voice and Data Technology Overlay
International Networks
National and Metropolitan Wide Area Networks
Boeing Campus and In-Building Wireless Local Area
Networks (WLANs)
Boeing Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)
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Boeing Wireless Mobility Model
Level 4 - National/Intl Low Speed (19.2Kbps)
Level 3 - Regional Low Speed Wireless (56Kbps)
Level 1 - Personal Area Network (.5-10Mbps)
Level 2 - Campus High Speed Wireless
LANs (1-100Mbps)
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Interim Boeing Wireless Architecture (Wireless
LANs minus Cell Handoff)
Mobile Data Networks
Boeing Off Campus Portable Voice/Data
Wireless Cell
Boeing Off Campus Portable Voice/Data
Satellite
Internet Connect
Cellular
Commercial Telephone Switch
Boeing Telephone Switch
Internet Entry
Boeing Telephone Switch
Boeing Internet (Data)
R
R
Boeing Campus
Boeing Campus
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Initial Boeing Wireless Architecture (with
Bluetooth-type technologies)
Mobile Data Networks
Wireless Cell
Boeing Off Campus Portable Voice/Data
Boeing Off Campus Portable Voice/Data
Satellite
Internet Connect
Cellular
Boeing Telephone Switch
Commercial Telephone Switch
Internet Entry
Boeing Internet (Data)
Bluetooth Devices
R
Boeing Campus
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Recommended Boeing Wireless Architecture (Wireless
LANs with Cell Handoff)
Mobile Data Networks
Boeing Off Campus Portable Voice/Data
Boeing Off Campus Portable Voice/Data
Satellite
Internet Connect
Cellular
Commercial Telephone Switch
Boeing Telephone Switch
Internet Entry
Boeing Telephone Switch
Boeing Internet (Data)
R
R
Boeing Campus
Boeing Campus
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Boeing Regional Low Speed Wireless 97-99
PCS
Personal Communications Services
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Regional Low Speed Wireless Vision
Data Terminal
Bluetooth-like
PC Card (PCMCIA) Radio
Bluetooth-like
Notebook Digital
Boeing Telecommunications Network
Bluetooth-like
PC Card (PCMCIA) Radio
Bluetooth-like
PC Card (PCMCIA) Radio
Digital Voice, Paging, and Messaging
Bluetooth-like
Planned Encryption Envelope
Two Way Paging Messaging
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Wireless LAN WPAN Service
Bluetooth-like
OLD
Bluetooth-like
Digital Digital Voice, Paging, and Messaging
Data Terminal
Ethernet
Bluetooth-like
Router
Controller
Notebook Digital
Bluetooth-like
Two Way Paging Messaging
Bluetooth-like
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Mobile Collocation Comm Technologies
2002
2003
1999
2000
2001
Wireless
WAN Satellite MANs/CANs LMDS/MMDS LAN Perso
nal Area Networks Pulse
DBS
analog(AMPS)
Ricochet
PCS
SMR
3-100Mbps
IEEE 802.11 1 and 2Mbps
IEEE 802.11b 10-25Mbps
IEEE 802.11a 54Mbps
700Kbps
2Mbps
100Mbps
Wired
Home Traveling
Dialed
Cable (10M)
Copper (6M)
Limited Use
Large Scale
Introduction
4/24/96 RHP
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Boeing Wireless Railroad Chart
3.1-10.6GHz x 100Mbps UWB
5.15 GHz x 100 Mbps DFS TPC Cisco
BENTAG
5.15GHz x 54Mbps Cisco (802.11a)
2.4GHz x 24Mbps Cisco (802.11g)
2.4 GHz x 11 mb (802.11b) Cisco 50,000 potential
Boeing users (laptopsPDAs), 1,000 APs deployed
2.4 GHz x 12Mbps IEEE 802.11
2.4 GHz x 11Mbps IEEE 802.15
2.4 GHz x 1Mbps IEEE 802.15
2001
2002
2003
2000
2004
2005
2006
2007
Limited Use
Large Scale
Introduction
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Wireless Implementations

• Wireless LANs
• Puget Sound - 500 access points (scattered)
• Wichita - 270 access point, RFID
• Long Beach - 30 access point
• St Louis - 200 access point
• Mesa 40 access points
• Miscellaneous 300 access points
• Metropolitan Area Network
• CDMA

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Next Steps

• Deployment of Sprint PCS/IEEE 802.11b
• Testing
• 802.11a/b/g 20-100Mbps Testing
• Monitor IR and Laser Wireless