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T14B	Tuesday, January 22 · 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Wireless Broadband Access Alternatives Broadband wireless access has been a hot topic over the past few years, and most of the focus has been on delivering high-speed data to mobile users as an evolution of the cellular/PCS networks now deployed. However, broadband wireless is a much broader field that encompasses both fixed and mobile applications while leveraging radio and even optical technology. This session focuses on some of these "other" wireless broadband technologies that are carving out a place in the marketplace. Broadband wireless is more than just 3G Focus will be on alternative approaches Broadband fixed wireless Free-space optical communications Extension of wireless LANs into public areas Regulatory environment and barriers

CHAIRPERSON: Richard H. Erving, Division Manager, AT&T Laboratories, is responsible for research into DSL, wireless and cable-access technologies in support of AT&T's businesses. Mr. Erving has been with AT&T for over 17 years, which includes work on cellular telephones and base stations, business telephones, speakerphones and wireless/wireline broadband communications. SPEAKERS: Gregg Levin, Senior Vice President, Business Development, BridgeWave Communications, was the driving technical and management force behind the WaveNet IP family of high-capacity wireless-access routers. David M. Britz, Project Leader, AT&T Free Space Optical Communications, is presently the research project leader for AT&T's Free Space Optical Communications (FSOC). Thomas Kuehnel, NEC Computer and Communications Research Labs, led the Universal Basestation project that aimed towards interconnecting cellular GSM basestations to purely packet data networks.