While NATO has significantly reduced its forces in Europe and shifted its focus to new threats like terrorism and weapons proliferation, Russian officials have said deployments like the one here betray a sense of mistrust.
Until now WiFi has been viewed by many technology analysts as an upstart from-the-bottom technology that has the potential of upsetting other capital-intensive technology deployments, like the expensive next-generation data-oriented cellular networks known as 2.5G and 3G that are being established by companies like AT&T Wireless, Cingular, Nextel, T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon.
More than a third of enlisted reservists and 45percentt of officers say that their military service -- even short of a long deployment like the 49th's -- has created problems with their civilian bosses.
There is also a great opportunity to slash or minimize energy consumption associated with the operation of ICT infrastructure, especially when it comes to large-scale deployments like in the case of smart sustainable cities as to different departments and service agencies.
The new requirements call on the military to fight and win one such war, while maintaining sufficient forces abroad to deter aggression by another enemy and to carry out an unspecified number of smaller-scale deployments like those in Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti.
Paula Boyd, Microsoft's regulatory counsel, says that a deployment like this is the only way to get access to the whole of a rural area.
Open image in new window Fig. 1 SSR deployment likes weather antenna, Wi-Fi modem, scanning disc, Wi-Fi antenna, monitoring room (Geotech Information Monitor), virtual portal network and worldwide open source handler.
He points to the growing number of high-speed broadband deployments like Google Fiber and municipal projects around the country, as well as to AT&T's announcement that it will expand the footprint of its U-verse network — the number of homes to which service is available — to 33 million.
She thinks the transformation began with a question asked by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 as he prepared to more than double the ground forces in Vietnam: "You don't think I oughta have a joint session, do you?" Did he need authorization from Congress, he asked the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, to make a troop deployment like that?
A global PV deployment forecast like the S-curves above has important implications for investors, regulators, planners, and customers.
I checked AT&T's annual reports (filed with the SEC) and the total construction budgets (CapX) for all lines of business was only $121 billion, and that included non-fiber optic deployments like U-Verse, which is based on the existing copper utility wires, as well as their wireless network spending.
