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More Wi-Fi in India soon JASBIR Singh is the president and CEO of Pronto Networks, CA, USA.. The following are his responses to specific queries by Log in Tribune: What is Wi-Fi’s potential? The potential for Wi-Fi worldwide is significant. Analysts are predicting 200 million public WLAN users by 2007, up from just 5 million in 2003, and 4,00,000 HotSpots by 2007, up from approximately 24,000 in 2003, resulting in $10 billion in new WLAN service revenue by 2007, up from $3.4 billion in 2005 How should India look at Wi-Fi, given cost and bandwidth constraints? India will definitely begin to see more public Wi-Fi deployments in the near-term as the cost of Wi-Fi hardware continues to drop. Locations that are most likely to deploy first are hotels and airports. Internet cafes are likely to begin offering Wi-Fi. Isn’t security a major
issue for Wi-Fi? Not really. Today, anytime a user access sensitive information, their connection is secure. For example, any http:// webpage (which may contain user’s credit card or sensitive account information) is securely encrypted from the user’s laptop to the backend server. When users access their corporate network, these connections are also entirely secure if they have established a corporate VPN tunnel. Finally, for those users concerned about security when accessing other general Webpages (i.e., when surfing the Web), they always have the option of securing these connections via an IPSec client. —RS |
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