Guranteed Quality Of Service

Key challenge in enabling enterprise software applications to run across a mobile platform remains guaranteeing quality of service, according to the GSM Association.

The GSM Association, a mobile standards industry body, announced that the IPX standard would soon be ready to help overcome this obstacle. When IPX is fully established, it will enable mobile operators and other service providers to exchange internet protocol based traffic – including person-to-person communications and content – securely and with a guaranteed quality of service. However, this technology is not prime ready and it is expected that

The IPX is a private global IP backbone designed specifically to provide guaranteed levels of quality of service and security.

“The open internet is a wonderful thing, but when it comes to providing a guaranteed quality of service, particularly for time-critical services, there is still a long way to go,” said Alex Sinclair, chief technology officer of the GSMA.

Tony Cripps, senior analyst at Ovum, said that applications such as e-mail are working very well on devices such as Blackberrys and work acceptably even on slower data transfer standards such as GPRS. But applications that deal with large file, such as ERP and CRM, require faster data transfer rates.

C2E has build a mobile platform and vertical solutions that today provides guarantee quality of service on the standard 3G and GRPS Network. Application such as Field service for field sales automation, as well as access to enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management systems are now available today.

No iPhone SDK – Android SDK is moving on

Google’s Android SDK has been released and it still has some way to go in meeting developers’ demand. However, its presence at least puts Google at the forefront of a new wave mobile platform development.

Apple iPhone SDK has yet to be released but according to Steve Jobs comment on Apple’s website – a version is reported to be imminent and the LiMo Foundation plans to release its full Eclipse-based SDK in the second half of 2008, with a first version due next month.

WIMAX Technology in IP54 devices

It seems that Motorola (Symbol) is looking at putting in WIMAX chips inside their industrial IP54 hand helds.

The Motorola WiMax WTM1000 chip set-based terminal modem is set to debut this year as part of its lineup of WiMax products for carriers, including Sprint’s Xohm. Based on the IEEE 802.16 standard, WiMax allows wireless carriers to deliver faster data over longer ranges than Wi-Fi.

The technology is considered especially ideal for cracking the near lock wireline carriers have on last-mile connectivity and empower business mobility companies like C2E FZ LLC www.c2etek.com who specialize in providing Enterprise Mobile Solutions.

“Motorola is strongly committed to delivering … WiMAX solutions for the next generation of mobile wireless broadband,” Gary Koerper, vice president of platform planning and systems architecture at Motorola, said in a statement. “By licensing our WTM1000 chip set modem solution and essential IP to partners, we hope to foster the development of great new mobile WiMAX devices and applications across the industry.”

Apple iPhone in business mobility

With the imminent release of the Apple iPhone SDK (software development kit), we should see a plethora of mobile enterprise solution gravitating slowly from the likes of blackberry, treos towards Apple iPhone. With an estimated 4 Million units and growing there is a huge potential for growth.

Quoting the Financial Times of London:

Google on Wednesday said it had seen 50 times more searches on Apple’s iPhone than any other mobile handset, adding weight to the group’s confidence at being able to generate significant revenues from the mobile internet.

“We thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again,” Vic Gundotra, head of Google’s mobile operations told the Financial Times at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.