With WiMAX, who needs an IT Department?

If you can use your xohm or other WiMAX service provider to connect, why do you need to maintain WANs and LANs?

Imagine this: you start new business or open a new office. You hire 200 worker bees resident in a tier one or tier two city. Its all information age/white collar work (think banking, software, etc). Traditionally, a few of those 200 people would comprise the IT department (network admin, help desk, etc). You'd need a few hundred thousand dollars in CAPEX to set up the LAN. You'd also need to budget a few hundred thousand dollars for IT personnel costs (OPEX).

Here's another way to do that (in the not-so-distant future). Give every one a laptop and a xohm or similar WiMAX service provider account.  Why?

1.    Every one is networked to the company intranet and connected to the internet from day one.

2.    Maintaining the company intranet can be outsourced

3.    Your staff is online 7x24x365 - no excuses!

4.    Your staff can work from home, the coffee shop, the doctor's waiting office, the car wash, etc-no down time due to "snow days" or other calamities

5.    Your mobile people can roam to other xohm or similar service provider connected cities (especially big for sales and customer service people)

6.    Given WiMAX security procedures, your connections are just as secure as they would be using wires

7.    Ultimately you might save on real estate costs by NOT assigning cubicle/office space to employees (in some cases that's about $15,000/year/employee). If they do well working outside the office, so be it!

8.    No waiting for the IT department to get up and running. Set up those WiMAx accounts and get going!

I'll stop there for now, but you see where I'm going with this. ..

Frank Ohrtman

WMX Systems

Thursday, August 23, 2007 in Applications | Archives | Business  | Permalink |  Comments (2)