1. Office of Engineering and Technology Agenda Meeting January 13, 2005

2. 2 MEDIAMEDIA BROADBANDBROADBAND SPECTRUMSPECTRUM COMPETITIONCOMPETITION MODERNIZEFCCMODERNIZEFCC HOMELAND SECURITYHOMELAND SECURITY Policy Decisions FCC OET – Engineering and Technical Support

3. 3 OET’s Mission Manage the spectrum and provide technical leadership to create new opportunities for innovation, economic growth, and provide consumers new choices; and to facilitate the Commission homeland security initiatives. Manage the spectrum and provide technical leadership to create new opportunities for innovation, economic growth, and provide consumers new choices; and to facilitate the Commission homeland security initiatives.

4. 4 OET Accomplishments for 2004 Broadband over Power Line Ultra-Wide Band U-NII (5 GHz Wi-Fi) - 255 MHz new unlicensed spectrum Unlicensed Spectrum - 3650- 3700 MHz White Spaces - Unused TV Channels 70/80/90 GHz Network Outage Reporting

5. 5 OET Accomplishments for 2004 SPTF Implementation Cognitive Radio Interference Temperature Advanced Wireless Services Allocations for G-Block Allocations for H-Block Government Relocation Part 15 Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Smart Antennas WRC Implementation

6. 6 Consumer Choices for Broadband Services BPL will provide the “Third” broadband pipe into the home 5 GHz will provide additional spectrum in both rural and urban areas for unlicensed broadband services like WiFi AWS (3G) will provide competitive mobile broadband services

7. 7 Worldwide Wi-Fi Revenue and Sales Worldwide Wi-Fi Revenue and Sales Unlicensed Policies Facilitate Economic Growth Wi-Fi Revenue (Millions) 9.6 49.9 18.4 43.1 $3,317 $1,800 $2,135 $3,977 - 10 20 30 40 50 60 2001200220032004E Wi-Fi Hardware Units (Millions) $- $500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 $3,000 $3,500 $4,000 $4,500 Wi-Fi Hardware Revenue Sources: In-Stat/MDR & OSP, December 2004

8. 8 Homeland Security Initiatives CALEA Coordinate Agency CALEA Activities UWB Ground Penetrating Radar Through Wall Imaging Network Outage Reporting NRIC Commission’s post 9/11 Initiative Network Reliability Concerns Best Practices 800 MHz Public Safety Interference Interference Analysis

9. 9 Modernize the FCC and OET Technical Capabilities State-of-the-Art Test Capabilities Theoretical Analysis Empirical Studies

10. 10 Modernizing FCC Technical Capabilities State-of-the-Art Test Facility Anechoic Chamber

11. 11 Test Capability Support the Growth of Cellular Technology and Services Test Capability Support the Growth of Cellular Technology and Services Cellular Lab SAR RF Safety Lab

12. OET Computer Modeling Supporting Development of New Technologies MATLAB Model for Interference to a Fixed Satellite Service Earth-Station from UWB Devices

13. 13 OET Excellence in Engineering Accomplishments In-house Tutorials: Spectrum 101 Basic Wireless/Wireline Engineering for Attorneys Contracted professional engineering courses: Digital RF, Wi-Fi, OFDM, CDMA, ATSC Digital VSB Introduction to communications technology for non- engineers Industry tutorials on a variety of technical topics Graduate Degree Program

14. 14 OET Backlog Reduction

15. 15 OET Goals for 2005 Facilitate the Growth and Development of Broadband Services and Technologies Identify and understand emerging technologies Review and modify as appropriate rules for unlicensed broadband services (UWB, WiFi, WiMax, BPL, etc.) Provide rule making items in the 3650-3700 MHz proceeding and the TV “White-spaces” proceeding Facilitate Competition Services Recognize and reduce technical regulatory barriers Provide rule makings items in the cognitive radio proceeding and any necessary steps to complete the AWS (3G) allocation proceeding

16. 16 OET Goals for 2005 Homeland Security Policies Facilitate Improvements to Network Security, Reliability and Integrity Work with NRIC to develop “Best Practices” Provide rulemaking items in the CALEA proceeding and in the Network Outage Reporting proceeding Modernizing the FCC Continue to upgrade our facilities Improve the speed of disposal