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In an enterprise context, says Edholm, this would mean 'application transparency' - or "that all of a sudden, regardless of where I am, I can have the same applications whether I'm in a nomadic location or not".
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He told silicon.com: "In the enterprise world the big reason/driver why we'll go to WiMax is this application transparency... And that has huge impact on business. Because all of a sudden where you do business is no longer constrained."
But while being able to push work beyond the four walls of the office will offer enterprises new - and potentially lucrative - opportunities for doing business, it does present other challenges. As Edholm points out: "As people become less and less tethered to a location, finding the right person at the right time to do a business function is going to become critical."
Bringing comms and applications together to give an intelligent view of the status of a disparate workforce will therefore be increasingly important - factors such as a person's availability, location and even their velocity. For instance, he points out, if you're driving a car, you probably don't want to get a video call.
He added: "Information and interaction are coming together and it's not going to be information technology it's going to be information and interaction technology in a few years."
Gazing a little closer into the future, the next generation of wireless LAN tech - 802.11n - may be able to cut dependency on cables within buildings. Edholm said: "We think we can actually generate by 2010/2011, the capacity of building buildings without wires - which means regardless of where you are within the building you're going to get the same experience."
He added: "The interesting question is when does the 4G network provide you the same experience virtually everywhere?"
And that's a question of infrastructure investment - which is of course the biggest challenge.
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