통신 기술 및 산업
-.연 사 : 정윤채 상무(삼성종합기술원)
-. 일 시 : 2007년 10월 5일 (금) 오후 2:45 ~ 4:15
-. 장 소 : LG동 105호
-. 초청자 : 임기홍 교수 (T. 2228)
Abstact
During last several decades, there have been tremendous changes in the field of telecommunications, including the Internet revolution and the wireless explosion. These two domains brought forth many disruptive differences in the telecommu-nication devices and equipments, networks and services, and in our way of com-municating with each other, eventually resulted in the new way of life. However, we still observe the Internet based services evolving into new concepts, so called web 2.0, and the wireless services delivering video and data. These consecutive revolutionary changes seem to resemble the first telecommunications revolution in the 19th century. Korea once used to be very under-developed country in the telecommunications industries and technologies, but now is one of the top tier countries even with No.1 in the Digital Opportunity Index evaluated by ITU. By looking at the past history and the current position of the telecommunications in-dustry, it may be possible to find the new way ahead toward the next generation of the technology and industry.
Within the next decade, we still need to overcome big roadblocks to migrate towards seamless connectivity for enabling ever richer content and service experiences. There are a number of wireless connectivity solutions being discussed or developed, as either public standards or proprietary solutions, to enable future visions of the personal network. High speed data and multimedia service needs would come into the wireless market, even with changes in the business models, and is expected to challenge both the incumbent service pro-viders as well as the wireless gears and chip vendors. The rich and high-rate multimedia contents which currently are being delivered down to PCs would soon show up in mobile handsets, and further penetrate in depth into the personal environment of experiences, and the personal devices would have to be equipped with more bandwidth and with a variety of wireless connectivity solutions. Korea recently launched the first mobile internet service based on 802.16e, locally called WiBro, hoping to open a new era of wireless data which would continue the country’s success stories on the wireless voice and the wireline data services. Though the market is not big, Korea is known as the test bed of the new IT technologies and services, due to the proliferation of internet and mobile services and the prompt responses from the market. A few examples of this new trend include, but not limited to, personal blog, online games, home and mobile shopping, convergence devices, VoIP services, and so on. Even though the tele-communications industry in Korea seems to be in good shape, there are many challenges and threats as well as opportunities for new growth. The role of technology is much more important than ever, and the business capabilities should be strengthened in order to proceed to the world market.