1) OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT

2) PRODUCT OF SERVICE CONCEPT

3) VALUE PROPOSITION AND MARKET OPPORTUNITY

4) COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

5) TEAM

6) FINANCIAL PROJECTIONS

7) INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STATEMENT

• Key forms of IP in the business
• IP issues that will come up and how will you address that?

PS: the points have been taken from the 24 hr biz plan challenge by www.startup.org.sg

Actually I had a startup competition @ NUS MBA school…in 24 hr we were to come up with startup ideas on cloud computing.

After racking our brains we came up with following ideas

1.       Gaming-as-a-service

2.       Device cloud <similar to idigi.com and twine>

3.       Education-as-a-service

4.       Medical-Management-as-a-service

5.       IDE for cloud computing

We narrowed down on Medical-Management-as-a-service, and prepared an executive summary in 6 hrs.(00:15-6:30)

The pitching was at morning 11. It was a nice and learning experience.

A small Opportunity Statement from executive summary,

“With the advent of technology it is imperative to move beyond the present state of hardware availability and look at how Cloud Computing as a paradigm can be applied to save time, money and resources in an environment like a hospital. To enable small clinics, hospitals to move away from the hassles of maintaining their infrastructure and update the without the requirement for a highly efficient IT department. This would also help the hospital to maintain the patient records and history in a manner requiring the least amount of human intervention.”

Believe me these commands are really awesome

http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2011/08/awesome-but-often-unknown-linux-commands-and-tools/

http://code.google.com/events/devfests/2011/sessions.html

Fig: 1.

Fig 1: Conceptual View Of Optical Grid Network

Grid network has the potential in executing resource efficient network services with high data rates between geographically widely distributed users. In context to high data rates, optical network comes out as a major potential for the grid. Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) has emerged as an attractive core transmission technology for future wide-area backbone networks. It provides enormous bandwidth at the physical layer for applications. All-optical networks can be achieved by using devices such as optical cross connects (OXC).Optical network uses lightpaths to transfer data. A lightpath is an all-optical end-end  communication between nodes or users. It’s a wavelength continuous physical route. Same wavelength is used in all the links and connecting nodes of the path.

Grid Applications
Optical Grids offers various potential applications. In today’s Internet we have a very rich set of application types. These applications can possibly be categorized as follows:
• High Energy Particle Physics
• Very Long Baseline Interferometry
• High Performance Computing and Visualisation
• eHealth applications: proof-of-concept of remote screening
• Logistical Networking
• Grid applications contributing large (or increasing) number of anonymous users

Optical Grid Network Architecture

It consists of 3 layers: an application layer, optical-grid control layer and optical network control layer. There are two
interfaces: application-to-optical-grid interface (AGI) and optical-grid-to-network interface (GNI). The users request for jobs to the network through a Grid User Network Interface (GUNI) along with the characteristics and requirements of the jobs. The application layer requests a set of lightpaths through the AGI. The optical-grid control layer that continuously collects information on network resources and availability from the optical network layer via the GNI, likewise announces their capabilities (storage space, processing power, etc.).

The optical-grid control layer which develops specific topological information separates the request into multiple lightpath requests. Then it sends requests for the establishment of each lightpath to the optical-network layer via the GNI. After the lightpaths are established by the optical-network control layer, notification of the successful requests is sent to the optical- grid control layer, which then also notifies the application layer. After that, the application begins sending the data to the destination end node via the D-plane of the optical network. The network topology, bandwidth and other characteristics will need to be known to the Grid scheduling and/or routing algorithm.

References : IEEE, Wikipedia

Today I had a interesting talk with a Prof.  Mandar Anil Chitre regarding underwater acoustic communication.

I went for a tete-a-tete regarding project.

Now the first problem with underwater wireless communication is that we cant use MW/radio signals as it gets absorbed by water. So we tend to use acoustic waves which can propogate over large distance. Typical frequencies associated with underwater acoustics are between 10 Hz and 1 MHz. The propagation of sound in the ocean at frequencies lower than 10 Hz is usually not possible without penetrating deep into the seabed, whereas frequencies above 1 MHz are rarely used because they are absorbed very quickly.But the problem does not ends here, you have multipath interference and since the range is long, you get large delays. Large delays are unheard of in wireless.

Then there is various parameters

1) Water temperature

2) Water depth

3) Water motion, ie water at rest or with waves

The water may be in the ocean, a lake or a tank.

There is still lot of research going on, and lets see which way the research goes.

According to TRAI report India presently has 500 million mobile subscribers and is growing at the rate of 15 million subscribers per month. Indian wireless industry is all set for a meteoric rise.I have been doing research into the startup scene in wireless industry, and I came along these five major players in wireless industry.

Mesh vs. Ad-Hoc Networks

Mesh vs. Sensor Networks

WLAN Coverage

The WRT54G has gained in popularity due to the fact that one can upgrade the unit with after market firmware. This is possible because the WRT54G runs Linux and uses other Open Source software in the box. As required by the GPL, Linksys has made available the source code and can be downloaded from the Internet. Hackers picked up this code and created new development branches that added features such as SSHD.

The “L” in the model number, WRT54GL, stands for Linux. The previous models of the WRT54G are also powered by Linux (version 1.0 to 4.0). The latest version of the Linksys WRT54G is version 5.0 and runs VxWorks. The move to VxWorks cut the memory footprint in half according to Mani Dhillon, senior manager of product marketing at Linksys. This claim appears to be based in fact because the Version 5.0 model only has 2MB of Flash and 8MB of SDRAM. “We still wanted to have a Linux SKU for the Linux audience,” said Dhillon, hence the WRT54GL.

·        Linux Kernel 2.4

·        Based on the Broadcom BCM5352E SoC

·        Hardware design is the WRT54G Version 4.0

·        After market firmware upgrades

·        All-in-one Internet-sharing Router, 4-port Switch, and 54Mbps Wireless-G (802.11g) Access Point

·        Shares a single Internet connection and other resources with Ethernet wired and Wireless-G and -B devices

·        Push button setup feature makes wireless configuration secure and simple

·        High security: TKIP and AES encryption, wireless MAC address filtering, powerful SPI firewall

The Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router is really three devices in one box. First, there’s the Wireless Access Point, which lets you connect to both a Wireless-G (802.11g at 54Mbps) and Wireless-B (802.11b at 11Mbps) devices to the network. There’s also a built-in 4-port full-duplex 10/100 Switch to connect your wired-Ethernet devices together. Connect four PCs directly, or attach more hubs and switches to create as big a network as you need. Finally, the Router function ties it all together and lets your whole network share a high-speed cable or DSL Internet connection.

 Basically the board of all WRT54G is same with the following main chips

1) WiFi router processor IC

2) WAN CHIP (Infineon ADM69961)

3) Diversity Chip

4) Flash Memory

5) RAM memory (HYNIX 72BUA)