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<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3521" title="Carlton BBWF1" src="http://www.interdigital.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Carlton-BBWF1.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="95" />Today, InterDigital's Alan Carlton (Senior Director of Corporate Planning) was featured as the keynote speaker of the Mobile Summit at the Broadband World Forum that is taking place in Amsterdam, October 16-18, 2012.</p>
<p>Addressing a room full of senior executives from across the wireless ecosystem, Alan summarized the key findings of the company's Vision 2020 project in his aptly-titled presentation: <a href="http://www.interdigital.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/InterDigital-at-Broadband-World-Forum_October-2012.pdf" target="_blank">"Towards the Personal Ultra Broadband Era"</a>.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.interdigital.com/vision-2020" target="_blank">Vision 2020</a> project builds on the premise that re-imagination... of our wireless world...our physical experiences...our digital economy...is the driving force of innovation today. The pursuit of realizing these "new experiences&rdquo; will push broadband needs to new levels, leading to a bandwidth crunch that will require an ever more complex and &ldquo;meshy&rdquo; network of networks.</p>
<p>Alan went on to say that two tech trends will perhaps shape our wireless future more than any:</p>
<p>1. The relentless move to small and smaller cell technologies and deployments that will create a world of ubiquitous connectivity asset availability.</p>
<p>2. The Cloud, or increasingly pervasive sharing technology - already commonplace in the computing industry, but telecom and wireless are playing catch-up.</p>
<p>When putting it all together, a vision emerges of a wireless world that opportunistically and seamlessly leverages any access resource, any spectrum resource, and any device resource.</p>