On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:37:44AM -0800, M. C. OrHai wrote:
>
> The major problem I see with available 802.11-based equipment is that it's
> all client/server... which works fine if you just want a little
> short-range star-topology office network, but tends to break down with
> large numbers of users or sites. It's too centralised. The peer-to-peer
> capable microwave units I've heard about aren't capable of multipoint
> connections. A multipoint peer-to-peer web-topology network could be
> basically self-organizing while minimizing power consumption and
> interference. Has anybody heard tell of a wireless chipset that can do
> simultaneous multiple peer-to-peer connections?
>
I believe 802.15 (which is related to Bluetooth) can do this at short
ranges. The trick is to mix something like that with a wireline
backbone technology--say something built on top of EWEB's fiber
network.
Randolph
