Correct. In less crowded environments [conferences, workshops, homes, office, park e.t.c], wireless services will drive the mobile Internet industry. A lot of laptops and hand held devices have got wireless units integrated into their hardware, that support the 802.11 standard.
In this area, it will work fine. Last mile solutions, well, in the short to mid term, yes. Long term, the more services you can put on infrastructure, the more you can sell to people/SOHOs in the home. Unfortunately, wireless, not even copper, can support the amount of spectrum needed for this kind of thing - imagine video, voice and data going to the home, with 20 or so 10-year olds in a single neighborhood logging on to play Internet-able video games while watching each other on live video. I know that may seem a little far-fetched for now, but think about is as something that is really WAITING TO HAPPEN! I'd honestly recommend wireless on a very small scale. For the future, it's not the kind of technology that will scale for hungrier applications. Regards, Mark Tinka - CCNA Network Engineer, Africa Online Uganda -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Nambale Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: lug_: IEEE OKs 802.11g WLAN standard, three others I dont know about major backbones but in as far as providing ethernet in the last mile I dont see why not. Remember that with moores law and increasing computing power on the cheap, it will become increasingly easier for 802.11 manufacturers to differentitate between noise and important data through software algorithims. rgds CN "Mark Tinka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/16/03 08:56 AM Please respond to lug To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: RE: lug_: IEEE OKs 802.11g WLAN standard, three others After all is said and done, do we really still want to see major backbone solely depending on wireless? Regards, Mark Tinka - CCNA Network Engineer, Africa Online Uganda -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Nambale Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lug_: IEEE OKs 802.11g WLAN standard, three others Not much use if you are going to be restricted to a 2 MB/s link thereafter. Good if you are deploying a metropolitan area network though. CN Kiggundu Mukasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/13/03 12:56 PM Please respond to lug To: LUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: lug_: IEEE OKs 802.11g WLAN standard, three others http://www.commsdesign.com/story/OEG20030612S0039 ISPs, So when are we going to get 54MB/s to the backbone now that the standard is out? -- **************** ***************************** Kiggundu Mukasa # Computer Network Consultancy### KYM-NET LTD. # Intranets & Internet Solutions# House 73 # Data Communication Service #### Plot 80 kanjokya Street P.O. Box 173 Kampala, Uganda Tel: +256 77 972255 +256 71 221141 Fax: +256 31 262122 *************************************************************************
