www.news.com -snip- Amir Rosenzweig, president, Alvarion A new Wi-Fi technology uses the 802.16a wireless standard and touts a 10-mile coverage area. -snip-
i dunno i watched the video + it seems more like alot of people would *think* you are looking @ something like 10 miles of coverage with just a card or something built in (eventually?) but alvarion pulls out the fixed wireless dish for connection. it would be nice if the media would stop using the "Wi-Fi" name in items pertaining to newer technology but i guess they need the name in order to promote next generation items. on the whole id find it rather annoying to even mistakenly put "Wi-Fi that can do 10 miles" instead of WiMAX something entirely different. id also find it hard to beleive that the dish will come out @ the rough cost of a mid-priced AP (but still good to see them in production) ... i think the idea is the video is to bridge 802.16/802.11 transparently. - jon pgp key: http://www.jonbaer.net/jonbaer.asc fingerprint: F438 A47E C45E 8B27 F68C 1F9B 41DB DB8B 9A0C AF47 -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
