Anyone head out to Campbell and stumbled looking for these guys? +---------- Thus spoke raines on Mon, Jun 10, 2002 >http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/10/technology/10WIRE.html?ex=1024729897&ei=1 >&en > >>2 Tinkerers Say They've Found a Cheap Way to Broadband >> >>June 10, 2002 >>By JOHN MARKOFF >> >> >>CUPERTINO, Calif., June 7 - Anyone looking for the next big >>thing in Silicon Valley should stop here at Layne Holt's >>garage. >> >>Mr. Holt and his business partner, John Furrier, both >>software engineers, have started a company with a >>shoestring budget and an ambitious target: the cable and >>phone companies that currently hold a near-monopoly on >>high-speed access for the "last mile" between the Internet >>and the home. >> >>At the core of their plan is the inexpensive wireless data >>standard known as Wi-Fi or 802.11b, which is already >>shaking up the communications industry, threatening to >>undermine the business plans of cellular phone companies by >>offering a much cheaper method for mobile access to the >>Internet. >> >>The pair's company, known as Etherlinx, has taken the >>802.11b standard and used it to build a system that can >>transmit Internet data up to 20 miles at high speeds - >>enough to blanket entire urban regions and make cable or >>D.S.L. connections obsolete. > >[...] >-- >general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> >[un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
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