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Volume 4, Issue 409: Wednesday, October 9, 2002
* "Being Wireless"
Wired (10/02) Vol. 10, No. 10, P. 116; Negroponte, Nicholas MIT
Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte predicts wireless 802.11
systems will transform telecommunications from a centralized,
proprietary mesh of networks to one that is open and free to
most users. Although phone companies are pursuing 3G technology
as the future for wireless data transmission, Negroponte points
out that 3G is still more applicable to voice applications and
will carry just 1 Mbps in two years. Meanwhile, 802.11b carries
data at 54 Mbps and already has an estimated 15 million
connections in the United States alone. While 802.11 only
carries for about 1,000 feet unamplified, Negroponte says that
peer-to-peer technology will eventually allow for a robust,
free network that can largely bypass links to the traditional
Internet. He points out that as more individual nodes are
linked to one another via peer-to-peer, the quality and
capabilities of the network are increased, unlike traditional
networks, where more users means less bandwidth. Moreover, the
technology is becoming cheaper and more functional, and special
antennas can send signals further than 20 kilometers so that
far-flung communities can also be hooked up. In the end, the
traditional telecommunications infrastructure will be forced to
recognize the strength of this new network and authorities
reorganize spectrum accordingly, so that it is owned commonly
and not parceled out to be used with less effectiveness.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.10/wireless.html
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