In the article quoted below, it says: "Meanwhile, 802.11b carries data at 54 Mbps and already has an estimated 15 million connections in the United States alone" Did something change that I didn't catch, or is this a typo and really meant 802.11a?
Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Asst. Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ John E. Kreznar wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > > > ACM TechNews is intended as an objective news digest for busy IT > Professionals. Views expressed are not necessarily those of either > HP or ACM. > > To send comments, please write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 > > Copyright 2002 Information, Inc. This service may be reproduced for internal > distribution. > >- -- > John E. Kreznar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13 > No truckle to any body politic > Imagine there's no countries / to kill or die for --John Lennon, 1971 > Disavowal of political allegiance is prerequisite to freedom. > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) >Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.6 and Gnu Privacy Guard <http://www.gnupg.org/> > >iD8DBQE9qCyEYaR8xUGv7xMRAoWpAJ46gnvKWm62z4dWX4WnmUQR5NVGGwCeNIfM >g3IGFX0RCBJVsFVNbCv4tNo= >=tAZ7 >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >-- >general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> >[un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
