At 04:15 PM 11/30/2002, Patrick Leary wrote:
Hello BAWUG, My name is Patrick Leary. I am known as the Chief Evangelist for Alvarion, the major wireless broadband vendor.
That was an incredibly great post, but what has Alvarion done to realize any P2P community-operated network cloud?
You've clearly stated, Alvarion and other proprietary technologies have existed for a long time, better suited for medium-range outdoor links than 802.11b. We need those. And we need mesh routing or at least ad-hoc routing, for more than one hop. I emphatically *reject* your suggestion to wait while "the industry" creates better-engineered stuff. Meanwhile we're all getting captured into huge telco/cableco monopolies, paying them $50, $60 a month, making them stronger and stronger. There will never be any escape, under your suggestion. The internet itself is being destroyed, turned into a top-down selling medium. Alvarion costs $1000 per end--impossible. Wifi APs cost $50 and headed lower, and Alvarion is not 20 times better. We don't need gold-plated stuff, we already have enough of that from the Telcos (5ESS switches) Respectfully, Todd Boyle CPA - Kirkland WA http://www.gldialtone.com/whyP2Pwireless.htm -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
