Someone should do a case study on Telxon/Aironet. The SEC filings to Telxon were just amazing/hilarious...
They sold off the Aironet division to Cisco who took off with it starting with the 340s. Cisco's Aironet line continues to dominate the enterprise 802.11 market. They are improving the product and recently moved to IOS.
They have a major issue with the way they handle VLANs but apart from this, the Aironet line remains a near perfect product in that league.
The left over of Telxon (handheld scanners/wireless) was picked up by Symbol. That was the only big two player in the handheld/retail chain wireless market.
Now, getting back to the topic, I don't think 2.4 is a good spectrum for outdoors, if they can manage to keep the 5.7-5.8 GHz "outdoor" spectrum free of interference, I would tend to use that for production links.
But if you in the middle of a farm somewhere, then yes, 802.11g or proprietary type stuff (using OFDM) might be suitable. NLOS with 802.11b won't be there unless you are within a short distance.
Hopefully the government will release a bunch of spectrum for 802.16 (and .20). And it would be great if the spectrum allocation system worked using free voluntary registration of spectrum use in an area. Failure to comply would get you in a position to pay "non compliance license fees". It would be a good way to find funding for the regulatory orgnisations that need to get funding somehow....
... Jonn Martell
Dan Lanciani wrote:
|Aironet, which itself was related to Telxon,
I've wondered: what was that relationship? And wasn't there also some connection between Symbol and Aironet/Telxon?
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