In many ways though this article is horrendously dated and in parts has it completely backwards. For instance, the article purports that business travelers were the first to use WiFi and now it is making its way into the enterprise, like warehouses.
The warehousing and logistics markets (e.g. POS, inventory control) were actually the first wide-scale implementations of wireless Ethernet in the early 1990's, followed by healthcare. Wide-scale use in the healthcare arena dates back to the mid-to-late 1990's. The emergence of 802.11b finally drove it into the classroom and from there to larger enterprise. Finally, the price reductions driven by this mass produced commodity-priced product for individual households and consumers. Only then could the "hotspot" model finally emerge. Fortunately, this rudimentary, and in some was sloppy, level of reporting on this industry is less of a problem than in the past few years. This is especially ironic since USA Today has already reported on WiMAX (Nov 17, 2003 in a special emerging technology section) Still, congrats to those who made it into the article. Regards, Patrick Leary Alvarion -----Original Message----- From: David Rhodes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 10:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [BAWUG] Wi-Fi changes virtually everything I see Mr. Peterson, Mr. Pozar and a certain "San Francisco-area Wi-Fi users group" made the cover of USA Today Money this morning. Bravo! http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2004-02-18-wifi_x.htm D. -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless This mail passed through mail.alvarion.com **************************************************************************** ******** This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses. **************************************************************************** ******** -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
