On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Patrick Leary wrote: > 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.
One the personal mobility wireless side (UO)started with dec roamabout 900mhz gear in 94/95 moved on to at&t/lucent/dec wavelan 2.4ghz dss 802.11 gear in 96/97 and recieved our first 802.11b gear in 98. I've had an accesspoint in my house for more than five years now... The thing I wonder is what took everyone else so long? > 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 > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2 -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
