Wireless Networking

(that means no wires to you and me folks !)

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Jerry ButlerJerry Butler

Harry HarrisonHarry Harrison

A few quotes for eye openers

“Wireless technology just makes more sense”

MCI, AOL and Hughes

“Speed is not Everything”Ghandi

(Yah Right!)

“Everything should be made simple as possible, but not simpler”

Albert Einstein

Wireless Technology

DSL and Cable have about two years to get organized and wire the world! If they don’t, wireless will overwhelm them!

ZDTV.com

Welcome to the Races!

Hughes & AOLMetricom & MCI World ComTeledesic & MicrosoftApple & Lucent - 802.11 wireless

standard Intel & MotorolaBluetooth - Personal Area Networks

Here We Go !

When considering the future of DSL and cable modems, most industry insiders say that there is no way most homes and small business will be up to the challenge because of the infrastructure needed for this technology.

By 2003 wireless may eclipse DSL and Cable

In Seattle, Silicon Valley, and Washington D.C. Metricon has installed a total wireless network at speeds up to 128K vs. old 28.8 tech.

More Wireless Stuff!

The system works with small transmitters placed on lamp poles or any other convenient place These transmitters will be piped into MCIs global high speed network. The system is fast and easy to install.

Wireless Local Loops

There are wireless local loops under-development around the world. Neighborhoods will be able to use high bandwidth wireless connectivity to a central hub without wires and a speeds up to 800kps. These will be up and running by 2003

Wireless Homes &Offices

 

      Wireless networking was also in its infancy last year. Sure we've had high-cost, wireless networking for a while, but it's been proprietary and best left to corporations with big bucks. This year will highlight an exciting catfight, as two industry groups try to build their own standards. Intel and Motorola stand on one side, pushing their Home RF. Lucent and Apple stands on the other side, featuring the 802.11 wireless networking standard. At first glance, the Home RF group seems to have the upper hand, given that they're attempting to follow the successful Home PNA phone line standard.

Wireless Homes and Offices Cont.

Another type of wireless networking will make its debut at Comdex and ought to be a big player at Comdex 2000. Named Bluetooth, this is an RF-based, low-power network designed to connect all the peripherals in your life together. You've heard of Local Area Networks (LANs) and Wide Area Networks (WANs). Well, Bluetooth is a Personal Area Network (PAN). With it your cell phone, notebook, PalmPilot, home PC, and PC for your car will continuously synchronize together, whenever they're within about 10 meters of each other. There are technology demos this year at the Bluetooth pavilion, and real products should be available by next fall. =

Wireless vs. Cable and DSL

Metricom plans to wire 12 metropolitan areas by this summer and have 48 cities up and running by next year. They also plan to have up to 300 cities by 2003. This type of system will have more bandwidth than cable or DSL.

Poor old Ma Bell This is what happens when you sit on your hands too long,(among other things). The phone company's have seen this coming for a long time but were unwilling to do anything about it. They thought that no one would be able to compete with them.

More Phone Tales While AOL and Metricom will be in most major areas by 2002 and Hughes-AOL in all areas (remember if you can see south you can have satellite) by mid 2002 Can somebody tell me where the phone company's are. They have been saying for years DSL is just around the corner. (that’s one big corner)

Phone Tales cont. It finally took congress to do something about it. (and we all know how long that takes) Last year after millions of complaints from voters that small communities were being left out of the technological revolution. Congress started looking into allegations that the phone company's Were ignoring consumers.

More On Lying Phone Companies

The government has been spending billions of dollars on subsidies to the phone and cable industry for years and getting nothing in return. (sound familure) The phone companies say they can’t figure out a way to get the cost down to make it affordable for everyone.

In Comes Hughes

The phone company's laughed at Hughes and said that no one would ever put a satellite dish on the side of there homes ( any one remember DSS) and that they could never get it to work anyway.

Hughes and AOL

Last month AOL gave wireless another boost by investing 1.5 billion in Hughes which owns and operates the biggest and most successful satellite television and satellite ISP service in world.

Hughes and AOL cont.

Hughes operates, a brain-dead, one way, high bandwidth service that delivers Internet via satellite but uses a modem for up loads. The nice thing is that you have downloads at up to 400kps (just slightly faster than a 56k modem.)

AOL’s Big MoneySince the Time –Warner merger AOL has been looking for a way that they think will be able to get out all this info that they have access to. The money that was invested in Hughes will be used to finish a two-way satellite based internet access at speeds reaching 700kps.

Satellite Bandwidth

With Hughes in the picture AOL wants to have satellites capable with enough bandwidth to have six video transmissions simultaneous from each address

More Satellites To Play With And you just thought you were safe after Windows 2000 release. In steps the man you love to hate Bill Gates. He and a friend Craig McCaw decided not to let AOL and Hughes have all the fun in space. They have started a company called Teledesic and have plans to deploy a IP optimized broadband worldwide data service by late 2003. With a estimated cost of 70 billion Bill can just write a check.

Lets Wrap This Thing Up!

The Next few years will be exciting. With the new technology on the market and some for the things coming out in the next few years the networking game will take on a whole new look.

I’m Getting There You will be able to wire:(I mean no wires)•Homes•Autos•Neighborhoods•Cities•CountriesAnd not have to run a single wire.

Almost There This has been a very short overview of what is on the market now or in the near future, and we have just touched on the technology that is avable. This is a exciting time we are living in. Never has so much info been avable to us and us having the ability to us it.

OK,OK, Were Done For further info on this exciting

technology look at : http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/cgi-bin/rmplay.cgi?/zd/zdtv/g2demand/screensavers/intro_wireless.rm