... .1la standard products are slowly rolling out. Frontiers for Growth: Aside from opportunities for expansion in the metro network arena, several major sectors will experience growth: mesh networks, home networks, cell-phone networking, broadband, UWB, and security. The classical network topology is the mesh, where all nodes are connected to each other. Even though they're very expensive to implement, there's a ... access and could be a solution for the wireless local loop. Another trend is the growth in home networks. Wireless dominates with Ethernet 802.11b in the lead, but viable phone...

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• Grade Level: High School

... .1la standard products are slowly rolling out. Frontiers for Growth: Aside from opportunities for expansion in the metro network arena, several major sectors will experience growth: mesh networks, home networks, cell-phone networking, broadband, UWB, and security. The classical network topology is the mesh, where all nodes are connected to each other. Even though they're very expensive to implement, there's a ... access and could be a solution for the wireless local loop. Another trend is the growth in home networks. Wireless dominates with Ethernet 802.11b in the lead, but viable phone...

• Word Count: 1202
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... and Internet appliances will communicate with one another," said Frank Spindler, vice president and director of marketing for Intel (Neel). Routine activities like standing in line and waiting by the phone will become obsolete. It will no longer be just a dream to access personal and business data from any location. As we enter a new technological era, wireless connectivity places ... PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) will become an integral product featuring Bluetooth, and will act as the cornerstone of connectivity to PCs, consumer electronics, point-of-sale transaction terminals, cell ...

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... ."" By 2004, the wireless subscriber base worldwide is expected to reach 1.4 billion users, and approximately 300 million users will be accessing the Internet from some form of wireless appliance albeit cell phone, PDA, or PC. The use of wireless LANs is expected to increase dramatically in the future as businesses, as well as personal data users, discover the enhanced productivity and the ... ...

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... rush out to buy Centrino laptops may find there's nowhere in town they can get online, unless you live in a very central part of the country. The companies that deliver cell-phone service are best equipped to build nation-wide Wi-Fi networks, but they're taking a wait-and-see approach. Wi-Fi requires completely different hardware than cellular phones, with base ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate