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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
QCOM 177.78-2.2%Jan 9 9:30 AM EST
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To: carranza2 who wrote (44089)1/7/2005 6:03:50 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 197156
 
C2, 802.11n does indeed seem to be the hot property. As you say, it might be out in commercial use before it has trundled through all the committee processes to standardisation.

I've always been a fan of blood and guts technological battles and not just going along with the mob in standards committees aiming at lowest common denominator group therapy jamborees involving a lot of huffing and puffing, hotel expenses, airfares, meals, booze, girls and lost productivity for the day to day real corporate work.

It seems that 802.11n might be real before it's standard. D'oh!CoMo tried going their own way with their special W-CDMA efforts, which crashed and burned, along with various investments around the world which were intended to leverage the technology. We don't hear a lot about i-mode in New Zealand, Europe or USA either.

Right now I'm using WiFi [802.11b] via a Cisco PCMCIA card hooked up to ADSL. So I guess Cisco intends to retain a place in 802.11n and anything else going in the WiFi realm. I haven't checked their position so have no idea. If the patents are assigned to Cisco, that means they are not letting go. Maybe they hired some services, or bought the rights?

Mqurice
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