To: peter a. pedroli who wrote (816 ) 4/16/2001 10:09:28 PM From: peter a. pedroli Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 825 in the last cc i said that i believed there was growth in spending by ISPs in 4 market segments in 2001. one of these service technologies was wireless LAN. greg agreed with my assessments and said that they had connectivity solutions in this market. "There are three reasons to deploy wireless," says Craig Mathias, a principal with technology advisory firm FarPoint Group. "You can't install wire, for whatever reason. Wireless is cheaper over a given time. Or you need mobility." nwfusion.com Study: Wireless LAN market to top $4 billion By Nancy Weil IDG News Service, 04/16/01 Falling prices and new technologies that continue to make wireless LANs speedier will bring a surge in corporate use, according to new research from Cahners In-Stat Group. Total revenue in that market will reach nearly $4.6 billion by 2005, the market researcher predicts. Wireless LANs will be pushed, as in the past, by "Wi-Fi" (wireless fidelity) products, including IEEE products using the 802.11b and 802.11g standards, Cahners In-Stat said. nwfusion.com High-speed wireless LANs are coming By JOHN COX Network World, 04/09/01 About a year from now, the first high-speed wireless LAN products will hit the market, promising to deliver a data rate of up to 54M bit/sec. That speed should give enterprise net managers plenty of time to assess their net requirements, scope out product plans and address with vendors a range of critical issues such as technical support and software stability. Net executives face a range of problems - and opportunities - with the faster radio technology. These include installing many more wireless access points than today's wireless LANs need, higher power consumption for laptop interface cards, security, and remote administration and network management.