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To: Boplicity who wrote (229)	5/7/2001 1:22:27 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 13815

Businesses must prepare to use wireless technology Monday May 7, 12:01 am Eastern Time <<SAN JOSE, Calif., May 7 (Reuters) - As more and more Web-enabled mobile devices are introduced into the market, businesses must be prepared to integrate them into their own technology networks, a study said. According to a new study by Gartner Inc. (NYSE:IT - news), which is expected to be released on Monday, there will be almost 800 million wireless data users worldwide by 2004. These users are expected to access data and information from the Internet remotely through various devices including mobile phones, laptop computers, handheld PCs, e-mail devices and other products that may be introduced in the future. Bob Egan, vice president and research director for Gartner, said businesses must readdress their network security and data access options to accommodate the growing use of these mobile devices by employees. ``(Companies) are going to have to re-engineer their networks in ways that allow people to actually get access to network resources from outside the company walls,'' Egan told Reuters. Egan pointed out that companies have typically set up their networks on the assumption that employees will be accessing data only from within the office. Egan said companies must consider supporting three kinds of wireless technologies: technology that allows employees to send data over national wireless networks, technology that would allow employees wireless Internet access to a local network and technology that would allow employees to transfer information wirelessly between devices. ``Enterprises will be well-advised to remember that no single wireless access network topology will meet anywhere near 80 percent of the requirements of... workers,'' Egan said in a news release. Bluetooth, a new technology, has often been touted as a good technology to enable wireless access to local area networks (LAN), but Egan said that technology should be considered carefully due to security issues. He recommended that Bluetooth be used for its originally intended purpose: to transfer files between devices, to replace wires, and to synchronize file and data between devices. Egan said companies should consider the more secure 802.11 wireless technology to enable wireless access to local area networks.>>