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To: elmatador who wrote (11916)	9/21/2001 1:21:15 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

WLANs usually have a diameter of a couple hundred feet. How will WLANs threaten the wall of incumbents? If anything, they will create more demand for incumbent services, not less, due to the need for fatter pipes to the Internet's core from WLAN locations. This will serve to foster incumbents' interests where local Frame Relay, ISDN, DSL and T1/T3 access services are required. Do you see this differently? Now, if you were to include in your argument optical GbE services as offered by still-to-be-sorted-out providers, then that would be a different story. You may recall earlier discussions here in LMT that focused on hybrid fiber/wirelss architectures: HFW.

To: elmatador who wrote (11916)	9/21/2001 1:24:33 PM
From: John F Beule	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Thanks el. John

To: elmatador who wrote (11916)	9/21/2001 11:34:21 PM
From: Peter Ecclesine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Hi Elmat, Spectrum gets reshaped by Software Defined Radios, and IP packets for services. >>Expect WLAN's to be the target of much 'security' concerns << VPNs are the answer. >>Now it is time to defend the revenues and all the acquired interests in today's datacoms status quo. << I just saw that the 1999 Indian PABX market was 1M lines worth $63M ;-) Maybe India has a 'datacom incumbent wall.' There is no relevant datacom incumbency in deregulated economies. Maybe in India/Indonesia/etc. >>That's because WLAN's are the technologies that will crack the datacom incumbent wall. << Datacom will become wireless at places where wire is too expensive or too regulated. The WTO telecom deregulation activity is what is relevant. Nice provocative post. petere