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To: axial who wrote (105)	1/1/2002 2:09:17 PM
From: Peter Ecclesine	Respond to of 1002

Hi Jim, First, Happy New Year Second, .11b may be fast enough to distribute your Internet connection for a while ;-) I expect new applications, like HDTV, to drive your new home networking investment, which may be backward compatible with your existing radios. I expect 802.11 price/performance to track underlying costs - Moore's law applies petere

To: axial who wrote (105)	1/16/2002 1:04:29 PM
From: Rob S.	Respond to of 1002

You and others won't have to give up your 802.11b investment because 802.11g standard incorporates both the higher rate OFDM technology and the 802.11b capability. Chip vendors will provide "multi-mode" radio capability on the same chips. In addition, several vendors are answering the problem by offering dual radio capable APs and routers - they will take both 802.11a and 11 b cards in the same system. Since these operate at different frequencies, a business that installs some APs that have 802.11a and 11b can simply give new users or slowly migrate exiting ones over to the higher data rate cards. Some users may want to use 802.11a for say the engineering or graphics arts departments while keeping pencil pushers and managers on 802.11b. Of course, managers who want to trade the latest porn videos over the network might insist on the higher speeds of 802.11a or 11g.