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To: willcousa who wrote (12223)	5/16/2002 2:51:37 PM
From: Rob S.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Wi-Fi is 802.11b which has taken off like a rocket. But I don't look at what is happening in wireless as being defined by Wi-Fi but by what Wi-Fi represents: the development of the first truly competitive wireless broadband standard that rides on the back of market and technology development forces. The first thing that was and still is needed to make WBB grow is cheap manufacturing process technologies. The industry now has capable CMOS and soon will have even more capable CMOS-SOI semiconductor process technologies available to do marvelous things in wireless silicon. The next thing you need is standards development that defines products that will be acceptable to a mass market. We got that first in 802.11b. Maybe if BlueTooth had come along earlier then it would have captured the hearts and minds of the industry and buying public. The user really does give much of a damn what buzz word the capability goes by - they just want it to work and be idiot simple. Heck, I just want electronics things to work and be idiot simple because life is too short to be spent fooling around figuring each gee wi tech thing out, only to find it obsolete ten minutes after you buy it. Wi-Fi and successive versions of IEEE 802.11 will mushroom because they can be taken advantage to make money and that is because they deliver results to the users. "Multi-mode" standards operation is already starting to occur because the cheap silicon and other manufacturing technologies allow products to be designed and built that handle the switching needed to roam from one standards based environment to another. While nobody can predict every twist and turn in the development of wireless broadband anymore than they could have for the "PC revolution", the course of events are already into play and the wireless technologies and other intellectual property, such a integration software, is building upon itself rapidly.