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To: Mika Kukkanen who wrote (17907)	11/6/1998 11:33:00 AM
From: DaveMG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Mika, You said in a previous post that you've seen some of this 3G stuff. Can you tell us anything about it? Accumulate? I thought you're a diehard ERICY/Nokia kind of guy..:-) Dave

To: Mika Kukkanen who wrote (17907)	11/6/1998 11:36:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Mikka, 100 Mbs Fast ethernet card is in $50 to $75 range, a port on a switch is dropping below $100, or a fraction of it on a hub. There is no air time for you to pay for. You only pay for traffic going out of your office to Internet. If you typical office has 50 people, a shared network connection will always be far cheaper than if every employee had to have a wireless account with the ISP. I don't know about Finland, but in the US, just about every office has a LAN. Some are still regular Ethernet (10 Mbs), but nobody buys regular Ethernet cards anymore. The 100 Mbps quoted is within an office environment used by many (hundreds?) of people. It depends on your network. As I mentioned, switches are getting cheap ($100 per port) to the point that you can have every user on a switch, which makes the bandwidth between you and the switch dedicated to you. Switches used to be expensive, so a on lot of existing networks users share the bandwidth. Within 3 years standards based will be around 25 Mbps. Within 3 years, desktop users will switching from 100 Mbs to 1,000 MBs. Joe

To: Mika Kukkanen who wrote (17907)	11/6/1998 12:51:00 PM
From: Quincy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

3mbps? IEEE802.11 offers speeds like 11Mbps, no base station needed, no spectrum license needed, and a range of 300 ft. This is a current off-the-shelf product! semi.harris.com Now, on the subject of wireless VS wired. I don't agree with your cost analysis. Ethernet ports are currently running under $10 for 10mbps for the chip, inductors, and connector. Ethernet expansion boards are running under $50 in bulk. Home builders out here are offering Ethernet wiring to all rooms as either standard or as a $200 option. Plenum-grade Cat-5 cable is about $90 for 1,000 ft of cable. The fanout box ranges from $50 for consumer grade to $1000 for switched with all the bells and whistles. Best of all, all of this can be reused for 100BaseT. Even if the wireless components approach the $10 range (which won't happen overnight for spread-spectrum), wireless has a lot more testing to undergo during manufacturing (with some very expensive test boxes) plus the development costs and the regulatory compliance costs. I don't see how it can be cheaper than 10baseT. I love the idea of plug-n-play. But, anyone building an office without Cat-5 100BaseT compatible cable deserves to pay $300 per wireless port. Cat-5 wiring is a no-brainer. (but it would have eliminated the man months I have spent perched on top of ladders stringing cat-5 through dusty buildings... Oh well.)