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Rivals Agree On 802.11s Wireless Mesh Proposal
By Larry Hendrick | April 25, 2006
Are you the least bit curious where all this 802.11x standards will lead? This article about 802.11s has several good points that cause me to be curious about the companies involved. Will they be able to get products to market in a timely manner to compete with other products and, more importantly, will anyone care?
Rivals Agree On 802.11s Wireless Mesh Proposal
Following a quiet agreement on a joint IEEE mesh networking standard last month, companies like Motorola are announcing plans to move the technology into their own products.The Intel-and Firetide-led SEE Mesh, which had put forward a proposal to compete with Nortel’s Wi-Mesh Alliance, resolved their differences and moved forward with a joint proposal that should be voted in as the draft standard for 802.11s, the IEEE mesh networking standard…
…However, the 802.11s standard will enter a mesh market that has already developed without it. That will minimize its impact as an enabling technology, but will nevertheless serve as the common fabric that will help enable roaming from one network to the other, executives said. The 802.11s technology will also be forced to compete with 3G cellular devices, which allow data downloads on the go…
…According to Rotondo, the joint consensus happened more quickly than expected. Debates such as the future of the ultrawideband standard can drag on for years. In the case of UWB, the IEEE group was unable to resolve their differences.
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