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Wi-Fi Communicators For the Real World
Erik_ writes: "In this most interesting article on MSN Wearable Wi-Fi - The wave of the future?, there is a description of a Wi-Fi Communicator device. Just like on Star Trek (Thanks Gene), these devices provides hands-free, voice-activated communications throughout any 802.11b networked building or campus. The company manufacturing these devices Vocera hopes to begin selling the equipment later this year. Can't wait to get my hands on some of these communicators... Beam me up Scotty."
>>Not like we have cell phones with internet that work nearly anywhere or anything. This is so revolutionary.
>>/flamebait (but seriously....this isnt groundbreaking)
Sure, but what do you pay a minute (during business hours) for being able to use those full-featured cellphones? I think the groundbreaking part with Wi-Fi is that once you pay for the system, your hourly costs are zilch.
I'm generally "Interesting," "Insightful," and even "Funny" here. What the hell happens to me at parties?
We are using a switched full duplex 100baseT LAN
to support our Mitel 3300 ICP with QoS tagging
and 5020 IP phones and we *still* get chop if the LAN gets super busy.
You should see the switches go nuts with blinkenlights when someone sends out a page
Given that my decently designed wired lan bogs down, how well do they think
it's gonna work on a variable rate unswitched network with 1/10th the bandwidth
- more than 2 users, and sayanora baby.
Sig's suck, especially this one.
Cell phones interfere with certain medical equipment. WiFi does not. This will be great for hospitals.
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