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Wi-Fi Communicators For the Real World

Posted by timothy on from the what-about-tricorders dept.

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."

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  1. Won't work, nice idea tho by colenski · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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