Wireless LAN Equipment Shipments Up

MrBounce writes "Worldwide shipments of wireless local-area network equipment increased by 120 percent in 2002 from a year ago. So who are the current market leaders in this field?"

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Innovators pay the price of leadership

[BWJones]

Boy, given that Apple was shipping wireless on their computers back in 1999, it is interesting to see that they don't seem to be represented here. It could be due to a small market share I suppose, but Apple has paid the price for leadership again and again by innovating and then everyone else jumping on board.

Re:Security?

[thegameiam]

it's funny - there are two approaches to Wireless:

1) try to create wired-equivalent security, with WEP, et. al.
This usually results in "security" which can be cracked by a persistent teenager in a car in under about 20 minutes.

2) leave everything "open" and make sure that all security is host/application based. Treat the network as "untrusted"
Personally, this is where I stand: I think that it works better, and people don't get any unrealistic impressions about the security of their connections.

So I run a WISP which is built upon the latter model, in Washington DC. If someone wardrives and snoops some internet for an hour, fine! pleas don't attack the network itself, but feel free to surf the web :)

-David Barak