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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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Worldwide population is also up in 2003 and we don't want to know who the most prolific producer is either.
I wonder if the IP over avian carrier rfc would be included as a wireless protocol.
But these shipment numbers made sense. I bought both a wireless router and AirPort card for my iBook this year.
Equipment Shipments?
What other rhyming headlines can we expect?
Stouter Routers available soon
Software Can Plan your WLAN
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Cisco announced an agreement to buy Linksys a cheap whore
Why can't my company make agreements like that! We just get boring ol' stock and cash deals.
"Worldwide shipments of wireless local-area network equipment increased by 120 percent in 2002 from a year ago."
RIAA has attributed this increase to an increasing sharing of music by *thieves* on the internet. SCO is claiming that the increase in the sale of wireless LAN equipment is primarily due to linux. Ans since linux has SCO's IP, SCO is planning to sue all the manufactures of wireless LAN.
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.
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Production of 2003 Volkswagon Beetles is up infinity% from last year! Incredible!
Wireless is new. Since it didn't flop, of course they are going to manufacture more. Who cares if there was twice as much manufactured as last year? WHY IS THIS NEWSWORTHY??
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Nortel has some really good product: here, their VOIP handsets/desktop phones and software-based-voip-phones are *very* cool... coupled with a 802.11x AP, it is VERY COOL. Ipaq + 802.11x CF Nic + Nortel Software == wirless phone in your office.
In related news, Pringles shipments were up by %110.
Why is it so hot? Where am I going? What am I doing in this handbasket?
Scientists are still trying to figure out how businesses can make money from selling access wi-fi networks.
If you don't know what a Mesh Network is, you should read up on it. There are some very cool applications.
You can fly in a helicopter at 300 mph+ and sustain an Internet Connection.
City governments are also using this technology to deploy cameras around their cities.
Any kind of technology is always scary when government gets ahold of it. However, I still have some questions about it's security though.
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a) It's a nice break from SCO stupidity and bashing
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A fellow grad student and I got talking about this at our university's wireless lab ...
Most current wireless scheme assume sparse usage concentrations. As more and more people start using these devices, interference will increase markedly and reduce performance for all. Just think what would happen if every single person in your appartment or neighbourhood had a wireless network setup? We would see a 15-50% degradation in wireless bandwidth!
Not to mention other devices operating in the 2.4Ghz unregulated spectrum like microwave ovens and those damn cordless phones!
I just finished placing my online order for various Linksys Wireless equipment, then surf over to /. and the top story is "Wireless LAN Equipment Shipments Up...top vendor is Linksys".
Man, those internet tracking and market analysis systems are getting too advanced now... :-)
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This is probably a good time to create a current review of the long distance (>> 300 ft) Wireless solutions that are available in the market.
Richochet is one http://www.ricochet.com/
and another is Vivato http://www.vivato.net/
What are the other ones in the market?
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Well in the last few years two out of the three major issues with wireless have been fixed. Plus now there's more widespread applications for wireless technology is amazing. Cause everything to communicate without drilling holes and running wires and it's all portable.
Wireless (especially 802.11b) is in major universities, businesses, and homes all across america. It's "the new craze" get broadband and a wireless router along with a laptop and surf the net while outside, in your room, or wherever.
For what people need networking for wireless usually is it 9 times out of 10 and it is far more acceptable and eye appealing than drilling holes and running wire everywhere. Plus it's cool to have a laptop with no wires surfin the net, still has a cool "wow" factor.
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
Let's just that wireless requires Big Company infrastructure. Make the Wireless big enough and perhaps it will be decentralized. Make it encrypted and everyone can/will use it.
Make it so that no one wireless is the chokepoint and you will have redundancy that backbones can only dream about. And All this for FREE!
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It is technology. It moves *forward*.
The hell it does - just look at Windows ME.
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Cisco is 28% of wireless lan revenue since they own Linsys now =) I find it interesting what this says about the overall market, Cisco/Aironet which is the large enterprise leader slipped behind Linksys in revenue even though the typical Cisco/Aironet product costs ~8X what the typical Linksys product does, so small companies and consumers must be outbuying enterprises by around 8X =)
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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.
Not really. Remember Apple only has a small (5%) market share in computers to begin with and their wireless gear generally is only sold to people who have Macs. And not everyone who has a Mac uses the wireless so the population is even smaller. It's not really surprising they wouldn't be near the top given how popular 802.11b has become.
Plus Apple doesn't make their own wireless gear. They OEM it from others. Lucent at one point (still?) was the maker of some of their stuff if I recall. They were innovative in using it but they never really were the technology innovators here. They were just smart enough to realize that it was useful ahead of almost everyone else.
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Hell, I get my internet from a provider's tower over 4.5 MILES away from my house. I only have a lowly Linksys WET11 802.11b bridge too. Of course I also have a 24db parabolic reflector antenna on a 40 foot pole pointed back to the ISP's antenna, and good clear line-of-site between the two antennas. I generally get 11Mbps to their access point with 70% "signal quality" and 85-90% "signal strength".
My Linksys 802.11b router does everything I need it to do, cheaply and reliably. What more can one ask for in a non-cricical home system?
focus more of quality rather than cost...after all, if they did, we wouldn't have to deal with Wal-Mart
Since Wal-Mart doesn't manufacture what it sells, uses their buying power to get lower prices on the same items, and doesn't force you to shop there, I don't understand your rant.
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"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Educated consumers do, provided that there isn't a huge difference in cost. If I can pick up Linksys for $99 or pay $299 for a "better" product, I'm going to lean toward the cheaper option. Although, it depends on what I'm looking for.
BTW, since you're concerned about choosing the quality WLAN, do you know of a good comparative review of wireless products? I may be in the market for some more wireless stuff myself.
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Maybe what you might want in this case is a "Fast IR" port/hub. I haven't seen anything much like this on PC's, but many brands of laptop have "Fast IR" (4Mbps) ports. I'm not sure what the latency on this is, but I'd imagine it might be better than WiFi. You can also build your own wireless serial adaptor, I used to have instructions for this but they are now lost.
/. geek could think of that.
The trick would be connecting >2 persons via IR, which I guess would require an IR-hub of some sort - but I'm not sure where one could get something that. Maybe some enterprising
TechKnowledge claims that even though the shipment volumes will grow, the revenues from the wireless LAN sales will decline , since this market is currently experiencing oversupply.
However, this is bonanza time for consumers and businesses, here are some quotes from the market report quoted above:
The average price for a chip that enables connections for an 802.11b wireless LAN (WLAN), also known as Wi-Fi, was $16.06 in 2002, but that price will drop to $6.61 by the end of 2003.
The price for chips based on the 802.11g standard is also expected to fall this year, from $18 per chip in 2002 to $9.68 by the end of 2003
My geek-wannabie of a neighbour just got WLAN installed. Time to cancel that xDSL subscription.
Unfortunately, the current implementations don't scale to the size of even the current internet - because they requre every node to know about every other (in case it needs to forward a packet).
(Routing table explosions were what drove the switch from RIP to BGP in the first place.)
They'll get there eventually. Meanwhile, imagine them as drops of mercury. When two touch they join. And when two equal-sized drops join, each "atom" (machine) in the big drop needs twice as much table space as it needed in the separate little drop.
Now imagine them joining, and joining, and joining, until the whole world is covered by one big drop. Somewhere along the way the tables get too big for your handheld, VoIP phone, toaster, or what-have-you.
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Exactly. The overhead you spend on IPSec is probably about what you'd spend on WEP, and the difference is that IPSec actually works... :)
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