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How Many Wireless Technologies Can We Handle?
Golygydd Max writes "The space for high-speed wireless networking is getting mighty crowded. Techworld reports that a new company, Sibeam, has entered the fray, hinting at a 60GHz technology to compete with the likes of Wimax, UWB and the others. Does the world really need another player when the future is still so unclear?"
I for one welcome our new wireless overlords.
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
I have my money on WiMAX. because thats a damn cool name.
To a nail, every person with a hammer looks like a problem.
Liked your comment but don't get me started on Battlestar Gallactica and their concept of a network.
If you caught the episode a few weeks back where they needed some serious computing power to speed up a calculation and networked several key computers together *USING CABLES* and were supposedly fighting off a hacking attempt by the Cylons, you'll see what I mean. If all the connections are hardwired, you can't hack into the system without a gateway. If Galactica had a gateway between a wireless system and one of those computers, then that computer would be compromised on a regular basis and would be useless/rebooting regularly. I assume all external communication is therefore "dumb" without a gateway interface, so, unless the Cylons planted one (in which case they wouldn't necessarily need to hack the system), they shouldn't be able to do squat to that network.
Sorry. After 8 years working in Networking things like that got my goat a little.
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