Monday, February 3, 2003
CNET Series on Wireless Deployment
Posted by Janak Parekh in "ARTICLE" @ 03:30 PM
Starting today, CNET is publishing a 5-part series about the wireless "boom". The 5 articles will cover topics ranging from municipality-sponsored wireless, to security and standards, to a discussion on Wi-Fi.
The first article's graph on wireless coverage is particularly eye-opening. Wi-Fi has truly become very, very popular.
"Athens is among a disparate but growing group of communities around the country that are experimenting with wireless networking, which only a year ago was considered little more than a diversion for technophiles. Communities such as Long Beach, Calif., and Ashland, Ore., are counting on Wi-Fi's popularity as a way to revive moribund downtowns that have steadily lost business to suburban malls for decades.
Just as venture capital fueled the Internet economy, municipal grants are being used to seed a projected boom in wireless networks. The challenge facing cities, just as it was for dot-com entrepreneurs, is to distill ways of making money from a largely amorphous technology."
The first article's graph on wireless coverage is particularly eye-opening. Wi-Fi has truly become very, very popular.
"Athens is among a disparate but growing group of communities around the country that are experimenting with wireless networking, which only a year ago was considered little more than a diversion for technophiles. Communities such as Long Beach, Calif., and Ashland, Ore., are counting on Wi-Fi's popularity as a way to revive moribund downtowns that have steadily lost business to suburban malls for decades.
Just as venture capital fueled the Internet economy, municipal grants are being used to seed a projected boom in wireless networks. The challenge facing cities, just as it was for dot-com entrepreneurs, is to distill ways of making money from a largely amorphous technology."
