Windows Phone Thoughts: Cisco To Share Wireless Technology

"Cisco Systems announced Monday that it will share key technology with chipmakers and computer companies to help drive the use of wireless networks within corporations. The network equipment maker said it would license software designed to improve the security and range of wireless networks that use Wi-Fi technology--the reigning standard among wireless technologies that has grown in popularity among consumers in the past year. Corporations, however, have been slow to adopt the new technology out of security concerns."

I hope this means the dearth of LEAP-enabled solutions will soon be history -- that's one of the big hindrances to broad PDA adoption in large companies. I'm not a fan of the idea of "Cisco compatible", which sounds highly proprietary as opposed to an established IEEE standard, but it's better than nothing.