[MLB-WIRELESS] The changing face of LAN parties?

[Barry Park]

I suppose if everyone uses the same hardware, the wall hacks will sort the
sheep from the goats?
- Barry

Motorola to use gaming LAN as 2.4-GHz entry

By Loring Wirbel
EE Times
July 23, 2002 (4:31 p.m. EST)

NEW ORLEANS — Motorola Inc.'s Semiconductor Products Sector will use a
proprietary frequency-hopping scheme developed for multiuser gaming as its
indirect entry into 2.4-GHz wireless markets, corporate vice president Ray
Burgess told the Smart Networks Developer Forum Tuesday (July 23).

The isochronous network, developed with input from Nintendo Co. Ltd., Sony
Corp. and other game platform developers, will be extended into other
markets to serve as a "feeder" for future ad-hoc mesh-based piconets that
use 802.11 wireless technology as their underlying infrastructure, Burgess
said.

Motorola was chided by Smart Networks keynoter Nicholas Negroponte for not
having a strong 802.11 media-access controller and physical-layer offering.
David Perkins, vice president and general manager of the networking and
computing systems group at Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector, said
the unit's PowerPC processor often serves as a port aggregator in 802.11
access systems, giving Motorola a strong indirect role in wireless LANs. But
Burgess said the company would bypass direct WLAN chip sets in favor of a
two-pronged strategy of Bluetooth and isochronous game-LAN support.




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