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

[Barry Park]

Soz, the link for the rest of that article is
http://www.commsdesign.com/story/OEG20020723S0045. The story was posted on
./.
- Barry

-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Park <bpark at theage.fairfax.com.au>
To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Date: Thursday, July 25, 2002 4:07 PM
Subject: The changing face of LAN parties?


>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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