[MLB-WIRELESS] Out with the hobbyists, in with the dancing elephants

[Barry Park]

Good or bad?
- Barry

Intel and Cisco gang up on mesh
By Wireless Watch
Posted: 07/12/2003 at 23:25 GMT

Intel and Cisco are attempting to set their seal on a key emerging area 
of wireless technology, mesh networking, by pushing a new standard.

Intel’s keen interest in mesh is well documented and it has demonstrated 
applications using Wi-Fi and UltraWideBand meshes. But the actual 
products to date have come from a host of start-ups, which may now be 
threatened by the determination of Wi-Fi’s biggest players to ensure 
that the development of the market follows their agenda.

<snippage of boring stuff to go straight to the interesting stuff>

For Intel, mesh is an approach that can make wireless networking easier 
to deploy and more ubiquitous and therefore can stimulate demand for all 
its key mobile technologies, and so it has placed a once obscure, 
hobbyist platform at the heart of its strategy. Its support will 
undoubtedly spur the uptake of mesh and the development of workable, 
affordable products, but it will also destroy the dream of the mesh 
pioneers – of a technology geared to community networks and, like Linux, 
communally owned - and put a new way of interacting firmly in the hands 
of the giants.

More at <http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/34383.html>



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