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

[Winder]

Both I think Bazza.

 Good as it is what we are trying to achive in one way or another. Wireless
for the masses everywhere.

 But also bad because it means if they succeed then we are pointless, and
also bad as if they can roll out enough of this gear for a non-free service,
then we are stuck with channel shortages and more and more noise. Bad as big
business will control it, not the community. Should we embrace or reject it.
Should we help roll this stuff out? Can I get a job out of it?

 I wonder if such plans will be made unworkable due to noise or lack of
channels. I also wonder how long it will take for a business to take some
home user to court to get them to stop using the channel that the business
wants to use as it is stopping the business from working. A long shit, and
hopefully domed to fail, but who knows.

Regards,
g at z.


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au
[mailto:owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au]On Behalf Of Barry Park
Sent: Monday, 8 December 2003 10:06 PM
To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] Out with the hobbyists, in with the dancing
elephants


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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