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Article: Meshing with Wi-Fi: with the rise of mesh networks, Wi-Fi borrows a page from cellular technology. But will it challenge 3G for the wireless data crown?(Technology)
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- Wireless Week
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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It's an outdoor wireless network with a web of repeater cells that users tap for data connections and the ability to hand off those connections when users move from one cell area to another. But we're not talking about wireless phone technology--this is Wi-Fi.
Marrying the cellular world's mesh sensibilities with wireless Ethernet's big bandwidth is a rising trend, as Wi-Fi providers look to break out of the hot spot box and offer megabit-per-second-plus service in a wider coverage area. But before you start writing eulogies for broadband cellular technologies such as EV-DO, know that Wi-Fi mesh technology has limits, leading many analysts to conclude it won't ...