Thursday, June 13, 2002
The big threat to 802.11b
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 10:06 AM
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020606.html
Very intriguing article by Cringly - man I love his stuff! The pefect blend of hard core tech and "out of the box" thinking. Check this one out...
"There is a very good writer named Steve Stroh who specializes in wireless technology, and almost a year ago, he wrote an article that really disturbed me...Steve predicted the extinction of 802.11 WiFi wireless networking because of RF interference from a new kind of light bulb. This new lighting source uses RF energy to excite a gas that then glows brightly, which sounds a heck of a lot like a neon lamp, except this light, which comes from a company called Fusion Lighting, is supposed to be vastly more energy efficient than neon. This apparently catches us between a rock and a bright place: Do we want wireless LANs and satellite radio, or would we prefer to build fewer power plants and import less oil? Forgetting for a moment that this sounds like just the kind of story I might write, what's really interesting about it is that nobody but Steve Stroh and a couple satellite radio outfits seems to care. Then I figured it out..." Source: angelseye2000
Very intriguing article by Cringly - man I love his stuff! The pefect blend of hard core tech and "out of the box" thinking. Check this one out...
"There is a very good writer named Steve Stroh who specializes in wireless technology, and almost a year ago, he wrote an article that really disturbed me...Steve predicted the extinction of 802.11 WiFi wireless networking because of RF interference from a new kind of light bulb. This new lighting source uses RF energy to excite a gas that then glows brightly, which sounds a heck of a lot like a neon lamp, except this light, which comes from a company called Fusion Lighting, is supposed to be vastly more energy efficient than neon. This apparently catches us between a rock and a bright place: Do we want wireless LANs and satellite radio, or would we prefer to build fewer power plants and import less oil? Forgetting for a moment that this sounds like just the kind of story I might write, what's really interesting about it is that nobody but Steve Stroh and a couple satellite radio outfits seems to care. Then I figured it out..." Source: angelseye2000
