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Thursday, September 27, 2001
http://www.80211-planet.com/columns/article/0,4000,1781_891801,00.html Mixed Messages on 802.11a By Ted Stevenson In a press release that was understandably overshadowed by the torrent of information emanating from New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, 2001, Intel Corporation announced the impending release of a line of wireless networking products based on 802.11a technology, due to be shipping in quantity in November of this year.... Partly in response to the Intel announcement, on September 17, META Group issued an advisory analysis, Advent of 802.11a Creates Confusion in Wireless LAN Market, advocating a cautious wait-and-see attitude for would-be adopters. Citing the likelihood of dramatically higher hardware costs relative to 802.11b (in the 2x range) and the need for a higher density of access point deployment to achieve the five-fold performance promised by 802.11a, the META report suggests that for the present the new WLAN technology represents a somewhat risky and expensive upgrade to existing wired and wireless networks—at least for most organizations....
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