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Monday, May 13, 2002
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/05/13/020513opwireless.xml Wireless leap forward Ephraim Schwartz WHEN WE LOOK back 25 years from now at all the things we got so excited about in 2002, they will seem quaint and maybe, to the unsympathetic mind, slightly pathetic. Nevertheless, things such as the ability to roam between a Wi-Fi and wide area network without losing a bit or having to reauthenticate are just now coming to fruition. Even the simple act of reconnecting and seamlessly resuming a transmission after a split-second interruption in service or a seven-day interruption is pretty amazing to me.NetMotion Wireless, in Seattle, does just that by using what Shelly Julien, vice president of marketing, calls a static IP address. The NetMotion server resides behind your firewall, tracks the IP address as the user roams, and acts as a proxy to the rest of the network which still "thinks" it's talking to the original IP address....
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