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Sunday, February 09, 2003
Wireless Standards Truce pays off for rivals - Wylie Wong and Richard Shim, CNET News.com
...For two years, both sides engaged in an expensive marketing battle that included dueling booths at the annual Comdex trade show. Both hawked their respective technologies as the best option for wirelessly linking desktop and notebook PCs for shared Internet access. With the support of PC makers, 802.11b trounced HomeRF, and the working group that promoted the HomeRF standard disbanded at the beginning of this year. The issue didn't end there. Two more 802.11 wireless standards will emerge this year, frustrating network equipment makers and chip manufacturers desperate to avoid another costly fight in today's tough economy. Fortunately, manufacturers are choosing to support all the major standards to prevent the kind of market confusion that has thwarted other technologies in years past. Equipment companies such as Cisco and Linksys, as well as chipmakers like Intel, Atheros and Intersil, plan to work with all three 802.11 standards.
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