August 5, 2003
EE Times: Smart antennas set to take off.
Established infrastructure vendors are starting to integrate smart antennas into their designs as wireless operators exhaust conventional methods of increasing their network capacity, said Andy Fuertes, senior analyst at Visant and author of the study.
Eric Rescorla: Should we dump SMTP?
While it's true that SMTP is pretty weak in the authentication department, and at least plausible to argue that authentication could suppress spam, the argument that the problem is SMTP doesn't really hold water. The basic problem is network topology.
News.Com: Motorola, NEC trumpet wireless combos.
When used inside an office, the phones tap into a Wi-Fi wireless network to make calls that travel, in part, over the Web rather than over a telephone network. Outside the Wi-Fi network's 300-foot range, the handsets switch calls automatically to a cellular network, which offers the same data features and voice calling, but at much slower speeds.
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