http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/10/technology/10WIRE.html?ex=1024729897&ei=1 &en
>2 Tinkerers Say They've Found a Cheap Way to Broadband > >June 10, 2002 >By JOHN MARKOFF > > >CUPERTINO, Calif., June 7 - Anyone looking for the next big >thing in Silicon Valley should stop here at Layne Holt's >garage. > >Mr. Holt and his business partner, John Furrier, both >software engineers, have started a company with a >shoestring budget and an ambitious target: the cable and >phone companies that currently hold a near-monopoly on >high-speed access for the "last mile" between the Internet >and the home. > >At the core of their plan is the inexpensive wireless data >standard known as Wi-Fi or 802.11b, which is already >shaking up the communications industry, threatening to >undermine the business plans of cellular phone companies by >offering a much cheaper method for mobile access to the >Internet. > >The pair's company, known as Etherlinx, has taken the >802.11b standard and used it to build a system that can >transmit Internet data up to 20 miles at high speeds - >enough to blanket entire urban regions and make cable or >D.S.L. connections obsolete. [...] -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
