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Written by Kory Mohr
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Wednesday, 23 March 2005 |
Amended from Daily Wireless:
Om Malik features a provocative
Guest Post by Robert Young today:
What happens when you have 100
megabits per second connections on the edge of the network? In your
homes, or in your pockets, or in your cars – an always-on 100 megabit
per second pipe that wirelessly networks your life. No, we are not
talking about fast pipes to the Internet, but simple easy networks all
around you.
Starting next year (2006), millions of people
will begin to equip themselves with computers and portable devices
capable of swapping files at a speed of 100Mbps, all wirelessly
(WiFi/802.11n and UWB). Think about that… 100Mbps!! That’s about a
hundred times faster than what the average broadband user in the U.S.
is accustomed to today.
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specifically, what I’m talking about here is short-range
computer2computer, device2device connectivity directly between people
in close proximity of one another (think: Rendezvous).
Let’s also include the next generation of
mobile phones that will be capable of direct phone2phone connections
via lower-bandwidth Bluetooth, as well as wireless home networks and
consumer electronics (e.g. UWB-enabled plasma TVs) that are coming to
market that allow people to easily transfer any digital media directly
from one device to another.
So what does this all mean? Put another way,
what are the implications when millions of people start creating ad-hoc
wireless networks among themselves? Well, if you zoom out to look at
the big picture, the most obvious implication is the rise of truly
distributed peer2peer networks randomly and serendipitously popping up
in meet space that have absolutely no central points of control.
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