EngineerUsually people in this forum keep their identities
confidential which allows for more freedom of expression.
I'd like to say that I am associated with a very
large wireless firm. I have been watching Wi-Lan
for a while. Our company has discussed doing
business with them (although they do not know it yet)and may take it further (my division is not
involved with this). The data rates are quite impressive and are still well above the new 11
Mb/s 802.11 soon to be standardized.
I know a handful of engineers at Telia in Sweden
and have asked them about the Wi-Lan technology they have played with. They are very intertested in it for wireless enterprise solutions and home, SOHO networking. Offering Wirelesss and ADSL centrex and data facilities to apartment complexes.
Telia is an agressive TELCO which is the largest in Scandanavia (where people are a decade ahead of
north america with respect to wireless) who is targeting eastern Europe (e.g. Poland) , they are
an extremely cautious group of people so if they
decide to go forward with something it's for keeps.
The next step is for Wi-Lan to move their technology into an ASIC. If I had a suggestion for them I suggest contacting ST Microelectronics
(Formerly SGS Thompson) an Extremely agressive
and competent Industry giant with tons of cash.
(try to avoid the smaller ASIC players when it
comes to mixed signal technology. STM I believe
is doing mixed signal chips down to 0.18 um
(which is very good for analog).
They already have a working discrete solution,
putting it into an ASIC lowers the cost and
really does confirm the Intellectual Property.
This of course is just my opinion however
from a technical point of view what they have
to offer has caught the ey of the "big boys"
believe me.
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