[MLB-WIRELESS] Coming soon to your cable box

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Coming soon to your cable box
Providers are bringing wireless connectivity to your set-top.
By Mark Mowrey 
July 10, 2002 

Cable providers are upping the ante in the competition for broadband 
subscribers. By combining cable TV, broadband service, and wireless 
connectivity in one set-top box, cable companies could soon offer 
consumers value that DSL firms won't be able to match.
John McKinley, chief technology officer at Merrill Lynch, told a New York 
audience in May that set-top box manufacturers are planning to build cable 
boxes that include transceivers based on 802.11, a high-speed wireless 
technology.
Currently, customers who have both cable TV and broadband cable modem 
services need a cable box, a cable modem, and multiple cable outlets 
within the home. Customers with DSL and cable have two distinct setups. 
But if a cable box included a wireless connection, a single cable line 
entering the home could deliver cable TV and broadband. The cable 
box--with its 802.11 connection--could simultaneously transmit video to 
other TVs and Internet traffic to one or more PCs within the home.

More at http://www.redherring.com/insider/2002/0710/cablebox071002.html

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