[MLB-WIRELESS] Wireless networks getting up to speed

[Barry Park]

Wireless networks getting up to speed
By Adam Turner
November 12 2002
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An abundance of high-tech gadgets has left the average desk buried under a
tangle of wires, but wireless technologies are making more and more cables
vanish into thin air.

Wireless is now a common way of connecting PC-based devices to networks or
directly to each other. The Bluetooth protocol is used for short-range
communications, and various forms of WiFi (Wireless Fidelity) are used for
medium-range links. Both are becoming standard in high-end portable devices
such as notebooks, hand-held PCs and Tablet PCs.

Bluetooth has a range of less than 10 metres and is often used to link such
devices with each other or a mobile telephone for low-speed data transfers.

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Melbourne Wireless founder Steven Haigh says ...

Read more to find out :)
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/11/09/1036308526730.html



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