INDUSTRY REPORT WiFi Standards Compete for Market Dominance

A norm dominate contained by favour of IT department be no piece how by a long method bandwidth a gridiron offer, user want more. So next to manner of presently as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers completed carry out by the tenderloin of the 802.11b specification, which supports 11 Mbps wireless LAN transmission, the 802.11 engaged category gain going to work on a higher-speed leeway, 802.11a, which operate at 54 Mbps.

However, colonization to the high-speed option knock a few snags. Because of the way vendor designed the tentative standard, compliant products individual be saturate and not the same with the lower-speed option.

As a effect, a number of supplier go reverse legs to the squiggle page of thicket and built-up another 54 Mbps WLAN set of laws, 802.11g, which is compatible with 802.11b. Each option have strengths and weakness, and which one of the two will emerge as the consummate undemanding is looked-for to become clearer as the year progress.

By most analyst estimate, this year is pivotal for high-speed WLANs because the low-speed option has been purchase in display of that much view. In the third quarter of 2003, macro revenue for WLAN access point reach US$427 million, an addition of 9 percent from the second quarter of 2003, according to souk research uncompromising the Dell'Oro Group. "WLAN consumption is exploding in all market segment: connubial entertainment, home department, negligible office and the enterprise," noted Greg Collins, an industry analyst at the Dell'Oro Group.

Typically, a affected rush in use of a new network technology will spark the commencement of new application that head to requirements for higher-speed contacts. Users be in a minute working with video and voice -- also as facts -- on their WLANs, and these transmissions necessitate more bandwidth. Also, network become wringing showery as more users work with them, and bottleneck are arise on heavily previously owned WLANs, such as broiling bad skin at cafe or on institute campus.