With the emergence of wireless networking, ultra slim notebooks, PDAs and smartphones, mobile communications have quickly become an integral part of doing business. Mobile capabilities are set to take another leap forward with the introduction of new standards for wireless broadband wide- and local-area networking. With connections from the edges to 40-gigabit and 100-gigabit optical fiber networks and Layer 2 network protocols such as Metro Ethernet, the next-generation network landscape is taking shape.
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The Emergence of Next-Gen Networks, Part 2: Wireless
Posted by: Andrew K. Burger June 26, 2007 04:00 AMWith the emergence of wireless networking, ultra slim notebooks, PDAs and smartphones, mobile communications have quickly become an integral part of doing business. Mobile capabilities are set to take another leap forward with the introduction of new standards for wireless broadband wide- and local-area networking. With connections from the edges to 40-gigabit and 100-gigabit optical fiber networks and Layer 2 network protocols such as Metro Ethernet, the next-generation network landscape is taking shape.