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Wi Fi/wi Max – The Wireless Broadband Revolution
By Glow Networks
It sometimes helps to remind oneself that radios, television sets and computers are all trappings of the modern technological age. With the advent of computers came the innovation of the Internet and broadband transmission. Here was a development that revamped the whole process of communication and ensured that our lives could never be quite the same ever again.
Changing times. All these applications have become so much a part of everyday life at home and at work that one could be forgiven for regarding them as indispensable on the one hand and taking them for granted on the other, contradictory as that may sound.
Midway through the 1970s, telephones, another invention of the 20th century, without which we now find it difficult to envision an existence, were elbowed out of the way by the development of LANs – local area networks, which were one jump ahead of basic telecom services. LANs ushered in the age of the personal computer and the Internet, with web browsers making a mine of information available to millions at the mere click of a mouse.
Mapping the air. But it didn’t stop there, as technology advanced to enter the realm of negotiating the airwaves. Welcome to Wi-Fi technology, sometimes referred to as open spectrum, which represents the next stage in the proliferation of the Internet around the world. As was the case with the development of the Internet, Wi-Fi technology was also initially used only for technical applications before it finally became a household name. Ever since it first made its appearance, the development of Wi-Fi technology has expanded by leaps and bounds.
That Wi-Fi technology has become popular so fast is hardly surprising when you consider all the advantages it offers. For starters it is inexpensive and efficient - and it’s a technology that promises to deliver, which is, after all, the crux of the matter. At the end of the day, you want to have access to a system that is dependable and lives up to its reputation.
New horizons. Just think about it – what does using Wi-Fi involve? Essentially, all you have is a box that’s about the size of an average book, through which you can access broadband Internet through a card that acts as the receiver. Times are changing fast and very soon it is entirely possible that even laptops may be Wi-Fi enabled.
Wi-Fi offers tremendous potential in taking the development of wireless technology to a higher level. With Wi-Fi, it’s possible to use a few frequencies only for consumer access – and what’s more the access can be limitless! In addition, Wi-Fi is ‘smart’ technology and can get around congestion in the airwaves.
What more could you want? It’s cheap, limitless and open to anyone who wants to use it. Hardly surprising that there are millions of takers, is it not?. And who do you think has been taken by surprise? You’re right – it’s the mobile phone companies, which considered that they had the future mapped out with the arrival of 3G technologies, which seemed like the ultimate in the development of multimedia at the time. But 3G technology did not work out as well as they had expected. And its future was hijacked by the arrival of Wi-Fi, which had so much more to offer.
Forging ahead. Wi-Fi took the telecom industry by storm and Wi-Fi packages began to sell like hotcakes from stores such as Wal-Mart within a very short time. Although corporate communities were apprehensive about the security issues connected with Wi-Fi, for the home user, it was nothing short of a dream come true.
All you need is to have a cable plugged into a DSL box through your broadband connection. Slip a card costing about $60 into your laptop and – the world is at your feet – you can surf the net, send email or stream video from wherever you are!! And that’s not all – Wi-Fi technology is set to go much further with the establishment of public networks.
Take a look at the number of hotspots that have been set up in all sorts of locations, from parks to airports to Starbucks sites. There are also cases of neighbors making use of Wi-Fi to utilize a common broadband connection. With the cost of Wi-Fi equipment falling steadily, the proliferation of Wi-Fi is set to gather momentum, until it becomes a universal standard.
However, until there are enough commercial hotspots, the Wi-Fi signal is one that you will not be able to detect easily. There are various companies working on the task of making this easier but it will be a few years yet before they succeed
Promise for the future. In the years to come, all consumer will be Wi-Fi enabled. Personal computers will just need to be turned on to turn into hubs for wireless networks. However, there are four main issues connected with the installation of Wi-Fi in the home.
*The first of these is the question of making Wi-Fi available everywhere. You can safely assume that you can depend on a signal when you are using a cell phone; however, with Wi-Fi, the opposite is more likely to be a safer bet most of the time. Even if you happen to be in the vicinity
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