Edited by author 11-12-2003 05:58 PM
Cisco has effectively killed off the old 11 megabit technology, 802.11b (catchy name!) by going for the 54 megabit 11g technology - at last.

Well, I can't see any reason to prolong the life of the obsolete standard. Can you?

I don't think that Cisco has signalled the end of it. I think that it was, and still is, going away at a moderate rate. More and more products are 802.11g, less laptops are shipping with built-in 802.11b. Lucent, then rebranded Orinoco, now owned by Proxim, were one of the first infrastructure companies in the 802.11 industry. They already have 802.11g hardware out. Places such as Carnegie Mellon University in the US have had Lucent hardware installed since 1994 - back when it was 900MHz. Cisco may be a big networking provider, but they're not the only game when it comes to corporate networking, and they're a relative newcomer in 802.11. Lucent built enterprise-grade access points before Cisco did any wireless stuff.

Indeed - as our story suggests, it's going to come as a big surprise to Proxim that Cisco is claiming a "first" for its new product!

But in the enterprise market, Cisco's entry has force. It still ships more WLAN parts into that sector than Proxim, and a lot of corporate people are really afraid of sneezing without waiting for Cisco to pronounce that it is pepper.

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