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The following list summarizes the main benefits of using wireless technologies:

1. Completes the access technology portfolio: customers commonly use more than one access technology to service various parts of their network and during the migration phase of their networks, when upgrading occurs on a scheduled basis. Wireless enables a fully comprehensive access technology portfolio to work with existing dial, cable, and DSL technologies.
2. Goes where cable and fiber cannot: the inherent nature of wireless is that it doesn’t require wires or lines to accommodate the data/voice/video pipeline. As such, the system will carry information across geographical areas that are prohibitive in terms of distance, cost, access, or time. It also sidesteps the numerous issues of ILEC colocation.
3. Involves reduced time to revenue: companies can generate revenue in less time through the deployment of wireless solutions than with comparable access technologies because a wireless system can be assembled and brought online in as little as two to three hours.
4. Provides broadband access extension: wireless commonly both competes with and complements existing broadband access. Wireless technologies play a key role in extending the reach of cable, fiber, and DSL markets, and it does so quickly and reliably. It also commonly provides a competitive alternative to broadband wireline or provides access in geographies that don’t qualify for loop access.

Radio-frequency identification of products is one possible tool to combat theft, and the technology performed well in a new feasibility study on its use as a potential sales-floor theft-deterrent system. The study, conducted by researchers in the RFID Research Center at the University of Arkansas, demonstrated RFID’s usefulness in several shoplifting scenarios, including many items moving through a security/reader portal at a high rate of speed and many items stuffed into a “booster bag,” a traditional shopping bag lined with aluminum foil.

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Advanced wireless LAN (WLAN) chipsets supplier Atheros Communications, Inc. announced that two of its WLAN reference designs have been Wi-Fi-certified for Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) by the Wi-Fi Alliance. Atheros’ dual-band access point and Universal 802.11a/b/g wireless network adapter reference designs have also been chosen for inclusion in the WMM certification test bed. WMM is the Wi-Fi Alliance’s new program that is based on a subset of the 802.11e standard, which provides Quality of Service (QoS) for wireless networks.
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We first heard about Huawei’s E583X wireless modem back in February, and now the company has been showing it off at CommunicAsia in Singapore.  A MiFi rival, the E583X – also known as the i-Mo – packs an HSPA modem and WiFi router into a palm-sized battery powered box.

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