Is Wireless Really the Future?

Jun
13
2005

I'll freely admit that this is really just my personal opinion. However, it's one of those things that I just can't seem to reconcile. All of the tech pundits seem to be going on and on about how "wireless is the future". Yet, trying to cram all of the flying bits of data into the 2.4Ghz spectrum and believing it's going to work is naive.

1. Just take a look at the 900Mhz band and see what a mess it can become when there is real market penetration of wireless technologies. This saturation has led to cordless phones climbing the spectrum looking for uncluttered space. 900Mhz, 2.4Ghz and now 5.8Ghz have all been on the cordless phone path to clear calls.
2. Interference is already causing serious degradation. If you've used a wireless hotspot in a really popular area, you've seen what having a bunch of traffic can do to expose the collisions.
3. Microwaves, bluetooth, phones, etc. all have just nasty effects on bandwidth and connections overall.
4. Speed. As data needs grow, people keep wanting to send REALLY big stuff over networks. There's pretty much always going to be an advantage to a dedicated, non-interfered-with path for that data.

There's probably more, but the "wireless future" just seems to remind me of the "paperless office" and I suspect that this parallel will prove true going forward.

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Thanks,
J

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