Broadband Wireless Internet Access (BWIA) News

Wireless Networking In The Developing World

This is an article from a now-retired blog of mine called Broadband Wireless Internet Access (BWIA) Books. It was actually published on 2021-03-22, but inserted into this blog for 2008-06-30 (the date of the last update). I never did get around to reading this (that I recall). The original link was, after 13 years, non-functional but the marvelous Internet Archive Wayback Machine came to the rescue.

Wireless Networking In The Developing World

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I was impressed with this book, and even more impressed that they made it freely available for downloading. I'll be reading this.

 

BWIA - Evolved To "About As Exciting As Ethernet"

I was explaining to a colleague about my decision to "get a day job" and cease trying to write about BWIA full-time, and perhaps earn a modest living at it. When I decided to look at my position in the BWIA industry as objectively as possible, one of the conclusions I reached was that the BWIA industry simply doesn't need, any longer, "cheerleaders" and "explainers" like what I had tried to do with my writing. I think that BWIA has reached a certain level of maturity; that BWIA has become, largely, "plug and play". Then I remembered...

I had predicted, either in my writing, or one of my presentations at a conference, that BWIA would come to this - that BWIA would get to the point of being "about as exciting as Ethernet". (I'll cite, by name, in an update to this post, the first reader that can dig out the "Ethernet" reference. I'm not in the right frame of mind to do so on one of those oh-so-rare beautiful, sunny, warm Saturday mornings here in the Seattle area.)