Public and Private Networks: One or Both in the Future?
22 Apr 2008
Location: Flying to Vancouver
First, let me apologize for being absent from blogging for a bit. I’ve had an unusually busy and complex several weeks. Hopefully, you all found the guest blog from Andy Lippman interesting and had a chance to see some of the recent dialog I have had with other bloggers, such as Om Malik (GigaOM). One of the challenges of blogging when you have a few other full-time jobs is finding quality time to write and, ironically, when you’re not able to write it’s amazing just how much interesting content and dialog emerges, creating a pretty significant backlog of topics. I hope to tackle many of those topics in the coming weeks.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been in three cities in California, as well as in Boston, Ottawa, and London. I have met with some of our strategic partners (both go-to-market and technology), regulators, investors, media and customers key to our business. One interesting topic that surfaced in many of those dialogs was around whether the use of wireless technology in the enterprise would transform the enterprise networking structure.
As you may recall, last July we announced an initiative called “the unwired enterprise,” where we predicted that by roughly 2010 enterprises would be able to use wireless technology as their primary access network. We said we believed that the combination of innovation beyond 802.11n ...
