The Unwired Enterprise
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In the last few weeks, Nortel has received a reasonable amount of press about our announcement of the Unwired Enterprise initiative. In this announcement, we identified a timeframe on one of the biggest outstanding questions in the Enterprise landscape: “When will wireless technology be sufficient to eliminate the need to wire new buildings and facilities for LAN access?”
The challenge with this question is that the answer is pretty subjective. Five or more years ago, many enterprises began using Wi-Fi as a primary access network in branch offices and remote sites but to this date most, if not all, still fully wire new buildings for wireline access in large sites and campuses. The main reason is that ...
