What is Intels vision for the wireless standards space?
A. One area in standards that we feel is particularly important is the area of heterogeneous network roaming, or roaming between different kinds of wireless networks. We are getting increasingly involved in this area because we see roaming as a real problem for the industry as we begin to see a convergence of wireless LANs and wireless WANs. The recent emergence of 802.11b-based wireless LAN hotspots is one example. Intel’s vision is that you will be able to take a notebook PC, PDA or cell phone and seamlessly roam from network to network. A key issue here is ease of use. Imagine that you can sit at your enterprise LAN with a device and walk outside to your car, connect to a WAN, drive to the airport, connect to a WLAN hotspot, get on the plane, land somewhere, walk into a wireless-enabled cafe, connect again to a wireless network and return home and connect to your home wireless network, and so on. And this should all be seamless and very easy to do. The cellular industry is grappling
