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802.11g moves closer to adoption: Texas Instruments's PR firm alerted me this morning to the fact that IEEE 802.11 Task Group G (TGg for short) has passed its first letter ballot, on its way to May 2003 final ratification. TI has a working 802.11a chipset in their labs which they're merging with their ACX100 chipset which supports the PBCC encoding, an optional encoding for 802.11g since last year's compromise vote. TI plans to offer 54 Mbps service, although I'm very curious to see the real throughput and whether or if it surpasses "22 Mbps" versions of PBCC and OFDM. TI expects to be in full production with g and an a/g dual solution in the first quarter of 2003.
New mailing list for wireless networking: Rick@load.com has launched a wireless networking discussion list. You can subscribe to it via Yahoo Groups (wireless-world) or by sending email to Wireless-World-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
Czech bandwidth after the floods: Geoff Goodfellow, the owner of a Prague, Czech Republic, bar that flooded with 2 meters of water recently, wrote to alert us to an article called Rooftop Rebellion about wireless in old Bohemia.