CES - DAY 2 - Transcript - Hour 1, Segment 13

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Frank Hanzlik: And we will try to shield that as much as possible from the end users. Because ultimately you probably don*t care you just want to stay connected the best way.

David Lawrence: So you don*t care if somebody say 802.11 a, or g, b as opposed to Wi-Fi, you are not trying to be nutty about branding Wi-Fi against the letters.

Frank Hanzlik: We just want people to enjoy the technology.

David Lawrence: I got you. Alright so let*s talk a little bit about those standards, everybody first became aware of Wi-Fi with 802.11b, 802.11a was not compatible. We went through thing at Gnomdex, a few years ago where they had brought in 802.11a equipment and y. Everybody was carrying around PowerBooks and Laptops that had 802.11b stuff on it. And it seems its though, g products, which are you know anywhere between 2 and 5 times faster depending upon you know what you got going in your area, seem to be the standard now. They are just so inexpensive; it*s hard to find a device at a retailer that isn*t 802.11g, it is b is opposed to g. Do you see, you guys keep track of percentages on the usage of that stuff?

Frank Hanzlik: We absolutely do and your point is really kind of taken over the world to some extent you know. It*s really has become really kind of the de facto solution that*s out there. Well one of things that we are seeing and we are seeing here at the floor as well is that there also is a move in light of these very cool applications. The video, the streaming audio, etc, to take advantage of the, a capabilities. So a lot of folks are just trying to bring out this combination solutions that support a and g. So you have got all the benefits of 802.11a more spectrum, more headroom to kind to grow, coupled with all the backward compatibility of g. So you can talk to all those things that are out there in your network.

David Lawrence: So obviously one of the most disappointing things for a consumer is to buy a piece of gear that is eventually supplanted by something faster, cheaper, harder, deeper, wider, you know whatever and the same thing happens with standards in computing whether its you know a chip in a computer or a Wi-Fi. Are there standards coming down the road that are either incompatible with or are not backward is compatible with 802.11g?

Frank Hanzlik: Well one other things that I think the industry really learned from the *a* experience was that backward compatibility was hugely important. So there is a new standard that*s underdeveloped and called 802.11n. That actually is talking about speed and access of probably 4 times what you can get with *g* today. And that organization, the IEEE is really really, really focused on making sure that you can get that benefit but still have backward compatibility with this huge base of products that are out there today.

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