What's Next For Wireless Technology?
Wireless networks whether in the home or the office have offered us mobility. No longer do you have to be tied to your desk for want of any longer network cable or to find a patch panel to plug your Ethernet cable into. As I’m sure you are aware most laptops nowadays will comes with built in wireless network cards. Although this was not always a standard and really only started to hit the market around 2002 it has now become a built-in standard that we all come to expect.
We now see in the use of this standard in more and more everyday items for example your mobile phone may actually come with WiFi built-in. We have seen the likes of Apple introduced the iPhone, which offers WiFi access and an easy to use touchscreen enabling Internet access to be simple and very easy to use. Many other manufacturers have followed suit like Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson.
Game consoles are another area we see WiFi being implemented. The Nintendo Wii can get updates via a WiFi network if you have one in your home. Some of the controllers that we see on the Xbox and PlayStation are also now using this technology. There are other technologies that are starting to also appear for example Bluray players are starting to have WiFi built in which will allow it to get firmware updates and also a possibility to transmit the signal to your WiFi enabled television. It’s been said that the technology used in WiFi enabled HD TVs code be in a billion consumer electronic devices by 2012.
But the fastest-growing areas for WiFi enables devices is of course mobile phones as this is the biggest growth area we should start to see this appearing in most phones even lower end phones in the next couple of years. Although Bluetooth’s is also a wireless technology found on phones it has a limited this is in work over compared to WiFi.
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