The merger of cellular and Wi-Fi: The wireless network's future
Today we talk about 801.11ac, 4G, and LTE Advanced, but what users really want is just fast, reliable wireless networking that works everywhere. According to the experts, we're going to give it to them... eventually.
In a CES panel entitled "Six Wireless Technologies You'll Want to Know," the conversation quickly spun from being an overview of such technologies to how these Wi-Fi and cellular networking were coming together.
Behind the scenes, chip designers, network engineers, and network administrators will still be supporting a horde of different technologies, but the goal is to render the network infrastructure invisible to end-users. Dan Rabinovits, Senior VP at Qualcomm Atheros said, "the combination of all the new networking technologies is more important than any one technology." That's because, "users have an endless thirst for data capacity."
