[ale] wireless lan that's not wifi?

[Frank Glass]

Quoting Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net>:

> So I'm talking to this guy yesterday and he tells me there's this 
> wireless technology out there that can be used for networking and he 
> refers to it as 'wireless lan.'  Says it's not wifi and actually has 
> been around longer than wifi.  Can't be bluetooth.  So folks, anyone 
> know what this magical, mysterious technology is?
>

 LXE (now part of Electromagnetic Technoligies) has had spread spectrum
technology for 20 years or more.  They and others (Intermec?) have had
wireless on the factory/warehouse floor running TCP/IP for perhaps 15 years.

Frank

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Frank Glass
Holos Software, Inc.

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