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Outdoor 11n Wi-Fi gear grabs spotlight; Smartphone smackdown... Motorola Droid vs. iPhone 3GS

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Outdoor 11n Wi-Fi gear grabs spotlight

A big focus for Wi-Fi makers these days is on building equipment that supports high-speed outdoor network applications. For example, there are enterprises that want to extend their wireless LANs outdoors. There are municipalities with wireless public safety and city service applications. And there are service providers wanting to build hot spots that offload data traffic from 3G networks that are quickly growing saturated. Read full story

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