Ruckus Smart Antennas May Be Key to Nationwide Wi-Fi | Epicenter | Wired.com: "I’m standing in the middle of the some of the most congested airwaves on Earth, and I’m watching Russell Crowe in 1080p like I just don’t care.
If you opened your laptop to log on to the net here, you’d find a list of 160 different Wi-Fi access points to choose from. Normally, mere mortals would have a hard time even checking their e-mail in that cacophony.
But I’m walking away from the conference-room router I’m locked onto, past Ruckus Wireless’s finance and administration cubicles toward the corner office of CEO Selina Lo. I forge on, past the marketing department, the product management team and the guy in the engineering department who has decorated his cube with successive generations of Ruckus’ Wi-Fi router motherboards.
Crowe keeps fighting without a jitter.
It’s not until I’m nearly 200 feet away, approaching the radiation-proof Faraday cages used for testing Ruckus’ newest Wi-Fi antenna designs, that Crowe falters.
I’m toting a standard 15-inch laptop and watching Crowe seeking bloody Gladiator vengeance. It’s an HD video encoded in MPEG-2 — a luxurious experience that requires a steady 19 Mbps pipe (give or take) to play without stuttering."
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
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