This is what envisions Lee Bruno in this article on how wireless technology is transforming our businesses and our lives.
In Seal Beach, California, Cisco's 3200 series Mobile Access Router sits in the trunk of a police vehicle. It allows the car to remain connected to IP networks, regardless of what types of wireless systems are delivering the signal. This "always-on" network allows police officers in the field to access several types of data and information such as IP-based video surveillance, photos from crime databases, and fingerprints obtained from other officers' scanners and from databases. With the wireless link, officers at the scene of a bank robbery, for example, can view live video surveillance footage from bank cameras to determine how to resolve the situation.
Cisco thinks that wireless technology can be beneficial not only to police officers, but also to everyone.
Two years ago, Cisco commissioned its own study examining the productivity gains of wireless in working environments. It studied 300 U.S.-based organizations with 100 or more employees that use wireless LANs. The study found that wireless LANs enabled employees to stay connected nearly two hours longer each day, which translated into a time savings of 70 minutes for the average user, thus increasing their productivity by as much as 22 percent. The study concluded that wireless LAN investment had an annual estimated return on investment per employee of $7,550.
Here is Bruno's conclusion.
There's no reason to believe circuit-switched phone networks will disappear anytime soon. However, wireless is going to become an ever-larger umbrella for delivering voice and data wherever you are -- even if that means your next speeding ticket will be delivered by a police car's wireless router.
Source: Lee Bruno, Red Herring, February 5, 2003
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