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Cisco TV Commercial: "Medical Wireless Networks Give Doctors Time to..."
I was watching the Eastern Conf. finals earlier tonight, when this commercial appeared showing a middle-aged Doctor traipsing around with a red rubber nose, playing with children (in a ward or clinic?), with the voiceover saying something like, "Medical wireless networks give doctors time to do the things they do best..." then the Cisco logo sweeps in. But I remember the word, "wireless" remaining on the screen, in helvetica bold.
The News"at"Cisco section of their web site doesn't feature this clip, but it has other videos relating to medical wireless networks they'd implemented going back 3 years ago.
(As an aside, the featured story, Cisco Residential VoIP (voice over IP) Solution Makes Time Warner Cable "Triple Play" a Reality is most interesting, and shows their push into IP telephony via cable. This should be launching soon in Maine. And, it won't be too long where you'll be able to board an airliner [Lufthansa already has proved that inflight wireless broadband is possible], and proceed to make your phone calls with your handheld using VoIP. And if that weren't enough, you could use the same technology after you have landed and started to trek through Europe. This would compete with 3G, however your handheld would necessarily need more battery power to accomplish this.)
Glenn Fleishman provides a cogent explanation for the recent announcement that the final draft standard for 802.11g wireless LANs, will have a true throughput for Internet-type connections of 10-20 Mbps instead of the initially reported 54Mbps. This standard still needs to be ratified next month by the IEEE 802.11 working group before it can be released to the public.
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