Readings Posted By Test Date

The Road to WiMax

WiMax is steadily increasing with various companies to become the next standard to that of WiFi. Intel is the leader of the pack (the major promoter of the new technology), with weak cell phone carriers like Sprint starting to provide the service.

I never really understood what WiMax was until reading this article. Although I’ve heard about it 3 years ago when I purchased my notebook at Best Buy (I don’t remember who mentioned it whether it was one of the salespeople or a knowledgeable customer), I only thought of it as WiFi with extended range. With this being part of the truth, after reading the article I can’t wait until WiMax is fully out there. Now my question is if Sprint is already offering WiMax because they were mentioned in the article and looking at Sprint’s website, they stated that their USB and internet connection cards provide “broadband-like” speeds. And, I do know that the service is being provided from their cell phone towers, not those fiber optics like in the article. Anyways, with WiMax providing speeds 50 times faster than WiFi, and a more reliable connection, there really is no doubt to not push this technology into production. As long as the pricing is reasonable for customers, I’m all for it! Not to mention how everything can be done wirelessly nowadays.

Network Applications

There are 4 major categories of network applications that have been discussed in this material: discovery, collaboration, communication and Web services.

The one category I’m most familiar with is communication because it’s basically what we’re doing in this class. Blogging is one form of communication and sites like blogger.com is the one that we’re using. Whenever I go on the Internet, I like to go to wikipedia.com because I like to find out information on stars and facts of places. Basically everyone nowadays have e-mail, and if someone asked me a semester ago if I ever used mine, I’d like to say very rarely, but now I’m on it at least once everyday for averaging 10 minutes each time. Although I still rely on my cell phone the most because it’s the most reliable form of communication and the perfect option in case of emergencies, I actually want to get VOiP one of these days because it’s cheaper to call out of country and I too want a 310 area code! Although I don’t have a landline at my house in Temecula because of great reception with Sprint, I do need to have a house line one of these days.