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...sense for every employee. iAnywhere didn't try to replace its wired network entirely, says CEO Terry Stepien. Some of its engineers need even more bandwidth than the fastest wi-fi networks can support, and the tech-support staff need desks with phone lines, so they don't use wireless laptops. (Eventually, some of them will be able to work wirelessly, using an Internet phone system instead of a regular phone...
...home life? "It mostly comes down to willpower," Mallick says. "There are times when I say, 'Ugh, why am I doing this?'" While iAnywhere hasn't clipped its wires entirely, that may be an option for smaller firms. Gartner's Fiering says she expects significant growth in corporate wireless networks to come from small companies that use wi-fi to avoid altogether the expensive investment in cabling. That allows them to move offices quickly when they outgrow them or when their rent goes...
Perhaps the most intriguing promise of the wireless workplace is that it could allow offices to be more like they used to be. All that wiring has been shaping the way offices look--in some buildings, for example, walls are built not to support the structure but to carry cabling. Next year iAnywhere will move into a brand-new space on the campus of the University of Waterloo that has been conceived with wi-fi in mind. Patrick Simmons, a partner in the firm designing the building, RHL Architects, says wi-fi removes constraints that have become second nature...
Where does wi-fi sit on the winding road of wireless technologies? Nicely in the middle. Unlike with cell phones, however, you can't yet switch seamlessly from one wi-fi antenna to another...
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