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Enterprise Pertinence, an Upgrade in your Future?
Speaker Jay Botelho (4:13) What’s this Enterprise pertinence? Is there
an upgrade in your future? Well, what’s going to drive the enterprise adoption? To
me the first is cost and availability. And the jury is still out on that. I think we
need to see where the cost is going to wind up and we certainly need to see how available,
how quickly. We see a lot of people are talking about 802.11ac, again what kind of devices
is it going to be in? Is it going to be in more devices that are adapted to the home
at first rather than the enterprise? We’re going to have to see there, again back to
Craig, I don’t see enterprises making this leap into the multi-gigabit wi-fi for several
years. One thing that would drive it? Maybe certain enterprise applications where there
are unique bandwidth needs, certainly we saw universities kind of drive the adoption towards
802.11n more so than other types of enterprises, assuming you’ll agree with me for a moment
that a university is like an enterprise, because they wanted to do things like video distribution
out to handheld devices, out to laptops within large conference rooms, maybe even out to
students rooms to replace existing kind of cable TV. So those unique kinds of applications
that really have significant bandwidth requirements were driving the education market, the higher
education market, towards 802.11n. If we found similar applications within the enterprise,
those might drive some early adoption in the enterprise. If we identify that, yet to be
identified killer video app because we see that it’s a lot about video for the enterprise
that might again drive some adoption. I don’t see that there yet, maybe it’s Telepresence
over wireless but again it’s really not there yet and I think we’re back to the
“years away” as our industry analyst says. And what might drive you toward 802.11ad?
Well, that wireless office right? Is that really going to become a reality? Are we really
going to start building 802.11ad chips into laptops and not providing wired port connections
like HDMI or USB, those types of things on our laptops and requiring it all be a wireless
communication? It certainly can become a reality again not something that’s going to change
rapidly in a year or two. I say remember Bluetooth there as well, because at one point that was
the talk of Bluetooth right, we were going to connect everything over Bluetooth, we weren’t
going to have wires. Well I’m looking at my laptop and I still have some wires connected
off it and most people do too. So though some of that’s there, these are not passive changes
that typically happen in a revolutionary fashion, they typically happen in an evolutionary fashion.
Meaning that it’s going to be a slower drive to adoption and I do think an even slower
drive to enterprise adoption. I think just like Craig said, we are going to be looking
at more 802.11n deployments over the next year or two, maybe some early considerations
of these other areas. But I wouldn’t be worrying about a migration to 802.11ac or
802.11ad from an enterprise perspective just yet. I think the one thing that might drive
it more than anything else. And boy it’s a buzz word right now but, and I didn’t
throw it in here just because it was a buzz word, but I do see it as being a driving factor,
is this whole Bring Your Own Device type grassroots movement that’s on where we’re all expecting
to bring our iphones and ipads into work and get on email and get on the corporate network
and use certain enterprise applications, etc. That more than anything is applying pressure
on both the wireless and the wired networks to progress and move forward and it might
be that it’s that level, that it’s really the bring your own device type movement that
drives a more rapid migration to things like 802.11ac and 802.11ad than any of the other
factors that are there today.