Craig Mathias Quotations

Working with multiple data inputs presents significant engineering challenges, and the engineers who developed MIMO did a remarkable job addressing them.

There is a lot of debate right now about who will have the right approach,

Mobile broadband is going to be one of those things we come to expect, so the opportunity is indeed enormous, and Cisco will no doubt become a major player.

MIMO is the most important technical advance that WLAN vendors have made during the past few years.

Businesses are interested in taking advantage of mobility; they understand it offers them a number of ways to help improve employee productivity.

If that had not happened, we would probably not have had an 11n standard this year.

It is, in effect, an enterprise-class product controlled by the enterprise switch.

There are three reasons to deploy wireless. You can't install wire, for whatever reason. Wireless is cheaper over a given time. Or you need mobility.

The data pricing trend is downward. We're expecting unlimited wireless broadband services in the $35-$45 range in the next year or so. There will always be a premium for wireless, but the objective is to get to the same price point as wired.

but not an insurmountable one. It could probably be done in software.

Rumor is that it will be available shortly.

They've been selling radios to the government for something like 40 years. You don't expect them to buy from a commercial supplier do you?

It's hard to imagine how this is a security threat, ... They clearly don't want the competition.

It's a very good question. The whole process has definitely gotten more political over the years. The technology used in this standard is the future of wireless (local area networks). It's very important for companies involved to get their market positioning up-front and establish themselves as players as soon as possible.

It's do-or-die time for T-Mobile USA to get into 3G.

It will be ubiquitous and a monster opportunity.

Clearly Microsoft needs to add this piece - mobile access is a huge part of their new .Net initiative.