Prospects for IR
Prospects for IR
- Infrared Data Association (IrDA) standard
- IrDA will be in 9M notebooks sold in 1996
- all notebooks by 1998
- Point-to-point protocol, best for update
- Next steps:
- LAN extensions, roaming, cells, etc...
- higher speed is unnecessary: 100k-1Mbit/s enough
- needs to extend range, ability to work diffusely, ability to have multiple devices
Prospects for Radio