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"A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it
adds up to real money."
- Senator Everett Dirksen (1896-1969)
When Cisco and Motorola, industry leaders in Internet and other networking technologies, and in wireless communications
respectively, announced a pact to spend a billion dollars over the next four years it was a lead story in all the
media from CNN's MoneyLine program to Reuters News Agency to InfoWorld
Magazine's Web edition. A new wireless Internet.
New access technology? This all sounded right up our street, so we decided to investigate. We talked with Jon Shantz,
vice president of business development for Cisco.
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How does this proposed new wireless technology compare
to, differ from or improve upon what's already about there, for example the Nokia 9000 series, or Tele2's Advanced
Digital Wireless network and other such wireless data and voice technologies.
Data networking and access to the Internet is one of the new initiatives affecting the wireless industry. Most
companies are planning to overlay some level of low speed data networking capability. The Cisco/Motorola initiative
includes the initial low-speed capabilities but provides for the use of Internet type of core network technology
that will make it easy for wireless operators to provide Internet services directly and enables
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