Hot Spots v. Hot Zones

Michael is a wireless veteran, having put up a Wi Fi LAN and experimented with using the available bandwidth for purposes other than accessing the Internet. It turns out that there a lot of interesting things going on in the local area as well as what is happening out on the Internet.

I'm convinced that local area events and activities constitute a sleeper issue that will be more and more discussed in coming months, as the industry develops and more Wi Fi networks are deployed. In fact, this is a key concept and driver for MetroNanoNet, my new business venture.

What happens locally is highly relevant to us - in fact, I would argue that much of our world and our attention is focused on a circle within two miles of our homes, especially if there are children and elementary schools involved.

Content caching at the local area will be huge as more and more content goes out over the Internet. Providing content locally at blazing speeds may well become the killer app for Wi Fi Mesh, to borrow a term from my previous blog.

Handheld devices like Wi Fi phones, PDAs, Music Gremlins, and Game Players are more likely to take advantage of this new application - locally served content - than laptops.