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COPYRIGHT 2004 Investor's Business Daily, Inc.
Byline: PAUL KORZENIOWSKI
Wireless local area networks, or WLANs, have won over businesses and consumers. Now they face their next challenge: supporting video transmissions.
The networks, which typically rely on Wi-Fi technology, are great for checking e-mail and surfing the Net. But some WLAN users have loftier goals. They'd like to watch movies and other video without being tethered to a network.
"There are not many companies or consumers that are running full-motion video over their WLANs right now, but there is a growing number of them who have begun to think about taking that step," said Greg Collins, an industry analyst with market research firm Dell'Oro Group.
WLANs have become quite popular the last...
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