It seems that that finally 802.11n will be approved by the IEEE standards board meeting on September 11, 2009. This is a huge cross the chasm change for the wireless networking industry at large. Now for the first time end clients can look to displace the wired ethernet port and right size their network. This allows major cost savings in wired port downsizing as well as potentially displacing L2/L3 switches. Now clients in all vertical markets are /can allow to look to displace the "wired" network with the wireless network. This will allow new and current entrants to disrupt the status quo to meet all the bandwidth and application requirements; even in life critical/mission critical environments. This is another nail in the coffin needing proprietary networks for medical applications. This market influence to change the acquisition dynamics is not unlike Google and their upsetting the balance in the search engine and application free code source model. This same business model it seems it is following more a forward next generation technology availability at a lower cost model with adherence to the defacto marketing standard and the standards of IEEE. This should provide a baseline of networking application design that is not present in todays medical devicde connectivity model. This as overall should additionally erase any concern regarding the draft 2.0 standard and allow commoditization of wireless and algorithim develolpment for the medical device marketplace. The overall impact will be a huge business improvement model in positive patient care that will take advantage of technology drivers in other vertical markets.
