This has huge implications to wired/wirless networking in general. First it provides backwards compatibility with 802.11a/g, (also legacy b), but will require an AP not firmware refresh, but a forklift upgrade. This will allow competitive entrants like Aruba, Meru, and Ruckus Wireless to provide the best wireless networking technology to displace the legacy wireless APs (802.11a/b/g), but potentially the wired side in that the past wireless and wired network is becoming legacy in nature. Unless you have fiber to the desktop, up to the speeds and feeds of 802.11n should be adequate. Not that all wired ports are going away; but realistically over 40% of wired ports simply are not being used today. If I am wrong, then run www.statseeker.com. Overall to what has been stated, this will allow tremendous immediate cost savings to the enterprise market to reduce port counts, eliminate switches, and finally allow the elimination of the management overhead. However the end customer needs to carefully look at this. All of what has been discussed will potentially save the enterprise customer huge costs going forward to support the enterprise future wireless environment. The threshold to counter the previous legacy converged marketing message has been it seems solidified with the final roll-out and final pending approval of 802.11n.
