I used to work for now www.motorola.com in my career. Spent a lot of the time in the field developing all kinds of applications for many vertical markets for POS (point of sale) and the medical device vertical. This was the time from 1999 when 802.11b got ratified and the whole revolution of WIFI as we know it started. The realization in 2013 is the smart phone, and the I-Pad (Thank you Apple) is big time straining the carrier’s network. The issue is there is a finite amount of spectrum. Femtocells have not quite really taking off; so it seems that the off load of the cellular traffic onto the WLAN may prove to be easier and more the economical route to take.
See attached the white paper by Motorola.
As a side, Integra Systems, Inc. has also authored white papers for Motorola on other technical areas. These will be forthcoming. Stay tuned to further blogs regarding Wi-Fi Certified Passpoint.(It is in parallel with the current discussion).
We will have a major series of blogs centered around 802.11n and 802.11 ac and where is this space regarding medical device wireless and connectivity. This will be forthcoming in January 2013.
