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10/09/08
Wi-Fi-enabled consumer electronics wave is building momentum
http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetarch163561
By Jeff Caruso
Research firm In-Stat is saying that shipments of consumer
electronics devices with Wi-Fi capabilities will reach almost 1
billion per year by the year 2012.Read full story
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Jeff Caruso mailto:jcaruso@nww.com is site editor at Network
World.
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of network monitoring and management tools. In this whitepaper
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