| Not many years ago, broadband was something | | | | to pass from one network to another, depending |
| you got only from a hard-wired office PC. Now | | | | on network availability, without losing a connection. |
| it's as easy as flipping open a laptop in a coffee | | | | Imagine leaving the house with your smart phone |
| shop or, increasingly, using a smart phone. | | | | connected to your home LAN, having it |
| Understanding the potential of broadband | | | | automatically switch to a fourth-generation cellular |
| networking in five or 10 years requires not just | | | | network on the bus, then to a WiMax network |
| looking at what's happening inside the labs but | | | | downtown, and then to your company's wireless |
| listening to the tech visionaries. | | | | LAN in the office. Conversations won't stop and |
| Consider the efforts to eliminate a mobile device's | | | | people won't understand that you have changed |
| reliance on one broadband network. Companies | | | | technologies, says Mark Francis, VP of enterprise |
| are developing chipsets and IP multimedia | | | | architecture at AT&T Labs. |
| subsystems to make it easy for mobile devices | | | | |