{"id":1675,"date":"2003-08-21T14:20:24","date_gmt":"2003-08-21T21:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/08\/the-more-the-merrier\/"},"modified":"2003-08-21T14:20:24","modified_gmt":"2003-08-21T21:20:24","slug":"the-more-the-merrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/21\/the-more-the-merrier\/","title":{"rendered":"The more the merrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Unstrung - The world wide source for analysis of the global wireless economy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unstrung.com\/document.asp?doc_id=38988\">Unstrung<\/a> spills the beans on another smart antenna startup:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Motia is working on 802.11 chipsets that will incorporate &#8220;smart antenna&#8221; technology, similar to that being offered by Airgo and Vivato Inc., Unstrung has learned. Systems using a smart antenna approach use multiple antennas to transmit signals in an effort to improve the consistency of the link.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a true story. The CEO of Motia called me one Saturday a few months ago trying to squeeze proprietary info out of me about Airgo, but being the stand-up guy that I am, I didn&#8217;t talk. My instinct when I get these calls is to give them some subtly misleading info, following my consultant daddy&#8217;s dictum that free advice is worth what you pay for it. My amendment is that advice should cost the recipient as much as it did the giver. I&#8217;m happy to give good advice if you&#8217;re willing to pay me well for it, and that&#8217;s the way the world works.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unstrung spills the beans on another smart antenna startup: Motia is working on 802.11 chipsets that will incorporate &#8220;smart antenna&#8221; technology, similar to that being offered by Airgo and Vivato Inc., Unstrung has learned. Systems using a smart antenna approach use multiple antennas to transmit signals in an effort to improve the consistency of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/21\/the-more-the-merrier\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The more the merrier&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-r1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}