{"id":1865,"date":"2004-03-17T17:46:18","date_gmt":"2004-03-18T00:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/03\/important-new-technology\/"},"modified":"2004-03-17T17:46:18","modified_gmt":"2004-03-18T00:46:18","slug":"important-new-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/17\/important-new-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Important new technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tI haven’t been writing about technology lately because I don’t want to give away what I’m working on. But this article is worthy of comment<\/a> because it relates to a watershed moment in networking. The MBOA, a consortium of 80+ networking and consumer electronics companies, has agreed to a baseline standard for a new protocol that combines prioritized asynchronous and isochronous access into a single system that operates without a centralized controller:<\/p>\n

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A key requirement for the MAC is decentralization, along with the notion that every node will announce its connections and with whom its exchanging data. “So every node is fully aware of what’s going on with every other node in the network, which will reduce reconnect time and latencies,” said Kimyacioglu. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To put that in layman’s terms, real-time applications like voice and video can run on this network as well as they would on a dedicated, wired system, sharing the network with Internet access. While it doesn’t correct the design deficiencies in the Internet, it points the way to the resolution of these problems in the future. I was very happy to contribute to this effort, which reminded me of a similar gathering in the same town (Phoenix) exactly 20 years ago that created twisted-pair Ethernet. This new MBOA<\/a> system could very easily be just as successful.<\/p>\n

Some commenters are confused <\/a>about what’s going on with UWB, thinking there’s a real conflict between MBOA and Motorola. There’s really not a fight here, because it’s 80 companies against 1, and the outcome at the consumer level is perfectly clear.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Glenn Fleishman<\/a> believes Moto may try and fight a battle with MBOA over intellectual property to create confusion in the consumer market. Given the advantage that MBOA has over them, I suspect MBOA’s response to that threat would be something in the nature of “bring it on.”\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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