Telecommunications is heading in the direction of a fully wireless environment.
The trend may be moving toward mesh networking, Marcus says. Rather than utilizing localized hot spots to gain wireless access, mesh networking creates hot zones with building-wide or campus-wide coverage or even hot regions that span an entire metropolitan area. Basic WiFi (Wireless Fidelity) untethers the user, whereas mesh networking untethers the entire network from the need for a wired connection. The concept is comparable to the Internet, which itself operates as a gigantic mesh that can largely self-manage and configure itself. Large warehouses, auditoriums and standard office spaces with a lot of cubicles will start using this type of fully wireless network.