Comment Feta cheese is "dead" compared to cheddar (Score 2, Interesting) 446
This article is so rediculous. Bluetooth is designed for small devices that would usually be used over usb or rf.
But lets just assume that the entire reason for bluetooth was for wireless LAN type usage. Then it is still not dead unless we say that 802.11b was dead a few years back when there weren't that many wireless access points to buy, or back when microsoft hadn't even added 802.11b support yet.
Bluetooth networking is done over the PAN specification from the bluetooth working group, it basically just takes traffic in layer two and opens an L2CAP tunnel to encapsilate the traffic in BNEP (Bluetooth Network Encapsilation Protocol) then sends to a NAP or GN device (covered in the PAN spec). The NAP or GN then unencapsilates the BNEP traffic and, if its a NAP, sends it out in the form of regular ethernet traffic. There are only a few NAP and GN devices on the market, and microsoft hasn't even implemented the PAN spec yet. So how can it be dead before it's even alive.
I don't say that the sperm that ends up at the bottom of my shower is dead babies.
After PAN is widely used it will be a decent wireless solution for homes. It has very limited range but pretty good bandwidth, more than 802.11b by far.
But lets just assume that the entire reason for bluetooth was for wireless LAN type usage. Then it is still not dead unless we say that 802.11b was dead a few years back when there weren't that many wireless access points to buy, or back when microsoft hadn't even added 802.11b support yet.
Bluetooth networking is done over the PAN specification from the bluetooth working group, it basically just takes traffic in layer two and opens an L2CAP tunnel to encapsilate the traffic in BNEP (Bluetooth Network Encapsilation Protocol) then sends to a NAP or GN device (covered in the PAN spec). The NAP or GN then unencapsilates the BNEP traffic and, if its a NAP, sends it out in the form of regular ethernet traffic. There are only a few NAP and GN devices on the market, and microsoft hasn't even implemented the PAN spec yet. So how can it be dead before it's even alive.
I don't say that the sperm that ends up at the bottom of my shower is dead babies.
After PAN is widely used it will be a decent wireless solution for homes. It has very limited range but pretty good bandwidth, more than 802.11b by far.
