| 6LoWPAN: low-power IP connectivity | |||
| Posted by: Jordi on Saturday, May 12, 2007 - 12:48 AM | |||
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Until recently, extending IP out to wireless industrial networks was thought to be impractical, if not impossible. Vendors embraced proprietary protocols because they presumed that IP, which is memory- and bandwidth-intensive, couldn’t be scaled down to operate on the microcontrollers and low-power wireless links used in these environments. | ||
| Complete info at NetworkWorld and ComputerWorld. | |||