Why mix Bluetooth with Wi-Fi?

Security for Bluetooth beats that for ad hoc Wi-Fi mode Wireless Alert NetworkWorld.com | Wireless & Mobile Research Center | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Belden When is the Best Time to Plan Your WLAN? When installing or upgrading a structured cabling plant, you can achieve significant time and money savings by determining your wireless LAN (WLAN) requirements and folding them into the project right from the start. Learn more in a FREE White Paper from Belden: "Smart Planning for New Network Infrastructures." Spotlight Story Why mix Bluetooth with Wi-Fi? By Joanie Wexler When the latest version of Bluetooth was announced last week, two questions popped to mind. First, what does Bluetooth 3.0 - which combines the Bluetooth wireless communications protocol with 802.11g Wi-Fi transport capabilities - offer that plain old Wi-Fi doesn't? Second, how are 3.0 connections secured, given that Wi-Fi running in ad hoc (peer-to-peer) mode hasn't historically received many kudos for privacy? It turns out that the two questions and their answers are somewhat related. Read full story Joanie Wexler is an independent networking technology writer/editor in Silicon Valley. Related News: How Bluetooth got as fast as Wi-Fi Kevin Hayes, technical editor for the core of the new Bluetooth-over-Wi-Fi spec, dives into some details on how it was done, how it works, and what it means. Data transfer rates to jump with Bluetooth 3.0 A standards group on Tuesday approved specifications for a new Bluetooth standard that speeds up wireless data transfers between devices like smartphones and laptops. Bluetooth group to release spec for Wi-Fi On schedule, Bluetooth is about to get a big boost in data rate and in some cases distance. 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