Read Rick Merritt

If you're not reading Rick Merritt's blog, and you're tracking the world of connectivity, you need to.  He's up to speed on just about everything going on in the space and has some very interesting insights. 

I do take issue, however, with one recent post from Rick that talked about the Park's Connections Conference.  In it, he contrasted two panels: one that featured the views of wireless vendors and the other that focused on those of the telcos and cable providers.  His point was that the wireless wags need to pay attention to the cable camp that, guess what, is very comfortable with wires. 

My issue isn't that I disagree with Rick's point, frankly I agree with him whole heartedly.  But Rick should have noted that at least one wireless technology -- UWB -- has already demonstrated its ability to work over wires, coax in particular. Several suppliers of residential gateways, routers and set-top boxes are working to productize UWB over coax as an alternative to MoCA.  And the WiMedia Alliance has created a study group (led by one of the major telcos) to implement this as part of the UWB standard.