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September 23, 2002
Wireless Internetworking
An article in Wired by Negroponte discusses wireless internetworking---the concept of having wireless hubs that are smart enough to route and talk to each other. That way, my wireless network talks to my neighbors, which talks to a neighbor further away, and so on until the wireless system drains to the larger Internet. I've seen this work. A Utah company, called United Internetworking (founded by Jay Carlson) has built working hardware and software that does this exact thing in the 5GHz band. Its actually very cool to see.
The article goes on to say:
Reallocating spectrum won't happen overnight. It is just as hard to shake up occupied electromagnetic zones as it is to bulldoze part of a city for a park or a civic center. New attitudes will have a more immediate effect as we look to higher and higher parts of the spectrum, and use them for shorter and shorter distances.
It will be harder than bulldozing part of a city. Usually we pick on the disenfranchised when we bulldoze the city. Spectrum is controlled by the ultra-enfranchised and they don't give it up without a fight.
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ACIO Meeting
Today was the first meeting of the team of Assistant State CIOs (ACIOs) that have been appointed from each agency. There are still a few Cabinet level agencies that have not made an appointment, but we had a good group and it gave me great hope. Here are the things we talked about:
- DCIO appointments:
- Kevin Van Ausdal (Tax), DCIO for IT
- Al Sherwood, DCIO for Plans and Policy
- Dave Fletcher, DCIO for eGov
- ITPSC agenda for Thursday
- Cancellation of WAN rate structure change
- Legislative audit Q&A
- Future meetings with agency IT staffs
- Email consolidation project
- Enterprise architectures
If you're interested in knowing more about these topics, please contact your ACIO, Kevin, or myself. We'd be happy to give you more information.