In the end, I believe that wide-area wireless networks will take over the hotspot marketplace and stitch together combination offerings that include both wide-area and local-area high-speed data access.

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This technology is also being readied for metropolitan- and wide-area networks, breaking away from Ethernet's roots in the LAN.

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To provide these notifications in real time, the wireless wide-area network modules from Novatel Wireless securely connect through HSDPA and EV-DO networks to the Microsoft Exchange Server, storing user information and filter policies.

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