"Wireless LANs solve the problem of the last mile, particularly in a metropolitan area, " says Ma.

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At the same conference, ZDNet covered a talk by German researchers Enno Rey and Daniel Mende, showing how they could break the encryption on two generations of Cisco Wireless LANs.

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