[p2p-research] New Wi-Fi Direct Gets Peer-to-Peer Connections - PC World

[Kevin Carson]

On 10/14/09, Paul D. Fernhout <pdfernhout at kurtz-fernhout.com> wrote:
> http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/173669/new_wifi_direct_gets_peertopeer_connections.html
>  """
>  A new specification, called Wi-Fi Direct, provides peer-to-peer connections
> between Wi-Fi devices, no hotspot required. That could be bad news for
> Bluetooth, but good news for customers. Developed by the Wi-Fi Alliance, the
> new specification is expected to begin appearing in products as soon as next
> year. It will allow device-to-device connections over the same range and as
> the same speed as Wi-Fi, but without the need for a hotspot or access point,
> the alliance said.

Seems relevant to discussions of whether the Internet's servers are
reslient enough to survive prolonged, widespread rolling brownouts
from Peak Oil and a tsunami of bankruptcies.  Local open manufacturing
networks and peer networks in the cognitive realm could still function
based on local point-to-point meshworks, or computer-to-computer phone
links, even without the Internet.

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