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News Release from: Cambridge Consultants
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 11 October 2004
ZigBee set for wireless networking
explosion
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The new ZigBee standard for wireless networking of embedded systems has the potential to overtake Ethernet within a year, according to Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet.
It's taken 30 years for Ethernet to reach the volume shipments we see today, but the new ZigBee standard for wireless networking of embedded systems has the potential to overtake it within a year, according to Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet Speaking at the ZigBee Design Conference organised by Cambridge Consultants and Ember Corp, Metcalfe noted that just 2% of the annual eight billion embedded microprocessor shipments a year are currently networked
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 5 Nov 2002 at 8.00am (UK)