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"They have the advantage in terms of time to market. It's kind of an end-around [to outmaneuver Intersil.] They are just going to let the markets decide" which is the better technology rather than the IEEE, said Kurt Scherf, vice president of research at Parks Associates, a Dallas-based market research and consulting firm.

But Scherf concedes that time-to-market alone doesn't determine a winning strategy in the burgeoning WLAN market. Perhaps of greater importance is a new p ...read more

"Data rates are extremely critical," said Kurt Scherf, vice president of research at Parks Associates, a Dallas-based market research and consulting firm. "As 802 applications move from the office to the home, it means multimedia applications become more realistic for the home."

Parks Associates estimated that, while 5 percent of U.S. households currently have a PC network in place, as many as 15 percent will have one in five years. Of that, wireless networking will account ...read more

A survey of home builders has found that they are increasingly accepting standards for home networking.

More than one half of home builders in the U.S. say their firms are currently offering whole-house networking in the form of structured wiring. The survey was conducted by Parks Associates and BUILDER Magazine.

In addition, the survey found that about 12 percent of U.S. home builders are offering structured wiring as a standard feature in new homes.

"As buyers of n ...read more

There will be 25 million residential gateways by 2005, according to a new study by Parks Associates.

"Every home in the U.S. will have at least one gateway, including either narrow- or broadband connections, by 2010," said Kurt Scherf, vice president of research at Parks Associates.

The Company notes that organizations such as the new Internet Home Alliance will spur consumer acceptance of home devices and gateways.

"It is clear that volume for the category at large ...read more

Industry expects believe that cable access has the last-mile delivery edge to home users while DSL is generally preferred by businesses. With DSL, consumers get a guaranteed amount of bandwidth between their computers and the telephone company's central office whereas cable modem operations are designed similar to a local area network. That has led cable ISPs to implement caps on streaming media downloads and limit upstream bandwidth.

A recent study by research firm Parks As ...read more