The recent news below may force a change in deployment strategy for AAM@Home.

Great Lakes IT Report - Friday, Nov. 30, 2001

COMCAST MAY BE SCRAMBLING TODAY -- Cable companies offering high-speed Internet access via troubled ExciteAtHome scrambled to advise customers about their plans if a judge approves shutting down Excite on Friday, though the backups were of doubtful value to many users. Comcast was advising customers to make backup copies of their e-mails and Web sites, and to arrange for far slower dialup service as a backup for their always-on, high-speed cable modems. Comcast and Cox Communications, two top cable distributors of Excite's high-speed service, said they are building their own high-speed networks to take its place, though those were not expected to be completed until sometime next year. AT&T, which has an offer pending to buy Excite's network for $307 million, will not offer a dial-up alternative because it plans to quickly switch affected customers to another network if necessary. The cable companies were hoping negotiations this week could still avoid an Excite shutdown. Comcast has nearly 800,000 AtHome subscribers, more than 100,000 in metro Detroit.

posted by Ron Wolak at 7:46 AM

Remote user access section would provide a model for the following:
1. Seamless wireless connectivity when moving from work to home - report on lab tests.
2. Access from Coffee Houses and Airports with public 802.11 networks
3. Wireless VPN Broadband access at home.. report on pilot user group (6 IT staff and 4 VPs)
4. Touch on importance of AAM desktop served using Windows Terminal Service

posted by Ron Wolak at 12:49 PM

Discuss Wireless LAN implementations
Discuss the future of wireless at AAM - migration from WLAN 802.11 to 3G & 4G.
posted by Ron Wolak at 2:57 PM

Procrastinating and partying quite a bit lately. Time to get back to work on the idea paper. Meeting with Dr. Littman on December 10th at 2 pm. Need to get going. Coming up with a million other things to do other than the idea paper (like cutting the lawn in the middle of November in Michigan).
posted by Ron Wolak at 1:19 PM