1 copyright max robert 2001 an overview of current wireless systems and trends in next generation technology international wire & cable symposium november 12 last year has seen a lot activity the market not necessarily creation new services but death many industry gone is going through recession large companies have filed for bankruptcy or disappeared iridium metricom us 2 uncertainty on what can succeed major players are attempting to create vision individually result that currently lacks coherent growth positive developments strong mobile phone usage worldwide very wlan deployments surprising organic networks presentation goal outline state present estimate direction based 3 near future metropolitan area lan pan mile broadband satellite service network transparency software defined radio