WAP reaches the second generation
Which ISP do you think is the world’s most popular, measured by number of customers? It’s not one of the business-class heavyweights featured in this month’s survey, though they do carry most backbone traffic.

War of the wireless worlds
Having dusted off the proprietary tag and poor speeds, WLANs, which transmit and receive data over RF, stand a good chance at taking the helm as a commodity networking product in the next few years. However, the varying standards and interoperability issues raining down on the technology has caused its entry to be less than euphoric, says Shamir Amanullah