Read the latest columns and white papers from Craig Mathias:

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"Testing 'draft N compliant' wireless LANs"
"The Oqo: Please, can I have one, please?"
"Only mobile matters"
"Rethinking the repeater"
"Lessons from failure"
"The 802.11n story: The book I wish I'd written"
"Push vs. Pull"
"WiMax will not replace Wi-Fi"
"Video: Coming to a WLAN near you"
"When it comes to poor cellular service, enough is enough"
"What is performance?"
"The wireless media question"
"Making VoFi work"
"Applications for ultrawideband radio"
"Even more on meshes"
"Let's get denser"
"WLAN arrays: Another new wireless LAN architecture"
"Wireless switches: An evolutionary fast track"
"The wireless ISP question"
"The great antenna debate"
"Software-defined radio: The computer meets wireless"
"A general strategy for wireless deployments"
"Ease of use: This year's biggest challenge"
"Cellular merger mania: What's it mean for you?"
"Benchmarking wireless LANs"
"Thinking about WiMax"
"Whither 802.11b?"
"The WLAN capacity question"
"Municipal Wi-Fi and WLAN spectrum"
"Dense deployments"
"Another look at wirless LAN management"
"RFID: No threat to the humble bar code"
"More on meshes"
"Micromeshes and gateways"
"Random thoughts: WMANs, WLANs, PDAs, and cell phone noise pollution"
"Abusing the customer"
"A (perhaps useful) wireless hack"
"A new class of wireless LAN"
"The no-AP AP"
"The dawn of the micronotebook"
"An introduction to ultrawideband radio"
"The relay point model"
"The wireless headset question"
"This year's model"
"A brief history of wireless technology"
"Access vs. distribution"
"Why is all this so hard?"
"Wi-What?"
"The importance of wireless mesh networks"
"Infocentricity"
"2003 - The wireless year in review"
"The most important wireless technology of 2003"
"Multi-site WLAN management - What network managers don't know yet"
"Comdex 2003 - Wireless and then some"
"Local number portability - What does it really mean?"
"WLANs for VOIP?"
"Picking the right cellular carrier"
"Intro to practical applications for global positioning systems"
"Brush up on 802.11"
"Cellular soup: A review of two top standards"
"Hot spots: Challenges ahead"
"Denying the denial of service attack"
"Wireless adoption in the real world"
"Location-based services - The next big thing?"
"An introduction to wireless spectrum regulation"
"Choosing a wireless handheld"
"Wireless handhelds . Security, integrity, management"
"WMANs . New life for an old concept"
"Cool tools for wireless LANs"
"Wireless security - Some surprising conclusions"
"The single-device paradox"
"Bluetooth: A technology derailed?"
"New roles for wireless messaging"
"Switched wireless LANs - is this the future?"

Craig J. Mathias is a Principal with Farpoint Group, an advisory and systems-integration firm based in Ashland, MA. Farpoint Group specializes in wireless and mobile communications technologies, products, and services. The company works with both manufacturers and end-users in technology assessment, strategy development, product specification and design, product marketing, program management, education and training, and the integration of new technologies into new and existing business operations, across a broad range of markets and applications. Craig has published numerous technical and overview articles on a variety of topics, and is a well-known industry analyst and frequent speaker at industry conferences and trade shows. He is an internationally-recognized expert on wireless communications and mobile computing technologies.

Prior to forming Farpoint Group, Craig was Director, Corporate Development, at Stardent Computer (formerly Stellar Computer, and now Advanced Visual Systems), where he was responsible for new product specification and corporate strategy. He was Director, Marketing, at Stellar Computer, developer of the first graphics supercomputer. Craig was also a member of the founding management team at GRiD Systems Corp., developer of the first laptop computer, where he was responsible for the development and marketing of all communications, networking, and server products.

Craig holds an Sc.B. degree in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Brown University. He is a member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communications Society, the ACM (and a past Chair and Chapter Secretary for SIGGRAPH/New England), and a Member of the Society of Sigma Xi. He has served on the Program Advisory Board of the Wireless Datacomm Conferences, the Board of Advisors for Mobile Solutions Seminars at Technologic Partners' Mobile Conferences, the Steering Committee for the Telecommuting and Remote Access Conference and Exposition (TRACE, now part of ComNet), was Co-Chair of the Steering Committee for the Network World Unplugged '96 Conference, and was a member of the Program Committee for the IEEE Wireless LANs 2001 conference. He is currently a member of the Advisory Boards for the COMDEX Fall, Next Generation Networks, ComNet, and Communications Design conferences, and a monthly columnist ("Radio Days") for Electronic Engineering Times.