IDF: Intel demos Skamania multihoming
We've seen many neat innovations in Intel's labs over the years, and many which didn't survive the journey up to Redmond. But Intel vows that its latest mobile initiatives - to bring the PC up to, and beyond the multihoming capabilities of new Macs - won't meet the same fate,Andrew Orlowski writes .
Hacks were treated to an impressive multi-homing demo in which a notebook switched seamlessly between two wireless and one wireline Ethernet network without skipping a beat. That's thanks to Intel Labs-brewed software codenamed 'Skamania'. Neat stuff, and the slickest such demo we've seen.
Intel's demo showed Skamania (cute name) hopping between 802.11, 802.3 and fixed Ethernet, but Sehnert said that Bluetooth PANs and wireless packet data, such as GPRS, were part of the picture too.
One other part of the Intel presentation will sound familiar to The Register's Mac readers, and that's power management.
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