The IEEE 802.11n standard is likely to be approved in September, making the highspeed wireless LAN technology official after about seven years of wrangling and refinement. The 802.11 working group, which has developed all the major wireless LAN standards, has voted to send Draft 2.0 of the 11n standard on to the upper levels of the IEEE for final review and publication, according to a blog entry by Matthew Gast, chief strategist at Trapeze Networks and a member of the task group. There was only one dissenting vote, Gast wrote.rnOrganizations are finding it hard to calculate the cost benefits of desktop virtualization and broad adoption is unlikely to happen for another year or two, VMware's CEO says. Interest in the technology is high, and companiesrnwith a strong focus on security and regulatory compliance, such as financial services companies, are adopting it quickly, VMware CEO Paul Maritz said during the company's quarterly conference call last week. But for other organizations the benefitsrnaren't so clear. "A lot of companies frankly don't have a good handle on what the baseline is - they can't tell you what it costs to provision a desktop today," he says.
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