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mhalle
on Oct 4, 2020
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40th Anniversary of the Ethernet
What about WiFi, and the adage, "you can't switch air"?
p1mrx
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WiFi travels through space, which happens to contain air for pragmatic reasons. Wouldn't SDMA qualify as "switching space"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-division_multiple_access
tsomctl
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Check out CDMA. There's a blog owned by one of the original engineers at Qualcomm that goes into the history and theory of CDMA. Unfortunately I can't find it.
zamadatix
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802.11 handles it, the Ethernet frames just see things as being switched with a lot of buffering and random delay.
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