But it is not a general solution. AirSoft's AirAccess software has certainly broken new ground using intelligent caching, data compression and differential write-back algorithms. In the process it has created a very workable remote LAN access environment that performs well over both wired and wireless connections. Yet even AirSoft could be improved and generalized with good middleware. Pretending that there isn't a problem just puts off the day of reckoning.
Wireless links have mysterious and sometimes counter-intuitive characteristics.
This problem had better get fixed before serious numbers of customers sign on. Keep Your Eye on Nettech One wireless middleware company appears ready to pull away from the pack. Piloted by a soft spoken Russian immigrant named Boris Fridman, Nettech Systems of Princeton, N.J., has spent the past six years patiently crafting building blocks at the lowest layers of the protocol stack where the real dirty work gets done. The architecture of Nettech's suite of tools is quite straightforward. This contains device drivers for all the major wireless modems, like the Ericsson Mobidem or the Motorola InfoTac.