Wireless - UPS Versus FedEx: Head-to-Head on Wireless
Although few companies have the scale of UPS and FedEx, they can adopt many of the wireless technologies scaled to their size and use devices and network components that fit their operations. "Often, vendors will build a device to our [request for proposal] spec, and we’ll often see them go to market," notes Pasley. Other wireless adopters will face the same issues that FedEx and UPS faced in deploying the new standards-based wireless technologies, and often discover similar answers. "They led the industry in solving the early problems," says Alan Varghese, a senior director of wireless at Allied Business Intelligence, "and now others are seeing there’s a lot more knowledge and expertise available so they can climb on the bandwagon."
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