W hile it’s very clear that the core objective for wireless overall is to duplicate the capabilities and performance of wire, such also serves to highlight the essential differences between these two as interconnect and access technologies. Wire and cable (and especially fiber) represent a nice, neat, contained electromagnetic domain that, when properly deployed, is (a) resistant if not immune to externalities like RF interference and electromagnetic-wave propagation challenges, and (b) has a high likelihood that a signal placed on one end will appear at the other. Radio, on the other hand, is fundamentally statistical in nature, and is consequently much more challenging - signal fading, interference, limitations on transmit power, ever-greater application requirements for higher throughput and network capacity, noise (as measured by the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at any given moment in time), and client motion all affect how well wireless can in fac