Eric Griffith

In time for the National Retail Federation Big Show in New York City this week, Aruba Networks of Sunnyvale, California has embraced retail in a big way. While the company is no stranger to distributed network support, it has built new features into its Mobile Edge Architecture specifically to help retailers who need mobility to […]

Sure, the future is all about video this and multimedia that and hooking your TV to the network and watching shows over the Internet from anywhere… but the short-term money is still in the routers and PC cards with the newest technology. At least, that’s still the case at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show this […]

At CES 2007 in Las Vegas today, the Wi-Fi Alliance said it has certified the first products supporting Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS). This is an optional technology meant to make it easier for home and small office network operators – those without an IT staff — to deploy secure wireless LANs. Buffalo Technology is also […]

Chipmaker Atheros is preparing for the next step in supporting the (yet-to-be-ratified) 802.11n specification. Later this year when it ships, the AR5008AP-3NX2 will be the company’s first to support both 2.4 and 5 GHz radio frequencies, giving it backward compatibility not only with 802.11b/g (in 2.4 GHz) but also 802.11a (in 5 GHz) as well. […]

There’s no lack of hardware to give you a Wi-Fi connection with a 3G-based backhaul, but the latest targets one specific area: the inside of your car. The Autonet unit will come with the radios inside for the 3G backhaul connection. You won’t need to have a separate EV-DO or HSDPA card to plug into […]

When is a mesh network not a mesh network? Colgate University in central New York State knows. It recently completed the rollout of a campus wide outdoor network using Tropos Networks’ MetroMesh equipment — but none of the units are meshing. “We just wanted maximum throughput,” says Rich Grant, the associate director of technology planning […]

It’s not enough to setup a city-wide, Wi-Fi-based, mesh network. You have to keep track of it. That’s why companies that make the equipment, like Tropos Networks and SkyPilot Networks, are announcing partnerships with companies that can keep track of the traffic they generate. Tropos is partnering with NetNearU (NNU). The NNU TRACKOS management platform […]

PanGo Networks will be bringing is PanOS Location Management Platform and PanGo Locator application to the new Location Appliance created by Newbury Networks. Both companies are located near Boston and have worked in the position/location-based tracking and security areas using Wi-Fi networks for years. “This is about a new level of cooperation,” says Chuck Conley, […]

You don’t hear a lot about Metalink’s draft 802.11n support and that’s because it doesn’t play in the splashy waters of home and business Wi-Fi networks. Instead, the company focused its WLANPlus chips on the consumer electronics and entertainment industries. And that will continue next year with a second generation chip supporting the 2.0 draft […]

UMA may finally be making a play for the carpeted enterprise, according to Kineto Wireless and Extricom. Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) is a fixed/mobile convergence (F/MC) technology that lets carriers control calls made with dual-mode handsets. Specifically, a carrier like T-Mobile can sell a phone with GSM and Wi-Fi support inside, and the phone can […]

The SignalMX tool from EDX, used in office site surveys or with a special add-on to handle big installations for carriers — and used by companies like Verizon and Cingular — will now integrate data collected by Cognio’s Spectrum Expert 3.0 for measuring interference. The two companies started talking about eight months ago about what […]

Earlier this week, the San Francisco Examiner reported on what it called a likely political showdown that could change the direction of the much delayed Wi-Fi network planned for the entire city by the Bay. The report stated that members of the city’s Board of Supervisors might vote to make the network city-owned. This is […]