Eric Griffith

The city of New Orleans, both pre- and post-Katrina, is no stranger to Wi-Fi. However, even as wireless technologies have helped the hurricane-ravaged city rebound, it has run afoul of a state law that makes it illegal for municipalities to own and run a network offering speeds of 128Kbps or faster. The New Orleans free […]

Why have one big wireless ISP when you can have hundreds of small ones? That’s the question NuTel Broadband Corporation of Cranbury, New Jersey seems to be answering. The company wants to create partnerships with existing ISPs — or just entrepreneurial individuals or businesses  — who think their town or suburb deserves better broadband. “We’re […]

Redwood City, California-based Network Chemistry says that its RFprotect Scanner is the first product to focus on helping businesses with a no-wireless policy use their Ethernet infrastructure to look for rogue access points and other wireless issues. “If you look at the problems people want to solve, where the most pain is, it revolves around […]

Wavion is entering a crowded market, planning to sell equipment for citywide Wi-Fi deployments. It claims it can sell fewer units per square mile by using MIMO to take advantage of multipath interference. “The focus is on superior coverage and high bandwidth,” says Alan Menezes, the company’s Corporate Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. […]

Up until now, Boingo Wireless has tried a lot of things — foremost among them, building a virtual network of 45,000 hotspot locations across the globe through 130 different agreements with hotspot providers. But it was never a provider itself, until this week. Today, Boingo, based in Santa Monica, California, announced that it is buying […]

Open source is not just democratization of software code — it’s a way for vendors to get their software out to markets they wouldn’t otherwise be able to get a grasp on. That’s why the hotspot aggregator Boingo Wireless is going to make the code for its Wi-Fi connection management software available to carriers, providers […]

DigitalPath used the ISPCON Spring 2006 conference in Baltimore this week to announce plans to sell its DenseNode and BroadNode wireless broadband products to other wireless ISPs — products that until now were not available to the public. DigitalPath has had them in use since 2002 for its own WISP network in 25 communities in […]

HP says most enterprises looking at wireless don’t want to start from scratch with network equipment. “They extend wired with wireless,” says Darla Sommerville, Vice President and General Manager for the company’s ProCurve Americas division. That’s why HP’s new Wireless Edge Services Module, the ProCurve 5300xl, is a blade that plugs into its existing 5300 […]

NextHop has its first customer. D-Link will be building in the NextHop UNS 4.0 software for unified switching of wired and wireless networks into the D-Link xStack DWS-3250 switches, as well as some of its enterprise class access points. Albert Lew, Wireless Product Manager at NextHop, says it’s a complete turnkey software solution providing all […]

Why have separate networks for all the different kinds of wireless when one will do? Symbol Technologies calls the platform it plans to launch with this strategy Wi-NG, for Wireless Next Generation, the company’s fourth. The new radio frequency (RF) switches planned will consolidate technologies like 802.11/Wi-Fi, 802.16/WiMax, passive RFID, mesh networks, EV-DO and HSDPA […]

In what may be a first, a product based on MIMO (multiple in, multiple out) technology is coming to the enterprise. Bluesocket of Burlington, Massachusetts says its new high-end BlueSecure Access Point 1700 (BSAP-1700) will use the Airgo Networks 3rd generation True MIMO chip. “We believe a technology leap is occurring,” says Mike Puglia, Senior […]

Flush with an additional $25 million in financing and entering what it calls a pre-IPO phase, voice-centric WLAN switch maker Meru Networks of Sunnyvale, California debuts a new way to deploy its switches and access points that eliminates almost all the Ethernet cables. Ihab Abu-Hakima, President and CEO of Meru, calls the new Wireless Backbone […]