Eric Griffith

San Bruno, California-based Devicescape makes software you probably have used but don’t know it — it might be running some of your wireless hardware from big name vendors. The company is planning several new initiatives around what it calls “service-enabled devices,” consumer or mobile products that wirelessly connect to the Web without the benefit of […]

Walnut Creek, California-based WildPackets announced today that it is making OmniSpectrum, a combo of Windows software and a PC Card for a laptop, available to its customers looking for full radio frequency (RF) spectrum analysis for interference from everything from phones to other networks, a feature not available from the company’s OmniAnalysis suite of products. […]

Did you rush out and buy new products for your home network this month, based on the draft of the 802.11n standard? If not, you may want to wait. The first reports on the performance and interoperability are not ringing endorsements. Craig Mathias of Farpoint Group states that in initial tests, the “Draft N” products […]

Cisco Compatible Extensions (CCX) are over three years old, and the technology — meant to make it easier for client devices to connect to wireless LANs built on a Cisco-based infrastructure — is ready for a “shift in focus,” according to the company’s Director of Wireless Marketing, Ben Gibson. “Over the last year, we’ve seen […]

Not sure how well your wireless LAN infrastructure performs compared to others? Neither is anyone else, which is why the IEEE 802.11 Working Group has a Task Group T working since 2004 on Wireless Performance Prediction (WPP). In other words, they want to create repeatable methods for testing performance. While nowhere near completion — that’s […]

There are a lot of things standards are supposed to do, but their primary role is to create interoperability between vendors. Nowhere is it more apparent that there’s a lack of a standard than in mesh networking using Wi-Fi, where every company has a different way of doing things, whether it’s self-configuration of nodes or […]

There’s no lack of talk about fixed/mobile convergence (F/MC) in wireless, but most of it centers around carriers allowing you to make the hand-off leap from their cellular networks to a Wi-Fi network and back again. Divitas Networks, a Mountain View, California startup coming out of stealth mode in time for its first birthday, hopes […]

What if you built a citywide Wi-Fi network and no one came? Or, more specifically, everyone came but no one paid to use it? That’s not too much of an issue in the many municipalities allowing a third-party provider/integrator to install and run a network in exchange for providing some form of free service. That’s […]

Following last week’s details from Netgear and D-Link about their planned products using the draft 802.11n specification to bring higher speed wireless to home networks, this week Buffalo Technology has specifics on its own line, the AirStation NFiniti products. At least two of these vendors, Buffalo and Netgear, are claiming their 802.11n draft products are […]

Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO, pronounced ee-vee-dee-oh) continues to gain ground as the technology underlying wireless broadband from Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel and Alltel in many metro areas. Even before it reaches the ubiquity of regular cellular, it’s going to be upgraded from the current 1xEV-DO service to a much faster version. CDMA2000 1xEV-DO, developed by Qualcomm […]

After a six-week review of proposals, the five-member TechConnect Committee planning the future of citywide wireless for the city of San Francisco last night picked the partnership of EarthLink and Google as their top choice to install and manage the network. While they are the top pick, this is not yet a signed deal. There […]

The ink is barely dry on the 1.0 version of the 802.11n draft, but that isn’t stopping the industry from selling products based on the early stages of the specification. Netgear said Wednesday it has an entire line of 11n draft products ready to ship into the retail channel in the next week or two — they’re […]