Eric Griffith

At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) later this week in Las Vegas, the first wireless products for homes that use ultrawideband (UWB) technology will be announced and demonstrated. Belkin and Gefen will both be showing their products in the “cable-free USB” (Universal Serial Bus) category, using chips from Freescale Semiconductor. Meanwhile, Staccato Communications will show its […]

Unstrung and WiFiNetNews are reporting this morning that Vivato has ceased operations. The Spokane, Washington-based company made a big splash with its debut in 2002, securing $20 million in venture capital to back what it called at the time a “Wi-Fi switch.” The product was very different from the switches of other startup WLAN switch […]

As the year comes to a close, companies are bringing out more and more updates to give WLAN administrators something to think about over the holiday break: improved defenses and better management for 2006. AirDefense Earlier this week, AirDefense announced a major upgrade to version 7.0 of its distributed Enterprise product. The company says it […]

With cash on hand, iPass of Redwood Shores, California is buying out its rival down the road, GoRemote Internet Communications of Milpitas. The two companies will be integrating all of their services, many of which overlap. “We’ll go from the largest to ‘largester,’” jokes John Sidline, the director of corporate communications at iPass. His company […]

It was in August that the WiMedia Alliance said it would work with the Geneva-based nonprofit industry association Ecma International to establish WiMedia’s multiband orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (MB-OFDM) ultrawideband (UWB) technology as the global UWB standard. And here it is. It’s actually two specifications. There is ECMA-368 for defining the PHY and Media Access Control […]

Some makers of Wi-Fi infrastructure equipment want to embrace sensors, while others seem to have sensors thrust upon them. No one is complaining. For instance, this week, Newbury Networks, along with announcing a new “early warning” version of its Wi-Fi Watchdog product, also said it’s working with Cisco Systems to make its Aironet 1100 and […]

Security companies like to make sure the world knows that there are lots of security problems out there to fix. Network Chemistry, which bills itself as “the wireless security experts” thanks to its RFprotect line of WLAN intrusion detection/prevention tools, is doing more than just making sure customers know the latest. It’s helping launch a […]

If you can’t get your Wi-Fi router or access point (AP) at home to reach every area of your house where you want a signal, what do you do? According to SercoNet Senior Vice President of Development Mike Harnack, most people go to the store and buy products like range extenders, high-gain antennas or repeaters. […]

With 45,000 units sold, the MC50 Enterprise Digital Assistant (EDA) from Symbol Technologies is a popular portable computer that connects corporate users to their enterprise wireless network. Now the hardware has been equipped with a voice over IP (VoIP) softphone from Avaya to give it an extra edge. Chris McGugan, Senior Director of Marketing for […]

Network equipment and management company Bluesocket is offering its customers Bluesocket Wireless LANPlanner, a personalized version of the software from creator Wireless Valley. The new software will come at a major discount over the full version, but will be limited to planning networks with Bluesocket equipment. “We’ve worked with Wireless Valley to build in definitions […]

VIA Rail Canada has made Wi-Fi official. After over a year of trials, the railway said last week that it has a five-year contract in place to put wireless in reach of not only passengers, but for business as well — imagine wireless entertainment services and ticketing in the future. The service will be installed […]

After more than 250 deployments worldwide, Tropos Networks of Sunnyvale, California is making things easier for its partners. The company’s new MetroMesh Partner Program is designed to help third-party providers and equipment makers work with the Tropos MetroMesh equipment used to provide citywide wireless networks. 18 companies are already signed up, many of which have […]