Eric Griffith

Wireless network management system provider AirWave Wireless has a new alliance with equipment provider Juniper Networks, and the first major customer they’re announcing is the Wendy’s restaurant chain. The maker of square-burgers-on-round-buns has 6,600 locations around the world, mostly in North America. Like what McDonald’s is doing with the Wayport Wi-Fi World program, the restaurant […]

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) provider Dust Networks has upgraded its SmartMesh wireless sensor network product line. The new SmartMesh-XR technology is meant to provide more reliability — up to 99.9 percent, according to the company. “Reliability in industry plants is incredibly important,” says Rob Conant, vice president of marketing and co-founder of Dust Networks. “Set […]

Cognio, a wireless spectrum analysis company from Germantown, Maryland, today introduced additional sensors for use with its products that prevent “unapproved devices inadvertently occupying key service channels,” according to the company. Cognio’s Intelligent Spectrum Management System (ISMS) now comes in a mobile version — a PC card with antenna attachment for laptops — and an […]

The papers are signed: Cellnet Technology of Atlanta and Wireless Facilities, Inc. (WFI) of San Diego will partner to install a citywide Wi-Fi network in Madison, Wisconsin, extending to the county airport. It hasn’t been easy for the city (pop. 218,000, with 425,000 in all of Dane County in the 2000 census) to get to […]

Bluetooth and ultrawideband (UWB) technologies have been on the road to convergence for a while, as reported back in May — a path that will give future Bluetooth wireless personal area networks (WPANs) a big boost in speed. Freescale Semiconductor took the first steps on that path earlier this month, hosting a demonstration of its […]

802.16-2004 — also known as WiMax — is almost ready for the actual prime-time. Not that the fixed wireless broadband technology has ever been out of the spotlight in the last 18 months. That won’t change during the run-up to the release of products that are actually tested for interoperability, especially with chip vendors who […]

The IEEE 802.11 Working Group put the finishing touches on the specification called 802.11e last month. The standard will enhance the Media Access Control (MAC) layer of 802.11 chips to handle quality of service (QoS) — in other words, it prioritizes traffic such as video, audio and voice on Wi-Fi networks, delivering better performance for […]

More and more, it appears that those against municipal-run wireless networks have far less to complain about, especially when big cities like Philadelphia are going with providers like EarthLink that will pay for the network deployment out of pocket rather than rely on tax money. At least, maybe that’s how it’ll all work out. Even […]

The stories of infighting in IEEE Task Groups are becoming legendary. The most familiar of late is in the 802.11 Working Group’s Task Group N (TGn). Members, entrusted with creating a specification that will move 802.11-based wireless networking up to speeds of 100 Megabits per second (Mbps) or faster, split into two camps — with […]

Within the next few months, users of GoRemote Mobile Office software for getting access back to the corporate network while on the road or at home will have an added feature: phone calls over the Internet. Calls will be delivered, like so many Internet phone calls are, via use of Skype, the popular IP telephony […]

If you use the ZONE Finder at the Web site for the Wi-Fi Alliance — that industry group’s listing of wireless hotspots that pledge to use only Wi-Fi Certified equipment — you’ll soon find some changes and new features. That’s because the Alliance is turning to popular hotspot directory provider JiWire to power the Finder […]

Last night, the city of Philadelphia announced that EarthLink will be the primary vendor responsible for the rollout and future management of the much talked about (and frequently maligned, even before launch) citywide network project called Wireless Philadelphia. The Atlanta-based EarthLink was one of two finalists — the other being Hewlett-Packard — narrowed down from […]