Eric Griffith

While big organizations can usually supply all of their computer users with adequate security, having multiple PCs at home that you need to protect from snoopers, virus, spyware, etc., can be a lot more difficult. Not to mention expensive. Netgear hopes to come to your rescue. The company is building advanced software wizards into some […]

Zultys Technologies of Sunnyvale, California, has been around since 2001 making VoIP equipment, including it’s Media Exchange line of IP-PBX boxes, which are used for everything from voice to video to IM communication. Plus they make a lot of VoIP phones. But for Wi-Fi deployments, they’ve been recommending third party products and thus losing some […]

The IEEE 802.11 Working Group meeting in San Francisco continues this week, and news comes that in addition to the proposal to the Task Group S (TGs) for mesh networking from the recently formed Wi-Mesh Alliance, competition has come in the form of another consortium of companies. This one is backed by a series of […]

Ixia , a major provider of network testing equipment, is now in the wireless LAN testing business. It has purchased four-year-old Communication Machinery Corporation (CMC), and is using the acquired assets as the basis of the company’s new wireless LAN testing system, called IxWLAN. CMC made the EmulationEngine line of testing products that could create […]

This week, the European Commission (EC) in Brussels gave the okay for enabling use of 5GHz spectrum (specifically, the bands between 5150-5350 MHz and 5470-5725 MHz) for license-free use with wireless networks (what the EC calls RLANs, or radio LANs). The move will allow broadband Internet usage in the 25 member states of the European […]

ICOA Corp. continues building out its little Wi-Fi empire. This week, the company announced its sixth acquisition, this time of LinkSpot Networks, a provider of Wi-Fi services at 80 recreational vehicle (RV) parks and campgrounds around the United States. John Balbach, Vice President of Corporate Development at ICOA, says this puts the company at over […]

Using Skype at hotspots isn’t new. Anyone with the popular telephony software and a high-speed Internet connection can make calls over the Internet while at a hotspot. But Skype wants to give its 45 million users an easier (and relatively cheap) way to get access to such connections while traveling. For $7.95 a month, the […]

A new technology may be coming to access points that involves multiple antennas—but the creators are (thankfully) not calling it MIMO. Rotani of Scottsdale, Ariz., claims its trademarked and patented AirReferee technology will allow performance like that of the pre-802.11n/MIMO products that are currently on the market—especially for video—and will do great in environments with […]

When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said in May that all VoIP providers must provide 911 emergency call services with the same features as wireless carriers—including caller location information—one question remained: how? The FCC didn’t mandate how to do it, it just said to get it done. This week, two of the biggest providers of […]

Based on surveys and conversations with cities and vendors, JupiterResearch has come to the conclusion that “the average cost of building and maintaining a municipal wireless network is $150,000 per square mile over five years.” This number is part of a new report, entitled Municipal Wireless: Partner to Spread Risks and Costs While Maximizing Benefit […]

Draper, Utah-based Senforce Technologies is breaking out the connectivity controls of its Endpoint Security Suite 3.0 (ESS) software to secure client systems specifically connecting via Wi-Fi. The new Senforce Wi-Fi Security (SWIS) handles what Kip Meacham, the company’s Director of Product Management, calls the three major threats: what you connect to, what you send, and […]

By the end of the August, the city of Portland, Oregon’s Bureau of Technology Services will issue a request for proposals (RFP) to “Unwire Portland.” The move was approved by the city council yesterday. Proposals from vendors and ISPs will be due by September 28, 2005, with deployment to start during the holiday season. Nigel […]