Eric Griffith

Extreme Networks of Santa Clara, Calif., announced this week its latest generation of WLAN switch products, under the name Wireless Mobility (WM). Extreme says the products have enhanced performance and ease of use—much of that through use of technology from partner AutoCell—as well as better security. There are three new WM products. They include the […]

iPass of Redwood Shores, Calif., has been incrementally building in WLAN security policy enforcement ever since its debut last summer of built-in 802.1X/RADIUS authentication and the optional Policy Orchestration service that forces use of firewalls, anti-virus and virtual private networks (VPNs) by mobile users. Also in 2004, the company made the only two acquisitions of […]

Freescale Semiconductor and Icron Technologies newly announced ExtremeUSB for Wireless will use ultrawideband (UWB) technology to deliver a wireless version of the universal serial bus (USB). However, this is a completely different form than what other vendors working with the USB-Implementers Forum (USB-IF) have been planning to do with UWB. “We’re doing […]

If you’ve coveted the speed promised by the various products from Belkin, Buffalo Technology, Linksys and others that use the True MIMO chip from Airgo Networks, but balked at the higher prices, well, Airgo wants you. The company announced this week new chips called True G and True AG, which CEO Greg Raleigh says have […]

Positioning systems in the outdoors are usually powered by satellites, or at least cellular towers. Skyhook Wireless of Boston  (formerly Quarterscope when they first announced this tech) hopes to change that by putting 802.11 access points to work in tracking. Simply put, any Wi-Fi device using the service could pinpoint its own location exactly based […]

While all-in-one chipsets supporting both 802.11b/g in the 2.4GHz radio frequency band and 802.11a (in 5GHz) — sometimes called dual-band or even tri-mode for the a/b/g support — have been around a long time, Intel this week presented a paper and a test chip that includes all of the above plus the future 802.11n standard. […]

Colubris Networks of Waltham, MA, this week announced the release of two new wireless multiservice controllers, the first products that will take advantage of the company’s vision for a Unified Services Network (USN) architecture, essentially a WLAN switch setup where the access points are not thin but retain all their intelligence and that will bring […]

On the heels of providing for its biggest network deployment ever —4000 homes in four square miles of Galt, Calif. — BelAir Networks today announced a new product that puts it into the same camp as its biggest rival. BelAir has long argued that multiple radios in a metropolitan-class wireless mesh hardware product were the only […]

As reported this weekend in various outlets, T-Mobile Hotspot today announced expansion of its footprint through several roaming deals, bringing its network up to 22,000+ locations in 17 countries, aiming at 25,000 by the end of this year. “We survey customers every month and ask what they want,” says Mark Bolger, director of brand marketing […]

Beleaguered wireless equipment provider Proxim , stung last year by losing a $22.75 million lawsuit to Symbol, announced this weekend that it would “sell substantially all assets” to Moseley Associates of Santa Barbara, Calif., for $21 million, and become a wholly-owned subsidiary. Moseley is planning to “preserve most of Proxim operations,” according to a statement. […]

On May 25, 2005, U.S. Representative Pete Sessions (R-Texas) proposed HR 2726, called the “Preserving Innovation in Telecom Act of 2005.” This bill would “prohibit municipal governments from offering telecommunications, information, or cable services except to remedy market failures by private enterprise to provide such services.” It would mean that states, counties, cities, and towns […]

A notebook with Wi-Fi is about as common as crabgrass and dandelions in the summertime these days. Samsung’s X20 and X25 models, however, are the first of a new era of products to support multiple in, multiple out (MIMO) technology, which is destined to be the basis for the future 802.11n standard. The Wi-Fi chips […]