Eric Griffith

After the Cisco/Airespace marriage earlier this year left Alcatel in the lurch, the company decided to go with a new partner, and went to Aruba Networks. The original equipment manufacturer (OEM) deal they sealed led to today’s announcement by Alcatel of its second generation of the OmniAccess WLAN switch family of products for enterprises. Brian […]

Some might call it the end, but not Kineto Wireless. The company that launched and supported the Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) effort to make a standard for hand-off between cellular and WLAN networks (such as Wi-Fi or Bluetooth) says UMA is moving to “the next level,” to be folded into the work of the 3rd […]

Moving from around 9,400 hotspots worldwide to 12,000, overnight, is a big step for any provider of Wi-Fi connectivity services. European aggregator Trustive is doing so through a deal with Airpath. Trustive will add the 2,600 venues that are part of the Airpath Provider Alliance (APA) to its footprint immediately—the company’s Web site is already […]

At the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 Working Group Meeting this week in Australia, the vote was made in Task Group N again to see which group—the World Wide Spectrum Efficiency (WWiSE) consortium or TGn Sync—would lead the way to a new high-speed Wi-Fi technology standard called 802.11n, which is designed to […]

The initial reports on the state of the Wi-Fi networking industry for the first quarter of 2005 are now coming in from research firms like Synergy Research Group, Dell’Oro Group and In-Stat/MDR. While small details differ, the overall picture is the same: Compared to the first quarter of last year, things are up. Compared to […]

The Trusted Computing Group (TCG), a non-profit dedicated to creating standards for making trustworthy and secure computers and networks, earlier this month announced its Trusted Network Connect (TNC) specification. TNC is meant to be an open spec to help stop the spread of viruses, worms, DoS attacks and other vulnerabilities in networks. Funk Software —one […]

Ten-year-old Fiberlink of Blue Bell, Pa. doesn’t leave many stones unturned in trying to keep mobile employees connected to their corporate headquarters. The Fiberlink software called Extend360 supports connections via dial-up, Wi-Fi and CDMA cellular, and is adding CDMA EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized). On top of that, the company is going to offer voice connections using […]

The Nintendo DS, the dual-screen gaming handheld from the Japanese gaming giant, comes with built-in 802.11b for some head-to-head gaming — and now that wireless ability is going to be put to serious use in online gaming. Nintendo has announced plans to build a network of 1,000 free hotspots in Japan to be used by […]

When a big name in wireless LANs like Cisco Systems jumps into a new area of the market, people pay attention. The company’s buyout of Airespace was welcomed by the WLAN switching companies as “validation” of their technology. Now Cisco is doing the same for location awareness and asset tracking on Wi-Fi networks, and is […]

Continuing its efforts to put its monitoring technology inside third-party hardware, Airmagnet announced this week that it is working with Colubris to port the Airmagnet AirWISE software, used as part of the Airmagnet Enterprise distributed intrusion detection system. Colubris APs will then work as Airmagnet sensors after a software upgrade. Carl Blume, director of product […]

PCI Express (PCIe), a new bus architecture for computers as of last year, is quickly making its way from the enthusiast PC builders to the mainstream. With it is coming Wi-Fi support right on the PCIe bus. Earlier this month, Broadcom announced a new 802.11a/g chipset, the BCM4311 — a chipset with small footprint designed […]

Strix Systems announced its outdoor, multiple-radio “Wi-Fi cellular mesh” system in December last year, and as of this week the products are making their commercial debut with Strix channel distributors. The company’s Access/One Network Outdoor Wireless System (OWS) comes in two models, the OWS 2400 and 3600. Both use hardened enclosures for outdoor deployments. Using […]