Eric Griffith

Hot on the heels of Intel’s announcement of its WiMax silicon, Fujitsu Microelectronics America (FMA) has gone public with its own 802.16-2004-based System-on-a-Chip (SoC) for wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (WMAN) and the partners who’ll be using it. The chip, called the MB87M3400, is designed to be used in both base stations and subscriber stations in […]

Sources are indicating that companies Excilan and TeleSym may be no more. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer says that TeleSym, of Bellevue, Wash., laid off 40 people on Friday last week. The company received $18 million in venture capital when it began, including money from Intel. The company made software meant to turn Wi-Fi enabled hardware, in […]

Last month, Trapeze Networks announced its Open Access Point Initiative (OAPI) that would let any vendor turn their access point into a “thin AP” that could be controlled by the Trapeze switch architecture. Despite a big-name company that is doing so (D-Link), it’s probably fair to say that no one expected this to happen with […]

The Wi-Fi Alliance—the industry consortium of companies that handles testing of 802.11-based products to make sure they’ll play nice together—is expanding its security testing to include four more Extensible Authentication Protocols , also known at EAP types. The EAP types are used when Wi-Fi based hardware communicates using 802.1X authentication and a RADIUS server to […]

It may not be the first market most security companies think about, but a select group of vendors, trying to bring the quality of authentication and encryption found in the enterprise to small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) and even small-office/home-office (SOHO) businesses, are starting a game of one-upmanship that seems centered on new features in client software. […]

Last week was the deadline for draft of a new thin AP protocol with the IETF. Information on at least one of those drafts is in from two vendors—Trapeze Networks and Aruba Networks —that are usually rivals, but in this case they let their engineers work together to their (hopefully) mutual benefit. Over a year […]

Most of the focus of Wi-Fi roaming is from hotspot to hotspot run by different providers. But a new organization is planning to bring that same kind of roaming to students and faculty traveling from college to college (and even K-12 schools) for sports or cultural events, research, or just to visit friends. This interconnection […]

Last week, the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) held its first multi-vendor tests of what it calls the “triple play” for enterprises: use of data, voice and video on the same wireless network infrastructure. The week-long experimentation session in a simulated environment looked at everything from quality of service to secure access, and […]

Your typical wireless LAN switch is comparable to a wired switch— it’s a central controller, but it runs multiple wireless access points that are not much different from a standalone AP. That means you need quite a few APs to get full coverage in a big building. Xirrus, a startup in Westlake Village, Calif., came […]

In a statement released yesterday, Everett, Wash.-based Intermec Technologies (a division of UNOVA said it is suing Symbol Technologies of Holtsville, N.Y. over six intellectual property infringements, including some related to wireless. Both companies loom large in the world of wireless data capture and barcode scanning. Specifically, the suit says Symbol is infringing on a […]

Nortel Networks and Trapeze Networks made official this morning their rumored partnership. Nortel will be re-branding Trapeze’s WLAN switch equipment for resale in its channels worldwide, and will call the equipment the WLAN 2300 Series. In addition to Nortel becoming a Trapeze OEM, the two companies will also work together on new features. The plan […]

San Mateo, Calif.-based AirWave Wireless has upgraded its AirWave Management Platform (AMP) software to version 3.2. COO Greg Murphy says the “focus is on dramatically improving the rogue access point detection—on the wired side.” Where many systems require the use of an overlay network of wireless sensors which monitor the air to find signals from […]