Eric Griffith

The blogosphere is abuzz this week with a couple of new Wi-Fi related products, one which you may want to try out socially, and another you probably don’t want to touch with a ten-foot antenna. First up is WeFi, another new community/social networking Wi-Fi product.  The Mountain View, California-based company’s software is in beta, but […]

Skyhook Wireless built the Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) to turn an access point into an 802.11-based GPS, but the downside was that it was only available for Windows — until now. Today, the company announced that its Loki software, a location-aware toolbar for Web browsers, is ready for MacOS as well as Windows Mobile. In […]

Trapeze Networks was the latest WLAN infrastructure vendor, following the competition at Meru Networks and Colubris Networks (to name a couple), to announce its plans for an 802.11n access point to come later this year. Analysts at Dell’Oro Group say that in the last year, products based on the early draft of 802.11n have garnered […]

Bluesocket announced new software earlier this week for its BlueSecure Controller family of products. Version 6.1 runs on the latest BlueSecure products announced last February, as well as older controllers. Instead of having different software for high-end and low-end, “we’re migrating them all to the high-end platform,” says Mike Braatz, vice president of marketing, “so […]

You used to buy one access point (AP) and expect one radio inside — but that’s so old-fashioned. How about four radios? Extricom’s new EXRP-40 UltraThin Access Point has that many radios in a single enclosure, and the company claims it is an industry first. “More notably than more electronics in the box is what […]

The flip-side of mobility — allowing users of a wireless LAN to roam — is keeping track of them. For that, vendors throughout Interop in Las Vegas are making announcements regarding location-based functionality. And no wonder: In-Stat says the Wi-Fi-based RFID market is going to grow 100% every year for the next three years. In […]

If you’re lucky enough to live in a city or town with a municipal Wi-Fi network, you’re probably still not using it at home. That’s the secret of these networks: the wireless mesh gets around buildings just fine, but not always into the buildings. That’s why customer premises equipment (CPE) from companies like PEPwave and […]

Atheros Communications is readying its second wave of chips supporting higher-speed 802.11n, the first set for the (still-in-draft 2.0) standard it considers enterprise class. The XSPAN AR9001 line is currently sampling with customers, and should be in products by the third quarter of this year. “The messaging is that N is no longer ‘next’ — […]

The plainly named “Master Test Plan for Wireless LANs and Muni-Wireless Networks” is just that — guidelines on best practices for metro-scale and enterprise WLAN equipment. The free (all you pay is your contact info) document, in PDF format, is available now from VeriWave, which makes the WaveTest platform for Wi-Fi equipment testing. “This is […]

The WiMax Forum is running its third, week-long public Mobile WiMax PlugFest in Sophia Antipolis, France through Saturday. It’s a gathering of Forum member companies to test their wares for interoperability under the IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard before the products are officially tested for certification. 33 vendors (or 34, depending on the source) are taking part. […]

The Wi-Fi Alliance will launch its certification program for 802.11n Draft 2.0 products in late June as expected. The program features a new testbed of products for interoperability testing, plus a brand new logo design for the packaging of certified products: “The logo focuses on 11n capability and backward compatibility to a or g or […]

Ubicom, maker of the StreamEngine technology that provides Quality of Service for voice and video on many consumer routers, today announced a reference design for a High Definition Media Bridge platform that utilizes StreamEngine and Microsoft’s Windows Rally connectivity tech to pump out video over 802.11n networks. Bill Gates apparently demonstrated the technology at a […]