Eric Griffith

Highwall Technologies of Sarasota, Fla., today announced version 3.0 of its Highwall Enterprise intrusion detection system (IDS). The company’s claim to fame is using a long range sensor called Highwall Sentinel—hardware with enough of a reach that just one unit can monitor the air in a single office complex. “A five story building might need […]

No one ever said Wi-Fi was perfect. It suffers from difficult setup, questionable security, interference from appliances, and doesn’t always stretch its signal as far as advertised. Various camps are working on all of these items; that last one—signal coverage—is addressed this week by chipmaker Broadcom with a new technology it will be building into […]

It’s called House Bill 30, and it’s currently in the Pennsylvania General Assembly. If it eventually passes the state Senate and gets a signature from the governor, it could be the end of any municipally-run broadband (wireless or wired) throughout the state. That includes the much-hyped plans by the city of Philadelphia to make a […]

Most WLAN analyzer companies, like WildPackets and AirMagnet, started with a handheld unit for examining the air, then moved up to a distributed, enterprise-wide scanning system. Network Chemistry of Palo Alto, Calif., is doing the reverse. This week, it introduced its first portable scanning and analysis tool, plus some new features for its RFprotect Enterprise, […]

Cisco’s Structured Wireless-Aware Network (SWAN) architecture has a couple of some new additions today in the client, access point (AP) and monitoring levels. While its centralized CiscoWorks Wireless LAN Solution Engine (WLSE) for managing the WLAN has included an intrusion detection system (IDS) for finding rogues and the like for a while, enterprises will now […]

Draper, Utah.-based Senforce Technologies started out making a simple Wi-Fi-specific firewall—and has come a long way since then. This week, the company said it had landed a contract covering an entire cabinet of the executive branch: the Department of Justice (DoJ). “The U.S. Attorney’s office moved to [Senforce] months ago,” says Tanya Candia, the vice […]

Self-configuring mesh networks may seem like the hot new thing in some areas, but the companies making the equipment behind mesh have been around long enough to be at the 2.0 stage of development. Two such vendors, Strix Systems and FireTide, have announcements about their latest versions today. FireTide has introduced two new hardware products […]

Now when you pull up to the drive-thru to get your Big Mac, Wayport suggests you be in a car rented from Hertz. Wayport’s Wi-Fi World hotspot service—the same service being installed in some 8000 McDonald’s restaurant locations in the United States—has a new venue. 50 Hertz airport locations in the US will also be […]

It’s not enough just to be a good wireless router with Internet access anymore. These days, products also need to be security concious — and many even build in multimedia playback. The latest, from Buffalo Technology, goes even further by integrating a remote access solution. The AirStation Wireless Secure Remote Gateway (model WZR-RS-G54) is a […]

San Mateo, Calif.-based Vivato said today it would start shipping a new Outdoor Wi-Fi base station, a mountable all-weather panel used for providing large scale Wi-Fi coverage—the company’s first to use 54Mbps 802.11g. Up to this point, Vivato has utilized only the slower (11Mbps) 802.11b in products it has shipped to about 200 customers. “We’ve […]

This week at the Antenna Systems 2004 conference in Denver, cellular antenna designer InterDigital Communications announced a move into the Wi-Fi space, putting an emphasis on innovation on the client end with a new design that uses software algorithms to create beams for signals, rather than relying just on an omni-directional signal. Called Adaptive Interference […]

Trapeze Networks is far from the first of the various Wi-Fi switch vendors to come up with a product that is meant to sit in a remote branch office away from the larger corporate headquarters—companies like Airespace, Aruba, and ReefEdge have all announced such products— but the company says its new MXR-2 unit stands out […]