Eric Griffith

Nervous about the security of your data while using wireless at a public venue? T-Mobile Hotspot’s nationwide deployment of 802.1X authentication before users can go online is meant to alleviate those fears—and pull in the business customers, too. The company—the public Wi-Fi arm of Deutsche Telekom AG’s T-Mobile USA— said today that it has officially […]

Last week, Linksys reintroduced its dual-band router and some new dual-band client products for the home market. This week, rival Netgear is following up with an all-new line of such products for the home, with the added feature of extra high speed and range using features on Atheros chips. Dual-band support— that is, having both […]

On the cusp of making a major announcement of chip availability, the company’s venture capital funding was pulled, forcing the doors to close on a once-promising wireless video chip maker. Based in Palo Alto, Calif. with a development center in Minnetonka, Minn., Bermai had spent the years since its launch in March 2001 developing wireless […]

Tel Aviv-based Radwin this week said its new wireless system, the WinLink 1000, is generally available. The equipment, says president and founder Sharon Sher, is “a point-to-point solution with a range up to 50 miles, a capacity up to 50Mbps, carrier-class with a T1 interface,” and all for a price of less than $3,000. The […]

Dual-band products that support both radio frequencies at 5.0GHz (for 802.11a) and 2.4GHz (for 802.11g/b) have been pretty much passed over by the home networking audience, where finding 802.11a clients is about as easy as finding good new shows in a fall TV season. However, many think 802.11a’s future is in sending video signals. That’s […]

Colubris Networks of Waltham, Mass., a company that provides services and equipment for public access and enterprise Wi-Fi, is entering a new arena today by announcing plans to support voice technology. Specifically, its systems will support quality of service (QoS) prioritization of voice over IP traffic on wireless LAN systems by building in the 802.11e […]

In what the company is calling an expansion of its existing Wi-Fi Roaming Services (WRS), iPass has entered a deal with Cibernet to provide financial transaction settlement abilities to carriers getting into the Wi-Fi hotspot business. This builds on a previously announced transaction clearing system that iPass began offering at this time last year. “We […]

Reuters is reporting that Intel has cancelled its plans to turn Intel-based desktop PCs into access points using software. The plan was for desktop systems — at least those equipped with an extra PCI card running a Wi-Fi chip — to become quick-and-dirty software-based APs (softAPs) that would afford even easier connections to networks for […]

Do you own the Netgear ProSafe 802.11g Wireless Access Point (Model: WG302) or the ProSafe 802.11a/b/g Dual Band PC Card (Model: WAG511)? If so, there’s a little bit of firmware upgrade you can download to turn it into the first commercial product with the AutoCell “cognitive radio” software which automatically configures WLAN products for better […]

The fortunes of Proxim may be questionable after some lean quarters, and after losing a law suit to a competitor over patent rights — but that’s not stopping the company from pressing forward with new products. Its latest include a new access point for the small to medium business (SMB) market, and a new wireless […]

As some lawsuits end in our Wi-Fi planet (as the settlement between Symbol and Proxim seemed to last week), other suits always come up to take up the time of the court and, in some eyes, call into question the validity of current patent laws. Worse, settlements for some might not mean much in the […]

MeshNetworks of Maitland, Fla., has made its name creating citywide networks that usually support first responder departments like police and fire. They do it with equipment that operates in various radio spectrums, including the 2.4GHz range used by 802.11b/g—though MeshNetworks doesn’t use the 802.11/Wi-Fi standard (the company calls itself “radio-agnostic”). It’s now adding another area […]