Eric Griffith

It might be the most secure wireless mesh equipment to date. 3e Technologies International (3eTI) of Rockville, Md., has announced plans to sell its 3e-527 mesh access point. The unit has already been in testing with the military — it was part of the Navy Wireless Networks Summit II in San Diego, sponsored by the […]

San Mateo, Calif.-based AirWave Wireless this week announced a new version of its AirWave Management Platform (AMP). The 3.0 version will have, in the words of founder and COO Greg Murphy, a stronger “focus on more high-density networks.” The goal is for the product to support enterprises with multiple servers on the network with a […]

Marlborough, Mass.-based 3Com Corp. and Wi-Fi switch vendor Trapeze Networks of Pleasanton, Calif., today announced a strategic product agreement that will see 3Com releasing new products using Trapeze technology over the next few months. “We’re making our move into the switch market to let us extend our current enterprise line,” says Brent Nixon, director of […]

As the last IEEE 802 Working Group (WG) meeting was taking place in July, Agere Systems came out swinging, ready to talk about why its proposal for the future 802.11n high-speed wireless standard — backed by companies like Atheros and Intel, all under the name TGn Sync — was the one to beat. At the […]

In separate announcements made this week, both Nortel Networks and Motorola were listed by a couple of makers of mesh networking equipment as the latest household names to jump on the bandwagon to license self-configuring mesh technology for future products. Motorola — no stranger to wireless with its Canopy Wireless broadband platform and more recently […]

In the last quarter of this year, Meru Networks of Sunnyvale, Calif. says it will ship a new access point that, when coupled with the Meru Air Traffic Control system, will allow full performance of 802.11g and 11b clients running simultaneously in a mixed-mode network. Because of the well documented problems that 11g clients have […]

Compton, Calif.-based Belkin is the first company making consumer products to use chipsets from Airgo Networks, a Palo Alto company that specializes in products that support multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO). MIMO is virtually guaranteed to be the driving force in the future 802.11n specification to increase wireless throughput to as much as 100 Megabits per second (Mbps). […]

In what the company calls a strategy alliance for hotspot solutions, 3Com out of Marlborough, Mass. said today that system integrators will find that 3Com wireless LAN equipment is ready to work with the hotspot gateway equipment from six major vendors: Aptilo Networks, IP3 Networks, Nomadix, PatronSoft, Pronto Networks and SolutionInc. “We can now fulfill […]

In September of last year, a Delaware court ordered Proxim of Sunnyvale, Calif., to pay $23 million to Symbol Technologies of Holtsville, N.Y. The money was for damages over patent infringement. Today, the two companies announced that the United States District Court for the District of Delaware has reaffirmed this ruling in what Proxim calls […]

In the olden days of Wi-Fi — say, 18 months ago — wireless “clouds” deployed across an entire municipality were used for one thing only: Internet access. They’ve slowly migrated, however, to become the backbone of numerous communications networks for first responders in some areas. This week, two companies that specialize in self-configuring/self-healing mesh networks […]

A year and a half after first announcing a planned collaboration, Motorola , Avaya , and Proxim today unveiled the platform they’ll offer to enterprise customers to solve mobile voice issues both inside and outside the office. The Converged Mobility Solution, as the companies call it, consists of WLAN infrastructure equipment from Avaya and Proxim […]

News on these products has leaked out for weeks, thanks to gadget blogs and other sites that watch for FCC approvals, and retailer site foul-ups that spill the beans. However, today they are official: Hewlett-Packard (HP) is launching a new line of iPAQ-branded personal digital assistants (PDAs) that will use several forms of wireless for […]