Eric Griffith

Model: WFS-1 Price: $28.00 (plus $10 shipping) Pros: Geiger counter-like function Cons: Doesn’t tell you if nodes are open A very specific category of the Wi-Fi product market has eluded review here for a while, that of the inexpensive “Wi-Fi detector.” Kensington, famed for locking down laptop PCs, has one but never sent it to […]

Better late than never, here’s a look at the rest of the product and service announcements from last week’s Wi-Fi Planet Conference and Expo in San Jose, Calif.: Enterasys Networks celebrated 10 years in the wireless networking industry by releasing its RoamAbout AP3000 Access Point. This product is a dual-band unit that replaces the 11b-only […]

While it’s not unusual for switches to control access points in branch offices, they usually do have some sort of direct connection. Airespace of San Jose, Calif., hopes to cut the cord further with a product they say is the first to light-weight access point to work across a wide area network (WAN) link without […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — It has taken a while to perfect the ability for mobile professionals to roam (and a lot of people would say perfection is still a long way in the distance), but companies like GRIC Communications and iPass try by letting their corporate subscribers get access to pre-approved and tested public Wi-Fi […]

SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Long time wireless LAN security/mobility gateway vendor ReefEdge Networks of Fort Lee, N.J., today announced a major shift in company strategy. The company’s vice president of strategy, Mark Juliano, put it best: “We are getting completely into the WLAN switching business.” The privately-owned company, bolstered by a new round of venture […]

Next week at the Wi-Fi Planet Conference & Expo in San Jose, Calif., WLAN monitoring company Red-M will unveil its latest product that will bring them into the WLAN control arena as well. The product, Red-Vision, will power the company’s intrusion detection system (IDS), monitor hardware and software usage by clients, and manage the wireless […]

Ready to do your talking over your television cable? It’s a possibility. Miami Lakes, Fla.-based Calypso Wireless certainly thinks so. The company so far has one product, the C1250i cellular video phone, a handset that connects to GSM/GPRS or CDMA networks or to Wi-Fi networks. But the company would like to parlay that unit and […]

Infonet Services Corporation’s director of marketing for Mobility Services, Greg Hayes, describes his company as a “global managed service provider that operates services for multi-national corporations.” The service they offer such corporations: remote access and mobility for employees. For years the company has had a dial-up solutions they provided called DialXpress, but they’ve noticed the […]

If Wi-Fi is in its nascent stages, then mesh networking — creating self-healing, self-configuring wireless connections — is barely a zygote. There are no standards, with none even on the horizon, but that’s not stopping new companies from coming along regularly with new twists on how a mesh can improve a wireless LAN. The latest […]

Azimuth Systems of Acton, MA, announced today its W-Series 802.11 WLAN Analysis Platform, a system for testing and validating a large-scale wireless LAN for scalability, mobility, and roaming ability in a laboratory setting. Essentially this system is putting off-the-shelf access points and client cards into their own controlled radio frequency mini-chamber for testing. The initial […]

There is no lack of companies doing location-based networking, trying to make wireless LANs aware of not just who is logged on, but also where they might be. The uses of positioning go well beyond that however; companies like Newbury Networks got their start using WLAN positioning to deliver content to handhelds that could, for […]