Eric Griffith

D-Link of Irvine, Calif., today announced the D-Link DWL-G810 Xtreme G Wireless Bridge, the company’s latest version of an Ethernet-to-wireless adapter. The new unit will sell for $134.99 MSPR and will be available in August. It will fully support the final 2.4GHz 802.11g specification, for faster throughput than the 802.11b-based products that came before it. […]

Texas Instruments (TI), headquartered in Dallas, as announced that it has acquired Radia Communications of Sunnyvale, Calif. Radia, founded in 2000, is a fabless semiconductor with radio frequency (RF) expertise that has been working with TI, providing the radio designs used in TI’s 802.11g and 802.11a chipsets. “In the wireless LAN space, we didn’t have […]

While not exactly a big secret — a preview Web page for one of these products has been available for as long as two weeks — today, Cisco System’s Linksys home product division formally announced availability of two new products targeting owners of game console systems: the Wireless-B Game Adapter (WGA11B) and Wireless-G Game Adapter […]

Santa Clara, Calif.-based Cavium Networks this week formally announced its new family of wireless security coprocessors. The NITROX wireless products are designed specifically to support 802.11 security standards, now and the future. “The manufacturers of access points and switches would and could, during development, integrate a processor like ours,” says Mike Scruggs, product manager at […]

Acton, Mass.-based Tatara Systems, which provides a full Wi-Fi Service Delivery Platform for carriers looking to get into the hotspot business, this week announced a deal with wired and wireless network provider Wayport of Austin, Texas. The two will spend the next six-months offering trial programs to tier-one carriers who want to try out a […]

Communication Machinery Corporation (CMC) of Santa Barbara, Calif., has expanded the capabilities of its EmulationEngine Wi-Fi network testing product by adding a new version that supports user scalability testing under 802.11g networks. Other versions of the product support 802.11a or 11b networks only. 11g support is only found in the new dual-band version for 802.11a/g/b. […]

Linksys, the number one provider of home and SOHO wireless products and now a division of Cisco Systems , today did a joint announcement with chip powerhouse Intel Corp. . The two have established a joint technology and marketing program. The two companies will be doing co-engineering between their products, specifically between Linksys wireless access […]

Chicago-based PCTEL , makers of roaming software for wireless networks, announced this week that its Segue Roaming Client software will be offered as the software of choice for use in hotspots run by AT&T Wireless and WiFi-Texas, a regional ISP going national as the VAR/provider for hotspots at Schlotzsky’s Deli restaurants. Biju Nair, Vice President […]

Broadcom Corp. of Irvine, Calif., a leader in silicon for 802.11g-based products since late 2002, has announced their latest upgrade, a replacement to the BCM4702 network processor first announced in September of last year. The new BCM4712 includes a baseband/MAC chip with interfaces for 10/100 Ethernet and Universal Serial Bus (USB) built in, plus the […]

Earlier this week, ipUnplugged of Stockholm, Sweden, announced an agreement with Green Bay, Wis., cellular provider Nsight Telservices, in which Nsight will use ipUnplugged’s Mobile IP product for integration with wireless LANs. Nsight’s service is the nations first Mobile VPN, targeting mobile business customers who connect back to the corporate network over CDMA2000 cell phone […]

Funk Software of Cambridge, Mass., is ready to unveil the latest versions of its 802.1X-capable Odyssey Server (now going to version 2.0) as well as the various versions of its client software (moving to 2.2). The key part of the server upgrade, according to Trevor Failor, the manager of North American channels for Funk, is […]

This week, Centurion Wireless Technologies of Lincoln, Nebraska, unveiled the MegaSphere, an approximately 8-inch long, cylindrical-shaped antenna (using a patent-pending design) that works with any ISM 2.5GHz radio band network that needs coverage over a large space. “The general application for this will be as a wireless LAN antenna,” says Tom Trexler, director of sales, […]