Eric Griffith

Extreme Networks said today its modular Summit Wireless Mobility (WM) series of switches will be ready for 802.11n. The switch/controllers are the $17,000 Summit WM 200 for networks with 50 APs, and the $33,000 WM 2000 unit for up to 200 APs. The modularity means they’ll be ready to support 802.11n APs when available — […]

If you have a Time Warner Cable (TWC) modem in your home, you will soon be able to join the FON community, turning that connection into a hotspot (which they call FONspots). Madrid, Spain-based FON has been pushing to work with more and more service providers, but this is the company’s first deal with a […]

Passengers traveling via the Oxford Tube from Stagecoach Group, which runs between Oxford and London, can now get their e-mail and Web surfing on. Ruggedized Wi-Fi equipment (the Moovbox M Series) from Moovera Networks has been installed on the 25 buses in the fleet, using 3G — HSDPA (High Speed Download Packet Access) tech — […]

Cbeyond has one customer focus for its IP-based communications: small to medium businesses, those with 5 to 249 employees, and more often than not the “entrepreneurial class” size of 5 to 30. While the company has long offered wireless services with mobile phones and smartphones, all accompanying its T-1 and VoIP-based landlines, it wasn’t until […]

Cisco Systems says it’s one of the largest mesh network deals made to date, big enough to call it a “mega-mesh” — deployment has already begun on connecting 200 rural towns spread across 4,800 square kilometers (approximately 1,850 square miles) in the province of Brescia in northern Italy. The area is rife with manufacturing as […]

What was once just going to be a long-range, high-bandwidth wireless technology to replace your cable or DSL — with a stop at a CPE/modem along the way — may now go directly to your favorite devices. And that is, apparently, just what the public wants. In-Stat’s latest survey of 1,200 people in the United […]

Ruckus Wireless launched its RIOT program (short for Ruckus Interoperability and Open Testing) back in 2005 to improve interoperability of its products used for IPTV with that of equipment from other vendors. This week, it opened up the RIOT program to the metropolitan-scale Wi-Fi market in which it also plays. Ruckus provides customer premises equipment […]

Out of 12 new inkjet printers coming to market in 2007 from Lexmark , six of them will have built-in 802.11b/g, and two others will offer Wi-Fi as an option. First out will be the $130 Lexmark X4550 Wireless All-in-One (AIO) — which promises speeds of 26 pages per minute (ppm) in black and white, […]

Wi-Fi hotspot provider ICOA is offering its customers the opportunity to join AnchorFree’s hotspot community. For the last six months, AnchorFree — which established itself by offering free hotspot services in the San Francisco Bay area, as well as an online directory of free hotspots — has been offering venues the opportunity to get a […]

802.11 equipment tester VeriWave has added the ability to check performance of stateful TCP/IP behavior on a WLAN with its latest update to its WaveTest product. “TCP/IP content was always there,” says Eran Karoly, vice president of marketing for the company. “The difference is between simple content and stateful TCP/IP behavior — there’s a higher […]

Apple and Cisco both took the time to patch some problems with their Wi-Fi implementations last week.  And the Linux community seems to have already fixed theirs. Techworld.com reported last week that, despite there not being many Linux Wi-Fi drivers, the popular MADWiFi Linux kernel device driver for Atheros-based chips has a remotely executable exploit. […]

Concord, California’s citywide Wi-Fi network, courtesy of MetroFi, has begun deployment. The initial coverage is 10.5 square miles, which covers “more than 60% of the developed areas of Concord, and includes over 250 access points (APs),” according to a statement released by the company. Coverage can be viewed via an online map. MetroFi installed its […]