Eric Griffith

A ROSE by Any other Name

Last week, San Antonio, Texas-based SBC Communications announced plans to become a one-stop shop for the needs of the education and medical industries looking to install wireless LAN networks, coupled with wireless voice over IP (VoIP). “We noticed, from both the medical and the educational perspective, the capabilities in the field and find the experts […]

At the HP Software Forum in Chicago, running today through June 20, announcements meant to bolster use of HP OpenView in enterprises looking to control their networks are in abundance. Not least among them are announcements of several new partners in the HP OpenView Solution Alliance which are making products that function as plug-ins to […]

It’s generally acknowledged these days that Bluetooth and Wi-Fi can live together in harmony as standards, but it’s another matter to get them to work together while residing in the same device. Interference problems from collisions — since both use the same radio frequency (RF) band — causes dropped packets, which only cascades into other […]

802.11g is here, and below you’ll find out what the chip companies that have long supported the standard before it was a standard, have to say about it. Most are already shipping finalized 802.11g support to customers, which isn’t too surprising since most supported the 8.2 draft of 11g, which was just ratified yesterday as […]

Pronto Networks of Pleasanton, Calif., a provider of Operations Support Systems for public access Wi-Fi venues — AKA hotspots — announced this week that its latest customer isn’t going for the traditional Internet access via wireless market. Instead, Ansat Communications of New York City will offer Wi-Fi to its C4 Game Club patrons so they […]

Frank Hanzlik has this to say about his new job as managing director for the Wi-Fi Alliance: “I’m walking into a super organization.” Wi-Fi and 802.11 networking is not new to Hanzlik, who is stepping down as the vice president of marketing and product management for fabless semiconductore company Mobilan to take on the job. […]

Price: $299 Rating: 3 out of 5 I’m always surprised there aren’t more digital video camera products that support Wi-Fi. Considering the difficulties one can have stringing network cable for just a PC, let alone a wall mounted spy device, it would seem that 802.11 would be a no-brainer. D-Link has a nice product, and […]

The final specification for 802.11g should be a done deal by this time Thursday. This is on target with projections from earlier this year for a June approval. 802.11g is the high speed (54Mbps) wireless networking technology that is backward compatible with the slower 802.11b that is just about everywhere. Both run in the 2.4GHz […]

The Linley Group, a technology analysis company covering networking silicon specifically from their headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., today released a report called “A Guide to Wireless LAN Chip Sets.” It goes into specific analysis of eight major Wi-FI chip vendors — Agere, Atheros, Atmel, Broadcom, Intersil, Marvell, RF Micro Devices and Texas Instruments (TI) […]

Propagate Networks of Acton, Mass., wants to “transform the behavior” of your wireless LAN. They intend to do it with AutoCell, an embedded control system that runs in the firmware for both infrastructure and client devices (even phones) on the Wi-Fi network. The company’s vice president of business development, Paul Callahan, says that with the […]

Looking for wireless access in Boston? Arguably the most ubiquitous coverage doesn’t come from any coffee or hotel chains, but in the 29 branch buildings of the Boston Public Library (BPL). And access is free. All you need is a library card. The BPL, like most libraries, provides Internet access for its patrons. Librarians have […]