Eric Griffith

Stop in at the US Robotics (USR) Web site these days and you’re going to see many a graphic touting Wireless Turbo, the name for the company’s latest family of WLAN products. Based on the draft for the 802.11g standard (which will be finalized later this summer), the products are also accompanied by big graphics […]

This week at the SuperCOMM 2003 tradeshow in Atlanta, Bonsai Networks of Herndon, Va. announced an architecture for Wi-Fi service delivery for local exchange carriers with digital subscriber line (DSL) offerings. The service is powered in part with partners: computer powerhouse Sun Microsystems and DSL provider Alcatel, both of whom are showing the service in […]

Wireless LAN chipmaker Atheros Communications of Sunnyvale, Calif., has taken the wraps off its third generation of product silicon for wireless networks. The company’s first generation was all 802.11a; the second was a three-chip set for 11a or dual-band 11a/g, which is currently in use in clients from most of the major retail vendors such […]

First announced back in January when 802.11g was fresh on everyone’s minds but far from a finished specifications, Proxim Corporation is now shipping its ORiNOCO products for businesses that want 802.11g. The products will include access points: the $695 dual-radio ORiNOCO AP-2000b/g and the $495 single-radio AP-600b/g, both of which support 802.11g with backwards compatibility […]

Cisco Systems — currently the leader in enterprise sales for wireless LAN infrastructure products according to Synergy Research Group — wants to expand its control of the WLAN by putting some of the automation in its wired components. Shripati Acharya, product line manager in the company’s Wireless Networking Business Unit calls the newly announced Structured […]

Texas Instruments (TI) is reporting this week that products based on its residential gateway (RG) cable modem design — which will include enhanced speed, router security features like NAT firewalls, and 802.11b wireless access points — are almost ready to ship to retailers. Companies embracing the RG cable modem design include Toshiba America Information Systems, […]

Cluster Labs GmbH of Berlin and Fremont, Calif., maker of server blades is getting into the hotspot business. The company is going to start making an appliance called Internet PassPort as a server for WISPs looking to create a hotspot business. The appliances will be powered by Interlink Network’s Secure.XS Wireless LAN Security. Secure.XS (pronounced […]

Wi-Fi location enabling experts Newbury Networks have a couple of primo location for the upcoming 802.11 Planet Conference & Expo– a booth on the exhibit floor and their headquarters right on Newbury Street in downtown Boston. The show takes place in Beantown June 25-27. And Newbury Networks’ president and CEO Mike Maggio seems happy about […]

Salt Lake City, Utah-based STSN, an Internet provider that specializes in wired and wireless access for hotels, is the latest company to become part of the virtual network run by iPass that provides access for mobile business users. This agreement is STSN’s first roaming deal. The addition of STSN to the iPass virtual network — […]

D-Link finally has added new products to its AirPremier line of enterprise class products — which formerly only had one access point, the DWL-1000AP+ — but they’re not just the regular “stick ’em in the ceiling” kind of access points. D-Link this week announced the DWL-1700 AirPremier Outdoor Wireless Access Point and the DWL-1750 AirPremier […]

ReefEdge, the Fort Lee, NJ based provider of wireless infrastructure, management and security solutions, today unveiled its Wireless Services Fabric (WSF), an architecture it plans to build in new products so they’ll work together better and provide for easer use and management. Sandeep Singhal, CTO at ReefEdge, calls WSF “an amalgamation of services needed to […]

Compared to the trickle of 802.11a products that were out at this time last year, it feels like 802.11g — which has the same 54Mbps speed as 11a but backwards compatibility with the ubiquitous 802.11b — has become the mainstream these days for home and small to medium businesses (SMB). So much so that, even […]