Eric Griffith

The Intel Communications Fund, which last year pledged to deliver $150 million in funding to 802.11 related startups, has announced it is providing backing capital to four companies. Chief among them is Vivato, which recently began sampling its 2.4 GHz Indoor Wi-Fi Switch, an $8,995 wall-mountable, flat-panel unit that will provide coverage for up to […]

Colubris Networks of Waltham, Mass., is entering into a “joint development and joint marketing” partnership with Juniper Networks (Quote, Company Info) of Sunnyvale, Calif., a company primarily known as a backbone equipment provider for service providers. Last year, Colubris entered a similar deal with French telecom equipment provider Alcatel (Quote, Company Info). Then, earlier this […]

In a conference call yesterday, Julie Ask, senior analyst at Jupiter Research (which is owned by Jupitermedia, parent company of this site) said that the next twelve months “will represent a time when enterprises do much bigger deployments of wireless LANs, and off the shelf boxes are not going to be cutting it anymore.” That’s […]

Even those of us who love to get away from it all on the family vacation — say getting back to nature by camping — dread the return to the office and downloading hundreds, if not thousands, of waiting messages (and spam). The folks at Kampgrounds of America don’t want you to have to wait. […]

Research companies are now starting to report on the numbers for revenue and unit sales of wireless LAN products for the first quarter of 2003. So far the worldwide totals are showing low growth in revenue due to the price declines we’ve come to love and that the companies can’t avoid. But that growth might […]

CoSine Communications of Redwood City, Calif., a provider of IP services and telecommunications equipment for carriers, announced this week it will soon be delivering both a DSL Network Aggregation service (controlling hundreds of thousands of DSL circuits) and wireless virtual private networks (VPNs) in its latest IP Services Generator (IPSG+) product. IPSG+ (and its predecessor, […]

Broadband wireless product provider Alvarion Ltd. , with headquarters in both Tel Aviv and Carlsbad, Calif., today announced an integration deal powering one of its latest products. Jasbir Singh, CEO of Pronto Networks of Pleasanton, Calif. says the Alvarion BreezeACCESS GO, a turnkey solution for hotspot operators, includes an integrated gateway with access point, which […]

Chicago-based PCTEL , the makers of software for Internet access via Wi-Fi and cellular networks, among other things, is releasing handheld Wi-Fi network monitoring software through its Dynamic Telecommunications (DTI) division. The software is called Segue WiFinder and works on the Windows PocketPC platform. Paul Kline, president of DTI, says the software is meant to […]

While software that turns a PC into an access point is not a new phenomenon — both Microsoft and Intel have reportedly been working on them for a while, and freeware like Host AP can do this with the right client card on a Linux system– it looks like software-based access points (or “soft APs”) […]

Rappore Technologies and its “wireless security program,” Rappore Shield, are no more. In their place we now have Senforce Technology (derived from the words “security” and “enforce”), and with it, Senforce Shield. With the name change comes a new focus, plus an updated version of the Shield product to versions 1.5. Scott Richards, vice president […]

D-Link Systems of Irvine, Calif., this week announced that it will be providing Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption to the majority of its wireless networking product lines, including: AirPlus, its line of 802.11b+ products that use the Texas Instruments chipset to get data rates of 22Mbps AirPremiere, D-Link’s enterprise class 802.11b with 802.1X support (which […]