Eric Griffith

D-Link of Irvine, CA, the number three company in revenue market share for home and SOHO wireless LAN products (according to Synergy Research Group’s 2002 report), is hoping to get a jump on the multimode competition, at least by a few weeks. The company has announced this week that it is shipping its first 802.11a/b/g […]

After several months of waiting and testing, Irvine,CA’s Toshiba’s Computer Systems Group (CSG) has launched its Toshiba Hotspot Solution. The goal: 10,000 hotspots based on Toshiba’s hardware by the end of the year. Toshiba has long seen price as the stumbling block to getting more venues to install hotspots. "It didn’t seem economically rational for […]

If you’ve traveled by plane in the United States in the last few years, you’ve seen the CNN Airport Network. Available at over 1,700 passenger gates in 38 major airports (including Laguardia, JFK, Dallas-Fort Worth, Orlando, Boston, and many more), they are the television sets at passenger gates that constantly run an airport-personalized version of […]

PCTEL of Milpitas, CA, has launched its Dual-Mode Segue Roaming Client, software for users of Windows 98SE/ME/NT/2000/XP who need to roam between Wi-Fi networks and 2.5G (CDMA2000 1X or GPRS) network data services. According to Biju Nair, Vice President and General Manager, Wireless Software Product Development at PCTEL , the software comes in two flavors, […]

Since launching just over three months ago, Cometa Networks, a joint creation of AT&T, Intel and IBM along with investment partners, has stayed on top of the radar and in the headlines. In that time, the company hasn’t launched a working hotspot or announced a single customer or venue location. Today’s the first: Cometa says […]

It’s not enough to just build a wireless network for business travelers — they have to know its there. And since Intel Corp. is putting Wi-Fi in all upcoming notebooks based on its Centrino mobile chipset, the chip giant wants to make sure those potential paying customers know where to find access, starting with major […]

Broadcom of Irvine, CA, one of the first companies to supply wireless LAN chip sets based on the draft of the 802.11g specification, has announced a software upgrade that will bring products based on chips using 54g — Broadcom’s name for its implementation of 802.11g — in line with specifications of the latest version of […]

While the specification for 802.11g is still in the draft stage with the IEEE , that hasn’t stopped many companies and customers from embracing it. Knowing that, the Wi-Fi Alliance is already taking steps to make sure it’s ready for 11g interoperability testing as soon as the specification is ratified in June of this year. […]

Cisco Systems announced today that it will be freely sharing technology with partners to give Wi-Fi a further push for mass adoption by enterprise companies. The technology in question is called Cisco Compatible Extensions (CCX) and features security and range enhancement software for 802.11-based network client products. Chip makers will be able to build the […]

Before even making the step to 5Ghz 802.11a like most chip makers, Marvell of Sunnyvale, CA, has announced that it will be bring the 2.4GHz 802.11g specification to its line of Libertas wireless LAN chips. Products currently out using 802.11g are based on an early draft of the standard. A number of existing products using […]

The answer: Everywhere. The latest report this week from Synergy Research Group of Phoenix, AZ, spells out the world-wide and specific geographic market share of 802.11 equipment based on the numbers from the end of 2002. Aaron Vance, industry analyst at Synergy, points out the big winner in market share gains is Cisco’s jump in […]

This week Proxim released the latest branch of its Tsunami family of outdoor point-to-point and point-to-multipoint connection devices. The new Tsunami MP.11 products are point-to-multipoint (MP) specific and target budget conscious installations at campuses and wireless ISPs (WISPs) with lower prices than most of the Tsunami products, although they recently got a major price cut. […]