Eric Griffith

Motorola , Avaya , and Proxim this morning announced a collaboration between the three to push a converged solution for voice over IP (VoIP) that would allow for roaming between cellular and wireless LAN (WLAN) networks, as well as data services. Micky Tsui, vice president and general manager for Converged Systems Division at Avaya, said […]

Dell Computer Corporation has long been on the Wi-Fi bandwagon, offering a line of TrueMobile Wireless products and making 802.11b miniPCI cards an option in its laptops — the antenna has been built in. Now the company has announced Wi-Fi will be standard equipment on its Latitude notebooks. The first two computers to have Wi-Fi […]

It’s like the early days of 802.11 wireless LANs again, only faster. In the late 90’s, before the IEEE had finished approving the specification for 11Mbps 802.11b in the 2.4GHz radio frequency (RF) band, 11b products started going on the market so people could take advantage of what was considered a hot new technology. Now […]

The Wi-Fi Alliance is launching a new program starting today to create a global brand for easier recognition of public access hotspots. The Wi-Fi ZONE program will also include setting a minimum standard of quality for hotspots before they can label themselves a Wi-Fi ZONE or display the ZONE logo. The Wi-Fi ZONE branding would […]

Announcements from companies big and small this week are pushing the monitor farther and farther away from the computer by sending the video signal over a Wi-Fi connection. This week, Wi-Fi chip maker Intersil announced it has, in conjunction with Microsoft, created drivers for its PRISM 802.11b wireless LAN chips that support Windows CE for […]

Why wait for the perfect chip when you can make your own? Toronto, Ontario-based ViXS Systems asked itself that question and ended up creating Matrix, an 802.11a PHY MAC chip that will work in conjunction with ViXS’s own Xcode MPEG/video network processor for streaming video wireless. What makes Matrix unique from other 5GHz 802.11a chips […]

Today at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco, Apple unveiled the updated edition of one of the first 802.11 products that ever hit the market. The new AirPort Extreme keeps the same basic shape of the original AirPort base station but supports the draft for the 54 Megabit per second (Mbps) 802.11g specification (which is […]

Planet3 Wireless of Atlanta, GA, the group behind the Certified Wireless Network Professional (CWNP) training program, is making its Certified Wireless Network Administrator (CWNA) course materials available for free to school districts in the United States that want to teach high school students how to run a wireless LAN. The program, called Wi-School, is completely […]

AirMagnet of Mountain View, CA, makers of the AirMagnet Handheld and Laptop Analyzers, software for wireless LAN administration, installation surveying, security assessment, connection troubleshooting, performance management, and operational support, is now offering a 2-day training course for the product. The company offered a sample of this course in November in San Mateo, near its headquarters, […]

Wi-Fi chip maker Intersil Corporation announced today that a software upgrade supporting Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) on all of its chipsets is officially available to original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and developer customers. According to Chris Henningsen, vice president of marketing at Intersil, the software has been available since mid-December 2002. The company is making the […]

Netherlands-based Royal Philips Electronics , or just Philips to most, has announced an agreement to acquire Dresden, Germany-based multi-band wireless LAN chip maker Systemonic. The deal should close in the first quarter of 2003. Financial terms were not disclosed. The buyout puts the electronics giant that’s behind everything from consumer electronics to medical equipment to, […]

RSA Security of Bedford, MA, the company behind the RC4 algorithm in Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption, is bringing its best known security system to enterprise Wi-Fi. Users of Cisco or Funk Software‘s 802.1X solutions can now use RSA’s SecurID two-factor authentication solution. John Masotta, senior marketing manager at RSA Security, describes two-factor authentication in […]